Secret project update: not "bacon Lara"

The shoulders are always a troublesome part to make in paper. And especially on this secret project of mine...

I tried out the first idea I had (basically cutting away the shape of the shoulders from the torso, and then attaching the shoulders+arms) but even while I was modeling it, I didn't think it was going to look very good...

And a quick test build confirmed that it looked absolutely awful.

So awful in fact, that the only solution is to take a step back and completely redo the shoulders. I have a new idea now which will look *a lot* better. I already trashed the old shoulders in shame... ;o)

The modeling is taking me a long time because it's a difficult model which makes it tedious sometimes. I actually started two projects on the side that I can do when I'm a bit tired of it. I might update you on those soon.

And before anybody asks: my secret project is not the "flesh creature" from Tomb Raider 1/Anniversary. "Bacon Lara" *is* on my to do-list, but not right now. ;o)

killero94's American McGee's Alice

Yes, a double post today, because I just found out that killero94 has released his American McGee's Alice model!

The download includes BMP bitmap images as a lined and lineless version, and the Pepakura PDO-file for building reference (you'll need Pepakura Viewer to open it).

download killero94's American McGee's Alice

Have fun building!

Legend of Zelda Miniblins by WoW's PMF

Although the WoW unofficial papercrafts blog focuses mainly on World of Warcraft models, sometimes PMF makes other models as well.

Like these great looking Miniblins from the Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker. There's also a Picto Box, Skull Hammer and a Dragonite Pokémon (and many World of Warcraft models of course):

• download PMF's miniblins

Have fun building!

Memory Lane

I'm afraid I didn't really make any progress on my newest project, because I've been busy with other stuff...

I found myself pondering the years past, fun times and not so fun times, amongst the fun times of course was the moment when I first discovered papercraft on the world wide web!

We had just got our first computer and internet, because even back then, you couldn't really do without anymore for school assignments. Of course I also used it to look up any Star Trek and Star Wars website I could find. ;o)

And that was when I found my first paper models of R2-D2, an Imperial Star Destroyer and several starships and even some Japanese sites I didn't understand, but the models looked mighty cute.

Back then, papercraft wasn't very well known yet, but there already were a lot of papercraft websites with all kinds of models. I always wanted to make my own model, but I just didn't know how. I had never heard of Pepakura Designer and didn't have a clue how to make one using simple graphics software.

But then I got a flatbed scanner (for school again ;o) and I figured I could just draw the parts by hand, colour them with magic markers, and then scan them to the computer!

So that's what I did. I chose the Samurai Pizza Cats pizza parlour headquarters to be the very first paper model I would make myself, because it didn't exist yet, and I was a big fan of the show. To share it with all the other people like they had done with their models, I signed up at Lycos and made my very first homepage. It's gone now, but I tracked back an archived version from October 16, 2002: Ninjatoes papercraft website version 1

After that, I made several paper Star Trek ships that didn't exist yet and it must have been somewhere early in 2003 when I "revamped" my website, because I was having a lot of trouble with Lycos and its limitations: Ninjatoes version 2 and a later capture.

Version 3 is basically what you see now at http://members.home.nl/saarloos/ although over the years, I added a few new models every now and then of course. ;o)

It's been a very fun hobby for me, and I hope it is for all of you as well!!