thx buddy!
nice, I just made my first one last night, ironing is still a mystery to me as to how much to melt, I melted the crap out of a megaman last night till it was a mess. Do you iron both sides or just one or what?
sorry to hear about your Megaman. ironing is very tricky and takes a lot of practice/patience. I personally iron both sides because I noticed that the initial side always curves inward from the heat and doing the opposite side helps to even it out a bit. I also put em between heavy books while cooling to help prevent too much curving.
Some things that have worked well for me,
1) Finding the right temp on the iron is probly the most important, not sure but I think I set mine at about half heat.
2) I try to get all the beads to stick to the paper before removing it, and when I do remove it, I go EXTREMELY slowly so I can re-iron any areas that aren't connected. I've messed up and thrown away alot sprites during this phase.
3) not sure if everyone does it, but I like Pressure while ironing, I press down very hard on the beads, so far this has worked well for me, but might not be for everyone.
I'd also recommend doing some very easy nintendo and 8 bit sprites to practice ironing so it won't too big a deal if it doesn't turn out, and it never hurts to have a bunch of those around anyway
good luck man, post up when you make some more, I wanna keep going to if time permits, hopefully I can do some the size of LWK's someday.