Papercraft Jawa Transcript
Papercraft Jawa Transcript
ORIGINAL DESIGN CREDIT TO AUTHOR AT CUBEECRAFT.COM
William:"
Hello Makers!
Its star wars week at Makercraft Live!
May the Fourth Be with you as we make some papercraft Jawa!
I’ll be making a pair of Jawa!
They will both be made from the same pattern, however one will be printed out of a standard printer and the other will be cut out of cardstock on the laser cutter we have at the Creation Station.
I modified the pattern to work with our laser cutter, but all credit to the author at cubeecraft.com.
To follow along at home you’ll need the pattern which can be found on our blogger or facebook posts associated with this video.
Print the pattern out on standard printer paper!
Or you can use cardstock if you know how with your printer
You’ll also need a hobby knife and I’ll use a cut proof glove
You’ll need Coloring supplies. Here I have markers and paint.
The Pattern should work without tape or glue but you can grab those and have them handy if you want to be sure.
I’m gonna make their eyes glow with a 5mm led and a CR2032 battery. For temporary things like this I will tape them together. Please be sure to collect the batteries when you’re done and handle them safely.
Lets begin!
Here I am with a knife and Im just following the lines. On the pattern I made for normal printers, the dotted lines are where you fold and the solid lines are where you cut.
We’ll begin with the outside lines
This can probably be done with scissors as well.
(At marker)
It might make it easier to Separate the parts on the sheet with multiple parts.
(at next video)
Next we’ll get the inside lines. The parts that fit together will with with these slots. If you manage to make them a little bit wider than a slit in paper it will go easier.
Now lets see what that whole process would be like on the laser cutter.
(after times)
The laser cutter cuts much faster, but the process of coming up with a pattern that cuts exactly the way you want can take much longer than cutting by hand.
I spent a few hours working with the pattern and cutting out test models to come up with this design.
Many Cardstocks died to bring us this information.
I’m going to color the printer cut out before I assemble it. To add color the cardstock I’ll paint it with acrylic paint after I assemble it.
To add color to the printer cut out, I’m going to get wild with some colored markers.
We’re going to color on the side opposite of the side with the lines. We’ll fold the lines inward when we’re ready with the color.
I’m borrowing heavily from imagery of other cute small Jawa things I've seen online.
Coloring brown robes all over, plus some a dark shadow of a face and some utility belts.
The Jawa is colored and now we can assemble. I will use a bit of cardstock to help keep a rigid line to fold against.
Fold every little bit towards yourself. To fold the boxes shapes, there is usually a longer end that will form a sort of geometry you can plug the other folding sides into. For the torso we will make a hollow box and fold the bottom into the cavity to form a floor, and with the head you will do similarly but with both the top and bottom of the box.
The arms are tricky but follow the same rules. They are just so tiny!
I added a frill on the front which fits into some extra slots in the pattern.
This is meant to be like a robe cowl.
There is also some additional geometry on the back meant to hide the battery but maybe also look like part of a robe.
Lets get to the cardstock!
I’ll use whatever is lying around to poke the cut out bits from the cardstock.
The assembly is the same as before, however I’ve got a bit of extra work in the pattern that makes folding along the lines easier.
We’re put together, lets paint!
We’ll do the same design!
All done!
I hope this has inspired you to get creative and craft something up!
Try out a pattern from cubeecraft.com!
Be sure to come by and visit the creation station at the La Quinta Library when we reopen!
Have a great day!"
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