Mmm... glue...

As you can see, paper Homer is as good as finished, I just need to finish the instructions before I release it.

Stay tuned!

Let's rethink that...

That ain't quite working out the way I hoped...

Making the face like this requires the nose to keep everything together to shape the holes for the eyes, but there's way too much room for error and it won't be very strong like this...

The best solution is to just redo the face: I'm thinking something along the lines of how I attached the arms to the body on Tomb Raider Chronicles' EDS.

The result will be much better looking when everything doesn't have to be absolutely perfect. ;o)

Homer and thinking ahead?? (Homer and thinking...??)

Here you can see how I unfolded Homer's pants. Most of it is pretty straightforward, but you can see how I seperated part 5 from part 6 though, while at first glance they could easily be joined together.

But thinking ahead, when I tried to assemble the parts in my head, I thought it would be easier if you could glue on part 5 seperately to finish the backside first, then the strip of part 6 around the top of the pants, and then the "circular" piece of part 6 as the closing top of the pants.

But to be able to do that later on, you have to make this decision now: you need to know already how you want to assemble the paper model, even before you open your 3D model in Pepakura Designer to unfold it.

When your waist is bigger than your pants...

To make a papercraft model easier to build, it's best to break it down into sections in the 3D editing stage, rather than handling it as one, big model.

On a model like Homer, it's very easy to see how you could break the model into the shoes, pants, body, arms and head of course.

If one section is smaller than the other one where they meet (like Homer's pants are smaller than his waist) the easiest way to make the connection is to close the ends of each part, so you can easily build the sections seperately later on and then just glue them on top of eachother.