ウォーリ ーペパクラ = Wall-e Pepakura

This papercraft model of Wall-e took me three weeks to finish (Started on 29/11) but I left the upload of pics until now (holiday before New Years!!). I obtained the plans from here but it can be purchased pre-printed (albeit illegally since its CC licensed) here. Personally I prefer to print my own so I can get extra copies - which I had to to improve on and to correct mistakes during construction. I have no idea what the printed versions are printed on but I printed my set with a colour laser on 160gsm stock card for a total cost of 55 sen (or US$0.18).

The biggest problem was 160gsm cardstock was too thick for making tubes and rolls required for the arm and head support - so those were replaced with normal drinking straws of the same size since they aren't seen in the finished model. Parts that required additional support were the arm beams, body and eye bridge - without support the original design could not stand the weight of the other parts and would fall/tear apart sooner or later. Support for the model parts came in the form of cheap packing foam (i.e. foam trays) that were cut to size and glued on with PVA glue.

The finished model looks quite similar to the rendered graphic above.
Since there are no clear instructions, I've randomly constructed the model parts based on the time I had and mood. The slideshow below shows the progress over the three weeks.

Doncha love multiparty conferencing?

One Christmas call = four countries (KUL, SYD, JAX/FL and CAN) and people were on different days (some on boxing, others still on Christmas). Too bad one party couldn't get the Skype beta installed due to some conflict.

Mac OSX on Windows 7

BWAHAHAHAH! Mac OSX finally running in VMWare on Windows 7. Weird thing is Mac reports the memory as 0Mhz. Next up is to install as a physical partition and dual boot but been having problems there as the BIOS is so tightly locked that I can't disable/enable some features for the OS to install and boot.

[Yeah, I know my WEI rating sucks but I'm down to using the integrated graphics - nv7100 - on the mobo because my graphic card shorted out and haven't got the time to buy a new one]

Farscape Party Kit

Been marathoning with Farscape since receiving the box set .... and awaiting a replacement set because the first one has manufacturing problems. I really miss this show and haven't been dissapointed so far ... except for the quality of the box set :P

Farscape fans may have once been subscribed to their mailing list and were sent messages about exclusive downloads. Seaching with Google, the mp3 download of Aeryn's Funeral seems to be alive and present at quite a few sites. So instead, here's the download to the 28 page Farscape Party Kit PDF file (send/PM me your email for the password to view link). If you wish to save the file, click on the upper right icon to open in Google Docs and then click on File -> Save original in the interface there.


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