Mermaid OC diorama papercraft

Mermaid OC diorama papercraft

Decided to make a new diorama and what a better environment to choose from than under the vast unexplored ocean. I mean, who know what’s all down there, might even be real mermaids and we just don’t know it XD

Anyway, this is a mermaid diorama I decided to do, with an OC mermaid, so I made her up myself. The papercraft consists of a 3D mermaid, a 3D diorama with LOTS of different corals and algae for deco as well as her 2D shell with a 3D pearl in her hand.

      

The whole diorama is unfolded to be 24 cm big, so the mermaid herself would be about 22 cm tall. It has 13 pages to print (with the first 2 being double-sided for her red hair), for the mermaid papercraft alone that would be 5 pages.

Obviously, the stand is optional, since the mermaid has a generic sitting pose that lets you put her anywhere on an edge of your shelf or table, but it can also be a nice decoration piece. With a bit of effort and a lot of glue and sealing spray, it can even be turned into an underwater figure as well, why not. Anything is possible with papercrafts if you set your mind to it ;)

              

***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.***

   

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Human Rowlet (Pokemon) built papercraft

Human Rowlet (Pokemon) built papercraft

Posted my human Rowlet girl template preview already that you can view here:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Human-Rowlet-Pokemon-papercraft-971540436

So now you can see her assembly and how cute she looks in real as well 

*As with any of my papercraft templates, the blank PDO is always included in these files, so you help yourself with the 3D preview in Pepakura to assemble it, but I like to post a bit of experience I have with building papercrafts to maybe make things easier for less experienced papercrafters and share ideas on how to make it simpler 

                

ASSEMBLY TIPS:

As with all of these humanoid papercrafts, it can be divided into smaller separate parts you can built and then put together, to make it easier to assemble. So, you can divide it into: the head with the neck and hair, The torso with the upper wings and the skirt, the bottom with legs and the 2 boots.

As with all of my papercrafts, I always start with the head. Build the face and the head around + the neck and then glue the front hair bangs on the face part. After that, build the remaining back part of the hair, making sure to glue the part that sticks together with the head, to glue together and to close it up. All that is left to do is to glue the 2 leaves/pins on the front hair.

When you finish the whole head, it’s time to start the torso. The upper neck part has 2 parts you need to make first, so do those and assemble the first upper part of the torso to about half of the breasts. Then you can glue on the head with the neck on there and close it. Then, build the 2 wings/arms separately, and put each of them in there, and then slide in the folds, so you are able to glue it in nicely and additionally reinforce it with rolled-up leftover paper from the cut-out, to make it sturdier and really holding it together. Once the neck is glued on the torso part, slide the neck decorations on there and glue on the remaining parts of the dress, including the inner (optional) side in this part.

Leave the whole thing for now and glue the last parts, the legs, together. Start at the bottom (the pants) and make your way up. Again, you can divide the leg part into the boots and into the thighs with the panties, to make it simpler. Build each of those 4 parts and glue them together at the knee part with the flaps. And before anything, fill up the boots with some weights here, to make her really stand firmly (*Pro-tip: I always suggest smaller pebbles, since they are small enough to fit and heavy enough to help with the weight as well, without rupturing the paper itself).

Now, all that is left to do is glue the torso and the legs all together with the flaps in the waist part of each part. Be sure to adjust the angle again to make sure it can stand firmly and let it dry like that.

And voilà, done :)

     

***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.***

            

I hope you like the little lady. Enjoy and happy crafting~