Death Borg paper craft

[Hippo]

I'm not really familiar with all the parts of this forum yet, so if this isn't the perfect place, feel free to move it, Sirius. As one of my nerdy hobbies I build paper models. I thought this was the awesomest one yet:

paperkraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/gotcha-force-papercraft-death-borg.html

It's a Death Borg, I think Omega? One of you guys might know. Anyway, I'm building it right now and it looks great. Just thought I might share it with you guys. Also, there's another one of a Death Eye or something, which I have bookmarked on my other computer.

[Admin]

Now that's some serious neatness.
I wonder if I'll ever get to see Sirius or GE that way.

Being Gotcha-related, it belongs better in the Gotcha Force part of the forum.

[njayhuang]

Mmm, let's see...Black and Red, check. Giant eye, check. Spikes of death for hands, check.
Death Borg Omega, I believe. That's pretty cool.

[bokkdachicken]

awesome ;D I wish there were more things like that, like Orochi or a death eye
glad we have a new at-least-semi-active member

[loopy]

I've seen that before but i didn't know it had been made out of paper. It's really good though.

[Hippo]

I found some more. Death ICBM and Death Eye.

homepage3.nifty.com/lesqua/craft/craft.htm

If the pictures don't work, the Death ICBM is the 5th one down, and the Death Eye is right below it. (also found a really awesome Alphonse Elric one on this site )

[loopy]

Dec 31, 2008 15:14:48 GMT Hippo said:

I found some more. Death ICBM and Death Eye.

homepage3.nifty.com/lesqua/craft/craft.htm

If the pictures don't work, the Death ICBM is the 5th one down, and the Death Eye is right below it. (also found a really awesome Alphonse Elric one on this site )

Wow there really good. But they look hard to assemble.

[Hippo]

Actually the Death ICBM is really simple, for almost every piece you just roll it up into a cylinder. The Death Eye is a little harder, but not by much. I could make some instructions if you are planning to build one.

[loopy]

Dec 31, 2008 15:23:16 GMT Hippo said:

Actually the Death ICBM is really simple, for almost every piece you just roll it up into a cylinder. The Death Eye is a little harder, but not by much. I could make some instructions if you are planning to build one.

Actually that would be great.

I just noticed you're a Girl. It's good to see more Female Gotcha Force Players ;D

[thadudette]

This is the only Gotcha forums that I've ever seen more than 2 active girls [including myself] Wow.

ON TOPIC:
Those are really good Hippo!! ;D The Death Borg ones just look like sharpened edges of the real pics xD

[Hippo]

This is the only active Gotcha Force forum I've ever seen. By the way, I didn't make these, I only found them.

If you're still willing to take this up, even after seeing what you will have to do, here are the instructions for the Death Eye:

i324.photobucket.com/albums/k326/Hippo_Potamus/Death_eye_help.png?t=1230741079

(sorry, ran out of colors) Basically, connect the colored dots, and for the others the arrows should tell you what to do. Sorry it's pretty sloppy, didn't have a tablet near by. Also, you should fold on the dotted lines. I suggest lightly "scoring" the dotted lines, meaning go in with something like an x-acto knife, or a pin, and lightly going over the dotted lines.

i324.photobucket.com/albums/k326/Hippo_Potamus/crafting_help.png?t=1230741081

You should just do that whenever you see dotted lines. (By the way, in that picture, I mean glue the orange part, the tab, under the other part) Also, maybe this will help you, it's a picture of the model. It should look like this when you are finished.

i324.photobucket.com/albums/k326/Hippo_Potamus/death_eye_model.png?t=1230741083

So, this one is actually a little harder than the Death ICBM. If you'd like to do that one, I'll post up some instructions (neater this time). I don't know if you'll still want to build this after seeing the instructions. But if you do, I'm happy to answer any questions. Also, this isn't really a requirement, but I highly suggest printing this on cardstock. It lasts longer than with regular printer paper. You should print out the one on the download, not the one with the instructions.

Wow, sorry for the long post.

[bokkdachicken]

I...like...the...dddeath...eye

[insertusername]

That's so cool

[bokkdachicken]

How do you deal with fitting all the little spikes into each other, the small ones are so hard. btw i'm working on an icbm; instructions please? < just a suggestion, use numbers?

[Hippo]

Sure, I'm having some Photoshop troubles though... The numbers come out weird. And I have to go to dinner right now. As for the spikes, they should work like the other tabs. If they're too small you might want to re-size the whole thing. I'll get the instructions up when I come back. But for now, you might want to check out this guide that a friend of mine made:

www.papercraftmuseum.com/beginner-tutorial/

offtopic: 10th post @@@

[bokkdachicken]

i dloaded the um thing that lets u look at the pdo files, but on the icbm, i dunno how to do the fuel pipeish things.

[Hippo]

i324.photobucket.com/albums/k326/Hippo_Potamus/deathicbm_help.png?t=1230871686

I hope that makes sense, and that that's the part you were having trouble on.

Also, in Pepakura, the thing that lets you read pdo's, there should be a little button that makes it so when you hover over a part on the template, it will show you where it goes. It should look something like this:



Sorry I didn't make instructions, but I think once you have downloaded Pepakura, you don't really need my crappy instructions. But if someone needs them, I'll make some more neater ones.

EDIT: there we go, got the images to work. Thanks, Sirius.

[bokkdachicken]

i know how to make the little grey pipey things, its how do you attach them to the icbm?

[loopy]

I think i might just try and make this myself to see how things go, and then if i fail i'll come back and see where i went wrong. ;D

[Hippo]

@thedeathforcestrikesback: Sounds good, also, if you get stuck you can download Pepakura, which opens PDO's, which should give you some instructions on how to make the parts. You can download Pepakura for free here:
www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
It should be under "download", "Pepakura Viewer (free)" but that's totally optional.

bokkdachicken: The other end of the pipes should glue down onto the part that will be the back of the ICBM. You'll need to score and fold the tabs to get it to really stay on.

i324.photobucket.com/albums/k326/Hippo_Potamus/deathicbm_help2.png?t=1230908585