Been a long time since I touched any casings. Most of these are done during night time, so pardon the pictures.
This is a project that involves no or very few planning (dude, when ideas pop out of your head the moment you open your eyes waking up). I do sketch more or less what I "see", but then since the material is so flexible I can recycle it a gazillion time I want if the design doesn't come out as I like and I can re-mold them however I want. Damn, I feel like Sam Winchester, I got "visions" lol...
Some details to cut things short. Paperazzi involves:
1. An ultra heavyweight case (server-like case) thats why it involves paper not Bondo
2. Tools: scissors, gripping glue, spray paint, poster color, a bit of acrylic, water
3. Material: A4 paper, new or old all become my victims (count in buckets)
So far one side panel is 70% thru molding. Plunked remaining material on 2nd side panel but aint enough.
Preparing the materials
Won't dwell on the case too much so here's the front panel shot. Side panels.. well, all of them looks the same: piece of steel.
One night after quitting my job, I started cutting again.
After refining.. time to soak it up. I first used the bucket.
Eventually I moved to a 100-disc container cover
You dont just soak the paper wait 2 days and start molding, it wont be soft enough. And when the paper's either not fine or soft enough it tends to leave reptile-like skin when it dries you can actually see the flakes of paper. So, once soaked just pick up what you have and mold it into a ball.
How big is it? Well, go figure it out yourself
Then once its dried, after 2 days without the help of the sun, time to drown it. This is when its all bonded together and the paper tends to be smooth after a re-soak
White bull's testicle soaked in porridge anyone?
Testing
Did a few tests with different containers. Firstly curves and circles.
Circles are done by just molding it around a disc. Here you can see the paper's rough n not well soaked (first few buckets). Made some horns out of it, or spikes, or.. whatever.
After testing, its a test mold. Eventually I molded it for a few nights for something like this.
Scraped it though cos it looks like and old lady's shoes, minus the smell. So chucked everything I've tested and made into the container for re-soak.
Soak it up...