This is it people! The pinnacle of this year’s papercrafts I have assembled myself and probably THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND DIFFICULT thing I have ever made (although it’s only the beginning of January 2021 XD). I love this one so much, and she is definitely at the top of my papercraft designer’s life goals so far! --- Plus, maybe some of you noticed, she was the only one missing from my newly released banner that was made to synchronize each and every papercraft page/site of mine and that was shown as a small sneak-peek for the now released assembly.
I have spent 3-ish days to make her, so she is really the most complicated thing that I literally spent gluing 1 flap at a time, to make her smooth as silk and figurine-like as possible. And the outcome is really great. BUT she is a challenge to make, a 9/10 of difficulty, definitely. So, I will explain the assemble process a bit to maybe give you some tips if you are thinking of making her for yourselves:
As with 99% of papercrafts I built, I started at the top, making the face first, piece by piece. Once that was finished, I glued on the front hairpiece on the flaps, and made the back part of the head and the neck.
Next, I made the little petite swirls/twirls of hair, which have some points to hold together the form and that you glue, and made sure to put some flat wire in it, so it will hold on. I do suggest to put something in between the 2-sided swirls so it holds on the head, because it’s just glued on like that. So, my solution was to cut small incisions on the head where it needed to stand, and put the wire inside the head and glued it with tape from the inside. If done neatly, the wire doesn’t show and you get nice compact swirls of hair that will stick on for the rest of your life, 100% :)
Then I build the small crown and glued it on her head, added the 2-sided ears and the head was finished. Once I had that, I made my way to make the 2 arms, since it’s always fiddly to make fingers. I made the arms and made the inner side of the sleeves, that are glued to the arms. Then, I made the outer sleeves with the pink frills, and simply glued the inner part of the sleeves with the hands, on the inside, and you got yourselves hands with frills. That is a small shortcut you can make to make this built easier, and it definitely makes a difference in speed and precision as well, since you can adjust it the way it fits.
After I had the arms, I made the upper torso of the body, glued on the head and the arms. Next you need to make the remaining part of the torso, making sure you build it from the middle to the outside, because the middle part has frills, that need to be glued on extra. And on those frills, you then glue the torso stripes around the body, and on the already glued parts. Then come the upper parts of the dress, and the upper half of Beatrice is almost assembled.
Why almost, because you need to assemble the cape part that you just put on like that separately. Not really hard to do, but be sure to make it neatly, since the cape shows at the end and it needs to look its part. It also has those 2D poms for deco, so I glued those on at the very end, where I already put the coat over the shoulders.
Btw. the cape doesn’t need to be glued on the shoulders, since it holds it form like that, but I do suggest you glue it together with a small point of glue at the front where the pom comes, so it looks neat.
After this part only come parts that can be built separately and glued on the main torso part, and that are only really time-consuming, because the pink frills need to be neatly folded to fit on.
In any case, I made my way to make the bottom dress, making sure to know how the dress folds with the frills, so they actually look like frills. And after that the feet, which are again maybe a bit smaller to make, but since I was building those from bottom to top and you have the hole at the end where you need to glue it together, it’s actually easy to assembled because of that.
I do suggest if you are doing to build it, you follow these steps and make the legs separate, because it’s easier and at the end, if you see that it maybe will not stand or anything, you can add small pebbles or gravel inside the legs, so they stand really firmly. Since she has support from the bottom part of the dress, weights are really not necessary, but you never know.
In any case, once all the parts are assembled, glue the bottom dress on first to the top dress part of the torso, and at the end glue the legs at the waist part, making sure to adjust the angle to make her firmly stand that way.
And all that was left to do at that point are the extra books, which are add-ons if you would like her to look like she is in her library. I made all of them. 11 books in total (10 normal simply boxy ones, 1 open book) and her extra empty gospel book that she holds in her hands. The gospel is blank, since it was also blank in the anime, but you can write or draw in whatever you want really, I just left it blank. And since it is made that way, and you can see in the pictures, the book actually stands alone in her hands, without needing to glue it on. They are hooked in her hands like that, and does not fall off.
At the end, there are also a few 3D bows to put together, in her hair, and the bottom dress, and once you have those, the papercraft is finished.
Mostly the papercraft is hard to make because it needs so much time to be assembled, because it has many extras and fiddly things. Also, the torso part where you need to glue together upper torso with the extra glue-on frills at the middle, the hands and the head with the twirls are very fiddly to do, so you need extra patience for that. Plus, I suggest to reinforce the neck part with extra paper on the inside, especially if you want to glue on the twirly hair at the end, so the head doesn’t sink in with too much applied pressure for that.
There she is really, a pink beauty, waiting to be swept away from her books and out into the world. I really can’t wait to see her in the January season now and how the hell they are going to get out of that mess they made, damn. It’s a complicated plot XD
The template info can be found here:
I have spent 3-ish days to make her, so she is really the most complicated thing that I literally spent gluing 1 flap at a time, to make her smooth as silk and figurine-like as possible. And the outcome is really great. BUT she is a challenge to make, a 9/10 of difficulty, definitely. So, I will explain the assemble process a bit to maybe give you some tips if you are thinking of making her for yourselves:
As with 99% of papercrafts I built, I started at the top, making the face first, piece by piece. Once that was finished, I glued on the front hairpiece on the flaps, and made the back part of the head and the neck.
Next, I made the little petite swirls/twirls of hair, which have some points to hold together the form and that you glue, and made sure to put some flat wire in it, so it will hold on. I do suggest to put something in between the 2-sided swirls so it holds on the head, because it’s just glued on like that. So, my solution was to cut small incisions on the head where it needed to stand, and put the wire inside the head and glued it with tape from the inside. If done neatly, the wire doesn’t show and you get nice compact swirls of hair that will stick on for the rest of your life, 100% :)
Then I build the small crown and glued it on her head, added the 2-sided ears and the head was finished. Once I had that, I made my way to make the 2 arms, since it’s always fiddly to make fingers. I made the arms and made the inner side of the sleeves, that are glued to the arms. Then, I made the outer sleeves with the pink frills, and simply glued the inner part of the sleeves with the hands, on the inside, and you got yourselves hands with frills. That is a small shortcut you can make to make this built easier, and it definitely makes a difference in speed and precision as well, since you can adjust it the way it fits.
After I had the arms, I made the upper torso of the body, glued on the head and the arms. Next you need to make the remaining part of the torso, making sure you build it from the middle to the outside, because the middle part has frills, that need to be glued on extra. And on those frills, you then glue the torso stripes around the body, and on the already glued parts. Then come the upper parts of the dress, and the upper half of Beatrice is almost assembled.
Why almost, because you need to assemble the cape part that you just put on like that separately. Not really hard to do, but be sure to make it neatly, since the cape shows at the end and it needs to look its part. It also has those 2D poms for deco, so I glued those on at the very end, where I already put the coat over the shoulders.
Btw. the cape doesn’t need to be glued on the shoulders, since it holds it form like that, but I do suggest you glue it together with a small point of glue at the front where the pom comes, so it looks neat.
After this part only come parts that can be built separately and glued on the main torso part, and that are only really time-consuming, because the pink frills need to be neatly folded to fit on.
In any case, I made my way to make the bottom dress, making sure to know how the dress folds with the frills, so they actually look like frills. And after that the feet, which are again maybe a bit smaller to make, but since I was building those from bottom to top and you have the hole at the end where you need to glue it together, it’s actually easy to assembled because of that.
I do suggest if you are doing to build it, you follow these steps and make the legs separate, because it’s easier and at the end, if you see that it maybe will not stand or anything, you can add small pebbles or gravel inside the legs, so they stand really firmly. Since she has support from the bottom part of the dress, weights are really not necessary, but you never know.
In any case, once all the parts are assembled, glue the bottom dress on first to the top dress part of the torso, and at the end glue the legs at the waist part, making sure to adjust the angle to make her firmly stand that way.
And all that was left to do at that point are the extra books, which are add-ons if you would like her to look like she is in her library. I made all of them. 11 books in total (10 normal simply boxy ones, 1 open book) and her extra empty gospel book that she holds in her hands. The gospel is blank, since it was also blank in the anime, but you can write or draw in whatever you want really, I just left it blank. And since it is made that way, and you can see in the pictures, the book actually stands alone in her hands, without needing to glue it on. They are hooked in her hands like that, and does not fall off.
At the end, there are also a few 3D bows to put together, in her hair, and the bottom dress, and once you have those, the papercraft is finished.
Mostly the papercraft is hard to make because it needs so much time to be assembled, because it has many extras and fiddly things. Also, the torso part where you need to glue together upper torso with the extra glue-on frills at the middle, the hands and the head with the twirls are very fiddly to do, so you need extra patience for that. Plus, I suggest to reinforce the neck part with extra paper on the inside, especially if you want to glue on the twirly hair at the end, so the head doesn’t sink in with too much applied pressure for that.
There she is really, a pink beauty, waiting to be swept away from her books and out into the world. I really can’t wait to see her in the January season now and how the hell they are going to get out of that mess they made, damn. It’s a complicated plot XD
The template info can be found here:
I dare everybody to try to make her, it is definitely one of the most satisfying builds once you get there. This one will be displayed in my own showcase at home for years to come.
I hope you like her and appreciate the work that got into making this so neatly, I am really proud of her. If you have any questions or anything regarding papercrafts, you can always write a comment bellow, give feedback, post any extra wishes that I can maybe get around making, or write me in a private note.
Enjoy the view, to a great next Re: Zero season and happy crafting~
I hope you like her and appreciate the work that got into making this so neatly, I am really proud of her. If you have any questions or anything regarding papercrafts, you can always write a comment bellow, give feedback, post any extra wishes that I can maybe get around making, or write me in a private note.
Enjoy the view, to a great next Re: Zero season and happy crafting~
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