027003 young Link (July 19, 2006)
from: The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask video game / size: ± 17,5 cm
Download:
parts with fold lines (1,34 MB PDF file)
parts without fold lines (1,15 MB PDF file)
instructions (1,08 MB PDF file)
some extra help on Link’s head, hair and cap: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
some extra help on Link’s body: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Pictures:
Google Photos
Ninjatoes' papercraft webpage 
So I’ve never done papercraft before, and I’m super into Zelda atm and wanted some cool new figures to display, and I thought these models were incredible and wanted to try it out! I chose this one for my first project, thinking “Oh, I’m just following the lines on the pattern and the instructions are provided! How hard can it be?”
The answer: very XD
Still, after three straight days of scoring, cutting, and struggling to glue with a glue stick cause I didn’t have liquid glue (pro tip: don’t do this), my Link turned out super good! I’m so happy with it. I’m amazed at how intuitive the pattern pieces are! There were some instances where I barely needed to look at the instructions, I could tell how the piece was supposed to fold and what glued to what just by looking at the mountain/valley fold placements. Kudos to you for creating such well-designed patterns!
And to any other papercraft newbies like me, thinking that you can start with a complicated pattern like this and figure it out along the way–don’t. Start with something simpler, trust me! But then definitely come back to this one, because the end product is amazing <3333
And Young Link is not even the hardest one that I made over the years… ;o) But seriously, it is quite an accomplishment to finish as your first papercraft! Young Link was one of the early papercrafts that I made with the Pepakura papercraft software, and I’m happy to hear that you found the resulting patterns intuitive to follow. :o)
I’m glad that you managed to see it through and that you’re so happy (and rightfully proud!) of your paper Link. Have fun!
I don’t understand how the crap you do this! Why can’t there be a video tutorial?!
A step-by-step instructional papercraft video would become much too long, I’m afraid…! ;o) And with my video editing skills, I’m not sure if it would be any clearer…
Young Link has lots of tricky parts, so it’s important to make sure you fold all the parts properly (especially if you’re building the version without fold lines, because it’s easy to miss a fold…!) Then try shaping the parts without glue first to see if it fits as shown in the step-by-step picture instructions. You can also look at the finished pictures or the extra help. It’s still quite a difficult papercraft, so take your time and take lots of breaks when a certain part is frustrating you, so you can have a clear mind if you want to try it later. ;o)
I’m sorry that I can’t clarify the instructions better, I hope you’ll manage or can enjoy some other papercrafts you like because the most important thing is to have fun! ;o)