A close friend completed his dive masters just in time for halloween, so we naturally threw an underwater themed party for him, complete with fish and Cthulhu octopus pepakura masks.
All the designs I purchased from Wintercroft on Etsy, and it just took some editing to remove the extra bits from the PDFs to make everything Glowforge compatible:
(I had good experiences with Wintercroft masks before)
I used some very thick white cardstock as the material. Glad for saved settings, since it came in really handy to develop score for mountain folds and a valley fold āscoreā (which was a 5 point thin engrave along the fold that helped reduce the amount of material squishing together and make space for the fold).
The Cthulhu mask was definitely by far the most complicated, but lots of patience and wood glue and rubber bands later it started to come together.
This spray paint took to the cardstock beautifully, and my ever industrious boyfriend painted all the masks with a deep sea paint scheme.
Dangit, Iāve been trying to resist that fish mask for WEEKS now, and you go and make it even more irresistible. I want them ALL, really, but have no idea what Iād do with them once they were made!
Sorry for a newbie question here, but could you elaborate a bit on the āedited to make Glowforge compatibleā part? Are you pushing edited PDF pages to GF directly or another format? Thank you for any info. really want to try this.
I opened the PDFs in Illustrator and removed a couple duplicate lines, and all the mask shapes. Probably I could have uploaded them directly but they all had a page size outline that would make arranging the peices hard and a lot of text and arrows and whatnot that I didnāt want.
Tried a simple one here. Not exactly an aesthetic choice, but it was simple enough to play with the process. Worked great. Thanks again. Will be ready for Halloween this year
