Wren by amateur - FINISHED - 1:1- CARD

[amateur]

Hi, 

 

as a break (needed something to do while the glue of my other models is setting, I downloaded a cardmodel of a bird, a wren to be exact. (Www.johanscherft.nl).

 

rather fun to build, and not difficult at all. The result is rather convincing: a life size bird, 16 parts, just from your own printer. I will just show the pics, no story needed (I think)

to the 'kit'. I printed it on 120 grams paper, but 80 is better (as it is thinner, the edge problem is smaller, and it will curve more easily.

The head: lines on my cutting mat are 1 cm apart

 

the hull in variou stages of forming

Start of the tail. The 5 additional feathers are still drying under some weight.

Two wings. Flat and curved.

There is a beak (somewhere on the grond now, but I willretreive it  )

 and two legs still to be cutted.

 Final assamblage will be tomorrow (I think) picture will follow for the gallery (untill the moderators remove it, as a wren is not a ship at all)

 

Jan

 

[ccoyle]

When I started out in card, I did quite a few card model fish, various species of trout drawn up by a gentleman in Japan. They were actually very good likenesses. Lots of subject matter available in the card world!

[amateur]

Almost finished (but not completely: the bird needs a brach to sit....)

 

First, a tail

 

next, a new head (the first one didn't fit without damaging the body)

 

and finally, the marriage of all parts into a proper bird

I took a branch from the garden, but that didn't work: a real bird doesn't need a horizontal branch. This one does.....

 

Jan

[amateur]

And the finished product, sitting on a paper branch.

I hoped to show you the next bird, nut that one didn't suucced (yet). The head didn't fit, and in trying to let it fit, I crushed the body. But I'll restart (next weekend). Here it is before crushing (even before glueing)

 

 

Jan