The moon festival deserves a...

[Lex]

...Moon Rabbit! ^^ It's the Moon Festival next Tuesday and using the momentum from my Dora, I've picked this character, Reisen Inaba, a moon rabbit from the Touhou game series. --For anyone who's about to ask "and who the hell is that":...

List of Touhou Project characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisen_Udongein_Inaba#Reisen_U._Inaba)

It's the first time I try designing an existing character, but it's been a success over the past three days and now the model is already ready for unroll in Pepakura. And hopefully ready by tomorrow.

(Last picture courtsey of the original game)

[Lex]

Yup... Testbuilding the model within less than two days, I've maganed to get a few pics for her...

Model here:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp1287/models.html

[Don Boose]

Is it a coincidence that the word "Reisen" in Japanese means "Zero FIghter"?

[Lex]

--From my understanding of Japanese those are just coincidental... One is "铃仙" and the other is "零式". But they do sound the same ^^ (sorry to disappoint~)

[Phil]

Very nice Nez...uh...Lex! (all these name changes can be confusing! lol)
It looks like you are indeed the Dollmaker! Great job! '.'

[Lex]

Thanks Phil!

--PS I'm just uploading the files to the downloads now...

[Yu Gyokubun]

Really nice design:)
BTW how tall is she? and mind telling you design it with pepakura designer?

[Lex]

Thanks Yu, she stands about 10.5 cm tall and that's when I printed it to 0.7 of original scale. Also I designed her with Metaseq and unrolled by Pepakura. :)

[Yu Gyokubun]

Thanks Lex
Only 10.5cm!
I thought she is taller
Ah, when you design her you make bigger and reduced size when printing
Why ask it is that I am envisioning to design small plane with standing and winking female pilot beside it

[Lex]

Nice idea Yu! But even for a "large", i.e. 1/33 plane you'll need a figure that is only 5cm tall, so I guess the model would have to be greatly simplified... Maybe a one piece face and torso? --I'll check the Pepakura Gallery for ideas ^^
For smaller scales like 1/48 or 1/72, the only solution might be a "flat" figure~

[Yu Gyokubun]

The airplane I am envisioning is BD-5 or Pits Special
Real plane's fuselage length of BD-5 is approx 3.6meters and Pits Special 5 meters
At 1/10 scale plane size is not big
On the other hand, figure size is about 17cm
Thats why I asked Reisen Inaba's size:)

[Lex]

Oh that sounds like a good size! (never expected such a small plane...) So are you going to model the figure yourself, or find some kit for it?

[Yu Gyokubun]

Thanks Lex
I have Rokkakudaio.
Although I haven't made complete kit using that software, I want to try.
But, I am not sure I can make it because I think I have no designing talent:(

[Mark_1984]

Nice design Lex