Low-poly mask, a papercraft mask for Halloween

"kongrorilla" created this nifty design for a Low-Poly Mask for Halloween 2012. Download it from Thingiverse and make your own.

Here's a blank canvas for the new you. Or your Halloween costume. Or maybe your audition for store mannequin. Or your general purpose anonymity needs.
Sometime in the future I hope to make a full head version, but I wanted to post what I've gotten done so far in case someone could use it for Halloween 2012. The original idea was to make a papercraft alternative for artists who can't afford the "planes of the head" plaster model, so keep your eyes peeled for further developments.
I'm going to make a mask with dark paper, and use glow-in-the-dark tape to highlight the edges - I'll be Wireframe Man!

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Halfway to a Transformers mask.
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This should be the new Anonymous mask.
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Max Headroom!
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I’ve made one up – looks a bit Mr. A to me.
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Paint it silver and cover yourself in tinfoil and you could be Box from Logan’s Run. Creepiest robotic “helper” ever.
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  I like that when I went to double-check the quote, I type “protein from the sea”, and Google autocomplete offers “Fish Plankton and Protein from the Sea”.
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I think I’m going to make one out of leather…
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@Jaan – If you do, I’d love to see photos.
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I’m going to fill the flat bits with Hubble photos and go as “Mr. Universe”.

Dunno what I’ll wear with it, though…
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Boing Boom Tschak! Might we call it a paperKRAFT mask?
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damn all this is creepy, it reminds me of Vanilla Sky….
RCDavis

I printed and cut one out, but I can’t for the life of me make the lower half of the eye sockets attach properly – itt looks like the top of the cheek piece is at the wrong angle, yet it must be something I am still doing wrong…

try again….
- kongorilla
  
  Yes, that’s perhaps the toughest part. It requires a bit of a twist. That’s why I wrote on the page to attach the little tab first, otherwise it’s very hard to make that connection. I’m sorry if the fun turns to frustration there.
  
  It was quite a relief to start receiving pictures of finished masks from people. I was getting worried.