Okay, here’s an update on the Sleeping Beauty Castle paper model. It doesn’t belong with the Designing a Paper Model images, so it’s going here.
Before finally moving onto the adding of tabs and labels, I’m finishing up the stained glass windows. The real-life windows have a lot of detail. So much, in fact, that it would be insane to recreate it all. Since the printed windows will only be 2-3 inches high, a lot of that information (and work) would be lost. So, you may notice things like Maleficent’s missing face. Hopefully, no one will miss it.
-UPDATE-
I’ve printed a test of this technique using vellum (I love vellum!). Two printed images were overlapped, and the colors really do become much more saturated. I clipped both a single print and a double-print to my desk lamp, and you can see a vast improvement. The photos to the left have not been retouched.
By the way, I got the idea/tip from Dave Lowe’s blog.
I’m strongly considering having internal lighting in my own model. I recently read a great tip on how to help keep the colors of the windows saturated. It involves printing the window images on both sides of the paper. Since aligning the mirror images perfectly is nearly impossible on any printer, layering two separate prints may work. Although, with two sheets of paper, the light will be dimmed. It’s a trade-off.