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Step 5Start Gluing!
Gluing the figure's parts together from the Pepakura forms is a bit like building a puzzle in 3-D. If you have ever built a plastic model from a kit it works on the same principle, match numbers to numbers. You may have several hundred tabs per body part so take your time and keep your cut parts in order as they are come off the band saw, this will make this step go a bit easier.
1) Set up your hot glue gun and a comfortable work space.
2) Start matching up sections and fold and bend the piece according to the scoring done in the previous step. Check the fit and form of each piece as you go to avoid surprises like backing yourself into a corner with parts you can't reach to glue as the figure grows larger! I tended to work from the larger pieces down to the smaller ones.
Trust the diagrams, the logic of this process can be confusing, at times you will think that it is impossible for a particular form to meet up with another, particularly as the large form begins to take shape. Note the images in this step - you will eventually be working in very awkward positions as the gluing takes place on the tabs that go INSIDE the figure, plan ahead as you go and anticipate the formal challenges!
Please note, you will be holding pieces together after gluing - this can be very awkward at times as the image with my head in his legs illustrates! This can get to be rather difficult as the tension in the cardboard can want to pull the pieces apart, take your time and have patients, much easier to hold a piece for a minute or so than to be forced to re-glue parts.
1) Set up your hot glue gun and a comfortable work space.
2) Start matching up sections and fold and bend the piece according to the scoring done in the previous step. Check the fit and form of each piece as you go to avoid surprises like backing yourself into a corner with parts you can't reach to glue as the figure grows larger! I tended to work from the larger pieces down to the smaller ones.
Trust the diagrams, the logic of this process can be confusing, at times you will think that it is impossible for a particular form to meet up with another, particularly as the large form begins to take shape. Note the images in this step - you will eventually be working in very awkward positions as the gluing takes place on the tabs that go INSIDE the figure, plan ahead as you go and anticipate the formal challenges!
Please note, you will be holding pieces together after gluing - this can be very awkward at times as the image with my head in his legs illustrates! This can get to be rather difficult as the tension in the cardboard can want to pull the pieces apart, take your time and have patients, much easier to hold a piece for a minute or so than to be forced to re-glue parts.
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