It's been a while since
starting this Tetra papercraft (mostly because of other things coming in between) but I'm getting closer to finishing and releasing her!
The final templates are finished (well, sometimes I still end up making some changes before the release) as usual in Photoshop so I can fix any textures and clean up some parts that are just so much easier to fix on the 2D template than to keep trying to get the 3D model perfect (yes, I cheat like that when making papercraft templates 😜)
I always try to put the parts on the sheets that make sense, like placing the legs below the pants, the torso above the pants, the arms each on the correct sides of the torso and things like that. And I always number the parts in the order that I assemble the papercraft in.
For some parts that I feel could need some extra directions, I like to add some arrows and letters showing which glueing flap connects to which edge. There'll be step-by-step instructions as well of course, and usually people seem to manage putting these together better than me! 😀
As you can see, I managed to get all the parts on just two sheets (Tetra is a bit smaller than Linebeck after all), so that's nice!
I decided to use a fun bubbly font for the title, because although Tetra acts all tough and fearsome, I think that's just an act because she thinks her pirate crew wouldn't respect her otherwise after having to take over as captain after her mother died, but she's really just a young, kind-hearted cute girl inside. 👧
So now that the final templates are ready, there are just a few more steps to finish the Paper Tetra Project:
- Build paper Tetra (while taking pictures for the instructions)
- Make instructions (...using the pictures I will take while building Paper Tetra 😜)
- Take some pictures to show finished Paper Tetra
- Make a release video that only I will find funny 😊
- Put the parts and instructions on my papercraft webpage for free download!
So stay tuned! 😉
