Merry Christmas/ Happy New Year 2021! by Antyyy

Merry Christmas/ Happy New Year 2021! by Antyyy

Since it's almost the 25th December, I wanted to send my season’s greetings in a form of my papercrafts, since that’s obviously what I specialize in XD

These are the ones that I like the most, so only a fraction of the ones that are actually thrown on my “Papercraft highlight shelves” in the middle of my living room, since I wanted it to look a bit tidier than it actually is XD

This is a picture of all my papercrafts that I designed and assembled myself, probably 1/3 of the crafts I have made this year alone. Yeah, Corona did allow me to have a LOT of time this year, since everything is closed, we currently still got a second total lockdown where I can’t even leave my town, and nothing is happening anyway – but probably others had/still have a similar experience and I am surely not the only one XD

Also, there is still 1 day left for my Christmas giveaway contest (where you can win an exclusive black chibi Chocobo pair papercraft), so you still got time to enter:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/journal/Antyyy-s-Papercrafts-Christmas-giveaway-contest-863225583

Since I won’t be on my PC for 2 days, I will probably announce the winner of the contest in the late evening of 25th December (CET+1, since I’m on European time), so stay tuned for that ;)

And although the year has been total shit, and it’s still tough and many people will not be able to be together with their loved ones or are still suffering, there is always hope in every situation. It may not be the ideal situation, but keep on hanging on, if not for yourself, then in spite of everybody that is telling you to give up and keep laying down. Spit in the face of nay-sayers and show them what you are made of! Never stop getting up again when you fall. There may be days when you’ll fall, and you’ll keep on lying there, crying and feeling bad about everything - you are allowed to have those days, everybody does, we are all human after all - but after those, stop, and get up again and keep on fighting people. Never give up and let’s show the world that nothing will keep us down!

Merry Christmas to everybody still fighting their own fights, and may the next year be full of new opportunities and situations that are going to make us even stronger! Merry Christmas, a happy new year, and may it bring you the happiness you are searching for~

 
***All of the papercrafts in the picture are premium papercrafts that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDF and blank PDO files for assembly. They can be all found in my gallery under various folders. – You can buy the templates by messaging me in private on DeviantArt or on my Facebook page.***

Kitsune Mask (Fox Mask) built papercraft

Kitsune Mask (Fox Mask) built papercraft

Another one for the built papercraft gallery! Since its online cosplay time (at least in my country there are some events), I decided to make myself my Kitsune mask papercraft, so here it is in all its glory.

The build is actually nothing special, if you ever made a mask prop before. I started with the inner ear parts and then separately made the eyes first, since these parts are »bulged« into the facemask and are maybe somewhat harder to make because of the inner edges. When I got those, I made the rest of the ears, connected them together, and build it stripe by stripe, connecting the eyes and then everything else, till at the end you just close it with the 3 gray outer edges.

The papercraft mask template and all info can be found here btw:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Kitsune-Mask-Fox-Mask-cosplay-prep-papercraft-858869441

Since already said in the template description, you have 2 options with this: 1. is a wall mount, where you can close the inner side as well, and the other being leaving out the inner side and only building it till the gray edges and then cutting off the flaps so you got yourself a cosplay mask prep. And the later is exactly what I did with mine, as you can see in the pictures where I made one of the inner parts of the mask where it isn’t closed. (Which is actually easier to make than actually closing it at the end, that can take up considerably more time and effort, so be careful what point you choose to close it, if you decide to close the back side – I suggest you make the front part of the mask first, and then the inner parts and closing it at the tip of the chin, which is the easiest way to go).

This way you can use it as a mask, you only have to add wire/thread, make holes in the eyes (and mouth so it won’t be too hot under it) and spray it with some strong clear spray so the mask holds. I also suggest to reinforce the inner side of the mask with some extra layers of crafting glue and toilet paper to make it super strong and leave it to try for the night. I will also add some bells on the sides so to give it more character, but I didn’t add any of those parts in the pictures, since I wanted you to see how the actually papercraft looks with no modifications yet.

Of course, this version can also be hanged from the wall like a wall mount as well, as you can see, since I had to pose it as that as well. It is sturdy enough if you build it just with the gray edges, since it holds its form, but for the wall mount I do suggest you make it with the back side as well, since then you can properly hang it with the crafted backside on every holster or nail. If you don’t and want to just make the front side and hang it from the wall, you can make a hole in the backside to hang it from or you can also tape or thread through some wire or rope and hang it like that.

The papercraft, btw. is unfolded to about 36 cm tall, from chin till ear tips, since I made it with measurements for my head, because I wanted a wide mask that fits comfortable and has enough room in it. Of course, if that is too big for you, you can also request a scale change when you buy it, as you can do with all of my papercrafts, and just tell me what size you would like it to be unfolded to and I’ll change it for you and send it in the size you want.

I hope you like it and happy crafting~

         

***This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDF and blank PDO files for assembly. – You can find all information about the PayPal purchase in the provided upper outgoing link.***