2023-09-10: At some point I made a papercraft model of young Link from The Legend of Zelda series, and a lot of people seem to think that it was the first papercraft on my website that I made using the Pepakura Designer tool.
In fact, it’s not even the first Zelda papercraft I made using Pepakura Designer (that was princess Zelda herself ;o). The real first papercraft that I ever made using the computer (before, I just used a piece of paper and a pencil ;o) was the Venetian Motorboat from Tomb Raider II: picture 2 :o)
Why am I telling you about this? Well, because it’s Gwendoline’s newest papercraft build from my webpage! :o)
She actually forgot she already printed it to build it though, and on the second print, the ink ended up a bit ‘iffy’. But I actually think it makes the original textures from the game look more like weathered wood. ;o)
She also gave the model her own personal touch adding a little papercraft ramp of her own for the motorboat to jump from – you know, because Lara has to jump it through a first floor gallery to race it through the shortcut that you spend the whole level opening up to be able to finish the level before the timed gates close!
Which reminds me, Lara: you did clear the minefield in front of the gates first, right? …right?
Gwendoline’s build looks really good with the ramp add-on, and if you look underneath, you can even see an extra hommage to Lara: picture 3 :o)
2023-07-24: Despite being busy with art school, Gwendoline still made time for another Tomb Raider papercraft! :o)
This time, it isn’t one one of my own papercraft Tomb Raider vignettes, but the “Rolling Boulder” trap (and some “Deadly Spikes” at the end of the slide for good measure) by Saschacraft: picture 1 : picture 2 | picture 3 |picture 4
She wanted to show Sascha the pictures, but unfortunately, I don’t think he’s been is active with papercrafts for many years already… :o(So she sent the pictures to me! :o)
I think it’s great that Sascha left his Tomb Raider papercraft blog up though, so that Gwendoline and other Tomb Raider fans (and papercrafters in general!) can still enjoy his papercrafts! :o)
And who knows, maybe there’s chance that Sascha still gets to see Gwendoline’s pictures this way? ;o)
2023-01-30: When Gwendoline shared her pictures of Midas Touch Lara last time, she told me she was going to art school, and I bet you can see why: she’s very talented for putting together these little scenes, and she seems to have a lot of fun making them extra special! ;o)
This time, she combined one of the first papercrafts I made using Pepakura Designer (the Tomb Raider 2 Great White shark and the 40 Fathoms vignette, also from Tomb Raider 2) and she also found a cute little key that fits the scene very nicely for those that know video games: picture
I just hope Lara doesn’t need the key for anything important though, because it doesn’t look like the shark wants give up the ‘treasure’ so easily…!
2022-10-02: I think Gwendoline is a Lara Croft fan and I’ll tell you why I think that: this is the third papercraft Tomb Raider vignette she sent me pictures of, and it’s the one of Lara standing on King Midas’ hand that I only finished a short while ago: picture 1
I really liked using special gold paper, and as you can see, Gwendoline also found some special gold paper to use for Lara: picture 2
I think the pictures show Gwendoline’s craft skills and artistic side as well: her build looks very clean (much cleaner than my own final build ;o) and I really like the dramatic shadows on the wall showing Lara in her death struggle…
And with some extra light, golden Lara shines even more like she deserves: picture 3 :o)
04-02-2022: Gwendoline from France sent me several picture of the papercraft Laras she put together using the templates from my Tomb Raider series: picture 4
So far, she made Young Lara (from Tomb Raider IV and V) and Thames Wharf Lara (from Tomb Raider III) – and a much larger Lara from somebody else (I think it’s the one you can get from the Origami by Thomas YouTube channel ;o)
I think she did a great job, and I really like the way she displayed them, on the ledge with the sand colored textured wall and the ancient looking cup; it really makes it feel lik Lara is on one of her adventures in a faraway country! :o)
Thank you for buildings these Ninjatoes’ papercraft models!
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