Tomb Raider 3 Lara Dinosaur Hunter vignette

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1. hi, in wich paper size is recomend to print?

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   1. My papercrafts are made to be printed on regular home printers. For me, that’s on a paper size of ISO A4: 21 cm x 29,7 cm.

      With the standard print margins on my printer, it scales the PDF files 97%, and that’s the size my papercrafts end up as that I always mention in the download posts after building them myself.

      You can use US Letter size paper, but because it is a little wider and shorter than A4 paper, the prints and therefore your final papercrafts will just end up a little smaller (make sure to maintain the aspect ratio when printing!).

      If you can, try to find some thicker paper than regular printer paper: I always use 200 gsm (grams per square meter) paper, which is about 2.5x as thick as regular printer paper (regular printer paper is about 75-80 gsm). Many people use 120 gsm or 160 gsm paper though (1.5x – 2x as thick). It makes the final papercraft sturdier. :o)

      I hope this helps, have fun building!

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2. Hello I love your amazing work , I have a hard problem on cutting out the peace’s of the paper and couple of I mess up . Is there a way you enlarge the peace. I’m doi NV the bacon Lara and home sweet home .

   I want to create all the models here for my tomb raider collection .. is there a way you can help me with making them large .

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   1. Hello!

      I made the templates as simple images that I then ‘printed’ as PDF files to easily share them online. An easy way to enlarge them is to simply change the printing scale in your printer settings:

      If you have a printer that can print on bigger paper, that will be easiest of course because you can just change the printing scale to fit the bigger paper (maybe you can even use a print/copy shop service where they can print on bigger paper; make sure the print will be scaled the same amount in the vertical and horizontal directions!)

      Alternatively, most PDF readers will have an option to enlarge the pages and then print them on multiple sheets of paper (in Adobe Reader it’s the ‘poster’ option). Some parts will be cut in half because of the layout, but you can glue them together again of course after they’re printed (that’s the whole point of papercraft anyway ;o).

      You can also enlarge the parts before printing in a software like Photoshop (or Gimp, which is free: https://www.gimp.org/) because they can open PDF files as if they are just regular images that you can edit and change. Then you can enlarge the parts and cut and paste them to try and make them fit on new sheets so that they won’t get cut in half. Make sure to scale all the parts by the same amount, and the same in the horizontal and vertical direction! (If you don’t want to install a separate program, you can also use a free online service like Zamzar to convert the multiple page PDF files into separate BMP image files, and then do the same thing but in almost any image editing program, even ones that can’t open PDF files directly: https://www.zamzar.com/convert/pdf-to-bmp/)

      Theoretically, you can make it as big as you want this way! :o)

      Don’t forget though that the bigger you make them, the more the textures will get stretched out! The classic Tomb Raider games are ‘old’ games (in video game years of course ;o) so the textures are very small, but unfortunately there’s nothing you can do about that (but I think it will still look nice unless you make it *really* big! ;o)

      I hope you can use these ideas to make the papercrafts bigger like you want, have fun!

      greetz ninjatoes

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