Giant Papercraft Trojan Horse

Step 4 Laser-cutting the pieces

Once I had all of my horse flesh exported as EPS vector files, then I began the arduous process of laser-cutting each piece using our Epilog laser. Although this is still inestimably faster than cutting by hand, cutting 119 different panels (each of which was also perforated along its folds and labeled with a low-power laser) took a couple of days.

At last, I had a huge pile of precisely cut sheets of cardboard, sorted into numerical order and ready to be turned into a giant horse. I had long since stopped noticing the smell of scorched cardboard that now followed me around like a bad spirit, or the soot that was ingrained into my fingertips. I was approaching oneness with the cardboard and I felt exhilarated to be embarking on the next step.

Comments

[DaveB13]

I'd like to suggest people gather up coroplast political campaign signs after an election to use for cardboard projects. A trojan horse made of these would be quite a statement. Another ACAD instuctable & or cardboard project 'd like to suggest is solar cooker plans, aluminum foil is glued to the cardboard or coroplast.