Thursday, July 30, 2009

Marvel Papercraft: Captain America's Shield

I was a little bummed two years ago when Marvel Comics killed off the original Captain America, Steve Rogers. However, as you may know, this month Marvel is bringing Rogers back in a five issue limited series entitled Captain America: Reborn. To celebrate,...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Old West Saloon Papercraft

I enjoy nicely detailed architecture papercraft. I am not sure why I don't post more of it, especially since I am an architect by trade. I will have to do better in the future.^^ This papercraft saloon is a free sample from Whitewash City which produces...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Apollo 11 Lunar Module Papercraft

Last week was the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission, so the thoughts of some papercrafters (like myself) have been turned towards papercraft models of spacecraft. Here is one of the best crafted models I have seen in the spacecraft category....
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Full Size Tron Helmet Papercraft

This is a full size papercraft model of the helmet that the character Alan Bradley wears after he is teleported inside a computer in the Tron 2.0 video game. Alan is the computer programmer who wrote the Tron program. The Alan Bradley character was played...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Monkey King Paper Toy

As I have said before, monkeys always make me smile, and this one is no exception. This colorful monkey is the work of Belgian artist "Fossfor" and may be downloaded from her Flickr page here. As if you couldn't tell, the title of this paper toy is...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Build Photos of Marvel Comics Masks

Mark Green, creator of the Golden Snitch papercraft I posted a while back, built Spider-man and Carnage from my Marvel Comics mask series. Since he did such a fantastic job, I just had to share his build photos. Keep up the good work Ma...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Star Trek Papercraft: Terran Empire Knife

In the Star Trek universe there is an alternate reality where instead of the peaceful United Federation of Planets there exists the brutal Terran Empire. This evil alternate reality was first introduced in the original 1960's Star Trek television show...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Robo Battle Pigs Paper Toy

Robo Battle Pigs is a simple game created by Randy Cox for a game design competition in 2001. The game is played on a standard chess or checker board and involves two or more mechanical pigs battling it out with lasers and powerful robot fists. After...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Eye of Providence Pyramid Paper Toy

This paper toy based on the Pyra:Minds template takes its imagery from the Great Seal of the United States which appears on the back of the US one dollar bill. The eye at the top of the pyramid was referred to by the creators of the seal as "The Eye...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Tron 2.0 Papercraft: Jet's Identity Disc

This is my third and final Tron identity disc papercraft. This disc, which is from the Tron 2.0 video game, has a more elaborate pattern than the discs I did previously. The owner of this identity disc is Jet Bradley, the playable character in the game....
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Friday, July 10, 2009

Scooby Doo Mystery Machine Paper Model

This 2" (5 cm) long Scooby Doo Mystery Machine van and ruined castle wall backdrop were created by Gary Williams and Craig Griswold in 2002 for use with the D6 Role-Playing Game System by West End Games. Included in the same PDF template as the van and...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Sims 3 Plumb-bob Papercraft and Origami

In the Sims 3 video game a marker called a "plumb-bob" hovers over the head of a selected character and indicates the character's mood by its color. A green plumb-bob indicates a good mood, while a red plumb-bob indicates a horrible mood. DeviantART...
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Monday, July 6, 2009

Star Trek Papercraft: PADD

Another Star Trek papercraft is finished. This is the Elite Force video game's version of a Starfleet "personal access display device" or PADD for short. Think of it as a hand held computer interface. I made this papercraft 1:2 scale rather than 1:1...
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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Studio Ghibli Papercraft: Flapter

This papercraft comes from the 1986 animated movie Castle in the Sky, the first official movie release from Studio Ghibli. The flapter is a machine that flies by means of four vibrating insect-like wings. In the movie two young characters, Pazu and...
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Darth Maul Cubee with Sith Speeder

Illustration student Richard Sullivan was given an assignment at school to create a custom Cubee using a known character and this Darth Maul was the result. Why didn't I have these kind of assignments in school? ^^ The final template is three pages...
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