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Space doesn't even stand a chance - 1.9

 After many hours of cutting and folding and cutting and folding (then a bit of glueing) then more cutting and folding, and, well, you get the point; it is complete. There were, admittedly, a few hiccups along the way but nothing too much for me to handle. Anyway, please, do read on to share in my victorious outcome!

After scoring all the lines on the paper, I turned to cutting which, yes was a breeze but also required a lot of concentration and time. I quickly got comfortable with the blade and was off-to-the-races cutting longer lines without any assistance (I felt pretty proud of myself for this). 



After cutting was complete, glueing was the next stage. Going into this I was expecting the entire process to be easier than it was but that definitely was not my reality.  In the main body I had to find various long objects from around the house to hold and press things together. In the rocket parts I soon realized that I got over zealous in my original design and made/printed a lot of really small pieces that just wouldn't have worked out well in the gluing stage (even the tips of the cones were a bit much). This required me to do some last minute cutting before I could actually start gluing.

It is finally a free standing object!

The holder section went together nicely. I made sure to save it until last because it was the only piece that I didn't print off extra (each holder took an entire page) so there couldn't be any mistakes. 

Here we see it in process! I started getting excited at this point.

In the future these are the changes that I will make to each part:

Body:

  • I realized that there wasn't a way to the rocket underneath to be attached, so I need to either cut a hole to attach it with toothpicks, or re create the bottom of the body so that this piece can be held.
  • Make it using fewer sides. The current model is a 12 sided polygon -which works well and looks good but I think fewer sides would save me time while still looking relatively similar.
Rockets
  • First I have to make sure that I fold the extruded connection the proper way to that the lines aren't showing on the rest of the body.
  • There were a lot of small pieces which made it very hard to handle with big hands -but I don't think that this is something that can be changed while maintaining the same look.
  • The bottom needs a separate piece to be cut out because the small connectors refuse to stay together. I doing this I would maintain a few tabs to allow the connection to be made  but each of the 12 pieces would no longer have these.
Holder
  • I need to find a way to attach these along the bottom (under the body of the rocket) so that they can be a freestanding and actually support the object.
    • to do this I am thinking of cutting holes and adding 2 horizontal bars to anchor and attach.
But, until then, here is the final product:



Until next time :)
-renderme3d


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