Tutorial: How To Make Good Folds For Pepakura Armor

[Thunder]

Thank you so much for this thread. My brother has started to rush a pepakura and has really struggled with the folds, so now I know what to do... and what not to do.

 

[Late to the meeting]

Hi I downloaded this pep file and its weird its got fold lines like this ................................... Not like this -------------------------- it dose have the dashes but they seem to be the revers of what I'm used to I just need to now if I've been wasting my time

 

[Rahvin25]

Ok I have a question on one of the armor pieces. The chest to be exact. Under the LD MKVI Chest that Robogenesis made it comes out --------- and ............ are the dashes the mountain fold and the dots valley? or the other way around?

 

[BigShepp]

This is amazingly helpful.
I'm new to all this and I haven't had a single problem with my papercraft since reading this.
Thanks a ton for the tut!

 

[hubjubjub]

This is good, but I find it just as easy to build without the pen lines, if you have your computer infront of you s o you know what part you ar using. I also use a scoring tool as well as a hobby xacto knife to cut and fold parts.

 

[Tenebrus]

I am by no means good at pepping' but i just thought i'd chime in and say that i use a slightly dull letter opener, it won't cut through and is only a little bit thicker than a xacto blade yet i find it very easy to handle.

 

[Zachoria]

Great tutorial

 

[Black Night]

Thanks! That will really help:cool

 

[p1ckl3sn1ckl3s]

very helpful all my folds were looking bad, now im making great folds.

 

[Xziled]

i used a x-acto knife and a ruler with medium pressure on the card stock worked great for me

 

[PlayerX5900]

just like my teacher.

 

[Adenn Velek]

Great tutorial! I like to use a dull pizza cutter instead of an exacto-knife.

 

[NoUnsubliminal]

Very descriptive, it helped a lot! thx!

 

[Asgardianhammer]

I have been using something a little different. You can get this tool from some sign supply shops but it is a weeding tool. It basically has a metal point that you can go over your lines with one time and you have a super clean fold. It's just sharp enough to score without going through your paper. Roughly the same size as an x-acto knife on the body. You can use a small plastic triangle then and not have to worry about cutting it up. I like my metal rulers but I found it too thin to move around my sheets easily. A small plastic triangle worked best.

 

[nchaffee8049]

Very useful. And I'm doing what I meant to here. LEARN! Thanks for all of the posts.

 

[Scubahunter]

Thanks a TON for this Tut. I think this is the most useful nugget I've found here as a total newb to Pepakura.

 

[Scottish]

This is exactly what I needed to know. First time pepping. Was cutting everything out and realizing the two different sets of dotted lines. I really like the colour idea.

 

[toolrg4hr]

Iceman you are the best!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to make the tut. As a noob I had the need to learn as much as I can before I pick my project and start making it, I have read all the tutorials for like 2 weeks, your by far one of the best!!! Thanks man....

 

[Asgardianhammer]

I have used a stainless steel weeding tool available at most sign shops to score my lines. This metal tool also lets me hold down very small detail whiule glue sets. I also recommend just scoring on a cutting mat. Soft enough for scoring. If you manage to get a bunch of glue on your weeding tool you can scrape it clean with an x-acto.

Check out the tools I used for my build. Pretty basic. I also used a small plastic triangle for scoring instead of metal. slides faster and easier i found.
http://asgardianhammer.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4a89r9

 

[tteape0]

Nice tutorial, thank you for the detailed pics