The Legend of Zelda wolf Link

030005 Wolf Link (February 18, 2007)
from: The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess video game / size: ± 36,5 cm x 14 cm x 20,5 cm

Download:
parts with fold lines (2,95 MB PDF file)
parts without fold lines (2,83 MB PDF file)
instructions (3,59 MB ZIP file)

Pictures:
Google Photos

50 thoughts on “The Legend of Zelda wolf Link

  1. I absolutely love all your Zelda models and plan to make them all in the holidays as well as making a huge collection of the paper crafts! I love Wolf Link probably the best though, I remember attempting him at least 3 times before but didn’t succeed (that was when I just started) but I think I will try again in the holidays! ;D

    1. Making them all would be quite a task! Wolf Link especially is one of the most challenging I made so far I think, together with SSBM Link, because they have *many* tiny and tricky parts. I hope you’ll have fun, but don’t overdo it and be sure to enjoy other things too during the holidays of course! ;o)

  2. I am on tablet, and whenever I try to download the instructions, it says I don’t have an app to see them! Please Help!!!

    1. To save webspace, I compressed the instructions together in a so-called “zip”-file. So if I understand correctly from your story, it seems your tablet doesn’t have an app that can open zip-files?

      There should be many zip-file apps that you can get for every tablet, be it Android, iOS, Windows and other operating systems, commercial ones but probably free ones as well.

      Do some investigation to find one that would suit your needs best (if you can, try to find one that doesn’t only open zip-files, but at least rar-files and 7zip-files as well, those compressed filetypes are also frequently used) and once you install it, you should be able to open zip-files on your tablet.

      Inside the zip-file will be the instructions, which are really just jpg pictures with a little text. Those can be opened with pretty much any image/photo viewing software, which pretty much any tablet will already have installed (but again if it yours doesn’t, have a look around which photo/image viewing apps are available for your tablet’s operating system and which one suits your needs ;o)

      I hope this helps!

      1. Thank you so much! I remeber getting it to work once on my tablet, but I could never remember how. Thank you! ^_^

    1. The ssj2 Gohan isn’t my creation, so I’m afraid I can’t put a download on my website; you’ll have to try and contact the creator or try and find it elsewhere, sorry…

  3. Hello. I was wondering if you could tell me what kind of paper would be best for building this model? Thanks yo soo much for posting it!!

    1. I always use 200 gsm paper to build my papercraft models myself (200 grams per square meter, which is about 2.5x as thick as regular printer paper).

      Using thicker paper means the final paper model will be stronger, but other papercrafters often use thinner paper too, usually anywhere from 120-160-200 gsm paper (regular paper being about 75-80 gsm) or sometimes even special glossy or photo paper, so it’s really a personal choice.

      Wolf Link is a very challenging model (especially the head). Because it’s such a dark model, “edge-colouring” is a very nice technique that takes some extra work, but gets rid of the “white lines” you can get from the edges of the paper, especially on dark models like wolf Link.

      Take your time and have fun! ;o)

    1. Wolf Link is a *very* challenging model, because it has a lot of small parts and difficult folds. The most important thing, is to make sure you didn’t miss any fold lines, and make sure you fold them the right way (valley-fold: up, or mountain-fold: down)

      On the printed version (even on the version with fold lines) many of the fold lines are very difficult to see, so the best thing if you’re not sure you’re folding a part the right way, is to check it on the digital PDF file on your computer: zoom in, adjust the screen brightness if you need, and you will see which folds are vally folds and which are mountain folds.

      Score the fold lines before folding them, so you can make very sharp, crisp folds (this is especially important if you have to fold small parts and spikes on parts like part 13!).

      Look closely at the template and the arrows that point to which edges you need to glue together. Some spikes are almost “folded double” (they almost lie flat against the part instead of really sticking out) so don’t let that fool you!

      I’m afraid the pictures in the step-by-step instructions aren’t always very clear, but sometimes it helps if you zoom in and adjust the brightness.

      If you think you’ve figured it out, try it without glue first, to see if it looks like the picture and if fits with the other parts you already assembled. If it doesn’t, maybe you missed a fold line, or folded it the wrong way.

      I hope you can figure out how to fold the spikes with these tips, take your time and have fun!

  4. Is there a wolf-link without textures? I could colour it as a winter-ready direwolf (like the ones in Ice and Fire).
    Thank you for a great model! Definitely on my to-do list (though the list is long and the progress is very ssssllllloooowwwwwww)

    1. Hi there, I’m glad you like my papercraft wolf Link! It’s a very challenging model, and I can relate to the long to do-list… Every time more new projects get put on the list than finished projects are removed from the list… ;o)

      I’m afraid I never made a blank wolf Link without textures; if you want to recolour it on the computer, I’m afraid you would have to colour the parts one by one in a graphics program…

      You could also colour it after building it with pencil, crayon, markers, paint etc. Then it might be a good idea to choose the lowest print setting or even change the brightness and/or contrast in a program like Gimp before printing it.

      That should make the templates a little less dark, so hopefully the dark colours won’t shine through your recolourings.

      Misaki repainted wolf Link into a “God of Frost” some time ago: link

      And Alikakadri painted it in the original colours (because she could only use a black and white printer to printed, but she wanted a coloured wolf Link): link

      So it’s definitely possible! ;o)

      Have fun on all your papercraft projects!

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