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Skele-kitty — Companion Cube Box Papercraft
Published: 2008-06-14 01:48:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 15056; Favourites: 141; Downloads: 654
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I ♥ my cube!So I made it into a box! Unfortunately I didn't specifically work off a pattern/template - I kind of DIY-ed it.
I constructed a cardboard box - making the widths of the four sides a millimeter smaller than the template. This is so that the lid would fit on top with ease.
... Honestly, I don't really remember how I did it - it really was a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing that I made up on the fly!
This is what it looks like with the lid on: [link]
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Hi!
Skele-kitty! I love your work, i made the other cube some years ago, and I was searching for this again, its an amazing cube box!! love it!
I would make it, but the link doesn't work!!! :C :c :C
>n<
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www.mediafire.com/download/imq…
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Hi there! I made a Companion Cube too, took me a week... guess it's good enough for a 13 year old. XD I didn't do the lid thing though since I thought the interior of a Companion Cube should be concealed. Check out my profile!
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It looks amazing - well done!
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I wish you the very best of luck
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A companion cube is a prop found in the game Portal. I highly recommend the game - it's amazing.
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Gonna try this. I wonder how one would reinforce the corners so they are nice and durable.
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uh ... use heavier stock? Or shaped polystyrene?
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this is so amazing!! awesome papercraft. I wish I can do something like this one
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I'm sure you could if you tried
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That's why it's called a "storage cube" - in this case, both storage and companion! GR8 idea! I downloaded both versions (storage and companion) but got totally dazed looking at it - is there building instructions anywhere?? (I CAN find out how to, but would take forever)
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There is no building instructions, I had to wing it, but it's pretty straight forward ... except for those darn strips! No-one can figure out what to do with the stupid things, and this has been an ongoing topic of conversation on many papercraft forums.
What I did was to cut off the tabs on the strips and glue them directly onto the face of the cube - still looks pretty cool
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Figured out how the pink strips work. The original original model was a hat and it was quite a bit bigger so that would make the strips much easier. It does require cutting 2 or 3 mm into the 4 face segments and then folding the tabs down. The tabs on the strips fold up and glue under the tiny tabs on the face.
I had to measure them all because the natural spot is hard to see. And lots of careful scoring lines. It creates a pretty wicked effect.
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I hope you submit a photo here - I really would like to see it!
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Guess I'm gonna do this, then. At least all the rest is 3D!
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Good luck, and don't forget to send me a link when you finish it and submit it to DA
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You can download the template I used here: [link] , but be aware, the template is for a CUBE only. I had to improvise quite a bit to build a box version.
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I want one!!!!!!!!!
Im just wayyy to lazy to put it all together =w=
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LOL! Yeah, it was a pretty big project
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O_o
"Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said:
"Goodbye."
and you were like:
[in a deep male voice]"No way!"
And then I was all:
"We pretended we were going to murder you."
That was great!"
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LOL! I LOVE THAT GAME!!!
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Me too!
It's just such a pity that I get motion sick after about 5 minutes of playing - I'm still on the 15th level because of that :\
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omg i know! i got a huge monitor fo christmas and i was like i wanna play a game.....and i got sick playing it! i finished in like 3 days...it was non stop
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Oh, lol! I would have been:
*play saved game*
... Blaaaaaaargh!
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I was wondering how to make the cube function as a real box. Nice!
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This is awesome, now you have have you cube, and eat your cake, too! (After hiding it in box)
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Thank you
I loved this cube so much, and I am so sad that it is was "euthanised" when it was accidentally squashed.
I really need to build it again. *sigh*
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Haha, I tried to mke on myself, but I have trouble glueing the tasbs that are like 1/5th of a millimeter long >.>
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Yeah, some of those tabs are pretty tiny, the key is really good glue - I seriously cannot emphasize that enough - it will make any papercraft project 100-times easier to make if the glue you have is a strong, fast-setting glue.
I would recommend Power Pritt Gel.
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Thanks for the advise! (Throws away Elmer's glue)
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Any time!
If you are having trouble finding it, try your local scrap-book store. After all, they specialize in all things paper, so if you cannot find Pritt, they will most definitely have a suitable alternative.
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Good luck with that!
This one was actually my third attempt. It was completed after 2 failed prototypes before it, and it took me a couple of weeks of sporadical papercrafting to finish.
Suffice to say that I don't intend on attempting to build another WCC for a long, long time. But I wish you all the very best.
If I were to do it all over again, I would have photoshoped the top corners on the base, to make them the dark grey, and extended the pink line all the way to the top - just for aesthetics.
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