TRIPLE-D, FUCK YEAH

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That's amazing!

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You just made my day. King Dedede is simply pwnage.

Posted it on NP as well ^^

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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.

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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