Manually-Operated Articulated Paper Costume Wings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Manually-operated articulated paper costume wings. No electronics. No CO2 cartridges. Rather than the usual scissor mechanism used in most wing designs, I wanted something that looked more dramatic while opening. I also wanted to use inexpensive and common materials, because I had never attempted this before. This is the only set I made, apart from a partial prototype. I'm posting just to share my solution with others.
MATERIALS
Wings are black posterboard coated with oil-based polyurethane varnish (water-based acrylic would wrinkle the paper) to provide some protection from rain. They are folded to mimic feathers and have not been painted. Reinforcement ribs (2 on each side) are pine dowels, the back plate is 3/4" plywood with dados cut in an X, the main pistons/arms are waxed pine strips, string is nylon mason line, dual-purpose string guides and shoulder supports are superpex polyethylene water tubing, and pulleys and axles are wooden craft dowels. One wooden piston/rod slides under the other on the back plate. The tubing is held in place by a wooden strip that is screwed to the back plate and fits into shallow notches cut into the tubing; this allows them to rotate slightly for fit. Tubing can be shaped by slowly stretching and bending the pipe into a hook shape, without heating it. The leading edge of each wing is 30 inches (76cm) and are sized for a child with shoulder height of about 39" (1m). This is the largest size that can be cut from a single sheet of common dollar-store posterboard. Each wing is 3 sections of 3 feathers per section, linked to a folding section that is securely stapled to the front side of the back plate.
TECHNICAL
As the string is pulled down over the shoulders, the wooden piston slides up its guide channel and moves the main axle away from the head and also unfolds the first section. A separate anchored string pulls/rotates the pulley inward, the pulley rotates the axle, the axle rotates the topmost wing at the front via a flat wooden plate glued to the inside face of the top wing, and each wing pulls open the wing below it via a curved paper strip and tab on the edge of each wing. The tabs and strips/loops lock the tops and bottoms of the wings together, so that they remain in the same plane when open. (If the tabs and strips were replaced with strings connecting the edges of each wing, the wing tips would flop around and would not retract predictably). When the string is released, the weight of the topmost wing winds the pulley, which causes the pulley to wind itself toward the back plate via the anchored string. A spring is not used in the retraction, because this would make the mechanism more difficult for a young child to open. A wider pulley would make the wings easier to open (more leverage), but this impacts aesthetics. Gravity and a little inertia complete the retraction. Wings are flexible and can be made to flap forward and back by moving the chest forward and back. If the wings stick a little when retracting, one jump will shake them closed. The width and length of each feather section and the depth of the notches are all carefully designed to prevent each section from becoming locked into one another while closing. Each lower section is narrower than the section above so that they all stack within each other when retracted. The string anchored to the pulley keeps a partial fold in the inner wing section which adds dimension, structural stability, and predictable closing. Folds increase the strength of each wing and provide dimension, but also introduce bumps that can affect how well they close. Talcum powder (baby powder) can be used to lubricate sliding parts.
The sound of the wings opening and closing😍😍 ASMR
hiya! it would be super cool to see a tutorial video on these! i've been wanting to do howl from howl's moving castle for a while now and these would be PERFECT for that!
I'll see what I can do. I know I would need to reengineer them to use more standard materials, or every other step in the tutorial would be about how to cut the next part on the table saw! FYI, a full-size set would be 8 feet across when open and 40 inches top to bottom when closed.
alright, cool!
@@pineapplz7162please help I want to make tus for my daughter
@@pineapplz7162plz help
@@pineapplz7162did you ever do that 5yos ago?
Yeees finally the version of how wings work that I was looking for! Thankgod someone already came up with how it works and no need to try to find it out from scratch
Thanks!!!
This wasn't tutorial so how u understood
You made it way more complicated than it needed to be but i still love it
Show me how to do it :D
Can you please give a full detailed tutorial on how to make these?
Great pulley mechanism 👍
OMG HOW TO MAKE
No answer 😢
I also wonder
This woulda been VERY useful before I bought some cheapo flat parrot wings for my halloween costume-
Can you share a video showing the joints upclose.
And can you show the making of it?
Chang Bronstien: I hope the second slideshow I recently posted will answer your question. I did not take many reference photos of the original version. If there is interest, I will try to document the build of version 2 for a tutorial later. FYI, in version 2, the pulley is attached directly to the rib on the top wing, at the top. The axle is not glued to anything (well, in the model, anyway).
THERE IS INTEREST
LOL! I think I'm now legally bound to do one. I have started documenting the build of a full-size (9ft) version 2; so, once I know it all works smoothly...
Hi there! Do you sell that one? Because imy daugther need for her event this december, hope to hear from u thanks.
Hi! That is the only pair of wings I built and I gave them to a friend for halloween.
I hope you can show us how to do it if you have time, thanks
Ty so much bro ur a lige saver
Tutorial?
Fantástico, gostaria muito de mais detalhes 🙌🙌🙌
Handmade Ornithopter Mechanism Design and Build /
me gustaría saber de donde obtuvisteis los patrones para hacer las alas,
ya que yo tambien las quiero hacer para un cosplay de Arcangel
How to do it
Hi were can I purxhasw the pattern for this wonderful project
Wow
CAN YOU MAKE A TUTORIAL OF THIS PULLY SYSTEM??? I'm making Maleficent wings and I really need to figure out articulated wings
Here this might help:
th-cam.com/video/TVfHxjdWnrc/w-d-xo.html
Did u make
Step by step tutorial pls
Love your work btw
Yes, I have built about 50% of a larger version (9 feet wide). I'll post a tutorial and the technical drawings once I know they work as planned. I can't say for certain when, but I hope before October.
Do you have any pattern for the design or any to sell?
I've posted a third short video, where I include a tiled version of the working drawing, video of the scale model, and some pictures of the parts, so far. You should be able to screen cap the drawing pieces and assemble them into a good-quality diagram. But, you'd need to figure out some folds and the slide mechanism dimensions yourself, because I'll work out those details when I assemble everything. Note that some of my wooden parts are more complicated than required (dowel pins), because I am constantly assembling and disassembling.
@@pineapplz7162 could you link a printable so that we know where to cut stuff also can i substitute the wood for illusration board how how do i make it so that its all just black?.
@@jdrawsshit4837 To print the template, play the video full screen, do a screen print/capture on each section and save the images. Scale them to whatever size you need, print them, and glue the paper sheets together into one drawing. The template has a square which tells you what size it needs to be. If you paint any part that slides, do not use latex paint (no latex acrylic paint, no acrylic varnish) because the parts will stick together even when dry for months,and it will wrinkle the paper. Try to use only oil-based, alkyd, laquer, or other solvent paints. You can also build loose fabric or paper covers for the main mechanism, so that you don't need to paint them. You could subsitute SOME of the flat wooden parts with many layers of paper glued together or with the type of card stock that you find in hardcover books, binders, and clipboards. However, the main parts take the full weight of the wings when open and I don't see how they could be substituted with illustration board.
I need the tutorial video pls
Tutorial pls
Bonjour auriez-vous un tutoriel svp cordialement corinne
Hmm nice work ya ,but it can't flap
Como lo haces??🤩
how to make these?
How to make?
I need a tutorial
🥰😘
Hello, do you have email? I would love to hire you to make me wings like these. Thank you!
Ye wale wing banakar dikhao
Not usefuo tell us the process please
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This might help
@@hannahhh6898 Thanks
@@sirmigz yw!
Tut?🎃
You never fac4 reavel
Make me one please😢😭😢😭😢😭 btw dont like!!!!!!!!!!