Firstly thanks Mr Samuray for your work on the pep files. This is my first ever Pepakura build and it's been fun so far. Learnt lots but feel like I've got a huge amount of improving to do to get anywhere near the quality of some of the stuff i've seen on this site. I literally finished this a few minutes ago and I'm yet to tweak some of the folds to make the pieces fit together properly. How do you guys attached the three pieces together?? I was thinking about using double sided tape along the joining edges in the hope that once I've fibre glassed it I could easily seperate them still.
I was lucky enough to have someone lend me a robocraft printer to cut out the pieces. Once I'd got the thing set up and working (which took several days) I had all 20 pages printed and cut out in approx 2 hours. The cutter was a mm off to the right on all pieces which meant some of the folds and sticking probably isn't as good as it could have been. I'm gonna have a look at calibrating the printer for next time.
I found that pritt stick was the easiest method for doing the majority of the joining although for really small flaps I would pritt them and hold them in place before adding a bit of hot glue. I also hot glued over some of the larger flaps on the curves to make it stronger.
I'll add some better pics when I've attached the pieces together so you guys can rip into it and tell me where I went wrong
There's definitely room for improvement but I think I'm quite happy for a first attempt.
I was lucky enough to have someone lend me a robocraft printer to cut out the pieces. Once I'd got the thing set up and working (which took several days) I had all 20 pages printed and cut out in approx 2 hours. The cutter was a mm off to the right on all pieces which meant some of the folds and sticking probably isn't as good as it could have been. I'm gonna have a look at calibrating the printer for next time.
I found that pritt stick was the easiest method for doing the majority of the joining although for really small flaps I would pritt them and hold them in place before adding a bit of hot glue. I also hot glued over some of the larger flaps on the curves to make it stronger.
I'll add some better pics when I've attached the pieces together so you guys can rip into it and tell me where I went wrong