Already released the template of the old-style Botan from the anime “YuYu Hakusho”:
https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Botan-YuYu-Hakusho-papercraft-999570231
And now we have the assembled version of her as well. Let’s go to the building so I can give out some tips.
ASSEMBLY TIPS:
With any of my papercrafts, you can divide the assembly into separate parts: the head with the tail, the arms, the upper torso, the legs with the bottom yukata and the add-ons (3D paddle and 2D notebook).
If we start with the head, you assemble the face and neck first. Then you glue on the front hair and last the back hair. Then you need to assemble the hair tail separately and glue in inside the hole. Additionally, to that, you can reinforce the tail from the inside with some rolled-up paper and then put it in, to make it hold really well.
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 sleeves of the kimono till the shoulders. When you have all these parts, glue on the first few rows of the torso on the head and neck part you did before, then glue on the 2 sleeves and build the rest of the torso. Once done, glue in the 2 arms at the right angle and that’s done.
Set these now aside and move to the legs. You do this part with first the bottom yukata and then the legs separately. And when you have these 2 parts done, glue them together on the inside of the yukata at the right spot. Once done, glue the remaining flaps of the yukata bottom on the upper torso and Botan is done.
All that is left is to add the add-ons, you can glue on the notebook and paddle (or leave it as is and you can remove it).
I do suggest adding some weights inside the bottom to make her sit nicely. And as you can see, you will need a nice glass or anything similar to make her sit nicely and display in your room.
*** 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:
https://ko-fi.com/s/1b5439048c
You can view all of my available premium papercrafts that are for sale on my Ko-fi page:
https://ko-fi.com/antyyyspapercrafts ***
I hope you have fun assembling it as much as I did :) Happy crafting~
