Zelda King of Red Lions

This is a gift for my mate because I wanted to do some art for him, considering how much art he did for me. We both played the re-release game on Nintendo Wii U together and I thought the "talking lion boat" was quite unique.

Btw the model size is 50 x 60 x 15 cm, which is really big! So if you plan on building this guy, better make sure you have some space to put him.

This model really tested my patience with papercrafting. It took me 26 hours to do just the neck and head, which you can see have a lot of small polygons, inverted folds and complex shapes.
The rest of the model took 24 hours to complete and I had quite some problems with the main hull at the beginning because of the inner supports. Later the sail was also annoying at some points, because due to the center of mass, it kept shifting to the back. Those who built it will notice that I added one support piece to hold the sail, but it's still kinda crooked. It's also shifting forward because the sail is not straight paper.

Lastly, a big thank you to for designing him. After quite the hard time building the model, it was really worth it in the end.

Total time required: 50 hours
You can find the model on the Ninjatoes' website: ninjatoes.wordpress.com/2006/0…