Fun with Cardboard (wips) by Vidmouse

vidmouse · **Joined:** Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:56 pm **Location:** Michigan

I've been playing around w/ a cardboard box from a Nerf gun and my
glue gun last few days. Kept me from getting bored while tending our garage sale...

Taliesin Crow · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:07 am

Those are all very cool. And I wonder how they would hold up to casting. :shifty:

Oneforceleader · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

So you did al of that while tending to a garage sale, so you were the guy in the back of the garage watching the inventory right? lol Very cool did it take long to do each one?

pluv · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:58 am

I wonder if you sprayed some of those with a textured paint if it would help disguise the cardboard better. Like that bench with a stone texture paint could actually work. The first chairs in silver would look like metal chairs.

Then again just going to the craft store and getting the right looking kind of paper stock can cover a lot of the cardboardiness too.

DanOfTheDead · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:09 pm

Yeah, the construction of these is great... the material is just hard to see as anything other than cardboard. These shape shapes down in styrene would be 100% pure win though!

Cap · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:46 pm

Cool beans. The very first dios I did for my son's Joes in '84 were commerical cardboard, great fun.

There are two products in most craft sections of art(Michael's) or chain stores that are adhesive backed foam and felt sheets. Just cover your creations in that, and the cardboard mystery is assured. The adhesive foam sheets come in the spectrum, as does the felt. Makes inexpensive furniture and fiuxtures. Sheets are about a buck.

vidmouse · **Joined:** Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:56 pm **Location:** Michigan

Thanks for the tips! After I made these I liked them a whole lot better
than all those Star Trek chairs.

drbindy · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:00 pm

the construction method is good, but not a huge fan of the cardboard, unless it's used as a hidden skeleton for some exterior finish. As a kid they'd be perfect to play with, but for display I think I'd want a better substance to work with. I'd totally send you some styrene and have you make me some of these designs in that form though... :shifty:

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