Kingfisher

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Modeller in both Plastic and Paper Card
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It's been a while since I posted an update.
I have been taking a rest from the Patlabor project, to direct my attention to a build that is for a gift for my Sister.
I'm building Kingfisher II by Johan Scherft, who is an amazing papercraft artist of mainly birds. When completed this will include a shadow box diorama. It has been quite a while since last I did a figurine.

First up is the cutout for the body of the bird.

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This is singularly the most complicated part of the whole build, with many complex shapes.

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The head was not that bad. Just had to make sure you followed the instructions. There are no printed instructions, so you have to follow his build videos and images. Sometimes just one's imagination and experience, on how a section is assembled.

Here the head and body are mated.

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The beak has been the bain of my existence. It was not hard to build. The problem was he wanted the beak reinforced with glue after construction. Three times I made that beak and tried 3 different glues. All three leaked through the thin paper and discoloured the ink. I'm not concerned about it being handled as it will be mounted inside the shadow box. So I build a fourth this time without the filling and mounted it.
The feet were just simple tubes so not difficult.

The completed Kingfisher.

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Now on to some more elements for the display.

Thank you for following.
Comments and questions are always welcome.

Jim
 
Well today was very fruitful. This build is pretty much complete.
This morning I built the fish which is this particular Kingfisher's prey.
The building of two 3d halves, produces a very nice little fish.



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Next was to mount the bird. The bird was mounted to a real piece of branch I found and cut to fit across the shadow box, spacing the mount on the background image, which is a split water image, so the Kingfisher is looking into the water.
Now mounting the fish, there were several options. One was to suspend the fish on a piece of clear acetate to simulate the water surface. Another was to suspend the fish from the top of the box and third was to pin mount the fish. I chose the third, electing to mount the fish on a tooth pick that was glued through the back panel and coloured to match the underwater background. I think this approach looks a lot nicer and a more professional looking mount. Plus the fish is more stable. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

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I still need to give the insides one more cleaning and create a builders label for the back, but other than that this is finished.
Man taking pictures through glass is a real problem. Trying to get the right light and the least reflections.
I hope you have enjoyed this side project as much as I have.
Thank you for following.

Jim
 

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