LEGO minifig papercraft under way!

As you can see, building is going very well; so far I've done the head, the torso, the arms, the hands and the hips. And one leg. ;o)

Stay tuned!

Choosing the visor colours

I'm trying to match the colour of the transparant visor to the real thing as best I can, but even so, the printed version will always be a bit matte of course...

To really get the "neon-green" shine of the real LEGO M:Tron visors and cockpits, you'd need to find some neon-green transparancies and trace the parts outlines onto them instead of printing them.

Because you can't really pre-shape plastic like you can paper to get the tension out of the sheets, you'll need some good glue to keep all the curved parts of the transparant visor glued together, but I think the result will look very nice! ;o)

Stay tuned!

LEGO M:Tron minifig templates

Although at first glance the image above may look almost empty, it's actually full of parts!

The thing is, they're white. ;o)

That's great for your ink cartridge, but sometimes it can be hard to see which parts are actually parts, and which parts or glueing tabs, or even scrap paper, especially on smooth parts where there are no fold lines.

For this reason I decided to make the glueing tabs light grey, so it's easier to see the difference. Unfortunately, you can't do that in Pepakura Designer yet (hint hint, Tama Soft... ;o) so I'm using Photoshop for now. ;o)

Stay tuned!

LEGO M:Tron minifig airtanks test builds

The second, pink version held its shape much better than the first, green version, and for the third, white version, I also changed the neck bracket a bit.

I'm happy with the shape and how it goes together now, so now I can unfold them again for the final version, and then I can finalize the templates!

Stay tuned!

LEGO M:Tron minifig airtanks v.2

On the left the old airtanks, on the right the new ones that will hopefully look better when they're built out of paper! ;o)

This time, I made them out of seperate components, instead of one, big hollow shell.

It takes a lot more planning in the 3D stage and in the end, you'll need a little bit more paper, but if all goes well, it'll be a lot easier to build and will hold its shape much better! ;o)

Stay tuned!

LEGO M:Tron minifig airtanks test build

Oh noes...!

Even with pre-shaping, the cylinders of the airtanks won't hold their shape very well, because right now, it's all just one, big hollow shell...

I think it will be much better if I make them as two seperate cylinders that you then glue together, so I'll have to change that in the 3D model again first.

And while I'm at it, I'll also rework the neck bracket a bit, and I'll try to find a better way of glueing on the bridge between the two airtanks, because that wasn't a big success either the way it is now... ;o)

Stay tuned!

LEGO M:Tron minifig helmet+airtanks WIP

Ta-daa! Here's the 3D LEGO M:Tron minifig with his spacehelmet and airtanks!

I hope I can unfold it this weekend so I can quickly start the test build.

If all goes well, then (since I already know the other parts are okay from Captain Redbeard's build of course! ;o) I'll be able to start making the templates soon already!

Stay tuned!