Papercraft Final: The Plungening

So, unfortunately, I wasn't able to book a time to go to the laser cutter so I had to cut out each piece by hand. Honestly, I had a really good time just sitting in my study and cutting out each piece by hand. There was something oddly therapeutic about being able to turn my brain off and just do a repetitive task. 

I started off by making each of the tabs because I knew that they would be the most time-consuming part of the process. I also realized about two of these that I needed to be more careful with how I score each piece because I accidentally ripped/cut through the piece I was working on at least twice.

Between this stage and the former, I also made my build bigger overall. Instead of creating a 5-sided polygon as was originally part of my build, I decided to expand the shape and make it 16-sided instead so that it would create a nicer faux rounded surface.

It wasn't new information to me but I was reminded after ruining two of my base pieces just how much I hate Elmer's glue as I spent more time fighting to get things to stick together properly than I did anything else during this process. 

But eventually, I was able to get all my pieces cut out and experimented with a few different alternatives to get them to stay together. I found that I most preferred using mod podge and hot glue (for the more difficult pieces that didn't want to cooperate).

So a plunger seems like it's an odd object choice. I get it. I feel like I think plungers are way funnier than they really are because when I was younger, I worked at a summer camp with one of my friends, and during a prank that went horribly awry for her- I ended up beating her with a plunger. 

It's a funny joke between us now, not so much back then. 

Anyways, when I sent her pictures of the final product she was super upset with me that this is the subject I chose for the papercraft final but c'est la vie. 

Overall, I feel like I could have been more careful with certain parts of the craft, however, I'm still pretty happy with the end result!

I'm excited for the next project, onto the next build!