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Anonymous
How do you enlarge a papercraft model to your exact specifications? Like, for example, this model here. If I wanted the whole figure itself to be bigger and measure about 1 meter tall, how can this be done?
>> Anonymous
go to kinkos run bigger copies
>> Anonymous
Nahhh. That way is expensive and stupid. Here's the free way. You will need:

* Minimal skills with Photoshop or a similar image editing program
* Some time and concentration

Now, I'm hoping the model you want to resize is in PDF format, which most likely means it's vectorized. This means it can be resized infinitely without losing any quality, unlike gifs, jpegs, etc. If not, well, that's alright, but your final will come out a bit fuzzy most likely.

What you have to do is find the largest single piece used in the entire model, and cut it out with the selection tools. Then play with the enlargement tools until you find out how big you can make it and still fit on a normal sheet of paper (for example, you might find that if you enlarge it to 350%, it will fit perfectly on a sheet of 8.5 x 11 without going over). After you find this, it's just a matter of resizing the other pieces to the same scale, then arranging them on 8.5 x 11 size canvases. You should end up with many pages worth of re-arranged, enlarged pieces. Now all that's left is...PROFIT?!

I've done this a few times now to scale up tiny models, and it DOES work extremely well. Bit of a pain, but it's worthwhile, and as always, FREE. Fuck Kinkos, do the work yourself and save dollars.
>> Anonymous
>>18130
Agh, didn't read your post well. A meter might be problematic with standard 8.5 x 11 sheets. If you're REALLY creative though, you could scale large pieces up even further if you cut them in half at logical spots, and made your own tabs. This would of course allow larger pieces, and thus, a larger final product.
>> Anonymous
If you're aiming for a specific size, the ratio between the size of the image you're using now and the height of the model you made shouldn't change when scaled.
Good luck. I recommend using something stronger than paper for the larger size. Cardboard maybe...
>> ~Shinta
What are you going to do with a big paper schoolgirl again? I shudder to think.
>> omachan
where do you find these wnderful pics to print to make these lovely crafts???
>> Anonymous
>>18139
hey it's 4chan...
>> Anonymous
>>18139

Two words should stop this perverted quest.

PAPER. CUT.
>> Anonymous
>>18132
Yeah, that's probably the best alternative. Thanks for the advice everyone. And NO, my plans aren't what>>18139might be thinking. However it is quite...odd, to say the least. I will be posting it soon.
>> Anonymous
>>18143
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura/gallery/ranking.php?len=0&sort=0&cate=-1&lim=5

It's on Page 6.
>> Anonymous
I did a 1.4 meter version of another model (I aimed for 1.7 meter but missed), and here is my two cents of advice:

first, if you scale up a paper figurine, you will need square the scale times of paper. For example, if you needed 1 sheet and you scaled 10 times, you will need 100.

Second, you will need stronger paper. I used a paper too thin and I regret it, it collapsed (I had to renforce it as I could and the result is bad).

Third, many models (I'm pretty sur this one too) have pieces too big to fit on a sheet when scaled at the ratio you want. Cutting pieces in two or more is easily doable with minimum photoshop skill, but be very careful, as it will add more places to be glued together. Keep also in mind that two pieces bend differently than one, so it may mess your geometry a little.

Last point: be very careful when scaling. I mean, a one pixel difference (no big deal) can becom a 5 millimeters difference when scaled. And it's not nice too see. I know it's time-consuming, but before printing, check that both pieces of the same edge have the same length for it. Trust me, it's necessary.

And of course, build the small version first, to have a reference when you need it.

That was my two cents, hope it helps
>> Anonymous
>>18223


now, now , now, post a photo.

i'm quite curious.
>> Anonymous
>>18229
Unfortunetaly I don't have anything to take a photo right now, but trust me, it's not nice to see.
I used the template from the schoolgirl with the mask and the sword, and I thought that even if it was too thin, I could use it as support and strenghthen it.
I tried to paint it. not enough
I tried to double the paper at some places. Made things worse.
I tried to scotch it. Pretty useless.
I tried to use cartonboard. Worked, but not enought.
I tried to use ... many other things, but the mistakes I made at the beginning were too great to be corrected... and it kept looking worse and worse ... so at the end I gave up. I suppose templates aren't made to be that big, at least not without anything to support it from the inside.
>> Anonymous
>>18230
If you still have it, I /r/ a video of you burning it, and laughing maniacally.
>> Anonymous
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Not helpful, but somewhat relevant.

Also not mine. Original Eva model is about 2ft, so this is maybe 4x larger, and still looks like it worked pretty well.
>> Anonymous
>>18230
Next time, I wouls recommend pasting your peices to posterboard.Thicker than any pring paper you can find, easy to work with, and reasonably priced.
>> Anonymous
>>18262
now THAT looks nice

>>18266
posterboard? sorry but I'm not familiar with paper kind and terms (and especially not in english, since it's not my mother language). In facts, I used posters to make it (got something like 150 A2 posters from a local anime con, they printed too much and didn't know what to do with them), so I try to make my figurine with that. It's not strong enough.
>> Anonymous
>>18278

i think the poster board hes referring to is the giant white boards you find in your local pharmacies. The ones that jr high and high school students use for shitty "presentations", and usually have a rough and glossy side.
>> Synonymous !BHUJfTXHtM
>>18262leg is bent
>> Anonymous
>>18320
In my country, for those purposes, we would be more likely to use foam board, but that's obviously not what your talking about. But I think I understood what kind of paper you are talking about, and approves with the idea that it should work well enough ... now if someone wants to test it ...
>> Anonymous
Where are you from anyway?
>> Gren
>>18355
Yeah, it's a single ply peice of cardboard, like the stuff that shoe boxes are made of. You can buy large sheets (1 m x .75 m or so) for very cheap (usually less than 1 USD) Definately would npot want to use foam core board. That stuff does not like to bend.