phillipcurl

[phillipcurl]

This is a list of things that I made. Check my website for a list of stuff I'm making.

[phillipcurl]

Hercules beetle by KAMIYA Satoshi

[fncll]

did you make this with the Canson tracing paper you mentioned in an earlier thread?

[phillipcurl]

yea

[TheRealChris]

I end the witch-hunt here, please concentrate on the models not on the background, thanks.

[phillipcurl]

Yes. thank you!
i also noticed you changed the topic name...thanks

[phillipcurl]

Surprisingly, making Kamiya's hercules beetle with tissue foil (my own special kind, not the traditional tissue foil. mine doesn't have wrinkles, you can sink, reverse creases, squash, and collapse easily ) is very good o.o

[fncll]

How are you avoiding the wrinkles when you make tissue foil?

[TheRealChris]

I'm making my own foil for more than 6 years now and seldom get wrinkles into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Z0efnmBhw
1st: use a hard and even surface. some people use their cutting matt or a piece of cardbox, that doesn't work well.
2nd: roll the tissue onto the foil, don't just put it onto it.
3rd: don't use too much or too wet glue

good luck

[phillipcurl]

mine technically isn't "tissue foil" mine is more like foil backed tracing paper. It performs very good, except on insects with a let of appendages, and i had to the hard way when making one just a few hours ago in my car...
it became so freaking thick that i couldn't even shape it. the base was around 1 1/2 inches thick, with just normal tissue foil, it was a mere 1/2 inches thick (still thick as hell though).

[phillipcurl]

Spider conch by Dr Lang.

You can alternatively click this link to go straight to the flickr page for this model.

[the modern einstein]

what paper are you using? i covet it.

[polistes]

what paper are you using? i covet it.

it looks like vellum to me or very thick tracing paper

[phillipcurl]

its canson foundation series, and it is only 40gsm or 25 lb, thats pretty thin I think.