Yamaha papercraft

[robemcdonald]

A while back a link was posted on the pistonheads homepage to the new R1 ultra realistic papercraft. I liked the look of it and thought I'd have a crack at it.
Now I'm nowhere near the standard of the guys that usually post oh here, but I was fairly happy with the result.



It took forever to do, but immediately after finishing I felt the urge to have a go at another. Not wanting to donate another couple of hundred hours I decided to have a crack at one of the realistic models instead. Once again an R1.



A quick build this time only taking a couple of weeks and around 25 hours or so. Once again not up to the usual standard, but I'm happy enough with it.

So for my next project I thought I'd go for a more traditional bike and start a build thread if anyone was interested.

So here goes.




The parts are printed on my low end inkjet printer on HP advanced paper and come out like the above picture. It's then just of cutting them out and assembly. Here's the tank assembled.



Not too keen on the white edges showing through so I touched them up with a sharpie.



Then added the seat and a few other bits.



Next stage is the handlebars and front forks, which I finished last night.



And that's where I'm up to. Next part of the build is the chassis and if it goes as well as my previous attempts at exhausts etc it won't be pretty.

[offshoreeddy]

Admire you for the commitment! Looks great! I might have missed it - how many hours to build each one and how much printer ink and paper do you get through?

[robemcdonald]

The ultra realistic model is around 54 pages of A4 and 914 individual parts. It took... Well let's just say I could have built a caterham 7 in less time.
The smaller models are 15-20 pages and the last R1 took a couple of weeks doing a around 2 hours a day.

[offshoreeddy]

Wow. That is more time than I expected but I'm pretty impressed with your results.

[robemcdonald]

Most of the time is cutting out the parts. I've got through a couple of dozen scalpel blades.

[dr_gn]

That's impressive work. The forks and handlebars are mad considering it's all paper.

[djt100]

Thats a good commitment, I've wanted to do a few of these but the time would put me off.

Just in case you get bored of the bikes

http://www.papercraftsquare.com/topics/formula-one...

[robemcdonald]

I quite like the look of the cartoon ones. I will try one next.

I also forgot to mention my first project that got me started on this madness ( actually think I'm going mad )

[Zoobeef]

I've done the Falcon one. Good fun, the hours fly by though!

[dr_gn]

robemcdonald said:

I quite like the look of the cartoon ones. I will try one next.

I also forgot to mention my first project that got me started on this madness ( actually think I'm going mad )

I do like that...a lot.

[robemcdonald]

Slow progress due to being away with work, but I managed to finish the frame when I got home last night.

[robemcdonald]

Just tried a quick trial assembly of the parts so far.

[robemcdonald]

A bit more progress.

[cat with a hat]

They look awesome

[dr_gn]

Coming together very nicely. I guess alignment must be tricky?

[robemcdonald]

dr_gn said:

Coming together very nicely. I guess alignment must be tricky?

It's not too bad actually. The cylindrical parts are all marked with a feint red and green line at the top and bottom. These align with the corresponding lines on the next part.

You should be able to see them on the above.
The difficult part has always been glueing the whole thing together. Super glue just wicks into the paper, I don't want to use a two part as I don't work fast enough, so use PVA. Making sure the previous bond is set before doing the next makes slow progress..... At least it did until stole the wife's hairdryer. This has speeded things up nicely.

[robemcdonald]

Just the wheels to finish now.

[robemcdonald]

Finished!

[dr_gn]

Excellent result. Not easy things to build, but you nailed it.

Can you remind me where you got the millennium falcon please?

[robemcdonald]

Thanks for the comments. Here's the link to the falcon.

http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/sf/falco...

Can't wait to see what you make of it, but if you want some inspiration this is what someone else managed.



I'm pretty confident your take will be even better.