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[Fold On] The Papercraft thread, Reborn <NSF56K>
MuddBudd
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Yes boys and girls, it's time for the fabulous papercraft thread to return, after a long hiatus!
You may be asking, what the hell is papercraft? Papercraft is the art of taking paper printouts, scissors, and glue, and making your own models of various things, including many video game characters and objects. Why pay monies for action figures when you can make them yourself!
For example, this papercraft has 1 Solid Snakes in it, can you see them?
And here are some Nintendo characters, and more. You can play Paper Mario for reals!
(Full List of Nintendo Papercraft)
Mario, Part 1 Goomba Boo
Mario, Part 2
Sonic
Four Swords Link
Not enough Zelda for you?
Try these on for size.
Prince of All Cosmos Advance wars and more (note: hand drawn)
Vivi!
Upon further inspection, this guy has a TON of cool stuff. Check out his site.
Aliens Papercraft, for when it's Game Over, man.
Erick's Models - Homeworld ships. This is where I got the sheet for this Kushan Mothership.
Awesome site, even includes instructions on how to make your own by extracting models from the game.
I tracked down an EVA-01 papercraft. <clicky>
Piro Model.com - Mostly Star Wars characters and busts. Has the most adorable papercraft lego stormtroopers.
There's some tiny, cute gundams in there too.
Yamaha's Papercraft Site - Contains, obviously, papercraft of Yamaha motorcycles,
but also has many good animal and seasonal papercrafts.
Canon Papercraft Site - An assorted collection of animals, vehicles, buildings, and some 'lucky' items.
(Those cat things you see in asian resturaunts, etc...)
Oh yeah... and we found this last year, some of us made it. Rumor has it the Prime Minister of Muddbuddistan still holds the secret blueprints for its construction, secretly scanned into digitial form by Muddbuddian spies. It is also for sale on the internets. (This version is very nice)
Click for more images.
I'll be adding more cool stuff as I find it. Now go my minions! Fly out, find more patterns, make more papercrafts, post the pictures of stuff you've made!!!!
Seriously, I want pics of anything you guys build.
You may be asking, what the hell is papercraft? Papercraft is the art of taking paper printouts, scissors, and glue, and making your own models of various things, including many video game characters and objects. Why pay monies for action figures when you can make them yourself!
For example, this papercraft has 1 Solid Snakes in it, can you see them?
And here are some Nintendo characters, and more. You can play Paper Mario for reals!
(Full List of Nintendo Papercraft)
Mario, Part 1 Goomba Boo
Mario, Part 2
Sonic
Four Swords Link
Not enough Zelda for you?
Try these on for size.
Prince of All Cosmos Advance wars and more (note: hand drawn)
Vivi!
Upon further inspection, this guy has a TON of cool stuff. Check out his site.
Aliens Papercraft, for when it's Game Over, man.
Erick's Models - Homeworld ships. This is where I got the sheet for this Kushan Mothership.
Awesome site, even includes instructions on how to make your own by extracting models from the game.
I tracked down an EVA-01 papercraft. <clicky>
Piro Model.com - Mostly Star Wars characters and busts. Has the most adorable papercraft lego stormtroopers.
There's some tiny, cute gundams in there too.
Yamaha's Papercraft Site - Contains, obviously, papercraft of Yamaha motorcycles,
but also has many good animal and seasonal papercrafts.
Canon Papercraft Site - An assorted collection of animals, vehicles, buildings, and some 'lucky' items.
(Those cat things you see in asian resturaunts, etc...)
Oh yeah... and we found this last year, some of us made it. Rumor has it the Prime Minister of Muddbuddistan still holds the secret blueprints for its construction, secretly scanned into digitial form by Muddbuddian spies. It is also for sale on the internets. (This version is very nice)
Click for more images.
I'll be adding more cool stuff as I find it. Now go my minions! Fly out, find more patterns, make more papercrafts, post the pictures of stuff you've made!!!!
Seriously, I want pics of anything you guys build.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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You'll need some tools to build your model.
Paper: It's recommended to use thicker paper for most papercraft projects. It's stiffer, stronger, and holds up better. For larger projects, you will probably want to use cardstock, which is almost cardboard. A trip to any decent office supply store will provide you with ample selection. I personally use some 28lb paper for normal projects, and 67lb cover-stock for larger things like the mothership above.
Cutting: Scissors for the large stuff, but if you have something with a lot of detail you will want an x-acto. You can find bundles of x-acto's and self-healing cutting mats at good art supply stores. I'll put a picture up of mine later.
Folding: Many people find it useful to use an empty bic or other tool to score their folds a bit before they actually fold them. I use a pair of tweezers (not the pointy kind) to fold most of my tabs. I also have a pair of FLAT needle-nose pliers (no textured, grippy surface on the inside)
Glue: Elmer's White glue. Apply it with a toothpick, a piece of paper, whatever. don't put it on too thick or it will leak out and you will need to wipe away the extra. I use an old sculpting tool to apply glue. Tape can also be used if it won't show and you need extra support on the inside. I find glue sticks to be fairly useless/not strong enough. Superglue can be used in a pinch for stuff that won't stay, but it has a tendancy to soak through the paper and it looks bad.
Some files may come in PDO format instead of an image or PDF. You will need Pepakura Viewer for those.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
This is where I will put more stuff that I or other people find.
Two Starcraft Models
Weird-ass anime characters and a Famicom console
3Dpapermodel.com - MASSIVE papercraft site. Everything imaginable.
Optical Illusions - Look near the bottom of the page.
Paper Aviation - A few Star Wars and Star Trek spaceships.
Papergrade by Zen - A few star wars things.
Tiberium Shuttle from Star Wars
Spacestation42 - A random assortment of everything. Has a few game consoles.
SF papercraft gallery - Various science fiction stuff.
TARDIS Page 1 TARDIS Page 2
Chao from Sonic Adventure
EVE Online ships
Apocalypse
Heron
Rifter
Partial Rifter Instructions
Transforming Optimus Prime!
ED-209, in four awesome flavors: Normal, battle damaged, urban camo, and white
Here is Puma from Gitaroo-Man
Phoenix Wright, Miles Edgeworth, and Maya Fey.
The Assegai, Feisar, and Icaras shipracerthings from Wipeout
Red Nocturne, Blue Rhapsody, Yellow Opera, and Green Requiem from Kingdom Hearts
Headcrabs and Gordon's suit from Half-Life 1 and 2
A siege tank from Starcraft. It actually transforms!
In time for the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, here's the Wicked Wench (the original name of the Black Pearl)
You can find more Disney Papercrafts here at The Disney Experience. You can also order them as nice kits from their site, instead of printing them out, if you prefer.
The Lineage 2 Knight
The bike from Akira
Human
Shambler
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Fuck, is there a version of that Vivi with his clothing pre-colored? I doubt I have the skills to color him properly.
I WILL NOT BE DOING 3DS FOR NWC THREAD. SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE OVER.
Spoiler contains Friend Codes. Won't you be my friend?
More Friend Codes!
Mario Kart Wii: 3136-6982-0286 Tetris Party: 2364 1569 4310
Guitar Hero: Metallica: 1032 7229 7191
TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
Worms: Open Warfare 2: 1418-7870-1606 Space Bust-a-Move: 017398 403043
Scribblenauts: 1290-7509-5558
I think im gonna try with some small Homeworld ships. Ill post results when im done!
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
Here's the only picture I have of something I've made: a mech from Front Mission 4 with a boxkitty on his shoulder.
I thought he was... damn that sucks.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Click the image. It's a link to a .rar of the files.
Oh yeah. I forgot to save those too.
I tracked them down though! He's got a third one now too.
Apocalypse
Heron
Rifter
Partial Rifter Instructions
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Yeah but that's really the only one I did that for... everything else has visible links. Doesn't make much sense now that I think about it.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Muddbudd, could you please add a NSF56K to the title?
Yeah it took a while. It's kind of tricky but there are instructions to help.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Also: :^: to the thread title.
A question though, do they last long? They seem quite fragile. And what do you use to colour them (case in point, Vivi), markers or colour pencils?
TRANSFORMING papercraft. They have a transforming prime built with rubberbands in there to allow him to actually transform. Wow.
http://www.paperrobots1999.com/home.html
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ED-209, in four awesome flavors: Normal, battle damaged, urban camo, and white: http://rapidshare.com/files/26334941/Ed-209.rar.html
And some more papercrafts like I said I'd post.
Here is Puma from Gitaroo-Man: http://rapidshare.com/files/26332510/puma.pdf.html
Phoenix Wright, Miles Edgeworth, and Maya Fey. Each have a few faces, including one somewhat modified stern face for Edgeworth by me (which I have not built yet so I don't know if it looks good when built): http://rapidshare.com/files/26333931/Phoenix_friends.rar.html
The Assegai, Feisar, and Icaras shipracerthings from Wipeout: http://rapidshare.com/files/26334494/Wipeout.rar.html
Red Nocturne, Blue Rhapsody, Yellow Opera, and Green Requiem from Kingdom Hearts: http://rapidshare.com/files/26334469/khmages.rar.html
Headcrabs and Gordon's suit from Half-Life 1 and 2: http://rapidshare.com/files/26335311/halflife.rar.html
I'll probably go for one of the Homeworld ships, actually.
Edit: Balls. Paper Starships seems to be dead.
I made Four Swords Link the last time one of these threads was up. My first ever experience in papercraftery and it turned out pretty good. I might take teh pikchures of it later.
Or the chaos dreadnaught thing with the four legs. That would be awesome too.
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It's problem was that it couldn't accurately reduce the number of polygons enough to make a good papercraft template... sometimes it would try to make a peice with 100s of folds in a 1inch section.
I won't be bottompage'd!
Fixed.
Crap they are. Luckily, Erick's Models still has a ton of them.
New links are now added to link dump. Thanks guys!
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
http://rapidshare.com/files/26389433/seige_tank.pdf.html
(not my pictures)
I just spent the last hour looking all this paper craft people have made. So cool!
And it gave me a wicked idea. I was thinking how much this was like making things in 3d and it gave me an idea for a project. What ever it will involve, I will unwrap all of my objects and then print out the UVW's and then use all sorts of mediums to paint the textures and then scan them back in.
It be cool.. maybe ill go the whole 9 yards and do my own painted bump, specular ect maps
Now what to use for subject matter...
There is a program called Pepakura that takes models and extracts them automatically, adds tabs and everything.
The catch is to use simpler models because really detailed ones can get insane. Someone tried to make a murloc last thread and it ended up having too many small parts.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The Shyguy was my second attempt and Kirby was my third. Obviously I lacked the skill for this sort of thing and cheated with tape when the glue wouldn't stick. Shyguy was put to together with a Glue Stick but since that seemed completey inadequate I managed to find liquid glue and it worked much better for Kirby.
Link Dump updated.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I had .pdfs of a wanzer from Front Mission 5 on my HD but I deleted them...
So, this mini papercraft XBox 360 seems pretty sweet and easy to make, but it looks like the guy took the pdf file down. Does anyone know where another copy might be?