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Havent been on for while, lifes been busy. Just wanted to share what my wonderful wife and my parents got me for the holiday. Talk about knowing and embracing my new found hobby along with me! I will let you all know how it all works, my wife also got me the pepakura plug in for the machine...

Just minor update, been very busy with real life lately. Switched to Canvas for texture creation, can never seem to get the texture map bmp that pepakura outputs to line up after export, modify with cool stuff, and re-import. So takes alot of tweaking. Canvas seems to have slightly better...

I rebuilt the templates in 3D in CATIA V5, then I'm unfolding them in Pepakura. Right now I'm still experimenting with different texture techinques and to get the scale correct. I figured out the scaling issue in pepakura it was not intuitive at all, and since its only in mm's doesn't convert...

Quick update. Noticed today that somewhere along the line ended up with a scaling issue. Not sure how. Everyhing brought into Pepakura was scaled down by 1.88. Finding the scale down meant going back to CATIA and comparing to the printed out length. Anybody with pepakura knowledge know what...

Quick update. All parts are made and can be brought into pepakura. I put together the head in pepakura, and slowly been experimenting with the texture mapping. I've used the pepakura texture map export feature and put that into powerpoint and been editing in there. I didn't get fancy with...

Lunch cut short today. Only time for two weapons and assembling one of them. I changed how cannon goes together for cleaner fit. Cheers Leib

I'll have to try, Catia is my natural fallback obviously. My plan right now is to take these pieces and save off as stl and go right into pepakura. I'm wondering if maybe I can get them into Rhino after making them in Catia? I know I tried that with a complex model with curves, but this is all...

End of Day 2 progress.

So I searched a long time for a good 3D warhound model to work with, and couldn't find it. So I decided to start a new lunchtime activity and back drive a 3d model from JSV's DIY template. My goal is to eventually use this to make a pepakura file out of. I originally started JSV's template...

Excellent. See those triangle cuts into material that would help in the folding, that's what I have found CATIA is missing! It seems to stretch across those sections during the flattening. I'm trying to figure out a work around, but this is new ground on what we've use the unfold feature for...

Nice stuff. I may have to look into Rhino further. Since I'm experiementing with existing skins I can't show pictures of WIP's, but if I get a paper body made I can share that. I have the fusleage printed out with no tabs made for test purposes. I'll let you know how it goes. You are...

I played with Rhino yesterday too bringing one of my work models over. Complex skin, and Rhino's unrollsrf command kept giving me an error on certain pieces about no double back or something like that. I have absolutely no Rhino skills, we have it over here since its helpful in recontructing...

Hey all, I'm mostly skilled in V5, and we occasionally use the unfold feature in one of the shape licenses for various template constructions. It occurred to me that it could be a very useful tool for unfolding pesky NURBS files (catpart surfaces, iges, stp etc) which so far Pepakura doesnt...

If you are interested in Spacehulk terrain, worldworks games has two really good scale spcaeship interiors. I have the two older ones, Firstlight and Shadowcore, but not their new one. I linked their new one below. (FYI I tried to post this a few minutes ago and my post seems to have gone...

Edit, these were meant for the spacehulk thread.--Leib I got both of these for space hulk supplements. I haven't got the chance to use them yet, but what little I did of First Light is decent scale. http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/index.php?view=product&product=160...

I've not encountered a Crisis suit yet, but this is the site I found the majority of my first templates at and they have a Broadside. With a little work you could make it into a crisis. http://simon.sianaco.com/otherstuff/PaperHammer%2040k/Tau/ Cheers, Leibolmai Quick EDIT to add picture...

My Yamoto is diecast with plastic wings and plastic third bridge, and two mini plastic fighters. I've seen the paper models out there, but have not the time nor the courage to attempt one yet. A co-worker gave it to me after he saw my extensive BSG collection on my desk knowing I was also a...

Sorry running risk of thread resurrection but i do own the original book in this thread. The cd is great. I have not made a full mech yet but i played around using their pin joint method for improving the legs of the warhound model. Its a neat concept since you basically fold a tight square pin...

Thanks for the advice. I am using a lexmark so will have to look it up. I can already tell you as I mentioned on another post I had issues with ink running days after printing when I applied 3m glue stick. It literally would slough off a complete layer from heavy textured card stock. Cheers...

Would normal clearcoat sealant work or do you mean pigmentless paint (clear paint non sealing nor gloss). I have both from painting minis. Cheers, Leibolmai