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Here's today's iteration with rice paper. I'm thinking I'll seal it with matte medium and then paint with acrylic thinned out so that it looks like watercolor. The plastic wrap is to keep the sxel washers clean.

I try all sorts of glues and materials but I keep coming back to PVA and 110 lb cardstock. The same Georgia Pacific stuff that Gandolf 50 uses. I buy archival grade PVA sold with bookbinding supplies. I tried tacky glue but it's not as flexible as PVA when it dries. I've used supper glue which...

I've got some spheres as you describe, plastic Christmas balls from Micheals. They are just a bit bigger. I might try it :-) To me the surface is secondary to the inner structure. My initial plan was to design a system for freehand drawing on a sphere so that the panels can be removed and...

The work for today. I'm calling the first one done. I may go for clouds on another. I'm pleased with it. The white one is in process. This time I did the skin with 27 lb paper, not card stock. Then I filled with gesso and acrylic modeling paste then sanded. I'll decoupage another skin on top...

I'll look into it. I'm using galvanized utility wire for the stands because I have it handy. The axels are long pins (5") from a beading store that went out of business. They aren't long enough to do Venus which has a 177 degree axial tilt. I'm going to have to come up with longer pins or else...

Here are three iterations of the model. The one on the left is a fail. I'm taking it no further. The other two are in process. I've started making stands out of galvanized utility wire. My plan is to display them on a table in a scifi-con art show. It's either a table or a wall panel. I'm...

LOL

Cotton candy probably wouldn't rot. Sugar is a preservative in a high enough quantity.

I'm planning on painting the clouds, building up layers of acrylic glaze so that the atmosphere has depth. Maybe I'll do one with clouds and one without.

Here it is as of this morning. I have it hanging beside my computer and paint a little bit at a time.

I continue working. I carry the parts around in a old video box so I can have hand work with me as if I were knitting or crocheting. It's not all that different an activity. with the silhouette I'm now refining the parts design with details which were too much trouble to cut by hand. I've keyed...

Here it is rebuilt and with the axis in the right place. I used watercolor paper as the skin. I intend to paint it. I was going to do water color but I'm now thinking acrylic. After that I'm going with thinner paper on the skin. And then I'm going to try notching the inner circles to lower the...

For drawing the non-euclidean triangles I used the Coreldraw polygon tool and pulled the central node of the triangle sides outward. I eyeballed it and did it in the 8" size. So it gets more precise when scaled down. I suppose the fit would be more precise if I accounted for the darts when...

What?! and miss the fun of figuring it out? It's either play Freecell or make models for me. They are both a type of puzzle. The trick is how to do it using the tools available in Coreldraw. Here's how I think I do it start with the diameter of the internal structure and add 2 times the...

Here are the images the one oh the right shows how the trefoil goes together. I've since made changes. The cut in the ring now aligns so that the knot can be glued closed. Also the folds on the side of each loop is now rolled rather than a hard fold. This is because the triangle in the middle is...

You've got the idea :-) I start with 20 full circles then twist each circle back on itself to form a trefoil knot. If I design the model as a mathematical teaching set I will put in part about trefoil knots and knot theory. I probably need to make some design changes to that each loop of the...

I remain mostly interested in the internal structure. I have three different sized models. all three scaled to each other as the Moon is to Earth. This is the 2 inch model. It seems to go the quickest if I work things out in this scale because I can fit the parts on four sheets of paper. The 8"...

I've got the Cameo Silhouette set up and it's back to work on the models. Here's the skin I was using. It's taken from a icosahedral map ornament and it's not quite right because I end up cutting off the edges of each facet when placing it on a sphere. That's part of why the map skin wasn't...

Here's the machine. I first used a desk lamp for extra light, but then I purchased an under the cabinet LED to go over the top of it. You can see it works better. The last is of the new big ass pallet knife. I was worried it was too big but it can go under the entire sheet of paper and once.

Cool stuff. I did see somewhere else how a silhouette cutter can be used to make vinyl masks for etching. I'll stay away from acid unless I have a compelling reason to use the techniques.