2023-09-14: Ben sent me another picture of a papercraft LEGO minifigure that he built, but this time it’s an extra special one! He repainted one from my papercraft webpage to look like LEGO’s Michael “Air” Jordan minifigure!
He says he wants to make some improvements, but I think it looks really good! Besides the realistic skin colors, one of the biggest differences with my own papercraft LEGO minifigs (which are all from older LEGO set), is that the modern LEGO minifigures can have printing on the backside as well. So of course Ben did that too: picture :o)
2023-08-05: Look at the amazing papercraft LEGO minifigure collection that Ben built: picture! He has the same fun memories as I of playing with the small LEGO ones, and as you can see made almost all of the ones that I made so far. :o)
Here’s a close up look of the Pirates ones: Captain Redbeard | Governor Broadside | Imperial Soldier | Spinoza the monkey
The Castle ones: Black Knight | Ghost
the Space and Star Wars ones: Blacktron II astronaut | Darth Vader | Luke | C-3PO
And the special Christmas Toy Soldier and my own Indiana Jones (from before LEGO had an official Indiana Jones theme ;o): Toy Soldier | Indy
He even told me that he would like to try and make some original ones himself! I’m all for that of course, but because I had to make some changes to the first one I made (Captain Redbeard) and I did that in Photoshop and NOT in the 3D model first, I can’t really give him a good 3D model to start with…!
However, everybody is definitely free to skip that step too and just download one of my existing papercrafts from my papercraft webpage and recolor them of course! (it’s actually how I start when I make a new papercraft LEGO minifigure myself now ;o)
You can use a tool like Photoshop or Gimp to open the PDF files directly, or convert them to the original image files with a website like Zamzar first and then you can chang the colors and anything else of course just like with any regular image file. And if you keep everything the same size, you can make new pieces too with a 3D program and unfold them with Pepakura Designer using the ones you already built for measurements! ;o)
The closest thing I have to a blank minifig is the LEGO Ghost (but of course, it’s even easier to use one with a base color that I already used for another if you can ;o)
Here are some examples of great recolors from other LEGO fans:
– https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/contest-winner-lego-bane-and-captain-america-repaint-by-charles/
– https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/lego-ninjago-lloyd-zx-re-paint-by-balazs/
I think Ben did a great job on his collection so far, and who knows he can add some of his own soon! :o) Thank you for downloading and building these Ninjatoes’ papercrafts!
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