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I'll try and re-upload all of the files with PDFs soon for anyone who doesn't have Pepakura

Tokyo Gold Artifact

Here's the Gold artifact from the Tokyo level of Tomb Raider: Legend. The model is a small gold Buddha. It looks great when done!

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~Sascha

Giant Mutant

This is actually one of my first models that I had completely forgotten about until now: The Giant Mutant. Those of you who played the first Tomb Raider recall this abomination as one of the final bosses in the game. This "thing" bursts forth out of an egg that had, until now, been incubating on the wall of the Atlantean pyramid and promptly sees fit to try and destroy you.



Like I said, this is one of my earlier models and I had a lot of trouble getting both arms to show up properly in the same .pdo, so I just moved them as picture files. It still works, if that's what you're wondering. And I know that the picture of the mutant has no hands, but they are also picture files in the .pdo. Just cut them out and add them. It looks great when it's done!

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~Sascha

Weapon Packs

So I am considering release zip files of all of the wepons from the Tomb Raider games and am wondering two things: 1) Would anyone want seperate models of each of the weapons? 2) How big would you want them? Let me know and I'll see what I can do!

~Sascha

Tokyo Laser Boulder

In Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara has to crash the party of the Yakuza gang boss, Takamoto. After making an explosive entrance, in typical lara fashion, she finds herself scaling the Tokyo skyline to get to Takamoto's floor where he wait with a piece of the Excalibur sword. Takamoto has rigged one of his hallways with a laser grid and machine-gun turret to stop any intruders. The truly daring can slip into a control room and expose the laser grid, and then flip and manuver their way throughh the grid without a scratch. The more straightforward approach is to just grab the large spherical statue of Takamoto's and let it take the heat from the machine gun.



I had no idea what to call this, but it reminded me of a boulder and you pushed it through lasers, so i called it the "laser boulder". The model is actually quite easy to assembly and looks very good when finished.

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~Sascha

Senet Pieces

Tomb Raider IV introduced Tomb Raider fans to the game of Senet, an ancient Egyptian board game. Soon after Lara entered the tomb of Semerkhet, she reached a balcony overlooking a giant gameboard and was greeted with the face of Semerkhet. In order to rpgress through the Tomb, lara had to beat Semerkhet in a game of Senet.

This section of the game was almost entirely won by luck. The rules of Senet were never explained in the game and most of the moved were determined by a random outcome of a set of 4 black and white tiles. The best strategy to beat Semekhet, for me at least, was to save the game file at the beginning and keep replaying until, by some chance, I won. Or you could always just do what this person did:



The pack includes Lara's pieces, Semerkhet's pieces, and the face of Semerkhet.

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~Sascha

Pictures!

hey guys, I know that a lot of you have downloaded some of my models and would love to see some finished pictures! I'll try and devote a section of the blog to it if I get enough, but it would just be great to see some others enjoy these! :) Thanks Everyone!

~Sascha

Bolivia Gold Artifact

Here is another one of the Gold Rewards from tomb Raider: Legend. It is from the first level, where Lara is called to Bolivia to explore some ancient runes. The craft is fairly easy to assemble.

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~Sascha

P.S.- sorry if this week is a little sparse with the updates. I'll try my best, but it will get better next week :)

Excalibur

This is without a doubt one of the largest models that I will be posting. i wanted my own life size (yes it's to scale) version of the Excalibur Sword from Tomb Raider: legend, and now I have one!

In Tomb Raider: legend, Lara is off in search of her mother, who disappeared through a portal in a Himalayan temple when lara was only six. The portal was activated when lara tapped a sword in a obelisk and Lara's mother pulled it out in a attempt to save her daughter from the familiar voice on the other side of the portal. As lara continues on her adventure to find out what happened to her mother, many years later, she discovers that in order to reactivate the portal and find out what might have happened to her mother, she has to find a means of activation: the sword. Since her mother took the only sword with her when she dissappeared, lara must reconstruct one of the copies of the sword, which has been shattered and distributed all over the world. Lara travels the world searching for the sword fragments, ultimately discovering that the sword in question which must be placed into an obelisk to reactivate the portal is that same sword from the King Arthur myth; excalibur. Lara finally retrieves all the frapgments and unites them with her mother's pendent, which turns out to be a key. Basically.

The model is 104.7 cm tall (to scale) and I was suprised and pleased with how brilliantly it turned out. I stuffed mine with tissue paper to prevent any sort of cave-ins, but you need to reinforce the handle if you want to wield it. I will probably coat mine in resin to harden it so it lasts longer. The model is tricky, but certainly doable. I really hope you guys like it!

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~Sascha

Young Lara's Journal

I was thrilled when I found the 3D model of this to make into papercraft. Tomb Raider: Legend opens with a flashback to Lara's childhood, where she and her mother are in a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains. Six-year-old Lara and her mother survived, and wandered into a nearby temple containing a chamber with an obelisk and 5 pillars, all inscribed with strange and ornate ruins. ever the explorer, Lara documented the chamber in her journal before activating the obelisk and activating a protal to the future, which her mother was caught in and sent to Avalon.



It may not be the same cannon, but by Croft lore, Lara wandered alone through the Himalayan mountains to a mountainside tavern, upon which she used a local phone to call her father and ask if it would be convenient for him to come and get her.

The model is small and tricky, but patience and some building background will ensure a great product. enjoy!

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~Sascha

Mansion Gold Artifact

Continuing with the rewards from the Tomb Raider series is the first of the artifacts from Tomb Raider: legend, the mansion gold artifact. Legend completely changed the artifact system in the Tomb Raider games, adding Bronze, Silver, and Gold artifacts in the level based on how hidden they were. Each level had its own different artifact, relating to the culture Lara was delving into at the time. In Croft manor, the artifacts were Croft family crests.

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~Sascha

Grapple Unit

One of the new additions to Lara's belt-arsenal after Crystal-Dynamics's takeover of the Tomb Raider franchise, Tomb Raider: Legend's grapple unit can now be yours! In Legend, Lara gets a new magnetic grapple, allowing her to swing just about anywhere. the model is to scale and easy to assemble. Enjoy!

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~Sascha

Flare

This is one of the simpler models. In Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara has a flashback to an excavation in Peru during her school years. Rather than use her new should-mounted Personal Light Source, as she had been using throughout most of the game, the younger Lara threw old-school tomb Raider fans a bone and used flares to light the way through the excavation site.

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~Sascha

Ankh

Another model from Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation, the ankh is one of Lara's more fleeting artifacts, as it ultimately leads to her near-demise, so to speak without spoiling anything.

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~Sascha

Golden Skull

This is the skull reward from Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation. The game opens with Lara as a sixteen year-old, on an expedition with mentor Werner Von Croy. The Level, set in Angkor Wat, acts as a training level for Lara, showing the player the ropes as well as giving a little more insight into Lara's history. Scattered throughout the level, in traditional Tomb Raider fashion, were well-hidden rewards, offering the oh-so-sought-after little chime when discovered. The rewards in Angkor Wat were these skulls.
I know that it looks like the model has some white lines, but the finished model doesn't show them at all.

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~Sascha

Mutant Natla

Another one of the models I really enjoyed making was Mutant Natla from Tomb Raider 1. Jacqueline Natla approaches Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 1, tempting her with the mythical scion of Atlantis. Not to spoil anything, but let's just say that Natla had some other plans in mind and saw it proper to do away with Lara Croft in the final boss battle.



Natla makes another appearance in Tomb Raider: Underworl and was one of Lara's first adversaries. The model may need some weighted feet to keep it upright, but it looks great when assembled.

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~Sascha

Midas Lara

We now move into the era of the better models with the Midas Model of Lara Croft. In the original Tomb Raider, lara had to collect a series of lead bars and take them to Midas's broken statue to turn them to gold, making them keys to a nearby door. Particularly adventurous gamer found that placing Lara on top of the king's severed hand slowly turned the trigger-happy archeologist into a golden relic, much to her own horror.



I tried to capture the same animation used in the game and personally think that it's pretty accurate. This is one of my personal favorites.

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~Sascha

Large Medipack

When making this, I had intended to build an arsenal of accessories for the plain Tomb Raider 1 model, but then i learned of other far more interesting prospects and scuttled off to work on my papercrafting ambitions. let me clarify, I called this the small medipack in the file because of it's size when built. Yes, I understand this is the bigger one, hopefully I will make a smaller one as well.

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~Sascha

Tomb Raider 1 Lara

This model may still only exist in the instruction-less realm of the PDF, but I really think it's good. Lara strikes no poses or anything like that, but it was a sort of summation of Tomb Raider 1 in a papercraft. I included all of her weapons and two separate bases to put her on per the preference of the builder. I may make more of her from Tomb Raider 1, or I may use this style for some of her other games. Please make sure to leave comments to let me know what you guys think. Look at how I ramble on, assuming people read my blog, oh sascha you idealistic fool :)

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~Sascha

Zero Punctuation Papercraft

Yes, I understand that this doesn't pertain to Tomb Raider even remotely (although Yahtzee did review some of her games) but I made it around the time and I like the idea of taking a pleasant trip down memory lane, flooding the internet with my fledgling models before getting to the good stuff. If nothing else, I'm proud of the fact that I did this freehand, calculating the circumference of a stick figure...thanks high-school geometry.

Here's a sample of Yahtzee's work with his review of Tomb Raider: Anniversary, you may not agree with what he says, but it's undeniably funny:)


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~Sascha

Dagger of Xian

Continuing with my progression into the field of papercraft design, I'm posting my second ever papercraft from about a half a year ago. It's a life-size-ish model of the Dagger of Xian from Tomb Raider 2, appropriately subtitled "Dagger of Xian" Reiteration: This is one of my first papercrafts, it's buildable, but lacks instructions or pdos, but it's simple

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~Sascha

Lara Croft Head

Considering that this is my first post, i found it appropriate to post my first model, even though it's god-awful. Yes, i am using my blog as an electronic memento bookshelf, what of it? anyways, this model is very simple and for those obsessive Tomb Raider fans that just so happen to have a use for the head of Lara Croft.

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~Sascha

Intro and all that fun stuff...

Hey Guys! I'm Sascha and welcome to my blog! I specialize in Tomb Raider Papercrafts, but make other crafts as well. I build models just as much as I design, but I;m still pretty new at the design part :) I'll try to update the blog as soon as possible with new models and hope you guys like them!
~Sascha