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SOUNDWAVE
Paper Project Parts

MATERIALS
120 gram A4 paper sheets / Blue ball-point pen / Penol China ink pens / 3M Scotch Magic tape

TIMEFRAME
Roughly one week around July of 1986

"PRODUCTION STUDIO"
My old boy's room

LASTING IMPRESSIONS


I would probably be even more perfectionistic about if I were to repeat it today, but this was an enjoyable project that I think holds up surprisingly well some 28 years after this former 12-year-old first worked on it. Of course, shapes like his head and his hands were beyond my ability to render sufficiently well and his limbs may be a tiny bit slimmer and longer than they properly are, but the cartoon accuracy level I am relieved to say is agreeable even to these 41-year-old eyes.

I did make it a bit harder for myself than necessary by using a ball-point pen, whose editing limitations are evident, to draw the lines and I would not use Scotch tape on any of the parts if I had them to do over. But the choice of paper was a good one and even the ink was a relatively serviceable choice. And, as will be shown in the next photo, I came up with a system to strengthen the figure's structure that I would probably use even now.


COMPLETION WORK
Monday, October 13, 2014

MATERIALS
120 gram A4 paper sheet / Pencil / PiloTape clear Crystal tape / Casco Rx paper glue

PHOTO DATE
October 14, 2014

DESCRIPTION


The paper figure was clearly meant to survive, because not one of the parts had been damaged while they were separated and therefore needed no repairs, but I did need to do a little work to complete reinforcements in the shoulders of his arms and add a few tiny pieces of the same paper (I still have many of the original sheets in my drawer) to the openings in his shoulders and the ends of his thighs to make it much easier to glue him together. This bit of work can also be seen in the next photo.

Once that was done, I assembled the parts and only ran into a little problem with his legs. I had been a little bit inexact with the execution of his right lower leg, so when it was properly attached, the "toe" pointed slightly inward. I found as close to an acceptable placing as possible when attaching it and simply lodged a little bit of plastic between his legs to stand them apart just enough that it would look reasonably well posed.

The result is in the following photo series.


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