Celestial Owl (OC) built papercraft
Another built papercraft to share with all of you, and this time it is my originally created character called “Celestial Owl”. It was a character I made up while being inspired by a cute plushie I saw in a gallery. You can check out the template and the info there:
The papercraft is about 20 cm tall and actually easier to make than I thought, since I made it upside-down from what I normally do, that means I started bottom to top. It is more logical with this papercraft, since the only fiddly parts are his legs, so you really want those to be neatly done and sealed at the end, so I started to make those 2 first and made my way up till the head, where I closed it at the end. Now, since it has a separate 3D body, the main body is actually done pretty fast. If you like, you can fill in some weights at the end to make it stand more firmly, but it can stand on its own 2 feet, because it is backed up by the cape at the end as well, so it stands no matter what.
After the body was done, I made the separate cape. As you can see it’s pretty simple since it’s open, but I did leave out the inner 2-sided side for the coat, since I didn’t have enough ink to print it at the time. So, with your coat you can make the starry inner part of the coat so it looks fancier as it does with mine :)
After the coat, I made the 2-sided wings, since they need to be glued on the cape. They are actually very sturdy if you make them 2-sided like they are, so you don’t need any extra support for them to stand, just bend them a bit and they hold their form. BUT, you can make them with my wire technique, and add wire in the middle, and glue the other part of the wire by making 2 small incisions in the cape and glue it on the other side. That way, you get moving, flapping wings. I obviously didn’t do it because I didn’t have the inner side of the cape printed out, so the wire would be visible from the inside, but I think it’s a very nice idea if you want moving parts to pose.
In any case, once you make the wings, glue those on the normal way, as I did, or with wire and put the coat with all the extras (such as the button on the cape, and the long veil) on the 3D body. All you need to do now is firmly attach the coat on it with the neck cape pieces and glue it on, so it is enclosed on the body, and the papercraft is finished.
Since it has the coat on firmly with the neck piece, it stands now on 3 points and it will not fall over no matter what. And the 2-sided veil also makes up for some extra balance and looks astoundingly noble and aristocratic XD love the veil thing really, it makes the whole character come to life.
I hope you liked it and do take a look at those cute details in the pictures and in the template.
Happy crafting~
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