GOLBEZ

Get him here

Here's Golbez for you all.

Its a pretty straight forward build, as usual refer to the PDO if in doubt.  Beware though he uses up a lot of black ink! Especially if you're considering his alternate costume. Either way he's 65 pages of dark colors.

Enjoy

GOLBEZ Progress

I've completed the non-caped part of Golbez, I have to re-arrange the cape to fit on paper.  What i've noticed is that these large caped figures can get kinda "heavy" and hard to work with if you use cardstock for the cape.  I've been using regular paper for the capes.  So in my Exodus (that's for you Kaizo) and this Golbez model I put the majority of the cape peices on sheets with nothing else on them.  In this case, Golbez has large pauldrons, which I'll make out of cardstock, but that is all that will be on those pages, the rest of the cape layout will be printed on regular xerox paper.  I'll get it done maybe next week.

GOLBEZ Progress

24 January 2011
I've defeated Golbez, but alas he is still after the crystal...

I've been a bit busy, but I've still been trying to work on Golbez.  So far he's a pretty straightforward build.  Here is what he looks like as of tonight.

I hope to have him done by the end of January maybe.  I've been taking plenty of pictures, so hopefully I'll be able to provide better instructions upon completion.  I think I'll have to redo the layout for the cape.  Previously the cape just barely fit onto all the pages I had set up, however I had forgotten to check the page size, as a default Pepakura was on a style of paper that I don't use.  But there is a potential "problem" with Golbez' cape.  It involves the horns on his shoulder, I'm afraid that these horns are just going to have to be attached onto the cape, rather than built into the cape if that makes sense.
   I don't want to have to edit the model in sketchup and then redo the entire layout.  It's not being lazy, its just there are more models that I'd like to work on.  And depending on how bad it looks I might have to release the cape in a separate PDO.  I don't like the idea of doing that and I think I'd only resort to that if the cape ended up looking absolutely terrible.

GOLBEZ: the layout

Whew so worked a good bit on the Golbez layout. Overall he was a pretty good model, either that or a combination of not so many intersecting polygons and working with Exdeath and Bartz have paid off. In the end I present a 63 page layout that is ready for a test build.  I kinda cramped some of the pieces in there, but there shouldn't be any overlaps or margin issues.  As far as the cape goes, I didn't lay it out as nicely as I could, but in an effort to efficiently utilize paper I positioned them as such.  The cape is still laid out sequentially  inside first then outside.  Builders should be able to look at the PDO and figure it out.

I don't know if I'll be doing any more layouts for a while, I only loaded some files onto my laptop before I left, and the only other models I have with me are Chaos and Kefka, but I believe Zinarei wants to do Kefka.

GOLBEZ: A question about size

I was working with Golbez today and got him all good and brought into Pepakura, and I unfolded him at 1.5  I had to check to see if this was correct, because it says he's 72.4 cm tall.

That is one huge foot! His shoe takes up the entire page.  I'm wondering if this in fact the right size, and if I should scale him down some.  Due to his size and the fact that he has a long cape, this is going to span many pages of paper.