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Anonymous
Hey /po/!
What if I was making a papercraft that's actually two papercrafts? Kinda like a scene with two characters. And one was human sized, and the other was a monster many times bigger. I could:

1) Make them the same scale, make the human as big so that it will be easy to build, but that would mean the big monster will be VERY big, and you'd need to print A LOT of pages (I'm not very keen on that)

2) Make the monster so big that it's easy to build, and still under 10 pages, but then the human would be very small and difficult to build (not to keen on that because I'm trying to make it EASY to build)

3) Make them both at a different scale so that they're both easy to build, on a reasonable amount of pages (not to keen on that, because what's the point in making a "scene" with two characters and them make them a different scale)

The problem with option 1) is that the monster WILL be massive if I use the "easy to build human" as scale standard... More pages than I would like to print.
Option 3) is okay I guess, although it IS a shame if they're not the same size... You can't really put them together in a "scene" anymore, but they WILL both look good enough to pass as seperate models...

Any advice?
>> Anonymous
Depends on how large the monster is. Mind telling us how large it would be, roughly?

Since it's obviously not king kong.
>> Anonymous
>>70994
And by that, I meant the real thing, not the papercraft version. Sorry for not making it clearer.
>> Anonymous
>>70996
In the pose I have it now, it's about 3,5 times as high as the human, and over 8 times as long from the head to the tip of the very long tail.

A very good scale to build the human figure would be to make it about 30 cm high (if I make it 20 cm, everything about it would need be scaled down, and some parts would get too small to build (even after deleting all the unnecessary detail).
So for the monster that would mean 3,5 times as high: over a meter tall... and over 8 times as long; I've seen rooms that it wouldn't fit in...
for 20 cm it would be 70 cm and 1,60 m.

It's why I'm leaning towards not making it the same scale...
>> Anonymous
SotC?
>> Anonymous
>>71003
I think the Shadow of Colossus Colossuses would be even larger than 3,5 times as large as a human, though I haven't played the game so I'm basing my guess on screenshots. ;)

But I think I found a good solution:
I'm going for option 3) Just different scales, so that both of them will be easy to make. If I make the monster's scale 5 times smaller, they'll both be at a nice scale. (If I made the human 5 times smaller to match the scale, it would be impossible to build...)
And then as an extra, I'll make a simple paper standie at the correct scale to the monster, so you can still "re-enact" the scene.
I think that's the best solution: 2 nice papercrafts that are both easy to build, and you don't have to print an excessive amount of pages.
>> Volt
>>71003

My good god that would be epic
>> Jen
I would say to start with making both the human and King Kong a size that's easy to build. After some people have tried putting them together, then we'll see about getting the human and gorilla closer to their relative sizes for the movies. It may just be that the human will have to get really simplified, maybe even to the point of almost being a hako papercraft.
>> Anonymous
whatever you decide to do i'll probably end up only making kong
>> Jen
>>71354

Good point. I'd probably want to scale down some human papercraft I've already got to use with it. Suiseiseki vs King Kong...FIGHT!

And there are always legos.
>> Anonymous
>>71000
Well.. Personally, I have the room to sacrifice even for the original 30cm~etc scale, 20cm~ and so forth is fine too. But yes, you're right that not everyone can afford the space. How hard would it be to make the human 15cm? Cuts everything down to half size and might be harder, I know. But most people should be able to find a place for something that size.
Is it also not possible to simplify details? Making hands solid with lines, et c.
I'm just thinking of ways to keep them to-scale and still be easy to make. But, if not, a different scale would probably be fine as well.. I don't think many people would really complain as long as they like it.

>>71352
>>71354
>>71373
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>> Anonymous
The thing is, the human is already very simplified. The 30 cm size is the size where I myself can build it easily (with "boxhands with stripes" for example). All the unnecessary details that would make it even harder to build are already taken care of. Some people may say "I can build it smaller!" and they're welcome to scale down the model themselves to build it smaller of course! I'm just talking about the way how I'll release it.
Making it a hako would seriously suck: the human model looks great the way it is now. For the scaled down version to go with the monster I'll make it a simple standie, the contrast between the big monster with its smooth 3D shapes and the 2D standie will actually look very nice I think, much nicer than a true, smooth 3D monster and a blocky hako that's also 3D, but in a crappy way. 2D-3D contrast will work better than smooth 3D-crappy 3D contrast lol.

I'll also include a 2D (partially) poster of the monster in the correct scale as the human, so for both scales you can get a feeling of the size difference if you want.

And of course, for those that really want to be the 3D monster the correct scale, they can always go to Kinko's to have it enlarged 5 times (because the parts won't fit on standard paper size anymore...)
>> Anonymous
>>71382>unrelated.jpg
And King Kong doesn't have a tail:>>71000over 8 times as long from the head to the tip of the very long tail
>> Anonymous
man, king kong has to have a huge cock

i mean, it's got to be like the size of a truck
>> Anonymous
I'm almost tempted to say "Screw everyone else and make the thing as large as you want it. Because when making this stuff it's always best to cater to yourself than others."
But then again-oh wait I just did say it, didn't I? Oops.
>> Anonymous
>>71443
True, I guess it was more a question if someone could think of something how to make it so wouldn't be two "seperate papercrafts" because of the difference in scale, because I kinda already decided I wasn't going to make it over a meter tall, or so small that it would be difficult too build...
A simplified version like Jen said, but I'm going even further and make it a 2D standie instead of a hako. ;)