Monday, January 31, 2011

Robot Skull Paper Toy

Back in 2007 Noah Scalin at skulladay.com released a papercraft skull with an articulated jaw. In 2010 Scalin re-imagined the papercraft skull in robot form. I think the robot skull is loads more fun than the original. ^^ Templates for both the original...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Marcelo the Friendly Bat Paper Toy

You can't help but love this adorable paper toy bat by illustrator Erik Madera. Officially titled "Macelo the Friendly Bat", this glue-less paper toy is part of a campaign to promote awareness of the preservation of bats. Madera has an image of the template...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

San Francisco Street Car Paper Model

This San Francisco street car papercraft was created by Archidigm, a firm that provides training in computer-aided drafting. The process used to create the paper model involved importing digital photos of a street car into a drafting program (AutoCAD)...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Kingdom Hearts Papercraft: Cid Highwind's Goggles

I finally got around to finishing another Kingdom Hearts papercraft. This is a 1:1 scale paper model of Cid Highwind's goggles as they appear in the Kingdom Hearts II video game. Cid Highwind first appeared as a character in Final Fantasy VII. After...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Pixar Papercraft: Carl's House Miniature

This miniature papercraft of Carl's house from the 2009 Disney Pixar movie Up is not your usual paper model. First, it is built with three different weights of cardboard and paper. Second, it is hand painted instead of making use of a computer printer...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

BattleTech Papercraft: Awesome Mech

Here is a great papercraft mech by Cantaris at the Mech3.org forum. I believe this papercraft was based on a 3D model from a video game, although I am not sure which one.(Anyone care to enlighten me? ^^) This mech's model type is called an "Awesome"....
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Star Wars Papercraft: Life Size Yoda

It seems more and more people are creating full scale paper models from video games. This life size papercraft of Master Yoda by Noturno Sukhoi is based on a 3D model from the Star Wars: Battlefront II video game. The character Yoda (as we all know ^^)...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Circus Tent Papercraft Gift Box

The designer who brought us Teddy's Paper Theater now brings us colorful DIY circus tent gift boxes. My favorite part of the design is the box's underside which has an ingenious pattern created by the construction of the box itself. There are two box...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Heroscape Dice Bowl Papercraft

In the Heroscape miniatures board game by Hasbro, players may roll as many as 12 dice at a time to determine the outcome of a battle. To keep the numerous dice corralled between rolls, Heroscape enthusiast "AliasQTip" created this unique papercraft...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Batman Papercraft: Dark Knight Cowl

This papercraft cowl duplicates the one worn by Batman in the 2008 movie, The Dark Knight. The template for the cowl consists of 89 pieces and is available in Pepakura PDO format only. Matthew Shane has made a download of the template available here....
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Marvel Comics Papercraft: Thor

With a new Thor movie coming out later this year, it was only a matter of time before someone created a papercraft of Marvel Comics' god of thunder. This large paper model is based on a 3D model from the Marvel Ultimate Alliance video game and stands...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Cute Animal Papercraft Finger Puppets

Here are some cute animal finger puppets from the Japanese website "Terra Cotta". In addition to the cat, dog, penguin and duck shown here, there is also a "smiling" grey cat puppet available. The construction of these papercraft animal puppets is very...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Papercraft - Jedi Holocron

A couple of months ago I mentioned I wanted to start designing some Star Wars papercraft. Last week I completed my first two designs! These simple 1:1 scale paper models are of the holocron and the Kyber memory crystal which the bounty hunter Cad Bane...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Mechcommander 2 Papercraft: Raven

If you are in the mood to build a mecha papercraft but don't want to spend a lot of time, this Raven mecha may be just the thing for you. The Raven comes from Microsoft's 2001 game, Mechcommander 2. VLMarshall at the Mech3.org forum created the Raven's...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Micro Military Vehicle Paper Models

Detailed miniature papercraft fascinates me even though I don't have the patience to build it myself. Satoshi Yoshioka of Japan apparently has the patience I lack. ^^ Pictured above is Yoshioka's 1:72 scale BA-6 armored car model, one of seventeen historic...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Official Ico Papercraft

The 2001 Playstation 2 video game Ico is considered by many to be not only a work of art, but also one of the best video games of all time. Later this year Ico and it's prequal Shadow of the Colossus are scheduled to be released for Playstation 3. The...
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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Papercraft Wetland Animals

As a way of educating the public about wetland habitats, Ducks Unlimited Canada offers ten free 3D paper models of wetland animals. Pictured above is a painted turtle, a leopard frog, a largemouth bass and a yellow spotted salamander. Also available...
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