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Prototype of Paper-craft Object

For my paper-craft object, I decided to recreate a Lego set that combines two significant parts of my childhood memories. The first part of that being Lego, which can take partial credit for my passion for 3D object design. The second part being Harry Potter, a book and movie series I used to be totally obsessed with, and that still hold a very high spot on my best books of all-time list. The Lego set of the entrance to Hogwarts I am recreating was a lot of fun to build the first time, so I decided to take another go at it almost ten years later. Just this time making it out of paper. Here are the results:

First I created the model in Rhino and unfolded all of its parts. When creating it I simplified the towers to be copies of each other, this way I could focus on details more, and the left tower in the actual Lego set has a balcony on the second floor, which wouldn't hold up the roof very well.




After printing off all of the pieces of my model I assembled it and through that noticed any issues that weren't apparent in the modelling software. The main thing that was an issue was the stairs, I thought I would have needed to extend the last piece of the stairs since I was folding them so many times, but they actually go out too far. That was surprising. I also noticed that the tabs going onto the walls of the inside of the tower looked quite ugly. Attaching them to underneath the floor and ceiling will keep them concealed next time. Lastly, though this model is almost actual size (see in side-by-side photo with real object) the tiny pieces of the roof are way too small for me to actually fold them properly. Here is one tower and the bridge created with card stock paper (since the towers were identical I just made one, it was still five pieces of paper though):




Here is the paper model next to the real Lego Hogwarts Tower.








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