December 09, 2010

My Paper Crafts Masterpiece

      It was before Raya that I've managed to make some substantial improvements to my paper craft makings, though it took me of about 7 long years and hard times, figuring out on how to make an armour realistic enough to the real thing and even strong....of course I started to do that on my toys first when I was 11 years old. I firstly tried to use the ordinary notebook paper(50-70gsm paper) which is far too thin and week. After going through a lot of research and trials...I've finally found the most suitable material to make it that are the cotton paper (of about 240-360gsm).With that kind of material...I managed to create certain kinds of armour including the Greek Linothorax, Roman Lorica Segmentata, Star Wars Clone Trooper's Full Armour. Paper arts are fun to make and it really is worth to make it. You will be getting proud about yourself as the crafts you make are of your own creation. First of all...I'm still going to make a further research on how to make a strong glue mixture in order to produce a very strong and hard layers of armour. You can give some suggestions for that...and of course this art crafts meant to be made for small size objects like toys especially....but large size paper armour construction is not impossible thing though, as there are many records in the ancient chinese military describes the use of paper armour in warfare, even though it can be as thick as 2-3 inches.....