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Papercraft guides? Anonymous
Anybody know any good free online papercraft guides? I searched around a bit, but found nothing good/free. Mostly links to books and whatnot.

Thanks in advance.
>> Jen
For papercraft, you will need all-purpose white glue, printer-friendly paper, and scissors.
It is also recommended that you have a knife blade that can cut out really small parts.
If you want a more durable papercraft that can take a little more handling, then use card stock. It's thicker than regular printer paper.
Regular printer paper tends to have a weight around 24 lb. weight or 80 gsm.
Paper used for papercrafting is around 65-110 lb. weight or 160-220 gsm.
I've heard that matte photo paper works nicely as well, but it is more expensive, so it's usually not used.
Glossy photo paper should not be used because glue does not adhere quickly to it.

Papercrafts usually call for cutting on solid lines and folding on dotted lines. Sometimes multiple templates are released for the same papercraft so anyone who doesn't want folding lines on their finished craft can print a lineless version while looking at the fold lines on a lined version. If there are two types of dotted lines, then it might be signifying the mountain and valley folds used in origami.

Parts that go together are usually arranged by the creator of the template to be found close to one another. A template might have the head on one page, the limbs on another, and the torso on yet another, or something to that extent. There are also papercraft templates that are not ordered very well. If this is the case, the creator usually releases a .pdo file to go with the template. A .pdo file is a file that can be viewed with Pepakura Viewer, a piece of software from Tamasoft. It is available online for free at their website, but it only works on Windows. Some creators, seeing this problem, will release a photo or two of the finished product to help others build the papercraft.

Copypasta from a text document on my computer.
>> Anonymous
http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/entertainment/papercraft/howto/index.html
has some good tips, but as you go and build more papercrafts, you'll discover your own methods and useful tools.
>> Anonymous
how much does 160-240 gsm paper normally cost? the only place i could find it was an art store, which wanted 65au cents (~54usd) per a4 sheet. and then a few shelves down they sold peices of 240gsm large enough to cut into 8 a4 sheets for $1.20... i just can't help but think paper is cheaper then what they're trying to charge for the a4 sheets. might be small per sheet, but when i think the eva model i wanted to make is 55ish sheets, the cost builds up.