You could try printing on glossy photo paper. It's basically thin plasticard. You could also experiment with printing directly onto 0.010 in thick plasticard sheets (available from evergreen styrene).

Great work!

I second the suggestion to use the thickest pro photo paper you can find. It doesn't have to be gloss though, matt is also available and may look better.

Monolith is almost done. Struggled for a while with the ribs, eventually pasting the printout to plasticard and cutting them in plastic. Huge pain. But will probably do the guns in plastic as well, as they are another 100% 2D component.

The rest is a papercraft readily available online and printed at 25% on 200 gsm photo cardstock. It came with those colors; I will gesso and repaint it, not least to strengthen it.

It is worth modifying the pattern online before printing, putting together its 3-part 3d ribs into a single 2d rib template, among other things. You can do this easily with Inkscape, as the PDF is native SVG. Inkscape simplifications might actually make a lot of the more detailed papercraft stuff scale-able . . .

Wow!
Seriously impressed!

Any change to obtain the mentioned file, if just to archive or spread it?!
Necrons might get back in reach (after the forumware went oop)

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I used this file:
http://cs5675.userapi.com/u20557065/docs/52d5a7ce5b63/Necron_monolith_colored.pdf

If I did it again, I might do some modifications differently, so I am not including my reworked file. But you can do whatever you want to it, recolor or modify or whatever, with Inkscape. Just import the pages into a document: it will recognize them as plain SVG.

Thanks!

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Alright, all finished except for the basing colors. Generally happy with it, though the gem isn't everything I want. It is sturdy enough, probably no worse than some resin models.

Guns are simple rectangles of plasticard, nothing more. Base is 4cm square. Hope the scale is right.

Great finish!

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you could always swap the gem out for a plastic bead.

but that looks really nice. really really nice.

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