Papercraft Cicada
While this papercraft cicada may look like origami at first glance, it is actually a glue-less paper model (i.e. cutting is employed, in addition to folding). What is amazing about this model is its...
View Article2020 Mustang GT500 Papercraft
To help fight boredom during the quarantine, last year Car and Driver magazine released a free paper model of the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. The model is super simple. It has only two parts (one...
View ArticleEnd Game Captain America Papercraft
I am a long time Captain America fan. My all-time favorite Cap moment out of the MCU movies was in Avengers: End Game when Steve Rogers picks up Thor's hammer in the battle against Thanos. Imagine my...
View ArticleJapanese Railway Paper Models
I am impressed by the shear quantity of the free papercraft available on the JR West website. There are dozens of models of Japanese trains available for download, everything from nineteenth century...
View ArticleYear of the Ox Papercraft
In February, these papercraft oxen were created by artist, Aktuelle Beitrage to celebrate 2021, the Year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac. There are six different oxen available: yellow, white, red,...
View ArticleHarry Potter Snape Paper Toy
Severus Snape is an important character in the Harry Potter universe. Best known as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, for a period of time, Snape was also Headmaster of the...
View ArticleJapanese Cityscape Papercraft
This cityscape paper model was created by the Mansei Company as a craft activity for children. The scene depicted is a panorama of the Akihabara area of Tokyo. Akihabara is a major shopping district...
View Article1966 Cadillac Paper Model
The first Cadillac Coupe de Ville was produced in 1949. The Coupe de Ville went through several generations of design after that time; the most famous era being the late 1950's, during which the car...
View ArticleSpace Invaders Pop-up
The first arcade I remember frequenting had mostly pinball machines. In amongst the pinball machines were two black and white video games: Asteroids and Space Invaders. These pixelated space invader...
View ArticleDisney TaleSpin Seaplane Paper Model
Part of Disney's animated television lineup in the 1990's was a show called TaleSpin. TaleSpin was set in the late 1930's and featured anthropomorphized characters from Disney's 1967 movie, The Jungle...
View ArticleMarvel Ironheart Papercraft
It is rumored Marvel Studios is working on an Ironheart series for Disney+. In the Marvel Universe, Ironheart is a 15-year-old girl genius who reverse engineers one of Iron Man's suits of armor to...
View ArticlePrintable Minecraft Treasure Chest
In the Minecraft video game, the fastest way of finding buried treasure is to use a treasure map (of course!). The treasure is always contained in a chest. There are many types of items to be found in...
View ArticlePokemon Papercraft: Bulbasaur
Who doesn't love the Pokémon known as Bulbasaur? Just too cute! In 1996, the loveable pocket monster was introduced as one of three starter Pokémon in the first generation of Pokémon video games. In...
View ArticleMapleStory Papercraft: Mixed Golem
Back in 2008 when I first got into papercraft, there was a lot of buzz in papercraft circles about MapleStory papercraft from Korea. MapleStory is a 2D video game, so the fun thing about the papercraft...
View ArticleFallout 3 Combat Knife Papercraft
The first time I remember using a knife in a video game was in Wolfenstein 3D (1992) where a knife is the default weapon if you run out of ammo for your guns. Lots of first-person shooter games include...
View ArticleCuphead Papercraft
The highly praised video game, Cuphead, was released in 2017. Cuphead is a unique, visually distinctive game done in the style of 1930's cartoons. The storyline of the game follows the exploits of...
View ArticleThunderCats Mumm-Ra Papercraft
Mumm-Ra is an undead sorcerer who uses ancient, evil magic. Try as he might, he is never able to succeed in destroying his sworn enemies, the ThunderCats. This paper model of Mumm-Ra was created by...
View ArticleDarth Maul Lightsaber Papercraft
Remember in Star Wars: Episode 1 when Obi-Wan sliced Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber in half (then sliced Darth Maul in half)? ^^ This paper model is of Maul's battle damaged weapon from that...
View ArticlePop-up Papercraft Skull
This pop-up paper skull was the 343rd skull Noah Scalin made as part of the "Skull-day-Project" he completed in 2008. Noah describes this piece as "more of a paper sculpture than a truly functional...
View ArticleWind Waker Tingle Tower Papercraft
In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker video game, the hero Link journeys to several islands, one of which is a place called Tingle Island. On Tingle Island there is an elaborate tower with carved...
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