Guerra Mundial

Hey there! Welcome to my guide to building Halo’s Master Chief. Not to scare any perspective builders off, but this one is quite tricky at parts, but overall shouldn’t be too-too bad. It’s definitely not for new-comers though. One note before you really get into this model: there are a lot of small pieces and fine cuts involved in making this model. In order for the separate parts to cometogether nicely, take your time. There’s no rush here at all. Don’t forget to take a breather once in a while to give your hands (and eyes) a break. Also, when you’re doing some of the pieces with a lot of completely black faces, you can use a black sharpie to touch up the sides where the white tabs are visible. Don’t over do it, only for touch-ups. I've also included the original model cutout file withthe parts, trust me, you’ll need it. To use it, you’ll need a program called PePaKuRa Viewer (click to download). < = Let’s start off with parts 1-4 on the first page. These will make the glass visor that covers his face, so after printing them out, cut them and use the actual file to see where the fold lines are (for most of this model, I've kept them fairly light, this way your model will lookcleaner. The pieces themselves attach to each other just as they are lined up in the original image = = = > Leave it aside for now, it’s the last piece we’ll attach to the head. Piece 5 will form his “cheeks”, “mouth”, the black top visor, and the area that will support the glass visor (pieces 1-4). Cut out and assemble the adjacent edges as shown below. The only things that actually attach hereare the two ‘box-like’ sections on each side: NOTE: Make sure you do NOT assemble the black parts at the top (bottom in this picture) of this piece; they will later form the upper black visor and are best left till later to close. Piece 6 will attach to the bottom of piece 5. However, before attaching 6 to 5, we want to glue 7 & 8 to 6. Piece 6 itself only has two adjacent connecting faces:

Afterthat’s taken care of, the two large flaps on pieces 7 and 8 will attach to the inside of 6, like so = = >

< = Ok, to connect the assembled pieces 6, 7, & 8 to piece 5, were going to start with the large black face at the top center of piece 6. Everything else from there on is just in a straight path. Don’t get me wrong though, the tabs are tiny and tightly packed. From here, you’d think wewould complete the head first, then attach the glass face visor, but well do just the opposite! We want to attach the bottom of the visor to the helmet while we can still hold the visor by both sides (front and back). To attach it, start with the top back corners of each side, dabbing glue on the first six tabs (6 per side), one side at a time. Then glue the remaining 4 tabs on the bottom center.(Sorry! Picture came out unusable) Don’t glue the top closed! Piece 9 is largely the top of his head, and slightly the back. Cut out and assemble = = = > < = The easiest way to attach this piece to the rest of the head is via the small black section at the top center of piece 9. use the two center tabs to attach to the top front of the head. Next, attach the two adjacent tabs (still working off ofthe same black faces) to the inside of the top black visor. Now, we can start closing the visor. Work your way around from the inside until you’ve completely closed this section. Once that’s done, finish up the sides and back of the head, connecting all the faces: Finally, we can glue the top A little lopsided, but what do you expect? of the head to the glass visor: It’s paper. Ok! One more pieceand we can call the head done. Piece 10 will form the bottom of the chief’s head/neck. This is probably one of the hardest pieces on the head. There are a lot of tiny faces and tabs as usual, but if you can manage this one, then you should be ok for the rest of the model.

Cut out the piece, but don’t completely pre-assemble it. First, we’ll want to leave the large grey tab (white in this...