It's time people! Time to see my chibi Zero Two papercraft in all her assembled glory :) Hope you are excited as much as I am. Here are the tips & tricks on how to build here:
As already mentioned with the template info, the papercraft can be divided into 3 separate parts of the craft, where you can make them all by themselves and at the end simply join/glue them together. The 3 main parts are the head, the torso and the legs.
As with all my crafts, I always start with the head. Built the face first (with the neck) and then make your way to the back of the head. And once you get to the back, you’ll see that it’s open there, which makes a great help for gluing the last longer hairs on there, without the hole being even visible at the end (since it’s covered up with her long pink hair). The head is sturdy and doesn’t have any problems standing even with the hole, so no worries there, it’s just to make the template easy-peasy to assemble. And after that, all there is left are the 2D 2-sided ears you glue on the right sports, assemble the simple 3D red horns and glue them on the top of the head, and the first part is done.
Moving on, I made the 2 arms separately first. As you’ll see if you buy the template, the hands are made as simple 2D 2-sided hands that are glued on hand “stumps” to make it easy. So, you first glue the 2D 2-sided hands together and cut them out, make the separate stumps for the hands, and make the separate sleeves of the uniform. After you got these 3 parts of the arms, put glue on the end flaps of the boxy “hand stumps” and press them inside the sleeves, adjusting the right angle and letting it dry. After that, just glue the remaining hands on the stumps and the arms are done.
When the arms are done, built the first half of the torso with the collar. When you got that, glue the arms on the body and then slide the neck part (of the built head) inside the hole and glue it up from the inside. Let that part dry good, and when it does, use curled-up waste paper to bulk up that tiny neck of hers to prevent it from snapping (it’s a chibi papercraft, so the necks are always the most difficult part, since they are so small and the head disproportionately big).
Pro tip: since we are dealing with a chibi papercraft, always be sure to reinforce and straighten the parts that are most vulnerable, like we did with the neck. - And since after you attach the head on the jacket, it becomes difficult to build it with the head facing upwards, so turn the papercraft upside-down and built the remaining parts till the last like that. That way the head will not weight down the body and you’ll have a simpler assembly.
After that, built the remaining torso part and then move on the end of her skirt. After you got the torso with the head assembled, you can glue on the 2D decorative items on her, such as the tie, the emblems on her arms, the belt etc.
All that is left is to make the last 3. part of the assembly, which are the legs. Build them simply by gluing them together from bottom to top, starting with the boots and making your way up to the legs. Before you attach them on the main body, you can fill them with weights (I always use small pebbles, since they fit inside every small hole and are heavy enough to make it stand. Of course, you don’t need to add weights in, you can do that just as a precaution, since the papercraft stands/sits easily without help).
Now comes the fiddly part, where you need to put glue on the remaining flaps of the legs and push them inside the skirt and gluing them at the right angle of the dress on the inside of her waist. Let that try, and there you go. All finished.
You can find the template and detailed info about it here (if you want to purchase/buy it, just write me a private note):
Give the anime a chance, build yourself a papercraft or 2 and just enjoy life ;) Happy crafting~
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