Paper Craft Chimera
A Warhammer 40K club at school has inspired me to get modelling again. My ragtag scavenger army for battling my brother will now grow to include some militia in the style of the Imperial Guard. I was given some Tempestus Scions for Christmas, and they are works of art. I'm going to love building and painting them. However, Imperial Guard rely heavily on vehicles and I resent paying huge moneys for ancient models (looking at you, Chimera). So I started to explore making my own Chimera-like APC. I made very low-poly models of each of the main parts (tracks, hull, turret) in Blender , then marked the seams and used UV Unwrap to make the net. Exporting that as a .png meant I could print it out. Except...it'd all be the wrong size. So I imported the UV layout .png into Inkscape and scaled it. I made a rectangle of a known dimension (e.g. 100mm long for the base of the hull), and scaled the imported png to match. Then I could print it the correct size! Except...In