Thread: Papercraft.

I made one of those coin boxes from Super Mario one time, and a ceiling cat. I'm just not gifted with folding paper

N64 Young Link, Portal Turret, Portal GLaDOS cam, Final Smash Kirby, Dog playing guitar. (Too many videogame references. Oops.)

Cat, charmander, stegasaurus (for friends).

Want to make Guy Fawkes mask soon, followed by Samus.

Originally Posted by Abra

Want to make Guy Fawkes mask soon,

In other news; I'm building this right now:

Do you guys make this from scratch, or are there kits/printouts that you get and cutout?

Originally Posted by Kushna Mufeed

Do you guys make this from scratch, or are there kits/printouts that you get and cutout?

Printouts. Check paperkraft.blogspot.com for a fairly large archive.

@Carou: C'mon, man. Guy Fawkes mask is classic.

Good luck on the mecha thing. Score thine folds well.

Originally Posted by Abra

Good luck on the mecha thing. Score thine folds well.

I've done the head.

I feel dizzy already.

Made this in lunch break today.

Originally Posted by Serkat

Made this in lunch break today.

LIES.

I've made things like a 3-inch tall WALL-E robot, a miniature new york skyline, circa 1930 (designed it myself), a number of Escher-esque designs. I've been trying to find a good mech papercraft kit, preferably free online. (and the libraries are surprisingly low on books withadvanced papercraft patterns. Almost as if they don;t think their patrons have heard of a photocopier.)

Nice EVA, Carosoul.

Papercraft...? ....starcraft??



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So I was lurking around the internet, when I found something interesting. A papercraft rôundabout:

Spoiler for Original version:

It was 26 pages, so I resized it down to 13 pages. Smaller parts to work with, but I didn't mind. It was a bit plain, so I recolored and retextured it. A little more detailed, personal, but I didn't mind. Without further ado, the final* product:

Spoiler for Up:

Spoiler for and down:

Spoiler for closeup:

On the merry-gô-round brim's ovals are impressionist paintings--mostly Monet. The diamonds house snapshots of different segments of the horsehead nebula. Around the center pole I placed my favorite works of Zdzislaw Beksinski, because I could.

All of the horses on this flying hôrses were drawn by me, left as lineart for effect. Why did I spend so much time on pieces that would end up only an inch long? To be honest, I have no fucking clue. Here they are in all their ballpoint pen glory.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the papercraft is that is an automata. It does indeed spin, and when it spins, the horses move up and down in an alternating pattern (compare the first two photos).

This took forever*.

*ad infinitum

Made some cats, from the Nightmare City flash animations (it's basically The Matrix, but less than five minutes, and with cats). I borrowed and retextured a template for the head, but the rest of the model was scratch-build. Heads are unglued and positionable.

Spoiler for Prototype model:

Spoiler for Warrior Cat:

Spoiler for Duel:

Hahaha that's sweet!

:]

yay

Oh yew, I've totally started something. Will post pics if I get around to finishing the difficult thing.

Hijacking this thread is lovely.

Spoiler for My two favorite fictional characters:

Made the template for this one myself, oh ho ho:

Spoiler for Faggoty glasses:

Is that... Cthulhu?

And Horse Jesus?

I like them all Abra ^_^

Originally Posted by Mark75

And Horse Jesus?

lol

The only "decent" papercraft I've ever made:

Spoiler for crap:

It is wearable, and I have worn it many places, from school, to Renn Fest, and beyond. Still doesn't compare to Abra's stuff.

I like that. :3

Might I ask what paper/paint/glue you used? (My materials are normal printer paper and elmer's. 'Cause I'm cheap.)

Erm, standard card stock, green spray paint that bonds to plastic, and, for glue, I used scotch tape followed up by a couple coats of some kind of plastic wood finisher. The visor is some cloth from an old dress my mother threw into my closet a long time ago.

Yeah. . . The only thing I had to spend money on was the spray paint.

I made two of these total. The first one I made with printer paper, but it collapsed under its own weight. The second one held up much better. I still want to apply some resin to it so it'll last longer.