The Legend of Zelda adult Link
128020 The Legend of Zelda adult Link (10-11-2012)
from: The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time game
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parts (2,16 MB PDF file)
instructions (1,90 MB PDF file)
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Posted on November 10, 2012, in The Legend of Zelda and tagged Nintendo, Ocarina of Time, papercraft, Pepakura, Zelda. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
Hello,
It’s my first try, I’ve just discovered your papercrafts. It’s really exciting and your step to step is really helpful for a beginner like me.
I’m stuck at the step 9. I try to glue the part 8 on the part 7. It seems very complicated because I don’t have any hole to reach the inside of the boot.
Then the 8th part is not glued very well…
An advice maybe ?
Thank’s a lot for your work !
In many cases, you can use the “pressure” from the glueing tabs to your advantage (especially if you use thicker paper, because the “pressure” is bigger).
If you fold the glueing tabs outwards a bit like a valley fold (even if they should logically be folded inwards like a mountain fold) then they will push against themselves against the inside of the part that you are trying to glue onto it.
It’s hard to explain in words, but I hope you can understand what I mean! ;o)
If you build it very carefully, often this pressure is enough to glue the pieces together, so you don’t have to reach inside.
But sometimes the pressure from the flaps alone is just not enough, so really I agree: when it comes to building paper models, it’s always easiest if you do have a hole so you can reach inside (with your fingers, or a tool like a toothpick if the hole is not big enough ;o)
Although in the instructions I showed it as just 1 step, in this case, the best thing to do is to glue together part 8 in two steps, leaving the top part (the pentagonal, five-sided flap) of part 8 open until you’ve glued it to part 7.
Then you still have a hole on top, until part 8 is glued to part 7 and then you can close the top flap.
If you’ve already glued down the top flap of part 8 before glueing it to part 7, you can either:
– Very carefully try to pry it apart (but if you’re not *very* careful, maybe you will damage the piece; you can always print another copy of course, but then it will cost you a new sheet of paper…)
– Carefully cut a small hole in the top flap of part 8 yourself (leave some paper around the edges though, to which you can glue on the legs later on which will cover up the hole you made, so you won’t see it).
So these are some tips that I hope will help you; but the most important tip is to take your time and come up with your own solution I think. The more paper models you build, the better you get at it and you will find out your own techniques! ;o)
Try to plan ahead by looking at the parts and the instructions and seeing how one part should be glued together to the next piece. Sometimes it’s easier to leave one piece open until you’ve glued it to the rest of the model, or maybe it’s easier if you even do it in a different order than I did? ;o)
Good luck and have fun building!
Thanks for your answer.
In fact, my problem was to close the top of the part 8 :D
I chose an alternative to close the 8th part: I leave foot open on the bottom and closed it at the end. In this way I can “easily” close the top of the part 8 and I have one more hole when building the part 6 and 7.
And bottom of foot is more easy to close than top of part 8 :p
Thanks for advises and sorry for my english ;)
Here are some pictures of my work. (remember, it’s my first time :) ).
http://s17.postimage.org/gl7y6n5z3/DSCI0020.jpg
http://s8.postimage.org/ix7l4oket/DSCI0021.jpg
http://s11.postimage.org/9l187qqwz/DSCI0023.jpg
Colmea
I think the solution you came up with is a very good one! ;o)
Link is not very big, so sometimes it’s a bit fiddly to shape and glue together the parts, but your pictures look great so far (I wouldn’t have guessed it was only your first time if you hadn’t told me! ;o)
Your paper Link looks really good so far, so keep it up and take your time and have fun building!
Everything was going fine until I got to the hair… Any tips?
I can’t seem to get it on the head.
I’m afraid there’s not much more I can tell you other than to take your time, and keep trying…!
Keep looking at the instructions each step if you’re having trouble to see if the way you glued everything together still looks the same as in the pictures.
Make sure you folded and assembled the hair the right way: especially on the printed version, the fold lines can be hard to see, so check with the PDF file on your computer and zoom in, change the brightness of your screen or whatever you have to do to see if you didn’t miss any fold lines and folded them the right way (mountain or valley fold).
Make sure you assembled the parts properly: parts 28 and 30 need to be almost folded double on themselves as indicated by the arrow guides on the templates to get it to look like the pictures in step25 of the instructions, and parts 29 and 31 need to be made into two thin, sharp pyramid-like shapes.
Follow the arrow guides and the pictures in the instructions to glue the separate parts together, and if you’re not sure, try it without glue first until you get it right.
After you’ve done the hair, try holding it against the top of the head without glue first to see where which glueing tab needs to be glued to first.
There’s only one hole (the neck at the bottom of the head) where you can use a toothpick to “poke” inside the head so you can push the pieces of the hair around a bit from the inside to get them in the right place.
This step can be very fiddly if the hair doesn’t have the (nearly) right shape already, so be sure to thoroughly fold and pre-shape all the pieces of the hair as good as you can so they already pretty much almost fit the head.
You can also cut a hole in part 27 so you have a second hole so you can also reach the inside of the head and hair with a toothpick from the top and so you can see inside to see what you’re doing (part 27 will be covered up by the cap later on, so the extra hole it won’t show.
Maybe that makes things a little easier, but like I said, the most important thing is to take your time, make sure everything is folded and glued together properly and keep trying!
If you’re getting really frustrated, leave paper Link alone for a while and keep the parts in a safe place so you can continue when you feel like it again.
Good luck and have fun!
I was wondering if you are ever going to make a Ganondorf from twilight Princess?
Although I’m a big Zelda fan and I’d love to make many more paper models from the series from the series, I’m afraid really can’t tell you which ones they’ll be beforehand right now, because I just have so many ideas… ;o)
Somebody did already make a Ganondorf from the Super Smash Bros. Brawl game though, whose appearance was based on the way he looked in the Twilight Princess game, so maybe you’ll like that one? Here’s the link: http://nintendopapercraft.blogspot.com/2011/08/ganondorf-ssbb.html
Thanks
It wont let me download it
The parts and instructions are both in PDF format, so make sure you have a PDF reader installed on your system.
Most computers will already have Adobe Reader installed, but if your computer doesn’t have a PDF reader yet, you can download it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html or you can choose a different one of course.
Make sure you have the latest version of the PDF reader of your choice, and then when you click the parts and instructions links, the PDF files will usually open right there in your browser window. Then you can save them from the “File -> Save as…” menu, or the “Save” button on your PDF reader.
Alternatively, you can also try right-clicking the parts and instructions link, and then choose the “Save as…” option from the context menu that pops up to save the files directly to your computer without previewing them first.
Once you’ve downloaded the files, you an open them with a PDF reader just like any other files.
If you were having trouble before, check to see if you can open and download PDF files from other websites. Before trying again from my papercraft webpage, try clearing your temporary internet cache and temporary internet files, so your browser loads the newest version of my papercraft websites.
I hope this solves the problem you’re having! If you keep having trouble, try a different computer at a friend’s house, or at school/work; the files are there and the links are working correctly, so you should be able to download them without problems if your internet browser and PDF reader are working correctly.
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