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.***

Neko Musume (GeGeGe no Kitarou) papercraft

Neko Musume (GeGeGe no Kitarou) papercraft

New Week, new Monday and a new post of a papercraft I think you all will really love. I said I will post my “normal” papercrafts from time to time, not only my “Super simple papercrafts” series, since it would get boring with only those, and I love making life-like or more anime-like figurine papercrafts, since that is my passion XD I should have posted this a while back, since the series already ended, but better late than never, they say. So I present you the cutest and most awesome "Gegege no Kitarou" character from the latest re-made anime, here is my take on “Neko Musume”!

The papercraft, as you can see, is about 25 cm tall and has 5 pages to print. The papercraft is mostly made of an attached 3D model of my Neko Musume, which I modeled out of the anime.

I think I found the most optimal polygon count and form for a anime girl papercraft, as well as the finger count and all, since I don’t think it’s that hard to make compared to other crafts I made, so I will stick to this base for girls from now on I think, and if you have long hair or bangs, it’s super simple to make, since I can leave a hole on the back side of the head, which makes closing the head and assembly super simple, and the whole is not even visible from any angle like this. The hole in the back side of the head allows not only the assembly to be super simple, but also that the hair is more natural and flowy, and you don’t need to make the bangs and everything in 3D forms, since that is always a tedious job to do. So I will stick with this form from now on, already assembled some of my papercrafts with this form (which you will be able to see), and I have to say they are really easy and more fun to make like that. And they look exactly like in the anime as well :)

 

This papercraft particularly has the head closed, since she has her hair pinned up and that is her hairstyle, BUT you can make her easily because you have a skirt, so you make the upper part and the leg part and join it together in the waist, always allowing you to have an open end to assemble and glue the parts, that’s why I said that this particular model base for anime girls is so easy to use ;)

Apart from the joined 3D modeled body you also have some 2D 2-sided parts, such as her hairbow, the underskirt part (which you can use if you wish) the dress straps, the straps on her feet, etc. Average difficulty to make I think, much as any anime girl base, and it should stand if you glue the feet on the right angle in the hips, that’s why again this base is so sweet to use XD

***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 papercraft, and that, if you don't know the anime already, are animated to see it, since it's really a nice and different anime to watch. The base mangas of Kitarou are really freaking old, and you have many different other anime adaptations as well, some I think over 60 years old, so there is much material to see if you like this type of anime and story.

Any feedback or comments are apreciated, so write what you think, what you would like to see, etc., and else happy crafting~

     
UPDATE: 

You can see the assembled papercraft here: 

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Neko-Musume-GeGeGe-no-Kitarou-built-papercraft-877273332