Neko Musume (GeGeGe no Kitarou) built papercraft

 

Neko Musume (GeGeGe no Kitarou) built papercraft

Here you can see another one of my built papercrafts I not only designed, textured and unfolded myself, but also assembled XD And it's no other than the cute “Neko Musume” (Cat girl) from the series “GeGeGe no Kitarou”.

She was my fav character from the anime, so of course I also had to build the papercraft I made of her. Took some time, and the last episode is quite a while back, since the season ended. But as far as I know, we get to see a sequel of some kind, movie I think, so I look forward to that! :) I get to post her now and hopefully you like it as well.

The craft itself is unfolded to 25 cm, so it’s a standard height for my humanoid papercrafts. As always, I started with the face, and made my way back to the hair, and closed it at the neck part. After I got the head, I added the 2D details, such as the bow and the ears.

Next, I made the hands separately, since I hate making fingers, so I wanted to have that out of the way fast. Nothing really to say here, if you already did finger and hand papercrafts, you know how tedious those can be. So, if you’ll assemble it yourself, take your time and work with either a small stick, tweezers or a needle (like I do to help myself close these small parts).

After the hands always follows the torso. Since she has a dress, and covered legs, you can always divide such papercrafts in at least 2 parts that you can make separately and then glue together. Much faster, easier and satisfying as I see it :D I made the 2 sleeves first, and then joined them together with the rest of the dress. After I got the dress part of the torso build about ½, I added the hands and just glued them in the right place, and added the pre-made head. For the head I tucked the neck with the flaps inside the torso hole, and glued/attached the head from the inner side of the torso. The simplest way for me to do it, so I recommend trying it that way (if you cannot get to the flaps from the inside to put glue on them, use a long stick or tweezers like I did. I always help myself with a long plastic chopstick, because it’s long enough, the glue does not stick onto it, and it has the right girth to help with any kind of holes). After that I built the remaining dress and then added the remaining extra 2D details of the dress on it.

Once I got all of this done, all that is left are the legs, which, as said before, are built separately. Nothing unusual here, just following the edge ID numbers to put them together. And once you have the legs all done, you can add in some last-minute weights (such as small pebbles that I always use to make difficult-standing papercrafts sturdy), and at the end glue both parts at the waist.

And there you go, my own “Neko Musume”. For any extra tips on how to make her yourself, I really do suggest adding weights into the feet, since it’s such a leaning pose and she has tall stilettos. And making her in many separate parts and attaching them part by part together, since it’s really easiest to make. Just try it and you’ll see ;)

The papercraft template and the price/info of the purchase can be found here (if you want to buy the template, just write me a private note/message):

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Neko-Musume-GeGeGe-no-Kitarou-papercraft-838613945

If you have any additional questions or anything you would like to request, I am always answering notes/messages and trying to help anybody with my papercraft tips & tricks.

Enjoy 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.***