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[Dopenudist]

Little Update:

The back:


I could make it faster, but i hate to build things twice
Therefore i reinforce the big parts and color all the edges and this takes his time.

Here is a little example:

The glue on top of the torso weights around 500 gr.

[Yawn]

Thank you so much for sharing this parman01! Finally I can build my own paper Atlas! It's all because of your hard work ^^

[Dopenudist]

Update:

[Dopenudist]

New Pics:

[Dirk Le Daring]

Dopenudist, on 15 February 2013 - 02:27 PM, said:

Therefore i reinforce the big parts and color all the edges and this takes his time.

I noticed some sagging in the ones I had built, and have pondered reinforcing. What is the method you are using ? (I am not a very experienced builder) And I am impressed with that Atlas of yours, great work.

[Agent Cooper]

Im glad your build is going together so nicely. It bodes well for my build.
Although, Im building mine in plastic.
http://scott-messyde...las-begins.html

[BLaaR]

Dirk Le Daring, on 17 February 2013 - 09:38 PM, said:

I noticed some sagging in the ones I had built, and have pondered reinforcing. What is the method you are using ? (I am not a very experienced builder) And I am impressed with that Atlas of yours, great work.

What I usually do is glue a piece of harder cardboard on the inside of the large faces before I start to build / close the "box".

Edited by BLaaR, 17 February 2013 - 10:03 PM.

[AndyHill]

The texture quality on your build looks awesome, am I missing something, when my prints look less neat or did you put a lot of manual effort into it?

[Dopenudist]

@ Dirk Le Darling
I use cardboard for reinforcing. Here you can see on a other mech i build in the past. This beast would colapse without reinforcments


@Agent Cooper
The beginning of your Resin build is very good looking. I wish i could do this also (Or have one of those Resin Mechs) But since i can´t paint this things ...

@AndyHill
Thats because parman01 put .tga files in his zip. If i had printed it out of Pepakura it wouldn´t look such sharp.
The other thing is that i use glossy photo paper. I only made the texture of one mech manual sharper and that was a raven:
On the right is the original one and on the left the overworked version (The blue raven was the first papercraft mech i built and was made out of normal 80 gr paper)

[Krzysztof z Bagien]

Wow. Great work man.
When you finish this one maybe it's time for Catapult K2?

[Dopenudist]

I would be happy if anybody make the MWO Raven as papercraft

I love this little bird

[Dirk Le Daring]

@BLaaR and Dopenudist, thanks for the advice fellas

[Dopenudist]

Small update:
One arm but i will mount it first if i have the legs ready. I actually not sure about which position i will chose at the end for the arms.



I just recognized that this arm has 19! parts. The raven i posted above has 19 parts for the whole mech

[Dopenudist]

This is what happen if you work to fast (and too late in the evening with a beer )

It took me two hours to make the two pods around the hip and then i glued them to wide up on the hip.
For luck i hade reinforced the hip with enough cardboard and i was able to cut the pods away.

After this it looks like this:


I solved the problem by printing out the hip again and only overglued it with the new print out


And this is how it should look:


Now i´m happy ad can go on. Slowly i can see the light at the end of the tunnel

[Dopenudist]

Made some more pices:


And now to the feets:
I put weight in the feets of my mechs, then they stand very stable


This mech is so "3D" as papercraft. I love it

[BLaaR]

Wow..........you are going at it very nicely. Looking good and you managed to fixed that error pretty good too.

Just curious, I never looked the PDO over. Just how tall is this model ?

[Dopenudist]

One leg almost done:


The leg is a little bit over 18 cm tall. The whole mech should be 32 cm says Pepakura

I love the details of this build. Although there are so much parts it is a pleasure when i put one piece to another and they fit perfect together. The whole mech looks so "3D" if you know what i mean

[BLaaR]

Nice. So the Atlas is roughly scaled at 1/40 which will look good next to the rest of the other paper mechs.

Any yeah. I get what you mean 3D. There are lots of bits standing with little flat surfaces.

Keep up the great build.

[Dopenudist]

Only few pics of one complete leg.

The details cost time. And my neck hurts



I think it takes not too long and the Atlas can stand on booth feets

[Agent Cooper]

Damn nice work. How tall will it be when finished?