So-mi Spontaneous Blurbs

Ohai thur. I guess this is my Tumblr blog of some sort. I had a Tumblr before, but due to the fact that I really didn't use it, I just deleted it. We'll see how long I'll keep this one . . .

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PaperPokés: #013 Weedle

Stay-at-home life means lots o’ time for stuff like papercrafts~

Hours Spent: 10 hours (surprisingly)

Pages: 3 pages

Difficulty (1 - 10): 4-ish, I’d say.

Most annoying part: The... feet I guess? In general, this one wasn’t too annoying.

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PaperPokés: Team Butterfree

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like people either had Butterfree or Beedrill, not both, as their evolved insect pokemon out of Viridian Forest. Anyway, here’s all 3 of ‘em together.

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PaperPokés: #011 & #012 - Metapod & Butterfree

I had the Metapod done for awhile, but I completely forgot to post a picture of it. Unfortunately, I don’t remember how long it took, so he’s gonna be photo-ed together with the Butterfree (and the numbers are related to Butterfree)

Hours Spent: 13.5 hours

Pages: 8

Difficulty (scale from 1 (super easy) - 10 (never again….)): 7? (relatively easy)

Most annoying part: The. Antennae. The worst.

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DFO - Female Crusader Stained Glass.

So, turns out, DFO is having another art contest, and that means I need to learn a new skill. Considering the theme of this contest was their new class “Female Priest,” I thought it would be fitting to attempt stained glass. 

After countless YouTube videos, I decided that I’ll try to make a design of my own

Then transferred it over to paper

Upon cutting one single piece, I’ve realized that I am an idiot for thinking I could cut something that small. So, I made the pieces bigger:

Here are the tools I used for the cutting part.

The process basically followed like this.. I would cut a piece, trace it on a piece of glass, then cut it using a glass cutter. I also had these nifty pliers that would help me break the glass better once there’s a score on it. I would also Dremel the edges if they were off by a smidge.

Oh! Then I would label each piece so that I can put them back together when I went to go attach ‘em together.

After cutting all the pieces, then came time to put them together. I used a somewhat thin piece (I forgot the exact dimensions) of copper tape to wrap around each piece. Then I would arrange them in the way I had originally planned.

After all the pieces are wrapped in copper, I then tacked some solder on the corners of every piece so that it would stay in one spot. Once everything is secured, I had to go through every edge and cover it with solder. Very tedious. :)

My desk (and life) became such a mess T ^ T 

I also burned my hand because I didn’t respect the soldering iron enough T ^ T

Regardless, I think the final product looks pretty good. I learned a lot of stuff with this, and there’s certainly room for much, much improvement (like the fact that it’s not completely lined up)

Maybe I’ll frame it at some point. 

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Ever since I started making papercraft, I wanted to make my own model and make them out of paper. Recently, there was a contest for Dungeon Fighter Online, and I decided that this is the time I’m going to do it.

I’m pretty happy with the result and the amount of experience I’ve gotten.

Weeks Spent: 3

Pages: 5 pages

Difficulty: 7 or 8. It was only difficult ‘cause I did a poor job of dividing the pieces.

Most annoying part: The neck. Oh my God. I understood why people don’t design necks of papercrafts this way.

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My co-worker and I were joking about “Go, Jira” and how it sounds incredibly close to “GOJIRA!!!!” ... I, uh, might’ve drawn this during my break.

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PaperPokés: #010 Caterpie

Here’s another Paperpoké (with a camel! :P)

Hours Spent: 6.75 hours

Pages: 3 pages

Difficulty: Mm.. A solid 4, I’d say (1 = quite easy - 10 = never again); on a side note, the camel’s a 1.

Most annoying part: The tiny ball that connects the end of Caterpie to that white/yellow tail. Yeah, I had to make a ball that’s about a 1/4th of an inch and had 13 tabs to glue.

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PaperPokés: First Gen. Starters

It only took several months, but here they all are. Phew. Time the start the bugs.

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PaperPokés: First Gen. Water Starters

And now for the water starter pokemons. I enjoy how Squirtle is bigger or is big as its evolution. Also, the Blastoise couldn’t stand by itself.. I had to lean it against the Wartortle.

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PaperPokés: #009 Blastoise

Finally. Finished this thing. The cannons are awesome.

Hours Spent: 10 hours

Pages: 7

Difficulty (scale from 1 (super easy) - 10 (never again....)): 4 (relatively easy)

Most annoying part: Just like the Wartotle, the most annoying part was the white part of the shell. So skinny :|

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PaperPokés: #008 Wartortle

Making papercraft is such a fun activity while watching YouTube videos (both of them are very unproductive :D....) 

Hours Spent: 11 hours

Pages: 8

Difficulty (scale from 1 (super easy) - 10 (never again....)): 4 (It's just time consuming)

Most annoying part: Hmm.. I'd have to say the white part of the shell was super annoying to do. It's just really thin and fragile :|

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PaperPokés: #007 Squirtle

Here's another paperpoke. These things take forever than I wish they take.. :|  It's probably because I do these projects on and off.

Hours Spent: 11 hours

Pages: 5

Difficulty (scale from 1 (super easy) - 10 (never again....)): 6 (time consuming and there are a few pieces that are annoying).

Most annoying part: Putting all of these things together. Turns out, the limbs and the head are detached from the shell. So, at the end, you kind have to glue 'em together (which also means for every limb, tail, and head, you have to make sure you close it off properly.. Which is also annoying).

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PaperPokés: First Gen. Fire Starters

And there they are. All three evolution of the fire starters (eheh. That sounds funny). I wish I had a better camera for this. 

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PaperPokés: #006 Charizard

Well.. It's been awhile since I've continued on this project, but I finally got this papercraft done.

Hours Spent: 16 hours

Pages: 9 pages

Difficulty (scale from 1 (super easy) - 10 (never again....)): 5 (once again; just time consuming).

Most annoying part: The wings. It's very thin and the chunks which you have the glue are very large. :( 

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PaperPokés: #005 Charmeleon

I got sick of looking at the unfinished Charmeleon head for months, so I decided to finish it.

Hours Spent: 10.5 hours

Pages: 6 pages

Difficulty (scale from 1 (super easy) - 10 (never again...)): 4; it's just time consuming

Most annoying part: This papercraft was pretty straight forward and not too annoying. I guess the part that I had the most difficulty was the flame on the tail because it had to be bent in weird ways, but since it was the same as Charmander, I already knew how to work it.

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PaperPokés: #004 Charmander

I didn't want to do work so.. here's another Paperpoké.

Hours Spent: 5 hours

Pages: 3 pages

Difficulty: Relatively Easy

Most annoying part: It's a tie between the teeth and the flame tail. The teeth were so damn tiny that I kept on dropping them and I had to sweep my hands over my rug to find them. And the flame.. The pieces had to be bent weird ways to make it work.

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PaperPokés: First Gen. Leaf Starters

There you have it. Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur.

It's kinda hilarious that Bulbasaur is bigger than both of them.