Young and Fierce Deity Link by Vik Alex Sal

15-02-2011: A picture of Link taken with a Nintendo DSi, how fitting! ;o)

But there’s more to Vik’s papercraft Link than meets the eye! (no, he doesn’t transform or anything… ;o)

If you look closely, you can see that the textures were all coloured by hand; Vik didn’t have a working printer at the time, so he traced the parts directly from his computer screen onto a piece of paper!

That’s some dedication! It must have taken him a lot of time to trace all the parts so precise that they would still fit together, and he did a great job colouring the model too! (the colours really kinda look like the original N64 textures ;o)

Vik did the same with Fierce Deity Link: here’s a picture of the finished model, and here are two pictures before he coloured it: picture 1 | picture 2

For Banjo the bear (from Navi’s Papercraft Archive) though, he went to a friend’s house and printed it there: picture

I am sure it was a lot faster that way! ;o)

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Paper Mario by Lauren

26-12-2010: only a couple of days after I released it, Lauren already sent me this picture of the paper Mario she built: a very fast and a very good build! ;o)

13-10-2010: after taking a break for a couple of months, Lauren decided to make a new paper model again, and I’m of course very proud that she chose my Majora’s Mask Postman! ;o)

07-01-2010: I don’t know if it’s the extra practice or just her talent for papercraft, but the Underworld wetsuit Lara from Tomb Raider Lauren made after that turned out very good too: picture 1 | picture 2 !

And not only that, but Lauren also decided to build young Link and princess Zelda a second time and do an even better job!

31-12-2009: Lauren sent me some pictures of her Twilight Princess Link !

Although the thinner cardstock she used made it a bit more difficult using the little slots and tabs on the head, I think it looks great! Here you can see it in anticipation for the New Year’s Day fireworks! ;o)

18-10-2009: Here’s a very nice build of Lara’s Extreme Depth Suit (although Lauren couldn’t find a suited transparant sheet to make the helmet visor, the opaque versions looks pretty neat as well! ;o)

And Lauren must be a Simpsons fan as well, because look who we have here: it’s Homer Simpson himself! ;o) And something totally different, but also a great build: she also made my new Final Fantasy Moomba doll!

21-06-2009: I only just uploaded my newest Zora armor Link model two days ago, and Lauren already sent me some new pictures of her completed ZaL! And I know what you’re thinking, but it doesn’t look rushed at all! picture 1 | picture 2 | picture 3

13-04-2009: another non-Zelda model from Lauren, it’s my newest Cloud model. She glued on the legs last so she could work out a good balance, and although she says the hair and fingers gave her some troubles, you wouldn’t say so from just the picture I think, anyway. ;o)

20-01-2009: Lauren revealed to me that Ganondorf and Epona & Link weren’t the first models she made: she also did Fierce Deity Link, young princess Zelda, young Link and Majora’s Mask, Midna and wolf Link, and (surprise! ;o) a non-Zelda model as well, namely, Lara Croft.

18-01-2009: I think we got Lauren pretty well hooked on papercraft now, because so shortly after Ganondorf, she also made Epona & Link (see the picture here) in just 2 days, and she’s already planning the next one! ;o)

14-01-2009: The first pictures Lauren sent me, were of her Ganondorf model, and it was very good one!

She told me she had a lot of fun building him, but I also think you can also tell by the quality of the build! ;o)

It’ll probably come as no surprise to you that Lauren is pretty creative: if you have time you should check out her Deviantart gallery with lots of nice computer paintings including several from the Legend of Zelda!

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Link & Ganondorf by Jeff

22-10-2010: Jeff built two of my Zelda models: young Link and the Great King of Evil Ganondorf!

It kinda looks like he’s telling them to get along in this picture, but I’m not sure they’ll listen…!

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The Legend of Zelda Clocktown Postman

097017 The Legend of Zelda Clocktown Postman (September 25, 2010)
from: The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask video game / size: ± 23,5 cm (mailbox stand ± 28 cm x 25,5 cm cm x 24 cm)

Download:
Postman parts (1,66 MB PDF file)
Postman instructions (1,20 MB PDF file)

mailbox parts (1,97 MB PDF file)
mailbox instructions (605 kB PDF file)

Pictures:
Google Photos

rotating Kurt Zisa by Dan Hilse

17-07-2010: Dan made this animated gif to show off his Kurt Zisa from all angles! He did the same for his Zora armor Link, but to see that one, you will have to visit his DeviantArt gallery: link

18-04-2010: Dan did a great job building Kotake and Koume! Using a barely visible piece of string, he made it look like they’re really flying around in his room!

At least that’s what I think he did; for his sake, I hope they’re not real witches…!

17-12-2009: This is Dan showing off his freshly mown lawn. ;o) He didn’t say though whether he did it himself, or that Link has a bag full of Rupees, Potions and Hearts right now…! ;o)

22-11-2009: Zora armor Link is Dan’s first build from Twilight Princess. He said he took extra care building that one and it really paid off, because it looks “really good!”

20-11-2009: By now, Dan has plenty of papercrafting practice! ;o) Printed off and assembled in just two days, Dan’s other models don’t seem to be scared by his new Oogie Boogie (maybe they know it’s just a paper one…?)

05-09-2009: Speaking of Dan’s other models, this Kurt Zisa really is a great build: it looks wonderful, but that’s not surprising because he had a lot of practice! ;o)

23-08-2009: And let’s not forget Homer Simpson as part of Dan’s paper model collection as well!

06-06-2009: Taking a break fom building Final Fantasy models, Dan also built not on, not two, but several of my Zelda models! In the picture he sent me, you can recognize young Link, princess Zelda herself, Majora’s Mask and the Clock Town Schnauzer of course.

I know you’ve never seen the darker dog, because that’s Dan’s own recolor of the Clock Town Schnauzer to make it look like the common ones found at night at Hyrule Castle in Ocarina of Time!

02-06-2009: And here’s another one for Dan to be proud of: it’s Cloud Strife Kingdom Hearts style! It’s looking at least as good as Auron, maybe it has something to do with the motivation he got from watching his brother play Final Fantasy 7 while he built it? ;o)

23-05-2009: This is Auron, built by Dan Hilse. Dan says he had “a lot of fun building it!” and he’s “really proud of the results!” and really, who wouldn’t be? ;o)

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Zelda models by Francesco de Renzio

04-07-2010: More papercraft Zelda goodness from Francesco, this time it’s Koume and Kotake, the two witches!

05-06-2010: Francesco sent me new pictures of Fierce Deity Link, Wolf Link, and Link & Epona!

04-01-2010: I was right in assuming Francesco not being done with papercraft yet, because as you can see now he has also built Link, the Hero of Twilight!

31-08-2009: Francesco is a big Zelda fan and here’s the proof: he built all these papercraft models!

Zora armor Link, Ganondorf, the King of Red Lions (including Josh Darrah’s Great Sea stand!) Majora’s Mask, Midna, young Link and young princess Zelda as well!

And I have a feeling he’s not done yet… ;o)

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Kingdom Hearts 2 Sora by Kupo

01-07-2010: building this Sora was a lot more time consuming for Kupo than building chibi Sora (second picture from the bottom in this post) but judging from the pictures, it was worth it! ;o)

22-05-2010: Kupo has been really busy papercrafting all kinds of models since last time, besides building American McGee’s Alice, he also expanded his Blue Moon army with a Stealth Fighter and APC: picture

And that’s only a fraction of the new models that he built! You can see many more of them of them on his own weblog here, including some close-ups of Alice, and some papercraft projects of his own; be sure to check it out! ;o)

08-02-2010: When you’re done gazing at the two robots and Kupo’s hand-made Pokéball in this picture, what do you think of his Neotank build? I think it looks pretty good!

He even made a video showing how the legs move with the mechanism inside: link

Kupo also built several of my Zelda models (picture 1 | picture 2) and as you can see, he likes building all kind of models from other people as well, so check out his weblog (and works-in-progress-blog) to see all his other builds!

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Sora by Carlos Gomez

04-06-2010: only a few days after I released it, Carlos already sends me a picture of Sora!

08-04-2009: Carlos strikes again! This time not with a Zelda model, but with his favourite character from his favourite RPG, Cloud Strife! You can see the picture here: picture 2

18-09-2007: the first picture that Carlos “Charly” Gomez (“MasteR”) from Mexicali (Baja California) in Mexico sent me, shows you what a big Legend of Zelda fan he is!

He built not one, not two, but all of my Zelda models, which include some of the most challenging ones I have to offer.

It took him something like three months, but from what I can see, it was definately worth the effort!

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Lara Croft & young Link by Gabriel Guerrero

05-05-2010: Before he made Lara in her wetsuit from Tomb Raider Underworld, he already built Lara Croft in her Tomb Raider Legend outfit.

Here are two pictures of the two Lara’s together: picture 1 | picture 2

09-04-2010: Gabriel Guerrero lives in México Distrito Federal (Mexico City), one of the biggest cities in the world!

But he proves even people in *huge* cities like México D.F. can find the time to enjoy building a paper model!

Here’s a picture of Gabriel’s Lara, in her Tomb Raider Legend outfit, and here’s one of young Link.

You can see that he’s very creative too: the sword in Link’s hand is his own adjustment to my model that he downloaded!

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young Link by Teris

18-04-2010: Teris tells me he only started papercrafting a few days ago, which is amazing when you look at the young Link that he made as his first paper model!

Here you can see another picture of Teris’ young Link with his shield and sword.

I guess if you really like the Legend of Zelda games, it doesn’t matter if you have a lot of papercrafting experience or not, you can do a great job building a paper Link anyway!

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Zelda models by Jen

11-04-2010: Jen had built several of my paper models before (Link & Epona, young princess Zelda and young Link as seen in the back row) but the front row shows her latest additions!

Instead of choosing which version with which head to build, after a whole week of witch making, Jen has built not one, not two, not even three, but four Koume/Kotake models!

I hope the “normal” ones are from Majora’s Mask, so they even out the evil from their Ocarina of Time Twinrova boss form…

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Majora’s Mask & princess Zelda by Jalhalla

07-04-2010: This dangerous looking Majora’s Mask is actually a life-size version from my original smaller version.

It was built by Jalhalla, who also made young princess Zelda! If you want to see bigger pictures of these two paper models, or the other models he built, you can check out his DeviantArt gallery here.

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The Legend of Zelda Kotake & Koume

092016 The Legend of Zelda Kotake & Koume (April 4, 2010)
from: The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time / Majora’s Mask video games / size: ± 18,5 cm x 19,5 cm (each)

Download:
Kotake parts (1,12 MB PDF file)
Kotake replacement head (373 kB PDF file)

Koume parts (1,16 MB PDF file)
Koume replacement head (376 kB PDF file)

instructions (1,20 MB PDF file)

Pictures:
Google Photos

Epona by Hunter Turner

18-03-2010: Hunter built another one of my Zelda models! Of course you already recognized Link’s trusty horse Epona (who apparantly really wants to play the Nintendo Wii… ;o)

27-01-2010: Hunter Turner proves once again that age doesn’t matter in papercraft, only patience and determination to finish what you started! ;o)

He’s only ten years old and already made my Kingdom Hearts version of Cloud Strife, in just three and a half days!

Hunter also built a very fierce looking Oni Link! He says it’s the flash from the camera that makes it look so intimidating, but maybe it’s just the mysterious powers in the mask…

Excellent work!

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Advance Wars, Zelda, Kurt Zisa & Sharpedo models by Llamadragon

15-03-2010: Llamadragon told me he would probably build some more paper models of mine, and he sure did: 12 models in total now, as you can see in the picture above!

New are Sharpedo, the Green Earth Cruiser and Black Hole Tank and MD Tank from my Advance Wars series, Twilight Link (group picture) and the one I think he is the most proud of, Kingdom Hearts’ Kurt Zisa!

But I think he has every right to be proud of it: he tells me it took him about 28-32 hours in total, but he enjoyed building it, and I think that shows in his finished paper model because it looks really great!

07-01-2010: Llamadragon told me he had built several of my Zelda and Advance Wars paper models, and to prove it, he sent me a picture! ;o)

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Clocktown Schnauzer by Zach Mears

17-10-2009: With a brother like Aaron Mears, it’s not hard to imagine how Zach also got hooked on papercraft! ;o)

This time, he’s sending in his own build: no, that’s not some random dog that walked in front of the camera when Zach was trying to take a picture of the car; that’s Zach’s Clocktown Schnauzer!

Although the picture is a bit blurry, you can still see he did a pretty good job! And from the sounds of it, Zach is only just getting started… ;o)

19-12-2009: in a stroke of what I can only describe as madness, Zach attempted to build the evil Red Hollow Cylinder model… (picture)

I can only hope that The Cylinder will have some mercy on him now that it’s almost Christmas…

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Zora armor Link v2 by Toni Müller

12-12-2009: I intentionally made Zora armor Link and Hero outfit Link the same scale, so people could “mix and match” the sword and shield.

And that’s exactly what Toni did!

But he didn’t stop there; he also cut a hole in the face of Zora armor Link and replaced part of the face with that of Hero outfit Link, so that the black mask isn’t covering his mouth anymore!

And if you look carefully, you can also see that Toni added a little extra detail by cutting out little triangles from the top and bottom of the armor, to make it look even more “scale-like” like it does in the game.

With the edge colouring and these extra details, I think Toni can be really proud of the way his paper model turned out!

He also made a small slide show this time, so be sure to check it out on his YouTube channel!

06-11-2009: Here’s a new picture from Toni Müller! This time it’s young Link from Majora’s Mask!

22-07-2009: Toni Müller built this Zora armor Link in about 15 hours and although he said there were some parts that confused him a bit, I would never had guessed if he hadn’t told me, because that build already looked great as well!

Though being pulled from his comfy virtual world into the real world may sound exciting for an adventurer like Link, but it does require some adjusting…

Here, Toni tried to explain Link that rupees are no good in the real world and that you need coins!

Link looked a bit baffled, and although I don’t know the current exchange rate between rupees and Euros, it’s enough to make ZaL’s head explode! (amongst other things…)

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Zora armor Link by Andrew

23-08-2009: The picture of Zora armor Link that you can see above was sent to me by Andrew.

He’s a really big Zelda fan, as this picture proves: besides ZaL, he also built Ganondorf (that was the first one he made) young Link, Oni Link, the Clock Town Schnauzer and Epona.

He’s getting the hang of it more and more, so it’s nice to hear he’s having so much fun building them!

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Fierce Deity Link by Stacy

08-07-2009: Although Fierce Deity Link was one of the first models she downloaded, Stacy got so distracted with all kinds of other models that she only recently finished it!

In the end, it took her about a day to build. You can see one of Stacy’s other models in this picture, namely one of Kaizo’s Sephiroths. I had no idea it was so huge! But I don’t think Link is much impressed by its size… ;o)

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Zelda models by Eileena

04-07-2009: Eileena sends me this wonderful group shot of several of my Zelda models!

Of course you recognize young Link and princess Zelda, and adult Link and Epona, posing nicely for the picture.

I wonder what’s got the little Clock Town Schnauzer so interested though; maybe there’s some fish hidden in that Twilight Princess pot over there? ;o)

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Oni Link by vert092

07-06-2009: This time, I received a whole lot of pictures from vert092, and a lot of them weren’t even from one of my models! ;o)

You recognize my Oni Link of course, but vert092 also built Icthus7’s Sheik model and he tells me it’s about the same scale as my Oni Link. And here is a picture of Sheik admiring Oni Link’s double helix sword! ;o)

Two other models vert092 built are Ike (made by RedYoshi over here) and Lyn (made by Haywan Chiu from PaperCraft Museum) from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

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The legend of Zelda Cremia’s wagon

075013 Cremia’s wagon (May 23, 2009)
from: The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask video game / size: ± 38 cm x 16,5 cm x 22 cm

Download:
parts (3,06 MB PDF file)
instructions (1,38 MB PDF file)
mule (seperate model)

Pictures:
Google Photos

Clock Town Schnauzer by Jeroen

18-05-2009: Whew, I’m getting *a lot* of pictures from people for my hall of fame recently! (that’s not a complaint, by the way! ;o)

Jeroen from Rosmalen in the Netherlands is a big Zelda fan that has only just discovered papercraft, and he only built two simple models yet: one of them being my Clock Town Schnauzer!

The other one is “Nook’s Cranny”, the small shop from Animal Crossing (you can get it and several other Animal Crossing models from Nintendo Papercraft).

Both of them look great, and I hope he’ll have lots of fun building more paper models! ;o)

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The Legend of Zelda Romani Ranch mule

074012 Romani Ranch mule (May 13, 2009)
from: The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask video game / size: ± 17, 5 cm x 4 cm x 14 cm

Download:
parts (583 kB PDF file)
instructions (567 kB PDF file)

Pictures:
Google Photos

SSB:M Link by Abscissa

10-05-2009: I came across her Majora’s Mask, princess Zelda, and young Link on DeviantArt, but Abscissa now sent me a picture of the SSB:M Link she built as well!

SSB:M Link is definately one of my more difficult models, but I think she did a great job! She used regular paper, a pair of scissors, toothpicks and regular glue for her earlier models, but decided to try out cardstock and an X-Acto knife for this one.

Besides papercraft, Abscissa also loves origami and drawing. In her own words: “if I have paper, I’ll never be bored!” ;o)

Be sure to check out her DeviantArt gallery!

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Majora’s Mask young Link by Joseph Rosenbaum

06-05-2009: Since Young Link from Majora’s Mask, Joseph is already working on my papercraft version of Cloud, using the edge coloring technique I explained earlier in one of my YouTube video tutorials.

And he seems a pretty quick builder too, since he already finished Cloud’s legs as you can see here: picture

I guess he wasn’t kidding when he said “I just started papercrafting again” ! ;o)

04-05-2009: Joseph Rosenbaum actually built Link some time ago already, but he just started papercrafting again and he decided to sent me the picture now.

You can see the model he was working on behind Link, it’s the Tron light cycle from Jan Rükr’s ALIENS Papercraft site (in the bonus model section). Here’s a full picture: picture

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Majora’s Mask by Nick Parsons

03-05-2009: This Majora’s Mask is the first papercraft model that Nick ever built!

He had to use a glue that was “less sticky and firm” than what he would like to have used, but it is still a very good build I think!

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Clock Town Schnauzer by AvangerBTK

25-04-2009: When AvangerBTK found my paper models, he sent me a message saying he would send me a picture of the first one he would make.

And here it is! It’s the Clock Town Schnauzer from the Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask!

It took him about 2 hours to make, with regular printer paper. It turned out great I think, the picture almost makes me want to give it a dog biscuit… ;o)

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Fierce Deity Link by Andrew

24-02-2009: Andrew is just “your average person who loves papercraft”. It took him a whole to build this Oni Link, but I think that is just because he wanted to make it the best he could, because it looks really good!

He had a little trouble with the balance, but moving the sword around solved that problem he says. I’m not sure if that applies for this picture, though, my own build would tumble over if I would put the sword in that position! ;o)

Andrew’s DeviantArt gallery shows some of the other models he built: link. He has started building Kurt Zisa and with the head, he’s already past the hardest part! ;o)

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