Papercraft

September 17th, 2006 by Soda

         So I recently undertook a new challenge that I have never attempted before. And well, judging from the title of the post, I’d say it’s pretty safe to say I took up making papercrafts. In case you don’t know, papercrafts are essentially 3d origami. You take some paper, cut it up, fold it how you want, then glue it together to make a little model. There are a lot of impressive papercrafts, and with any luck, I’ll be able to show my papercrafts without embarrassment. But for now, this is my first, and I’m rather happy with it.

         So here’s the story. One night, I was kind of bored. With the endless supply of anime, this blog, and university, you’d expect that I’d have plenty of things to keep myself occupied with. Apparently not. In any case, I came across the template for making Chiyo-chichi, from Azumanga Daioh. For those who don’t know who that is, that’s just a sign that you need to go watch Azu =p Funniest and most random things ever happen on that show, but alas, that’s another post. Back to the papercraft, this is the first time I’ve ever made one, and I think actually went rather well considering. So without further ado, I present the craziness known as Chiyo’s father:


Are you calling me a fake Chiyo-chichi?

         I’m assuming most papercraft templates come without instructions, and this was no exception. Stupidly enough, the arms were quite some trouble. I had no idea where I should put it, because everywhere I visioned it would be placed made Chiyo-chichi rather odd looking. Not to say he looks normal, but I mean odder than normal. I finally just said “screw it”, and proceeded to place the arms wherever I pleased. I must say, I’m pleased.
         Yes, to those wondering, he IS fully 3d. I never have a picture of his back, but it’s definitely there. He’s just symmetrical, so really, his back looks exactly like a faceless front. Now since he’s a fully 3d character, I had a LOT of trouble closing him off. I started putting together his head, starting from his ears to his face. Then I started working on his legs, working up from there. Now I had two halves to him, and it was just a total headache trying to make those halves stick together when all you can do is lightly hold onto each half. Can’t apply any pressure or anything, lest you crush him to death. Speaking of which, I DID crush him once by accident, but luckily he wasn’t fully assembled yet. After some cursing and poking, he returned to normal, with just about zero battle scars.



The fake cat hanging with my real cats <3

         If anybody has other Azumanga papercrafts, I’d love if you could point me into the direction of where to find some templates =D Till then, I’ll still be looking for a new model to make.

//Soda

19 Comments »


19 Responses to “Papercraft”

  1. on 25 Apr 2007 at 1:14 pm1 Stella

    Hey, would you by any chance have the template (or a link to the template) for this papercraft?

    Thanks!

  2. on 13 Aug 2007 at 1:26 pm2 Furtoosh

    Cute!

  3. on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:27 pm3 Juaki

    That’s awesome!!!! Do you know where I can find the template?

  4. on 11 May 2008 at 3:04 pm4 fanty :P

    http://plus4chan.org/papercraft/papercraftfiles/azumanga_osakachiyo.rar

  5. on 12 Jun 2008 at 2:04 am5 James Mcneil

    hey i would REALLY like this template mail me Darkicee3@aol.com
    “i can fly at mach 100″

  6. on 22 Jun 2008 at 10:29 am6 Teresa

    Azumanag daioh is SOOO funnny and ramdom
    Please pretty please send the template to bloody.illyria@gmail.com

  7. on 28 Jun 2008 at 6:39 am7 Pow

    Plleeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssseeee send the template over to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

    Show ▼

  8. on 08 Jul 2008 at 10:41 pm8 chily

    can you plees send the teplate to me

    chilymdg@hotmail.com

  9. on 30 Jul 2008 at 4:59 pm9 Kaitie

    Hey, i was just wondering, um, i followed the link and i found the website, but the template wasn’t there. I searched for it, but i couldn’t find it still. What do i do?

  10. on 25 Sep 2008 at 8:49 am10 massimo

    voglio Chiyo-chichi! grazie. erika
    max-men@libero.it

  11. on 12 Oct 2008 at 4:29 pm11 NinaSakura

    Mui bueno

  12. on 26 Nov 2008 at 8:37 pm12 Lucy

    Where do you get the template? Can you PLEASE provide a website?

  13. on 12 Dec 2008 at 3:09 pm13 Lucy

    Please email me the template. The website that you provided has expired or has been deleted.

    Email me at petsahoy111@hotmail.com.

    I look forward to making Chiyochichi! ^^

  14. on 10 Apr 2009 at 1:04 pm14 Amanda

    I love it! I, too would love the current site or template for this cute papercraft, please.

  15. on 01 Jul 2009 at 10:57 am15 meezang

    CUTEE!!!! I really love it!!
    I would love too if you sent the template to my E-mail, please.

  16. on 14 Jul 2009 at 1:49 pm16 LilianCOW

    thats awesome~

    im trying to make the stuffed animal, but PLEASE, can you send me the template [ lilian.kao123@gmail.com ]? thank you![:[:

  17. on 30 Aug 2009 at 4:42 pm17 Ju lee

    Honey, you can send me the template pls???
    julee.lp@gmail.com
    Thanks..^^

  18. on 31 Aug 2009 at 6:14 pm18 Vadigor

    (Looks like my first reply here got eaten)

    A quick search turned up what I think is the template that Soda used for his papercraft monstrosity. It doesn’t look all that complicated, just a series of mountain folds, but like Soda said, the trick is likely getting it all together.

    Anyway, you can find the template here:
    http://laughingman.eu/img/papercraftchiyo.jpg
    OR
    http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/9468/chiyosdadjo6.jpg

    Enjoy.

  19. on 04 Sep 2009 at 6:56 am19 Shirukii

    Haha, oh wow, good job Vadi, people have been asking for this forever, thanks for finding it!

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