The Training Cave

The place where it all began! Recreate the first chapter of the first Wings of Fire book with The Training Cave papercraft set! This set includes mini dragon figures of Clay, Tsunami, and Kestrel, a small cave diorama with stalagmites, and a training dummy that spins! This set is designed to connect with the other two sets of this wave, to form a complete diorama of the underground home that the Dragonets of Destiny grew up in! Save and print out the papercraft sheets at the bottom of this page to build this set for yourself!

Instructions:

Click here for instructions on how to assemble the mini dragons.

The cave background is fairly simple to set up, and you should be able to figure out where everything goes based on the image below. The pieces of the stalagmites are assembled similarly to the bodies of the mini dragons, and the white spots on the cave floor and stalagmite pieces represent where they need to be glued together.

The training dummy is a particularly difficult and finnicky part to make. Feel free to skip this part if you want! You'll first want to cut out and assemble the stand. This consists of two 2D pieces, one with a slit on the top and one with a slit on the bottom. Make sure you look carefully at where the black line to cut the slit is, and don't glue a side with the slit on the bottom to a side with the slit on the top! When finished, the slits should allow the two pieces to be slid into each other, forming a cross stand for the dummy. Some adjustment may be required, and it might take a few tries to get right.

With the stand assembled, you next want to cut out the small circle on the dummy's body, which is where the stand will go into. You might want to start small and gradually increase the size of the hole, pushing the stand through to test if it is the right size, though cutting along the black line should result in a hole of decent enough size. With the bottom hole cut, the rest of the assembly follows a similar procedure as with the mini dragons, first putting together the body and then attaching the 2D head and tail parts to their respective matching color spots. The dummy is designed so that hitting it lightly with one of the dragons will cause it to spin a bit, though it has a tendency to fall over.

Papercraft Sheets:

Save these and print them out to get started!