{"id":251,"date":"2012-06-13T23:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T03:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatsps.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T16:51:07","slug":"cylon-raider-papercraft-battlestar-galactica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatsps.com\/blog\/cylon-raider-papercraft-battlestar-galactica\/","title":{"rendered":"Cylon Raider Papercraft &#8211; Battlestar Galactica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TrSfbz6MfwU?list=PL6A7A1A6A6803224D\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"\/images\/bsg_raider\/parts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='280' style=\"margin-bottom: 3px;\" alt=\"BSG Raider Parts\" src=\"\/images\/bsg_raider\/parts.png\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/images\/bsg_raider\/instructions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='280' alt=\"BSG Raider Instructions\" src=\"\/images\/bsg_raider\/instructions.png\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When looking for a Battlestar Galactica themed craft, I originally thought about making my own version in a style similar to the way I made the <a title=\"Crafty Donut\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C7pN2d7PG-o\" target=\"_blank\">crafty donut<\/a> in a previous episode. But after a little searching around, it turns out that someone named NinjaToes had already designed and <a title=\"Ninja Toes - BSG Crafts\" href=\"http:\/\/ninjatoes.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/20\/battlestar-galactica-cylon-raider\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">made available<\/a> a pattern. I thought this would save me a bunch of time. &#8220;It&#8217;s already practically done!&#8221; I thought to myself. I couldn&#8217;t have been further from the truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My first attempt at putting this all together ended in complete tragedy. I used white glue, which got all over my fingers, and then I touched the paper, which made a mess of that. And it took a crazy amount of time for the glue to dry. I managed to put together the cockpit before I gave up on that nonsense and cracked out the big guns: AKA gel based crazy glue. Much better choice. Of course I still managed to get crazy glue on my fingers too, but not nearly as bad as the white glue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DujWRkWWPbA\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/bsg_raider\/bsg_raider_full.png\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Before I started the second attempt though, I decided that rather than cut out what I needed as I needed it, I would instead cut out all of the pieces so that all I had to do was &#8220;just&#8221; put them together. By the time I had finished cutting all 72 pieces out, including a seemingly endless number of triangle bits, a mere 5 hours had passed and my index finger was pretty badly dented and definitely bruised. It took over a week to stop hurting every time I touched something with the tip of my finger. I&#8217;m not trying to complain, just fair warning in case you decide to use an x-acto knife for an extended period of time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once all the pieces were separated I re-started the assembly, starting with the cockpit again. I diligently folded the triangles, and began putting everything together one piece at a time. Most of the pieces had an obvious place to go, however I found that the top of the cockpit was fairly particular. And I don&#8217;t know if it was either mislabeled or I just messed up, but I ended up putting one of them in the wrong spot. It is not as easy to separate two pieces of paper once they&#8217;ve been bonded as you might think. Unless of course you think that it&#8217;s a giant pain in the backside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the cockpit (AKA the thing that looks like a cockroach) was assembled, it was time for the wings. These were a great deal more complicated than the cockpit. The way they went together was definitely less obvious than the cockpit (which after putting 1 together cleared up a lot of my confusion) and there&#8217;s several CRAZY SMALL pieces. The guns under the wing, and the 3 raised pieces on top of the wing were so small that the only way to even handle them was with tweezers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001993Y2C\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpyoutube06-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001993Y2C\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=B001993Y2C&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=httpyoutube06-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>During the creation of the first wing, I actually messed up the order of things pretty badly. There&#8217;s a set of pieces that gets inserted to the very top that is supposed to go in before the top and bottom of the wing are glued together. Unfortunately for me I realized right after I glued the top and bottom together that I had forgotten to do this. So I jammed it in the spot as best I could, and tried to glue it down using extra glue so that it would stay down. It was at this point that I realized when you put a lot of crazy glue on paper, it leaves a nasty stain in the ink. When I built the second wing, I made sure to put this piece in first. It went a great deal smoother the second time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I would also recommend making the slots in the cockpit a bit larger than necessary. I got the first wing to go in, but there ended up being a bit of a gap that would have gone away had I just cut the slots a bit longer where needed, and made their openings a bit wider.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course having finished the first wing, I had a lot easier time with the second wing. It went much quicker and without any real issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New on the shelf this week: He&#8217;s tough to spot, but I found the flasher gremlin from gremlins one. He&#8217;s up at the top in the middle. And of course the <a title=\"Nintendo Controller Business Card Holder\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JGlABXYtt5s\" target=\"_blank\">NES business card holder<\/a> from last episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking for a Battlestar Galactica themed craft, I originally thought about making my own version in a style similar &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thatsps.com\/blog\/cylon-raider-papercraft-battlestar-galactica\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[270],"tags":[222,197,22,210,188,207,216,190,18,19,221,212,189,213,24,10,214,15,220,171,169,215,209,193,208,173,211,217,218,198,20,21,149,17,219],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - 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