It is highly recommended that you research and follow the applicable safety methods before following these instructions. Your safety is your responsibility alone, not the authors of these articles! This page includes content that is considered to be instructional, using products, tools, substances and/or methods that may, or may not be harmful if additional safety concerns are not addressed. Adding detail and smoothing yields great, re-cast-able results. Pepakura can also be used as a base for molded armor- it provides a good base of the basic shapes to work from.

And if it does, it can cost around $500USD to achieve the level of detail inherent in most molded armor. While Pep is good for starting armorers, it rarely ends up high quality. Pepakura accepts a range of 3D file extensions, and can save files in its native extension (.pdo).

Using 3 dimensional data, Pepakura allows the model to be unfolded to a flat template to be cut, folded, and glued together. Pepakura (often referred to as 'Pep') is a program that creates buildable papercraft models.

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