Linebeck papercraft WIP 13

Making a test build is a lot of extra work, but for me, it's an important step: I always find things that I like to change to improve the final paper model. ;o)

Of course a test build can be fast and sloppy, because it only serves to try out the way I want to cut up the separate parts, so often I don't bother about the line colours and exact shape or size of the glueing tabs and things like that.

After the test build, I often have some things left to change on the 3D model, and then on the final unfold, I have a better idea of which fold lines you don't really need so I can hide them in Pepakura Designer, which edges should have the glueing tabs and what shape and size they should be, I can change the line colours so they blend in with the parts when printed and so on...

And then in Photoshop, I can make the final fixes on the final templates, and add some nice illustrations, part numbers, extra directions, etc...

The final templates for Linebeck are finished now, so now I can build him for real!

Stay tuned!

Linebeck papercraft test build 3

I was pretty happy with how Linebeck's head went together after the first test build, but I changed quite a few things on the rest of him so I wanted to do a new test build to see how that worked out (this is also the bigger size, about 20 cm instead of 16).

Now just a few changes on the changes, and I can finally make the final templates!

Stay tuned!

Linebeck papercraft WIP 11

The in-game sea charts for the Phantom Hourglass game do their job in the game as navigational tools for Linebeck's ship, but they wouldn't look very nice in a papercraft model I think...

For a short while, I looked into using the European box art, which has a nice sea chart on the back, but although it looks very stylish, it also wouldn't fit Linebeck's paper model I think.

I wanted to make a chart that looked more like the one Linebeck is holding in the artwork, but not 100% the same (if you look closely, you can still see the LEGO Pirates treasure map influences ;o)

I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out, so I hope it will look good when printed too! ;o)

Stay tuned!