6ft Gundam

**gotham** · #1 05-30-2015, 02:36 AM

So, I may have bitten off far more than I can chew, but I'll see how things go. I noticed on Paper Replika. com that someone has upscaled a Unicorn Gundam x5. So, I've downloaded the files (the easy bit in any build), and have printed out the head and started to build. To give a sense of scale here, the head is 18 A4 sheets of parts, the legs, for example, are a total of 129 A4 sheets of parts. This is going to consume a forest ! Luckily the mech is broken down into sections so I'll print each section at a time - torso next once head finished. If worst comes to worst I could construct it as a bust model and add the waist and legs etc later on.
If I ever finish the whole thing I have no idea where to put it in our house !, plus our cat will most probably take exception to it and shred it anyway.
Beware - papermodelling is bad, bad, bad !

**Vermin_King** · #2 05-30-2015, 06:12 AM

Interesting project. Will you need to do internal structure for it?

**rockpaperscissor** · #3 05-30-2015, 07:17 AM

Will you be using colored card stock, or is this all ink?

**gotham** · #4 05-30-2015, 11:00 AM

I'm using 160 gms card, so, yes I will need to strengthen the larger box components (which is what I'm doing justnow). As for colour, all ink from my HP printer (as I work in electrical retail I get some discount off my ink. The good thing with this mech is that it is mainly white, the only colous being used are black, red and (eventually some blue), so it's pretty economical with regards ink cost -I took this into account before starting.

**gotham** · #5 06-05-2015, 12:21 PM

Build update - head half completed, atarted on torso too, in order to get a physical sense of size of this mech model. Building at 5x scale does have its problems, you would think the pieces being bigger would make them easier to glue together, not so. I forgot to take into consideration the weight of each part, so it is not a rush job when putting pieses together. There is also quite a bit of support required to take loading and gravity as parts are added. Other problem is some parts need a little attention to get them to fit as they seem to be slightly larger in size than required.

**gotham** · #6 08-20-2015, 08:25 AM

Gundam meets its better !
End of this build and thread.
Model was annoying me, so I've moved on and felt it only right that my (long suffering) wife got the honour of crushing it.. At least the card will be recycled by our local council.

**goodduck** · #7 08-20-2015, 09:11 AM

Small misalignment scaled up 5X = 5X bigger misalignment. :D :D

**enigma** · #8 08-20-2015, 05:31 PM

she looks quite pleased....

hehe

**Vermin_King** · #9 08-20-2015, 05:34 PM

Luckily I haven't had to trash too many projects. You don't have an 'after' photo, do you?

**paperengineer** · #10 08-20-2015, 06:11 PM

That model would have been huge! Definitely taller than me, it's a shame that it is unbuildable.