The Legend of Zelda adult Link

128020 The Legend of Zelda adult Link (November 10, 2012)
from: The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time video game / size: ± 24 cm

Download:
parts (2,16 MB PDF file)
instructions (1,90 MB PDF file)

Pictures:
Google Photos

42 thoughts on “The Legend of Zelda adult Link”

    1. I’ve always found connecting the head, hair and hat the trickiest part of putting together an N64 Zelda papercraft…!

      First, make sure you made the head and hair parts the correct way. There are a lot of folds, and it’s easy to miss one or fold it the wrong way. How do you find out? By finding out the parts don’t fit together properly… :o(

      Make sure to check with th PDF file to see if you need to make a valley or a mountain fold (the fold lines can be very hard to see on the printed parts but they are clearer on the PDF file). I added a lot of arrows which may look confusing, but if you follow them closely, it will help you fold and shape the parts before glueing them together.

      Important are also the sharp valley fold in the middle of Link’s hair, and the ‘long spiky hair pieces’ that will end up just in front of his ears.

      Once you are sure you made the hair correctly I think starting from the middle (so with the sharp valley fold) between his eyes above his forehead will be easiest. Try fitting on the hair without glue first, from the middle to the left and from the middle to the right up to Link’s ears: each gluing flap should meet its opposite edge naturally, which will be the same length as the glueing flap of course (otherwise something went wrong).

      Take your time, and keep comparing what you made with the pictures in the instructions. You an also have a look at the finished pictures in the Google album:
      https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMtrwyfneLazYYKdkIy3TwOG6U1rN_DPVkJ6hAC2TZL87Bi5I8mwpbfYY8SQAoSHw?key=ekdmbWUyWWg1UHJJbW1ia25zc212aFNfT2VLRi1R

      Look closely at the shapes, and if it looks very different from what you made, try to see if you maybe missed a fold, or folded it the wrong way, or maybe glued a gluing flap to the wrong edge?

      It’s difficult to explain in words, and I’m sorry that I can’t help you better than this, but I’m sure if you take your time and methodically try to fit the pieces together you will eventually see which part doesn’t fit correctly, and then you can work out what the problem is and change it so that it does fit!

      I hope you will be able to figure it out, take your time and if things get too frustrating, try putting the parts somewhere safe for now and try again later with a fresh mind! :o)

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    1. It’s very difficult to explain how to assemble a papercraft in words, but I hope I can explain it a bit to you…

      Parts 51 and 52 are the hilt of the Master Sword: part 51 is the top piece, that goes “horizontal” and part 52 is the bottom part that makes the sides/bottom.

      So maybe it’s easiest if you assemble part 52 first; it has quite a few folds, so make sure you score and fold them all and don’t forget any! Check with the PDF file because it’s difficult to see on the printed versions sometimes. Almost all of them are mountain folds, only the one in the middle is a valley fold.

      Once you folded part 52, look closely at the arrows on the template. If you follow them correctly, the part will find the correct shape as the bottom part of the hilt: it’s a symmetrical piece, with the valley fold in the middle, and two “wings” with an open top on either side.

      Besides the pictures in the instructions, I think it will also help if you look closely at the pictures from the finished papercraft, so you can see what the sword and the hilt will look like when they’re finished: https://goo.gl/photos/A7TKzN46F3oNAmhU9

      I’m sorry that I can’t help you better than this, I hope that you can figure it with a few tries: try folding the part and shaping it without glue first so you can see if it looks like it does in the pictures and the two parts fit together, so you know it’s correct. I hope this helps!

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    1. I don’t know if there’s a free online tool that will let you edit PDF files, but maybe there’s a different way: with an online PDF to BMP converter like http://www.zamzar.com/convert/pdf-to-bmp/, you can upload the PDF parts of adult Link, and have the parts sheets converted to BMP files.

      With Zamzar, the download link will be sent to you by e-mail, be sure to check the Spam folder of your e-mail too because maybe Zamzar’s mail will end up there! I could only do a quick search of course but if you search around some mroe you can find other ones too.

      BMP files are very basic image files that many programs can open, you can even use Microsoft Paint which is installed on Windows computers, or similar simple programs for other operating systems, and then you can “trace” the fold lines with the line tool of MS Paint (or similar tools for similar programs).

      You could even import the BMP images into a Microsoft Office Word file (or similar word processor software) and use the “shape” tools.

      I’m sure you already have some software like that on your computer, so you don’t have to download anything new if you get the PDF files converted to BMP files. If you keep having trouble or if you’re not confident, try asking a family member or a friend to help you, I’m sure you know somebody who can use simple programs like MS Paint! ;o)

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    1. I’m afraid that I already have so many ideas that I’d like to make, and so little time to work on papercraft, that I already can’t promise people exactly which paper models I will make in the future, or when, and so I also can’t take specific requests, sorry…!

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    1. I’m a big Zelda fan, so chances are very big that I will make many more papercraft versions of Link from the series. ;o) But because papercraft is only a hobby of mine that I can only do in my scarce spare time, I really can’t promise exactly which models I will make, or when, sorry…!

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      1. thnx oot is my favorite Zelda game and I actually like the young link portion more than the adult portion :)

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  8. if that’s possible, please let me know, because ive wanted to make this and ive printed it 3 tims, and I still couldn’t see the lines

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