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Published: 2009-01-01 20:11:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 15264; Favourites: 199; Downloads: 703
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Done! Took a bit longer than originally expected, but that was mostly due to my screw up on the feet and the subsequent procrastination involved in fixing them... let's just say that every thing's labeled for a reason.Anyway, this is a model of King DeDeDe, for those who don't recognize him. He is the main enemy to Kirby, in the video game series of the same name. Check out the wiki article linked here for more info.
The final build comes out to be about 6" tall (~15cm) and about 5.5" wide (~14cm). The model is actually not bad, it only would have taken me a night to do had I not gotten the feet backwards and destroyed one trying to rip them off to switch 'em...
Anyway, get to building!
> PDF of Pieces
> PDO of Pieces (PePaKuRa file)
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-=. . .Piece . . Not. . .Getting. . . . . . . .Holy. . -=
=- . .o' Cake . .Bad. . . There. . . Gahh. . .Crap!. .=-
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Have you built this or one of my other models? Feel free to let me know how hard you thought they were!
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It actually makes sense for edges to be sharp because of the polygons in Kirby and the crystal shards.
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King Dedede: Hehehehehehe look at me in a Nintendo 64 version
Escargoon: Do you like it Sirior?
King Dedede: of course I like it
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WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW thats so awesome!!!!!!!!
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Except dedede isn't dead
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It is a great King Dedede but the top of the hat is very hard to figure out
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There aren't any written instructions for it, but the PePaKuRa model file (PDO) is included (see the description of the 'Assembled' deviation). Read the "PePaKuRa" section of this to see how to use it: [link]
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impressive can you also do lessons on how to do this as well? cus i think most us here would love to see that.
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Mmm, probably not?
I did write a intro to modeling guide that answers a lot of basic questions though: [link]
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how do i put the bottom part ?
(the one white on the out side blue in the middle)
i cant seem to fit it
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Use the pepakura model file (PDO) (see the description). Read the pepakura section of this to see how to use it:
[link]
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i just knocked myself back to my senses and tryed the pdo, i saw everything i needed, but after 30 miniuts of cutting out the robe, someone threw it with the garbage
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Ahhhh sucks. Yea, I had a few of my models trampled by my dog a few year ago, that really sucked
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I printed and cut out this model the other day and just finished making the body. I have some concerns and recommendations.
Number 1 would be that that the fold markings were too light. They didn't even show up on the red or blue when printed and were very difficult to distinguish on the yellow. I had to zoom in 2 or 3 times in Adobe to distinguish many of these. In addition, I felt like quite a few fold lines along the tabs were missing completely (or were too light to show up?). When I tried to glue the tab onto another piece it became clear that I was missing a fold there.
Another problematic feature of this model was the alternating tabs on the pieces. On the previous models I have made, there are tabs along one side of a piece, and then there are no tabs on the side of the piece it attaches to. Here, there is an alternating sequence of tabs and tabless spaces. I assume this was done to improve stability, or something? I'm not sure WHY it was done, but I felt like it just made the construction process more difficult. It might be that the lack of fold lines along the tabs where there should have been might have been what made this a problem.
All in all, I felt this was just a very stressful model to make. It's not necessarily difficult to put together, but there was just something between the print out to the construction that did not translate well, whether it was the 'missing' fold lines or the alternating tabs, I'm not sure, but my model turned out to be a bit of a mess.
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Wow... you really thought this through... well, lets see.
I prefer to leave fold lines light enough to barely show up when printed (to make a nice clean build), but still somewhat visible in the file. Yes, they did come out a bit light in this one, but to be fair I did include the PDO file.
I use alternating tabs because it helps align the edges better. One thing I've noticed is that when you have all tabs on one face, one side usually ends up short, which makes for a sloppy model. You're also more likely to have larger gaps of each tab showing where they were misaligned. It does make it a bit more work, but it pays off in the long run.
I might be a bit biased, but I didn't think this was that bad of a model. Maybe you wouldn't have had so much trouble if you had been able to make all the folds correctly before starting to assemble them (I know it's a pain to miss a face and have to fold it after its half glued together, but what can you do), but maybe the robe's white edge was just a difficult piece. Glad to hear you were able to complete it, if nothing else.
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the robes white edge does look extremly hard.. i was thinking.. maybe with that, if you coloured it, but then folded it so the colour would be on the inside?
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sorry... i don't understand what you're asking
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its kinda hard to see it in the file as it is... but if you like.. flipped it over, coloured it with something, thus be able to see the folds and tabs better fold what was originaly downward, to upward.. i think im no good at explaining.. >.< umm.. invert the shape of the white robe thing.. then make the lines a bit darker.. and invert them so what used to be folded up goes down etc, so when you put it together.. its the non-printed side of the paper that shows up when fully built?
*hopes it makes some kind of sense*
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If I'm understanding you correctly, you're having difficulty seeing the cut lines since the piece is all white, so you want to color it, cut it out, then use the reverse side as the "outer face" since it's white.
Unfortunately, it is not a symmetrical piece, so what you'd need to do is mirror it before you color it. Make sure you do the opposite of all the indicated folds (mountains become valleys, and vice versa)
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yay, my gibberish makes sense!
but, yeah, that's what i was getting at
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You just made my day. King Dedede is simply pwnage.
Posted it on NP as well ^^
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