https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Estelle-(Trails-in-the-Sky)-papercraft-1351140044
And now that the game is finally OUT and ready to play, you can also view the assembly preview and tips.
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ASSEMBLY TIPS:
With any of my papercrafts, you can divide the assembly into separate parts: the head with the front hair, the 2 hair tails, the 2 arms, the upper torso with the red dress, the jacket, the butt with the legs and the shoes, the 3D staff and the 3D stand.
If we start with the head, you assemble the face and neck first. Then you glue on the front hair, and lastly close it with the back hair. With this, your head has 2 holes for the tails left. You make the 2 tails separately and put in paper tubes you make from excess paper (so the tubes stick half-way out of the papercraft tails) and set them aside for later. At this point, you can also glue on the 2D ears and additional hair strains.
Next, you can separately build the 2 arms, with either the 2D or 3D hands (*Note that I did the preview pics with the 2D version of the hands). When you got those, set them aside and start gluing together the upper torso and the dress. Now that you have the torso, glue the neck part inside and start making the jacket separately.
Set this aside again and make the butt with the legs and shoes. You do this part by assembling the legs from bottom to top and finish with the buttocks part. This means, build the shoes first, glue the leg from there upwards till you come to the butt. If you want her to stand nicely, *pro tip: best put some weights inside the legs before gluing it together (I always use small pebbles I throw inside the legs before I close the whole craft).
Once all of these parts are made, you can start putting it together to set the right pose and angle for the stand pose. Glue the jacket on the torso first, then glue the arms inside the jacket sleeves at the right angle, next glue the flaps that are left on the belt part of the buttocks. Glue those inside the dress, making sure to glue them at the right angle, so the figure can stand comfortably.
Lastly, you glue the 2 hair tails inside the head at the right angle, making sure you put glue not only on the flaps of the tails, but also the roll of paper you put inside for extra reinforcement, so they don’t snap off. Aditionally to this, you can also put inside wire in the hair tails to make them stay glued on.
All that is left is to make the 3D stand and the 3D staff. To make her really stand hand hold the position I made, you need to put wire inside the stand and her leg as well, so it holds firmly and she doesn’t snap away. Make a hole in the stand for the left leg and in the shoes, so you can pull the wire in there and make it nice and long, so it can hold the whole body in that pose. When this is fixed and done, you can also glue her staff inside the hand and a bit on her hair tail to make it hold. You can now also put on the belt with the apron and purse and add the hair pins and details, if you didn’t add them before.
*Note: Because I am always in a hurry with these assemblies, the preview was made with 2D hand options (3D hands are also included in the files) and with no inside colors for the hair tails (the files include optional 2-sided print pages for the inner hair tails, so it looks better).
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So, did you already play the game? Is it fun? Damn, I love the Trails franchise, the games are always awesome and I love story-driven games so much as well! I hope you are having as much fun with the game as with papercrafting XD
Enjoy and happy crafting~
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