Being directly exposed to sun light is pure stress for inkjet printed paper models.ĭue to many requests I decided to offer the castle for download. Use your manufacturer’s original ink to stay on the safe side -and avoid placing your models near to a window. Cheap ink tends to fade out very quickly, especially when exposed to UV light (sun light). Looks quite nice, I thinkīy the way, here’s a small, but very important advice if you plan to create your own papercrafts using an inkjet printer: do NOT buy the cheapest ink available. Then I put the castle onto a base plate on which I glued some grass, small pebbles and model train trees. This gives the castle a more detailed and somewhat aged look. I also used some spread grass (artificial grass) and glued both, the grass and the ivy tendrils to the walls and towers. For the castle, I printed out some small scaled ivy tendrils (which would be impossible to cut out manually, by the way -another good reason for buying a plotter). Once you are finished with modelling, unfolding, printing, cutting and assembling, the real fun part comes: decorating the final model. Before I invested into a hobby plotter that automatically cuts out all the paper parts, I spent hours over hours just cutting out every single piece -and sometimes there are hundreds of them! If you’re a frequent paper crafter -go and get a plotter. It’s a good compromise between stability, price and weight and it’s not too hard to cut. I just modeled one tower and duplicated it – that’s called rapid development and it best works with symmectrical models, of course A very detailed, unsymmetric and winded medieval castle would have taken much more time.įaithful followers of my blog might already know that I normally use 160 gram high glossy photo paper for my paper crafts. If you examine the pictures above, you’ll probably notice that the four towers of the castle are actually all the same. This is plain experience that increases over time.Īnyway, creating the low poly 3d model wasn’t too tedious. You don’t want to use ultra thick paper, so you need to know when a plane is too large and needs to be devided into smaller sections.
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But if you ever tried to build a large scaled cube out of paper, you may have notived that the walls tend to dent and get hollow if the paper isn’t strong enoug. Imagine a simple paper cube: there is no problem if the cube has a small scale. Too large planes or walls on the other side, should be devided into smaller sections. You also have to keep some other things in mind, like avoiding too small features or polygons that are hard or uncomfortable to assemble afterwards. Therefore, you should really spend some time in texture works. 40% of your model’s look are determined by the shape (polygons), while good texturing at least determines 60% of it’s look. Some even tend to use low res graphics or downloaded textured without any customization. Unfortunately, many paper crafters out there do not pay too much attention to the textures used with their models. This is why I usually spend most of the time with creating and adjusting the model’s textures. A good trick is to use high detailed, thoroughly designed textures to fool the eye and fake more details than actually exist. On the other side, it should not contain an unsufficient amount of polys or the final model would look somewhat clunky. The model itself should contain as few polygons as possible, otherwise it will be too hard (if not impossible) to assemble.
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During this early process, you need to keep many details in mind. That’s a quite interesting mixture of completely different architecture stylesįirst step, as usual, is to build a low poly 3d model. Still pictures of the Hagia Sophia in mind, I also decided to give the castle’s main building a dome instead of a roof. Finally I decided for a symmetric, square-layouted castle with four towers, connected with bridges.
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So I backpedaled and went a size smaller. I mean, hey, it’s summertime -and who prefers to stay indoors while the sun is shining out there?
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But soon I realized that this task would be too complex to really enjoy it. Or something like the beautiful Hagia Sophia, one of the most impressive buildings on this planet, besides Neuschwanstein Castle. In the beginning, I had a detailed, complex picture in my mind, something similar to the castles seen in Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. But it’s quite magic if your finished papercraft finally stand in front of you after so many hours of work.įor some time, I planned to create some kind of medieval castle. Crafting buildings, especially the more complex ones, can be quite demanding if you want to achieve a certain detail of realism. While most paper crafters still seem to love anime and cartoon characters, I wanted to do a papercraft castle. Ultimate Responsive Image Slider Plugin Powered By Weblizar