Recovery from a bad stroke

January 4th I had a big stroke. I lived, but have to go through a long recovery to see what I can still do in the future. Hopefully it will be a lot...! 👍

Goobeetsa's 13 Toys of Halloween

Papercraft toy fans will not have missed Brian Gubicza's 13 Toys of Halloween this month!

Paper toys like the Mad Doctor, Vampires and Werewolves have slowly been taking over this Halloween. But what's that? You can see only twelve?

Well that's because the last one, is the Invisible Man! ;o) Go get them all from Goobeetsa's weblog: link

Zombie Freud is not one of Brian's original 13 Toys of Halloween, but his customization of Matt Hawkin's Paper Dude but I think you'll agree he fits right in! ;o)

You can get Zombie Freud here and if you still need a mask for Halloween, or want to build a paper toy version of Edgar Allan Poe or one of John Carpenter's cult movie icons like Captain Blake, Michael Myers, or Lo Pan, you can find the parts to do so on Brian's website here.

Happy Halloween and have fun haunting!

Revamped Star Trek models

People have made repaints of my hand drawn papercraft Star Trek models before, and that's exactly what Paragon has done as well!

This time, Paragon has revamped not one but two of my hand drawn papercraft Star Trek models: the Danube-class runabout "Rubicon" and the U.S.S. Defiant's Type-10 shuttlecraft "Chaffee", both from the Deep Space Nine series.

You can download Paragon's revamped versions from his own website (including many other Star Trek and aircraft models) or from my own papercraft webpage, where you can also find the other Star Trek repaints.

• download Danube-class runabout "Rubicon" (+revamp)
• download Type-10 shuttlecraft "Chaffee" (+revamp)

Have fun building!

So many happy happy joy joy colours... ;o)

I just had to show you all those pwetty little colours... ;o)

My Little Pony Rainbow Dash by Kna on DeviantArt: link

Follow my Twitter tweets for many more papercraft models from other people!

Have fun building!

Official Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers blockheads

A small interlude on my Hero outfit Link, because official papercraft models always are a little bit extra special I think! ;o)

They're blockheads of the main characters for the new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles game Crystal Bearers!

You can find them on the japanese Crystal Chronicles news site.

Although it's a Japanese website, all the pictures are in English, so it's not hard to figure out where you need to click to download the templates:

Layle, Belle and Keiss

Althea, Jegran and Amidatelion

(okay, so those last three are all in the same post... ;o)

I looked through the backposts, but it seems we're still missing Cid and Vygari, so bookmark the site and check back regularly or subscribe to the newsfeed to see if they might get posted in the future! ;o)

Have fun building!

American McGee's Alice IV

While finishing the instructions on the Extreme Depth Suit, I thought I'd share this with you: a papercraft model of American McGee's Alice.

After Ohemul's version (Alice is not available, but his White King is), Killero94's version on Deviantart and my own version right here, a fan on the American McGee's Alice forums has now also made his own, including the weapons from the game:

• download American McGee's Alice papercraft model IV

Have fun building!

Paperzelda

For a long time, there weren't too many websites about papercraft (especially not about video game models - hard to imagine now, isn't it? ;o) but papercraft blogs are spawning all over the web now!

Here's a brand new one: Paperzelda! Like Paperpokés, they're a team of fans that like to create their own papercraft models, but as the name implies, this time they're focusing on models from the Legend of Zelda.

There are already a few there, just waiting for you to come by and download them!

Have fun building!

• visit Paperzeldas

CardBoy 2009 Year of the Ox

Those of you that haven't heard of CardBoy before: it's a desktop calendar YOU can build. Available in both a Beef and a Veggie version, be sure to save the PDFs to your hard disk so you can build July-December later this year! ;o)

• download CardBoy 2009 Year of the Ox

Have fun building!

Chamoo's and Kaizo's Final Fantasy madness...!

Luckily for you guys, some people *do* seem to have more than enough time to make new papercraft models, because Chamoo not only released this nice Final Fantasy IX Zidane paper model, but she also redid her old Vivi model! You can get both of them from her Chamoo232's Papercraft Archive.

And Kaizo from Kaizo's papercraft blog made not one, not two, but three versions of Final Fantasy VII Sephiroth and he's already working on several new models!

How do they do it?!? ;o)

• download Chamoo's Zidane and Vivi v.2 models
• download Kaizo's Sephiroth models

Have fun building!

PaperPoké goodness x56

If you follow the papercraft blogs and forums, you probably noticed a few PaperPokés releases recently.

They are from a group of people from the Nintendo Papercraft forums that have started a project to make papercraft Pokémons, no less than 56 of them to start off with!

And it looks like they'll make many more, so be sure to catch them all! ;o)

• visit the PaperPokés weblog

Have fun building!

Nightmare before Christmas Jack Skellington papercraft model by Chamoo232

My last post was a bit much so this time I'll keep it brief, but I just *had* to share this with you. ;o)

From the creator of the Big Daddy, Earthworm Jim and many other great paper models:

• download Chamoo232's Jack Skellington

Have fun building!

Kaizo's Final Fantasy Cloud and Lady Luck goodness!

It will come as no surprise to you that I'm a big Final Fantasy fan. I enjoy the games, and I also any paper model concerning Final Fantasy!

Kaizo from Kaizo Papercraft has some nice Final Fantasy paper models, and his latest ones include an old style Cid and a FFX-2 style Lady Luck (Paine's Dressphere):

• download Kaizo's Lady Luck
• download Kaizo's Cid

There are more paper models where those came from, so have fun building!

Raziel's amazingly detailed Star Wars Lambda-class shuttle "Tydirium"!

Great news! Earlier, I posted about Klaymen's Aliens Caterpillar P-5000 powerloader model. Klaymen was kind enough to let me host it on my own webspace, because the original link to the Konradus forum had been dead for a couple of years already...

Although that forum was the first place where I asked around, it looks like I only got their attention when I posted about it on my weblog here. ;o)

Because the forum thread is back up again and how! Not only Klaymen's powerloader model is back up, but also another favourite of mine: Raziel's Star Wars Imperial Lambda-class shuttle "Tydirium"!

It is the same shuttle (just a little bit bigger) that a small rebel strike force uses to sneak past the Imperial blockade of the forest moon of Endor, to try and take out the shield generator protecting the second Death Star which is still under construction...

It is amazingly detailed, an I was e-mailing with Raziel for permission to host it on my website because the download links were dead, but now that they aren't anymore, I can just point you guys to the Konradus forum:

• download Raziel's Imperial Lambda-class shuttle "Tydirium"

Oh and by the way, there are some more great paper models from that same place if you go up a level. Have fun building!

William Aldridge's "Airwolf" helicopter papercraft

Yesterday, I posted Hisato Shimada's Bell-222 helicopter model. The Bell-222 is a nice looking helicopter by itself, but there's also a very famouse one: "Airwolf", the futuristic attack helicopter from the 80's TV series with the same name.

The "Airwolf" helicopter from the show is a modified Bell-222, and William Aldridge has made a paper model of it. It's a very different model than Hisato Shimada's Bell-222, but it is also quite challenging. And of course this one is textured to match the "Airwolf" from the TV series!

Download + build your own free papercraft Airwolf helicopter (by William Aldridge):

• Dpilleggi's picks: doesn't work anymore (old link: http://www.dpileggispicks.com/williamaldridge)
• Gremir Models: https://web.archive.org/web/20160401170457/https://gremirmodels.com/models.htm (archived link, old link: http://www.gremirmodels.com/models.htm)

Have fun building!

Hisato Shimada's 1/24 scale Bell-222 helicopter paper model

Hisato Shimada made this wonderful and challenging 1/24 scale paper model Bell-222 helicopter for his Card Model Workshop website in 2007! 🚁

Even though the site is gone unfortunately, can use use the Internet Archive to still download it.

Download + build your own free detailed black-and-white/color yourself papercraft Bell-222 helicopter (by Card Model Workshop):

https://web.archive.org/web/20140725163343/http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022248/BELL222.html

Download notes:

• Download the parts:

1. After using the Web Archive link, click the "Download" link on the archived website;
2. You will be taken to the download page;
3. Be patient and wait a little while, and then the download should start automatically (it may take a minute or two!)

• View the instructions:

1. For the instructions, click the "htttp://ameblo.jp/..." link just below "Instructions" on the archived website and you will be taken to an archived version of the creator's weblog;
2. You will have to browse through 18 pages on the weblog using the "1 | 2 | 3 |4 | 5 次のページ > >>" navigation links to see all the images and (Japanese text) that form the instructions.
3. Copy+paste the text into Google Translate if needed you can't read Japanese.

• Important note!
• If the Wayback Machine has 'captured' a website in the past, it tries to show you what it looked like on that day. Often, the Wayback Machine 'captures' a website multiple times, and then if a certain 'capture' version doesn't seem to work, you can try a different time by clicking the Wayback Timeline at the top of the captured website:

(old link: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022248/BELL222.html)

Ohara Deer Forte 370 ski slope maintenance vehicle papercraft

The Ohara Corporation makes snowmobiles for life in the winter season. And I don't mean "ski-doos" like the ones you get to ride in Tomb Raider, but more like real vehicles.

There are two paper models on the company's website, a simple multipurpose 1 box cabin Caliber snowmobile, but also a much more detailed Deer Forte 370 ski slope maintenance vehicle.

On the download page for that one, you'll find links for the instructions, parts and a seperate PDF to be printed (or traced) on a transparant sheet. The bottom links are for the same instructions and parts, only broken down into smaller files.

• download Ohara multipurpose 1 box cabin Caliber snowmobile
• download Ohara Dear Forte 370 ski slope maintenance vehicle

Have fun building!

Nintendo Papercraft Pokémon contest

Nintendo Papercraft just announced a new papercraft contest, this time you need to design and build your own Pokémon papercraft model to win one of the prizes!

This is Nintendo Papercraft's second contest again already, the first one (with a Banjo-Kazooie theme) was won by Navi's Banjo and Kazooie relaxing in a comfy chair model (I had a feeling it would ;o)

But this time you have a new chance to win! If you want to enter, you can read more about the rules and prizes at the Nintendo Papercraft weblog: A new contest: Pokémon!

Have fun!

Cut & Paste Sci-Fi working papercraft Rubik's Cube!

Cut & Paste Sci-Fi has several science fiction models to download and build, but it's worth taking a look in the non sci-fi section too: one of the paper models you can find there, is a working Rubik's Cube!

I'm sure everybody knows the world famous puzzle cube. You mix up the colours, and try to get them back together again by turning the blocks.

Many a mathematician has spent hours on end calculating the total number of different possibilities, and this is what they came up with: 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (the word you're looking for is 43 "quintillion")

But that's not the impressive part. The impressive part is, that you can solve all of those, in 25 moves or less...

If you don't go mad building all the delicate little pieces out of paper and getting them to work properly, you *will* go mad trying out if there really are 43 quintillion different possibilities...

• https://www.paperformed.com/free-models.html (free acount required now)

Have fu... Good luck building..!

(old link: http://home.hetnet.nl/~erwin47/models/nonsf/)

Chamoo232's Bioshock's "Big Daddy"

Many papercrafters have been waiting anxiously for the release of this Bioshock "Big Daddy" model from Chamoo232.

It already looked wonderful in the WIP pictures, so not surprisingly everybody wanted to have it "nao!!" but it took Chamoo232 a while to get it ready for release.

Which would be "nao", btw:

• download Chamoo 232's Bioshock "Big Daddy"

Have fun building!

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!