ZINGING the 3D Robots

This week (week 15) was spent playing

with the pen adapter , scoring (embossing) and 

then cut . While surfing the net I came 

across this cute robot at paper poseables

And I knew straight away  that I wanted to make it !

The cool thing is, is that it is jointed at 6 points 

and you can pose it any way you like.

Now even though it was not as easy as getting the pattern

putting in MTC  and cutting on the Zing.

 I did have to take it into 

inkscape and tweak it to work with MTC .

BUT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT

Here is my take on Josh's robot

While in inkscape I decided that I did not want to 

make it print and cut file for MTC. That I wanted to 

use the pen adapter and after use copics to colour 

just the parts i wanted in my own colours.

The time spent setting it all up in inkscape was 

well worth the effort  coming up with three files

a draw file, score file and then cut file made 

my life soo much easier when it came to putting 

the model together .

I cut it on dotty scrapbook card stock and it gave 

another effect to the colouring

I was happy with how it turned out .

That I did not stop at just cutting one  as the one above

was cut at original size of Josh's pattern

I then wanted to make it bigger using the same tweaked

version I made a BIGGER one  and cut it in white 

lightweight card stock.

The joints give the robot real personality.

I can see that the idea of doing the joints this way 

will later end up going in a lot of my own patterns.

TIP remember to change the view when you change 

to the cut tool  (and not have the emossing view still on)

One thing I want to say this week is that don't be scared 

to tweak patterns to cut on your Zing as it is well worth 

the time spent tweaking it will open up a whole new

world for your Zinging

I have come to the conclusion that i may rarely do

any hand scoring on my work again as the zing on 

full force and 3x, does a fantastic job of it .

Here are the Tall and short Robots 

  P.S. Paper Poseables have lots of other great 

things that i plan on making too

 

The ZING is here to stay!!

I am off to explore some more.

 If you live in Australia and New Zealand 

and wondering where you can get a KNK Zing 

SKAT KAT  is the place to find them