Papercraft Final Object
Snowmobile Version 2
I redesigned the headlights and handlebars so they were more realistic and were more functional, capturing that angular look. I also remade the entire back end so that it was more lifted and angular, rather than just sitting flat with no running boards. The entire lower front end was changed to actually resemble a-arms, shocks, and the pointed nose for cutting through snow. That also allowed me to turn the skies (which was suggested in the meeting) so they didn't look like skate blades. I also purposely left the skis with the long tabs so that I could roll them overtop of each other to further improve the design.
Then came time to unfold this ridiculously complicated design. In order to get the scale I wanted ad actually have it be foldable I actually had to split the snowmobile up into 9 parts on 3 separate pages. The most difficult part was definitely the front end, with the incredibly complicated skid plate and a-arms, it was incredibly hard to unfold without overlapping each other.
The folding and glueing was even harder than the unfolding, after creating way too many tabs I cut and scored everything. This whole process took all day and needed to be exact, which was unfortunate because I only realized I hand folded the front end inside out after I was finished. Overall the final product still looked great.
I ended up adding in a couple of small details in post like the speedometer and tail lights. I could have spent weeks on this and still added more details. Even with the inside out front end and the small amount of glue stuck to the handlebars I think this design was an incredible feat and I'm very proud of my work.
The first snowmobile design was fairly simple and easy to build, and ended up look fairly nice once it had been completed. However for this second design I wanted to kick it up a notch. So I moved from the simplistic design of the first one to a better, much more complicated version.
This time I used many reference photos, drew from personal memory, and redesigned the snowmobile to resemble the newer, taller, almost bike like models from the more recent years rather than the small short and simple models of the past.
I redesigned the headlights and handlebars so they were more realistic and were more functional, capturing that angular look. I also remade the entire back end so that it was more lifted and angular, rather than just sitting flat with no running boards. The entire lower front end was changed to actually resemble a-arms, shocks, and the pointed nose for cutting through snow. That also allowed me to turn the skies (which was suggested in the meeting) so they didn't look like skate blades. I also purposely left the skis with the long tabs so that I could roll them overtop of each other to further improve the design.
Then came time to unfold this ridiculously complicated design. In order to get the scale I wanted ad actually have it be foldable I actually had to split the snowmobile up into 9 parts on 3 separate pages. The most difficult part was definitely the front end, with the incredibly complicated skid plate and a-arms, it was incredibly hard to unfold without overlapping each other.
The folding and glueing was even harder than the unfolding, after creating way too many tabs I cut and scored everything. This whole process took all day and needed to be exact, which was unfortunate because I only realized I hand folded the front end inside out after I was finished. Overall the final product still looked great.
I ended up adding in a couple of small details in post like the speedometer and tail lights. I could have spent weeks on this and still added more details. Even with the inside out front end and the small amount of glue stuck to the handlebars I think this design was an incredible feat and I'm very proud of my work.
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