Who wouldn’t want the Lord of the Nazgul’s helm sitting on a bookshelf or hanging on a wall?! But as I researched Pepakura and the methods employed by cosplayers to turn these into wearable pieces, I realized that the entire costume would be feasible. My original plan was only to build the helmet as a display piece. pdo) I stumbled upon a Pepakura version of the helmet worn by the Witch King of Angmar as seen in The Return of the King that looked too cool not to build. There are many amazing models that have been created already and are available for free download (just search for the file extension. Pepakura Designer is $38 from their website and allows you to unfold your own pieces that have been created in other 3D modeling programs, reorient pieces on their pages, and save changes you have made.
For myself and many hobbyists this is all that is needed. The viewer allows you to open models that have already been created by others, but has limited features (you can scale models larger or smaller, and print them, but you cannot re-save the file or otherwise make changes to it).
Pepakura Viewer is the portion that is available for free from. The program is available in two parts: Pepakura Viewer and Pepakura Designer. I like to think of it as a poor-man’s 3D printer in that you can turn virtually anything on your screen into a real-life object (albeit with a lot of tedious work). Many cosplayers use this method to build armor or other objects that would be either too expensive to buy or too difficult to sculpt from scratch. Pepakura is a program used to “unfold” 3D models into flat pieces so that it can be printed on a sturdy paper (I use 110-pound cardstock) and assembled as a papercraft model. My Witch King project began almost a year ago with a fantastic program called Pepakura.
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