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.
Showing posts with label VW Beetle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VW Beetle. Show all posts
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.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Volkswagen Papercraft - New Beetle
VW Beetle Series, Part 7This is the last installment in the seven part series on Volkswagen Beetles. All the previous Beetle photos I posted were of my own builds, but these photos came from the designer's website. To be honest, after building six other Beetles I was starting to get a little bored. :) So even though I haven't actually built this one I thought I would pass the information along. The template for this New Beetle is two pages with 70+ parts and is available in six different colors including blue, green, orange, red, white, and yellow. Downloads from Mamecraft are available here.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Volkswagen Papercraft - 1974 German Love Bug
VW Beetle Series, Part 6The template for this Herbie the Love Bug papercraft was originally published in a 1974 issue of a German Disney magazine for kids. I couldn't locate a picture of the finished model, so assembling this Beetle was largely a matter of trial and error. The template has four pages and if it were printed one page per letter size sheet the resulting model would end up being about 10" (25 cm) long. I chose to print two template pages per sheet which gave me a final model about half that size. A download of the template can be found here.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Volkswagen Papercraft - Two Tone Beetle
VW Beetle Series, Part 5This has to be my favorite build out of the five papercraft VW Beetles I have completed so far. All the parts had a very good fit and whoever drew the template added some nice touches of shading. I was unable to determine who created the template or how old it is. The two page, sixteen part template is available on this web page. There you will find several other Beetle templates in addition to this one.
PS. If you missed the previous Beetle builds in this seven part series you can view them here.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Volkswagen Papercraft - Cabriolet Beetle
VW Beetle Series, Part 4Here is a simple Convertible Beetle papercraft with only three parts. Judging by the notes on the template, the model must have originally appeared as a supplement in a Marabout-Junior book. Marabout-Junior was an imprint of Belgian publisher Marabout that featured adventure novels for young adults. It is likely that this paper model was created in the 1950's or 1960's making it one of the oldest papercraft designs I have built to date. A scan of the template can be found here.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Volkswagen Papercraft - Cartoon Herbie
VW Beetle Series, Part 3 This is an odd cartoonish papercraft of Disney's Herbie the Love Bug. I am not sure of the origin of this model. I assume it was originally produced in the 60's or 70's as a publicity item for one of the series of Herbie movies that were released at the time. The instructions included with the template seem to indicate that it was intended for children and that it was probably printed on the back of a box of some kind. The 3D decoupage-like design of the fenders causes the Beetle to look somewhat strange when seen directly from the front or rear. A free download of the Beetle is available here.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Volkswagen Papercraft: Hand Drawn Beetle
VW Beetle Series, Part 2 This papercraft Beetle is unusual in a couple of ways. First, it is a hand drawn template, something that has become relatively rare in our computer age. Second, even though the Beetle is known for its rounded profile, the designer chose to use a boxy shape for the model. The template for this model is available from the Antique Automobile Club of America on their website.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Volkswagen Papercraft: 1999 Beetle
VW Beetle Series, Part 1This is the first in a seven part series of my builds of various VW Beetle papercraft. I hope to have all seven builds posted in the next several weeks but there are likely to be some other posts that will interrupt the series from time to time. :) This Beetle is by Mitsuaki Ohashi, Japan, 1999 and can be downloaded here. For a template with only two parts it achieves a good three dimensional shape. One quirk I noticed with the template is that one of the backup lights on the rear of the Beetle is white and the other is red.
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