Here's some examples of how the Cube Projection mapping would turn out on a merkabah which had already been subdivided. It would apply very quickly without any previous UV seams.

It doesn't do a "perfect" job, and it does create overlapping UV islands, but as long as you don't need perfect UV boundaries for some reason, it will render and tile just fine as you can see below:

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