Welcome To Velosareon's Guide To Paper Crafting!

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Table of Contents (Use Ctrl + F And Type In Code For Easy Navigation!)

(Example Section..........................................................................[CODE])

Introduction To Paper Crafting....................................................[ITPC]
How To Use This Guide..........................................................[HTUSTG]
What You Will Need.................................................................[WYWN]
Paper Crafting Sites......................................................................[PCS]
Set-Up And Getting Started.....................................................[SUAGS]
Helpful Tips!.....................................................................................[HT]
Building With Velosareon!(Beginner).......................................[BWVB]
Building With Velosareon!(Intermediate).................................[BWVI]
Building With Velosareon!(Advanced)......................................[BWVA]
My Gallery.......................................................................................[MG]
Extras!................................................................................................[E]

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Introduction To Paper Crafting....................................................[ITPC]


What is paper crafting? Well, paper crafting is an art. It's like origami, except you have to cut and paste too. It's really fun

actually, and very time consuming. It's also very calming, like origami! But if you don't think origami is easy, or if you

wanted to make your favorite video game character out of paper so you could show off to your friends, then you have

come to the right place! Imagine... just printing out a paper with ink slathered on top of it... and then turning the flat, ink

doused paper, into a three-dimensional masterpiece! And that, is what you may do with paper crafting! I have found paper

crafting to be calming, so that is why I wish to share it with you, the MG Community!

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How To Use This Guide..........................................................[HTUSTG]


It's fairly simple. All you really need to know is to navigate through this guide easily, you can press "Ctrl + F" to activate

the "Find" menu. After you open it, you can click in the small window and type in the codes specified for the sections. Like

for example, If I wanted to view the "How To Use This Guide" section, I would press "Ctrl + F", click the window, and type

in "HTUSTG" as the code specifies. See? Simple?

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What You Will Need.................................................................[WYWN]


I'll make a list of certain things that you will need when performing the art of paper crafting!

The Things You Need List (Note: If there is an '*' next to it, it means some parental help may be needed.)

-*A printer!

-Some glue!

-A pair of scissors!

-An open desk/work place!

-Toothpicks!

-Some motor skills!

-Some paper!

-Some tweezers! (For small parts)

Optional Things

-*Razor knife!

-A Cutting Mat! (You can use and unused mouse pad or a board.)

-*A Colored Printer!

-*Fast drying glue!

-Cardstock! (Thick paper 120g-160g)

-*A scoring tool! (To make nicer folds, but not really necessary.)

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Paper Crafting Sites......................................................................[PCS]


There are hundreds of paper crafting sites, but to get you started, I'll post some links to my favorites.

-http://nintendopapercraft.blogspot.com/

-http://members.home.nl/saarloos/

-http://www.pokemonpapercraft.com/

-http://www.papercraftmuseum.com/

-http://wowpapercraft.blogspot.com/

That should be enough to get you started.

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Set-Up And Getting Started.....................................................[SUAGS]



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Helpful Tips!.....................................................................................[HT]

These will be random tips that might be useful to some beginners. Feel free to contribute!


-Use really good glue.

-When finished with a model/working on a model, make sure to put it somewhere where you/others can’t damage it.

-Make sure to plan out what you will be doing/read the instructions if provided before you start your paper craft.

-Make sure to make your workplace nice and spacey.

-If you feel like you messed up on a paper craft, or if you feel like you did it horribly, redo it when you get some more

experience! That’s what I did with my Master Sword. (Can be found in the “My Gallery” section [Code: MG])

-If you can, try to download Pepakura Viewer so if in downloads there are .PDO files, you can view them in a special

program that really helps when it comes to paper crafting!

That’s all for now!

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Building With Velosareon!(Beginner)...........................................................[BWVB]




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Building With Velosareon!(Intermediate)...........................................................[BWVI]




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Building With Velosareon!(Advanced)...........................................................[BWVA]




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My Gallery.......................................................................................[MG]




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Extras!..................................................................................................[E]


This section is for things that people have wanted to add to my guide, things that I did not create that help this guide.

I will credit anyone who provides extras for this guide.

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This guide isn’t finished, post anything that you want to add, or any mistakes (like broken links, images, boxes.)

Very, very nice. It's not every day you get to see some real crafting.

Very nice.

Will you expand this into including just-folding origami?

I have some cool origami pieces I picked up, if he decides to include it.

I was actually considering this while making it. Maybe I'll make a section(s) about it or another guide. I do have a lot of really good origami books, but sadly, I'm at an airport to Russia right now so it'll have to wait for the time being. Enjoy the paper crafting! It's really fun!

Edit: Also, while packing, I picked up a ton of paper crafts to do in Russia. I might do more "Building With Velosareon" sections! Blue, I know it's easy but try the first Building with Velosareon thing! Post a pic of it when you're done.

Kay! Gotta get my printer working, real quick.

Awesome! I always loved crafting! Nice job and really neat and organized text!

Update! Added "Helpful Tips" section. There probably won't be any major updates for a while because I'm in Russia right now and just came from the 15 hour flight... And I'll be spending most of the time away from teh interwebs. I will try to make more updates when I come back or during this trip. Things you might see this month: Building With Velosareon! (Advanced and/or Intermediate). Some more Building With Velosareon things might be made. I'm think of make a single section called: Building with Velosareon and have multiple boxes open up to a step by step walkthrough of some paper crafts, the only problem is, that last time I tried to use 10+ boxes for my gallery, they all broke. Also check out my gallery! It's really cool. Things you might see next month: More building with Velosareon segments, and an addition to the extra section, the origami guide which I plan to work with Blue. Though it might be to much of an overload in one topic so we might have to make a seperate one. We'll decide in the next month. (Because today is probably the only day in Russia I get to use the internet...) See you, and have fun paper crafting!

~ Velosareon

Wow those are nice... I can only work with wood and plastic. I could use this tutorial

I always wanted to get into this...

Extremely nice crafts on your part.

Personally I'm really looking forwards to see you do Naruto.

Ooooooh. These look really nice! Reminds me of those packs of cardboard cut outs you can get and make 3D models.

Impressive. My little brother paper crafts utilizing a tool known as Pepakura. Amazing the stuff he can do with a 3D model, a knife, and some glue.

I've heard of it and I've used it. Some downloads come with pepakura files to view the crafts to know where the pieces go.

Those are good

Not too shabby. You know, Snake has two Cardboard Boxes, an A and a B. It'd be cool to make a set. Haha.