Power Word Fold

It’s often hard to determine when a model is considered ‘finished’; there’s always that tweak that needs to be added, some minor folds to be corrected, one part or other that needs to be shaped. Eventually it boils down to patience and persistence, ie when you finally get tired of working on the same model for hours and hours.

Documenting all the shaping would require several hundred more photos; besides, it’ll be boring because each step would just be a rehash of the previous one, which would be some variant of ‘fold it until it looks right’. So instead, here’s some of the things that need to be done:

• Pose: We could have gone with the original pose, but just for giggles, we’ll do something closer to this.
• Right arm: The fingers are wet-folded and curled around the hilt of the sword. The arm is similarly wet-folded and shaped.
• Left arm: The arm is crimped at the shoulder to bring it to a raised position. As before, the fingers and arm are wet-folded into shape.
• Lightning: A few crimps and reverse folds to give it a zig-zag, angular look.
• Legs: Crimps at the knees and hips, then wet-folded.

After many cycles of wetting and drying, we end up with this:


Finished Hexblade

So there you are – a rather lengthy photoessay on one possible method of getting from a crease pattern to a finished model. Hopefully it’s been an entertaining read – all thoughts, comments and other feedback are welcome!

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