Already posted my Shiroko papercraft template:
And now it’s time to assemble this cutie and give you some pro-tips on how to make life simpler for yourself when doing these. Let’s go.
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ASSEMBLY TIPS:
With any of my papercrafts, you can divide the assembly into separate parts: the head with the ears and hair, the coat, the 2 arms with the while sleeves, the cape, the upper torso, the legs, her 3D bag and the 2D halo.
If we start with the head, you assemble the face and neck first. Then you glue on the front hair, pre-build the 2 ears first and glue them on the front hair, and lastly close it with the back hair. After this, you can glue on the 2D head parts.
Next you can separately build the 2 arms, with either the 2D or 3D hands (note that I did the preview pics with the 2D version of the hands). When you got those, set them aside and start gluing together the 2 white sleeves and glue those together. When you have all these parts, glue together the whole coat part, and only then press the pre-made hands inside to glue them on the right angle. Once done, glue in the 2 arms at the right angle. And that’s done.
Next, you make the first 3 parts of the upper torso, and glue in the head you did before and make your way all down the torso and then glue on the dress as well. Once this is done, you can simply put glue on the remaining flaps of the torso, where the arms should be, and glue on the pre-made coat on there. And after this, you can then also glue on the blue scarf and close it by gluing it together in the back. Add the 2D items on here as well.
Next step is to make the legs. You do this part by assembling the legs from bottom to top and finish with the buttocks part. This means, build the whole sneakers first and leave the bottom sole part off for now. Next, build the first 3 parts of the legs, place them inside the sneakers and glue those 2 together like that. After the glue sets, close the sneaker soles, build the remaining legs and the butt.
And before anything, fill up the legs 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). And when you have this part done, glue the legs on the dress.
All that is left is to is her simple bag and the halo. You can glue or just place the bag around her shoulder and it’s done. And you can either glue on the halo at the back of her head, or, like me, glue it on some wire and make it “float”. Done and done.
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*** This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDFs and blank, locked PDO file for assembly. – You can buy and download the template here:
You can view all of my available premium papercrafts that are for sale on my Ko-fi page:
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Enjoy and happy crafting~
