This jackpot of papercraft Russian cars is the work of Vlad Tarnavsky. Vlad's collection includes ordinary cars of all types as well as vans, trucks, police cars, ambulances, and race cars. Over forty different 1:32 scale car templates are available for download, each one in .jpg format. Vlad's website is located here.
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Friday, September 2, 2011
Paper Models of Russian Vehicles
This jackpot of papercraft Russian cars is the work of Vlad Tarnavsky. Vlad's collection includes ordinary cars of all types as well as vans, trucks, police cars, ambulances, and race cars. Over forty different 1:32 scale car templates are available for download, each one in .jpg format. Vlad's website is located here.
Monday, July 25, 2011
KU EcoHawk VW Beetle Papercraft
At the University of Kansas (my alma mater!), the School of Engineering has an ongoing design project to create sustainable approaches to automobiles. One of the first successes of the project involved converting a 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle into a plug-in series hybrid that can be recharged using either a generator running on used cooking oil biodiesel or a solar energy filling station. A paper model template of the VW (dubbed the "EcoHawk I") may be downloaded at the KU website.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Antique Sports Car Papercraft Models
I am so impressed by the paper modeling work of Fabrizio Prudenziati that I decided to do a second post about his work! My first post featured his paper models of historic soldiers. For this post I want to highlight his automobile papercraft. Each of the highly detailed models above are at 1:24 scale. From the upper left going clockwise, pictured above are an Alpha Romeo, two American hot rod roadsters, and an Aston Martin. Each of these paper models is available here (a minimal donation is suggested for each download). Be sure sure to check out the papercraft ships, trains and WW2 airplanes while you are at Prudenziati's site!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Grand Theft Auto Papercraft
Igrandtheftauto.com has the self-confessed goal of becoming the ultimate resource for all things to do with the Grand Theft Auto series of video games. They just might be the ultimate resource for GTA papercraft as well! Pictured above are four of eighteen different paper models based on the Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars video game. Clockwise from the upper left corner are models of the Infernus, the Sabre GT, the Stallion, and my personal favorite, the Sum Yung Gai Noodle Van. The selection of GTA papercraft available includes not only cars but display stands for the cars, a dragon costume, character models, and weapon models. Check them all out here.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Sports Car Papercraft: Abarth 500
In the above photo are two different 1:24 scale Abarth 500 paper models by Japanese papercraft artist Takashi Akira. The Abarth is a performance model of the Fiat 500. The lower car is the standard Abarth 500 while the upper car is the Abarth 500 Esseesse which has a "Super Sport" trim package (Esseesse = SS = Super Sport, get it?). Akira's papercraft templates are available for free at the Abarth Japanese Official Fan Site. Look for the red download links just below the images of templates and instructions. And yes, the crate with the spare wheels is included with the template for the Abarth 500 Esseesse. :)
Friday, February 18, 2011
2008 Mustang GT500 Papercraft
In the 1960's automotive designer Carroll Shelby teamed with the Ford Motor Company to produce high performance Mustangs with the labels "GT350" and "GT500". These "Shelby Mustangs" ended production in 1970. It wasn't until 2007 that Shelby and Ford teamed again to produce a car with the GT500 label. This detailed paper model is of a 2008 Mustang GT500. A download of the papercraft template is offered by the GT Legends Papercraft blog here. Click on the red steering wheel below the picture to start the download.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Deformed Paper Toy Car: Pontiac
This deformed car paper toy is a custom design by illustrator Rory Phillips using the car template at the Portland Paper City website. The car is labeled "Pontiac" on the side, but I am unsure what model or year of Pontiac it might be. My guess is it's a Pontiac Catalina from the early 60's or perhaps a conglomeration of several different cars. Rory's template for the car may be downloaded here.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Volkswagen Paper Models
A Brazilian website has six different Volkswagen papercraft available for download. Three of the paper models are of the Golf, Volkswagen's small family car which has been produced since 1974. The other three models are of Volkswagen Type 2 microbuses with skylight windows on their roofs. Each of the paper cars has a different paint scheme. To download templates for the cars go to the website here and click on the buttons labeled "Baixar".
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Race Car Papercraft: Aston Martin DBR9
Aston Martin made its return to international racing in 2005 with the DBR9. The return was a success with the DBR9 winning its debut race. In 2006 Milos Harant designed this finely detailed 1:18 scale paper model of the 2005 DBR9. A download of the template and instructions for the building the model are available here. Also available is a template of the 2008 racing season DBR9 which has a light blue rather than green color scheme.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Nissan Papercraft Bonanza
The official website of Nissan Japan offers downloads of seventeen different paper model vehicles. Residents of the US will be familiar with some of the cars such as the Cube and the Murano (top row in the photo). However, other cars such as the Kix and the Otti (bottom row in the photo) are virtually unknown in the American market. Downloads of all seventeen paper car templates are available here in both PDF and GIF formats. In addition to the cars pictured above, there are also templates available for a Fairlady Z, a Teana, a Skyline, and the unusual Pivo 2 concept car.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Hot Wheels Scale Movie Vehicles Papercraft
Papercrafter Dave Winfield has an amazing collection of Hot Wheels scale papercraft cars available for download on his website. In addition to papercraft recreations of actual Hot Wheels toy cars from the the late 60's, Dave also offers small scale papercraft cars from movies and television. Pictured above (starting in the upper left and moving clockwise) are the Mystery Machine van from the Scooby Doo television show, Korben Dallas' flying taxi from the science fiction movie The Fifth Element, Snot Rod from the Disney Pixar movie Cars, and finally the Batmobile from the 1989 Batman movie. Templates for all the cars mentioned above are available here.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Halo Papercraft: Warthog Military Vehicle
While I was digging around James Bowen's site for the previous post I came across this papercraft from the Halo series of video games. It is a M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle, more commonly known as a "Warthog". Pretty neat, eh? This is the first Warthog paper model I have seen and with a template at only 2 pages and 30 parts, it should not be that difficult to build. The template is located here.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Dragon Wing Tattoo Smart Car Papercraft
"Mad Mike" at the Smart Forum, an online forum for German owners of Smart Cars, has created a Smart Car papercraft based on digital photographs of his very own car. Mike's car has been customized with what he calls "dragon tattoos". I am still curious how he was able to photograph the reflective roof of the car without himself showing up in the reflection. The .GIF template for the car may be downloaded here.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Papercraft Porsche 917 Race Cars
At 1:87 scale (also known as HO scale), these papercraft Porsche 917 race cars are slightly smaller than toy Hot Wheels cars. The paper model Porsches are a free download offered by motografica.de, an German image database of historic racing and sports cars from 1920 to 1980. The single page template includes four cars, each with a paint scheme based on a different historic 917 from the early 1970's. Click on the template image here to download.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Car Papercraft: Clark Kent's '53 Nash Healey
In the 1950's American television show, Adventures of Superman, Superman's alter ego Clark Kent drives a snazzy Nash Healey sports car. In 2006, Richard Taylor created a papercraft version of the car, complete with a Clark Kent figure to go in the driver's seat. The two page template for the paper model may be found here and here.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Toyota 2000GT Papercraft
The Toyota 2000GT was produced in very limited quantities from the late 60's to the early 70's, but it quickly put Toyota on the map as a serious competitor in the realm of sports car design. This finely detailed papercraft model of the 2000GT was designed by Shinya of Japan. Downloads of the template are available at Shinya's webpage here, just click on the yellow buttons near the bottom of the page.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Hand Drawn Citroën 2CV Paper Models
Considered by many to be the French counterpart of the German Volkswagen Beetle, the Citroen 2CV had a production run from 1948 till 1990. On the left is the standard 2CV and on the right is the "camoinette" or small truck version. Both of these apparently hand drawn paper models are the creation of Swiss art professor Christof Schelbert. To download the templates click on the photos here.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Maserati Race Car Papercraft
The Maserati 250F was the car that Juan Manuel Fangio drove to victory in the 1957 World Championship. This paper model of the race car was created by Grand Prix enthusiast Paul Cheard using Adobe Illustrator. Cheard estimates that the ten piece model takes about 3 to 4 hours to build. A free download of the template is available here.
Monday, December 28, 2009
70's Lamborghini Papercraft
Despite the detailed appearance of this papercraft Lamborghini Countach LP400, it is actually a fairly simple build with only 26 parts. My favorite part of the model is that the template gives the option of having the headlights in either an open or closed position. Another nice touch is that there are three body color options: red, yellow and white. Created way back in 2000 by Japanese designer, Yasu Tanaka, the template for this 1:30 scale model is available for download here.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Jeep Cherokee Papercraft
I don't want to use the word "obsessed", but Japanese papercrafter Masanori Shimozato is definitely enthusiastic about Jeep Cherokees. Shimozato's papercraft webpage has models of what appears to be every color and trim package available for the 1996 Jeep Cherokee (and that includes both the US and Japanese versions of the vehicle!). To download a template of one of the 47 different Cherokees, take a look here.
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