>>8503401PAPERCRAFT EQUIPMENT:
Yes, card stock for paper.
An Exact-o knife, or something similar to cut the parts out.
Optional: Decent scissors to cut larger or straight segments out.
Optional: Ruler, ideally metal for cutting or scoring straight lines with your knife, and to help you bend over the folds for the first time.
A cutting surface. If you want to od a lot of papercraft, or any other crafts, get a double sided self healing cutting mat. Alternately, you can make do by just stacking a few pieces of cardboard together. You want shipping box thickness, not cereal box thickness.
Aleene's quick dry tacky glue to stick the parts together.
Something to help spread the glue over the surfaces, and help press parts together. I just use a heavy nail that's more flat than round on the point.
PAPERCRAFT BUILDING BASICS:
Cut out all the pieces of the model, score them, fit them, and plan what segment you want to assemble first before you start to actually glue anything.
Have a piece of strap paper to poor your glue onto. Only squeeze out a little bit at a time.
For tighter spaces and finer details you might want to make an initial large cut around a part leaving a lot of excess, before going in with your knife to do the finer details.
Be careful when witling away smaller pieces; you can easily scratch the paper up and make the edges fuzzy.
Use a nail, pen, or toothpick to press the inside flaps down to their connection points when a model starts getting tight.
To make tight bends like on boxes, you'll want to score the paper. This is done by lightly running your knife over the point of the fold enough to just break the "skin", and not cut through it. Use a ruler or the edge of your table to evenly bend the fold.
Some people like taking a marker or pen and drawing over the corners and seams of the model to high any white paper from peaking though.
Hope this helps.
