Giant Mutant Egg

Next up from Tomb Raider 1 is the Giant Mutant Egg from the Atlantis portion of Tomb Raider. After Jacqueline Natla acquired all 3 pieces of the Scion, she returns to the Atlantean pyramid to activate the scion and bring about the "seventh age." As Lara shoots the scion, Natla dives at her, sending them both falling to the pits of lava below, but Lara managed to catch a ledge at the last second. Just as it seems that Lara is in the clear, a countdown begins and reaches zero, upon which the giant sphere above Lara bursts and the Giant Mutant emerges.



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~Sascha

Triumphant Return

Yes!! I finally have my camera back and can start building models again (I needed to the camera to take pictures for instructions as I went:) I've already begun work on a new project, but thought I'd update on behalf of the poster front. Glad to be back!

Progress

I know, I know, I haven't' posted in while. I lost my camera, so i can't make instructions, but that doesn't mean I haven't been working on things! I've been replaying older games to get new ideas for models. I just finished Tomb Raider 1's Gold levels, and am currently working on Tomb Raider 2 and it's Gold levels and have come up with plenty of ideas :) I've also made significant headway with my posters, though I do miss my papercrafting. Hopefully, i;ll have my camera back soon, but here are some screen grabs of what I'm up to (series veterans ought to recognize these) :)

The Plight of Mountain-Dwelling Explorers

Anyone who's played a Tomb Raider game recognized the sound of a boulder chasing after them and knows that fast thinking is the only thing to save you now. Not only do these boulder crush you if you get anywhere near them, but they roll considerably faster than you do. Luckily, this boulder isn't going anywhere.

In Tomb Raider 2, Lara pilots a plane in an escape from Marco Bartolli's offshore oil rig to the mountains of Tibet, where her aircraft experiences engine failure and crashes in the mountains. Ever the action hero, Lara grabs a parachute and yanks herself out of the plane before it detonates, leaving her stranded in the mountains. Lara's trek leads her through the mountains, and one step closer to stopping Bartolli and getting the Dagger of Xian.

In fulfilling my obligated "at least one Lara per month" quota, I decided to make a diorama. I always liked this level of Tomb Raider 2, and thought that the boulder and spike traps combined would add a needed sense of excitement. Note that the model is pretty small and is really not for beginners :( If people have problems, I'll resize it for everyone, but note that it is doable!

And now for something completely different.


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~Sascha

Gaining Perspective

So this small poster update serves two purposes; 1- It's a fantastic opportunity to use my public blog to show off something that the public has no interest in :) 2- Give everyone a hint to the project I'm finishing, which considerably more people are interested in. Should be up in a day or two!

~Sascha

Red Raptor

Now that Ninjatoes has released his T-rex model, I can can release my red Raptor model from Tomb Raider 3! (It made sense to relase them in tandem:)

Lara first encountered the raptors in Peru in Tomb Raider 1. After venturing into the Lost Vally, Lara was surrounded by Velociraptors, soon followed by a T-rex



In Tomb Raider 3, Lara again encounters the deadly dinosaurs in the South Pacific, hunting the mercenaries around a plane crash.



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~Sascha

Triangle of Light

Here's another quick model while I continue work on my next project (which is red and sharp :): The Triangle of Light from the first Tomb Raider movie. After finding a mysterious ticking clock hidden in her house by her late father, Lara is sped into a race against the Illuminati cult to retrieve the two halves of the Triangle of Light, which is rumored to have been forged thousands of years ago from a meteor that struck earth and gave it's wielder untold power.



It's a fairly simply model and shouldn't take long. Enjoy!

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to see the world in a grain of sand...
~Sascha

The Last Piece of the Puzzle

I have finished the mural! Now that I'm done with that (done in a sense, I'm not done making my posters :), I can get back on track with the papercraft projects in my WIP folder, which, might I add, literally has over 100 files in it :D. I'm working on quite a few Lara's, as well as another special model. I've also recently come into some nice Metroid Prime models and do believe I'll work on making some of those in papercraft as well. More soon!

~Sascha

1 + 1 = Update!

So I have a mural update as well as a minor papercraft update. Here's the flare model from Tomb Raiders IV-V:

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...as well as the TRAOD cover!


I'm still working on a few TR models, as well as a few models from four or five other games. More soon!

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~Sascha

Progress...

...is being made on the mural front, I'm currently working between releasing a model, building a model, build Ninjatoes's fantastic EDS model, and working on the TRAOD cover.

More soon!
~Sascha

Ooh, Pretty Colors...

So I suppose I should explain why I haven't released anything new...becasue I am obligated to explain my movements to the anonymous masses that read my blog. So I was staring at the wall the other day and realized that it needed some sort of poster or picture. Unfortunately, I have no posters or pictures to pin up on my wall, which brought about the idea of making my own! I couldn't really think of what to make into a poster, until I looked down at my television, running Tomb Raider: Underworld, and decided that to make some Tomb Raider posters. This started a project I've been working on, creating a mural of the box art from the eight released Tomb Raider games, plus a little extra. So far I'v completed Tomb Raider I-IV, and am still going strong with my colored pencils and staying inside the lines.

I tried to make a papercraft model, but my dog ate it, so I took that as a sign.

I realize that this blog has somewhat spun out of my hands and into a portal from Tomb Raider and papercraft fans alike, but if I can get away with posting about chocolate bars and keys, then I think some Tomb Raider fan art will pass :) Hopefully new crafts coming soon!

Here's what I have so far, just for kicks:






Hooray for shameless self promotion!
~Sascha

England Gold Artifact

Here's another quick update: the gold artifact from England. As Lara's exploration into the true Excalibur myth progresses, she must break into a run-down side-show-esque King Arthur museum in England. Deep below the museum lies the true grave of the legendary King Arthur, and another piece of Excalibur. These ancient crosses are scattered throughout the ruins.
I've already begun work on a lot of the suggestions from the ShoutBox, so stay tuned!

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~Sascha

Skull Key

Here's a quick update while I finish up a few models: the Skull Key. In Tomb Raider 3, Lara travels to the South Pacific where she finds a small Skull key, allowing her further access through the dense tropical jungle and deeper through her jounrey towards the Ora Dagger.

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~Sascha

Lara Stealth

FINALLY, I am able to release the stealthy Angel of Darkness Lara. As Lara's investigation into the death of her mentor, Werner Von Croy, develops, she must break into the Louvre in order to infiltrate the tombs underneath the public galleries. Starting off in the sewers, Lara advances into the public galleries and has to deal with the night guards without raising suspicion. Lara must use her new sneak technique to creep through the galleries, taking out guards and slipping past security cameras to unlock the secrets beneath.

This is easily my biggest model yet. First and foremost, note the eye in the picture. It is NOT a proper representation of the finished product. Not only have I fixed the eye in the actual template, but I used the wrong paper in developement and my superglue spilled all of the face dugin construction. still looks good though :) the model took me about a week, hence the lack of recent posting. That, plus...

POSSIBLE TOMB RAIDER IX INFO LEAKED! On saturday afternoon, possible concept art of the next Tomb Raider game was released. While Eidos hasn't yet confirmed or denied this concept art as legitimate, they have issued stern orders to take down the pictures, hinting at the art's legitimacy. I'm thrilled and you should be too ^_^. Check it out over at Tomb Raider Forums

I think that I'll start production of the models you've requested in my shoutbox now, so expect new surpirses soon!

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Enoy!
~Sascha

Dioramas!

Elso from over at Elsocraft has combined Saschacraft and Ninjatoes Tomb Raider models to make a truly creative diorama! This is really fantastic and creative use of exsisting models to make something completely new (Is that dead Lara swimming?!) This is really neat, as well as appreciated! Thanks again Elso! (He has step-by-step instructions to the diorama's recreation here)

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~Sascha

Amanda's Shoe

So in the process of fixing up my blog and making sure that everything looks as neat and proper as possible, a lot a feedback is required. This is one of my earlier models I;m releasing with picture instructions and a logo on the template. Let me know what you guys think! (Also, the picture quality will be improving :)

When Lara was 16, she embarked on a school trip to a excavation site in Peru with her classmates. during the excavation, an unknown entity ambushes Lara and her fellow students inside the caves of the excavation site, leaving only Lara and her friend, Amanda Evert, to escape.



Years later, Lara travels to Bolivia to examine a stone dais resembling one from her past, where she catches a glimpse of a woman bearing striking resemblance to her presumably lost friend. Returning to Peru many years later, she revisits the excavation site and the last known location of Amanda, to find a single shoe where her body should have been.



Don't forget to comment so I can start building my next big project :)

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~Sashca

Chocolate Bar

Here's a quick model to keep updates flowing while I'm working on my next big project, and I mean it's a very quick model...it's 2 pieces.

Considered the low point of the Tomb Raider series, Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness almost killed off the Tomb Raider franchise with its record-low sales figures and complaints of bugs, awkward controls, and the infamous Kurtis Trent, but all of that is for another post. Despite the low critic scores, the game holds a strong fanbase and I personally didn't find it TOO bad :)

I was always puzzled by the chocolate bar. Angel of Darkness added a new health option to the large and small health pack system with the chocolate bar, providing easy access to small health boosts over the paris portion of AOD. I never quite understood chocolate's amazing ability to heal bullet-wounds, but hey, weirder stuff has happened in this game.

PS- Special thanks to Toxicraider over at Tomb Raider Forums for all of the help extracted all of the AOD models :D

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~Sascha

Ninjatoes

So I am sure that all of you savy papercraft-ers are familiar with Ninjatoes, the modeler of the Legend Lara, Lara on her ATV, and MANY others. He is now working on the Extreme Depth Suit from Tomb Raider: Chronicles and if you like ANY of the things here, then you will go nuts for the quality and quantity of ninjatoes's work.

Not only is he a fantastic model designer, but I owe him everything I've done papercraft-wise so far. He put up with my total lack of modeling knowledge and gave me everything I needed to start my own stuff and deserves all of the thanks for how I got where I am today. His work is well known for its buildability, its clear and helpful instructions, and its fantastic final result. He was and is a big inspiration for doing my own stuff, and if you haven't checked him out yet, then what are you waiting for?! GO!

Ninjatoes

Here's some of his PHENOMINAL work





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~Saschacraft

Dead Lara

So I was browsing through the object files of the first tomb Raider game, looking for interesting things to bring to life in paper when I stumbled upon a Lara Croft torn to shreds complete with a dying animation. It seems that some of Lara's unfortunate demises in the first Tomb Raider were so great that the warranted their own model of a bloody and beating Lara Croft. While I'm not entirely sure where this animation/model came into play in the Tomb Raider game, it's certainly significant considering the ENDLESS number of times that videogames' favorite heroine has died on screen.





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~Sascha

Dart Tribesman

Finally I am able to release a model from the third Tomb Raider: The Dart Tribesman. As Lara explores the South Pacific, searching for the Ora Dagger, she encounters native tribesman in teh Coastal Village. The Dart Tribesman, one of the two types encountered along with the Axe Tribesman, fires poison darts at Lara, forcing her to use a medipack, unless of course she wants to die. The Tribesman are easily visible when lara crosses into their village here:



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~Sascha

Panther

Next up is the Panther from the first Tomb Raider in the Greece levels. The panther continued appearing in later titles, including Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Apologies for the time is took to finish this, it has been a bit crazy on my end and I really appreciate you patience and loyalty! You guys are the best!

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~Sascha

Peru Gold Artifact

Here's a quick release to tide everyone over while I continue work on my extractions from Angel of Darkness (yes, Kurtis too) and Legend. I'll be posting some models to vote on later, but I'll try to keep models flowing as much as possible :)

So here's the Gold Artifact from Tomb Raider: Legend's Peru level. Lara receives a telephone call from an old friend, Anaya Imanu, informing Lara of a stone dais she found in Tiwanaku. After Lara explores the site for herself, with some objection by the "local" mercenaries", Lara meets Anaya in a small town square in Paraiso, Peru, where she is ambushed and must fight her way out of the town and escape on motorcycle. Lara meets up with Anaya at an old dig site from Lara's school days, and Lara must re-explore her past.

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An animal is next!

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~Sascha :D

Seraph (Gold Angel)

Here's the Seraph artifact from Tomb Raider 2's Maria Doria Level. Lara takes a minisub to the ship wrekc on the bottom of the ocean floor and finds the Seraph deep within. After escaping the wreck, Lara's unfortunate plane crash lands her deep in the Tibetan foothills where she uncovers a hidden temple and a monastery. In the temple, she uses the Seraph and progresses towards the dagger. Also, I know the image shows gray wings, but they're really gold. Pepakura Designer refused to show them in the image.

Thanks to paperkraft.net for correcting the name for me :)

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~Sascha