Whats the recommended foam patterns for Mark5B armor?

[OhMyGOD]

Ive only been able to find a pepakura file in which the "foam" patterns just seem like standard paper templates without the flaps. Is there anything better than this or should I just make do?

 

[Fallen]

Typically when you see a pepakura pattern that's labeled as "Foam" there are two main differences from a standard pepakura paper template file. The first is what you already pointed out, the flaps are turned off. The second is that small bits which in building out of paper would create depth will be removed or moved outside of the pages area as you can use the thickness of the foam to create that depth instead of having to cut out and glue those pieces.

For example here you can see the inner chest piece for an ODST as the file is laid out for pepakura. You have the tabs and a bunch of tiny little pieces

Whereas this is the same file but modified for foam with the tabs turned off and all of those little bits being moved outside to where they won't print as you'll be using foam thickness instead.

Not represented by this example but sometimes also the case is you might have only half the model within the page region such that you would mirror the parts for the other half. Useful for foam as it saves you pages of printing and cutting when you can just flip the part over and trace it again for the mirrored side.

 

[OhMyGOD]

Typically when you see a pepakura pattern that's labeled as "Foam" there are two main differences from a standard pepakura paper template file. The first is what you already pointed out, the flaps are turned off. The second is that small bits which in building out of paper would create depth will be removed or moved outside of the pages area as you can use the thickness of the foam to create that depth instead of having to cut out and glue those pieces.

For example here you can see the inner chest piece for an ODST as the file is laid out for pepakura. You have the tabs and a bunch of tiny little piecesView attachment 361548

Whereas this is the same file but modified for foam with the tabs turned off and all of those little bits being moved outside to where they won't print as you'll be using foam thickness instead.
View attachment 361547

Not represented by this example but sometimes also the case is you might have only half the model within the page region such that you would mirror the parts for the other half. Useful for foam as it saves you pages of printing and cutting when you can just flip the part over and trace it again for the mirrored side.

That clears it up a bit but for specifically this M5b file I have theres some parts that are confusing me

Like this area on the fore arm, Should the marked areas just removed when transferring to foam because they are areas that would be folded over?