Here's a little something for you to try. I made this for my true love's hot chocolate. I'm sure she won't mind if I share!

It works fine printed onto thin card and its even better printed onto paper and run through your home laminator.

Enjoy your drink!

I've got a couple of ideas about extending this into a proper project so if you haven't heard anything about it for a while - remind me.

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The legs on this model are a single layer of thin card. This presents a couple of problems. Firstly, it looks flat, unlike a real leg, secondly as the card is thin the piece is what we paper engineers call 'flappy'. It flaps around and curves up in the wrong direction.

So - before gluing the legs into place I have given them a gentle curve in the vertical axis. This has the twin benefits of having a realistic 3D look and making the legs stiffer. Hopefully you can see the effect in the photo.

More web work this evening then back to the scissors tomorrow.

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I want one of those! Imagine the time saved in prototyping!

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