Chibi Anime Papercraft - Kira Kira (Kirari Siino)

I've never posted any stuff from the Glue2 Chronicle? site before, but it's got a bunch of cool looking paper models so they'll get their proper intro to Paperkraft.net today. I'm not really sure how to pronounce their site name, is it Glue Two or Glue Squared or Glue Glue? The site's owner and designer is named "atom" and we'll just leave it at that.

On to the goods, the most recent update on their site features a Japanese PC game character called Kirari Siino, she's the main character of "Kira Kira". This is a chibi-style papercaft model, it comes complete with a guitar and microphone with stand. Their site is easy to navigate so you won't have problems looking for the download links and instructions.

There are two other papercrafts in particular that has gotten my attention. First, there's this weird and at the same time cool looking paper model of what looks like a half-human bird with some sort of helmet on which he simply called "helmet bird". It's very weird looking so you'll have to see the pic below to understand what I'm talking about. It's taken from a 15th century triptych painting called "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch, a painter from the Netherlands whose works often depicts sin and the evil of men. He like to use images of nude humans, demons and half-human animals.



The second papercraft is called the "letter bird", this one is from Bosch's other painting called "Temptaion of Saint Anthony". I'm definitely going to build both of this birds and add it to my display case.



There are other great paper models on the site that you can check out but I'll let you do the exploration on your own (for fun). All papercraft models are free to download, so just follow the link below.

Chibi Anime Papercraft - Kirari Siino [Glue2 Chronicle]


Chibi Anime Papercraft - Sarina Kashiwara [Related Post]

"Papercraft" - Sasatoku Printing Co.

There have been a lot of requests from people who are just starting out with papercrafts for easy or beginners models, most of the the time I'll post links to simple cube-style paper models but it seems that they don't really find it challenging enough and that one of their biggest complaints on it is that it doesn't quite resemble what the description says. Today we have a huge number of papercrafts and an even larger amount of papercraft related items that are easy enough for beginners and "quite satisfying" to look at when you finish it.

Sasatoku Printing Co. is a Japan based company that specializes in technical information support, they help their customers/clients in achieving their business goals by utilizing various computer technologies. There's a section on their web site called "Present" which houses their in-house designed papercrafts. Educators, teachers, parents should take note of this site because this could be an invaluable tool for easily getting their younger students or kids into an educational activity and having fun while doing it.

The Sasatoku papercraft section is divided into 7 parts:

1. Papercraft Alphabet - It has paper models whose name (first letter) symbolizes each of the letters on the English alphabet. A for apple, B for Bus, C for Coffee, etc. - you get the flow. Currently, only A to N is available.



2. Fairy Tale papercraft - Sets of papercafts from famous childhood fables, folk tales, and fairy tales popularized by the Brothers Grimm.

"Three Little Pig papercraft" (wolf included of course),

"Bremen Town Musicians papercraft" - German tale in which an old donkey, dog, cat, and rooster, no longer wanted by their masters, set out for Bremen to become musicians.

"Hansel and Gretel papercraft" - Includes Hansel, Gretel, Witch, and Gingerbread house paper models

"The Three Bears papercraft aka Goldilocks and the Three Bears papercraft" - Includes papa bear, mama bear, little bear, Goldilocks, and furniture paper models.

3. Pop-up greeting cards - Has summer and winter themes.

4. Paper Automata - My favorite section of the site.



5. Miscellaneous Paper crafts

6. Dioramas - Depictions of various seasons and holidays.

7. Paper Flowers


Papercrafts - [Download Page] [English Page] translation via Google Translate

Year of the Rat Papercraft - Ryo Tokisato

Here's another papercraft for the Year of the Rat (the first one was here), this time it's from our good friend Ryo Tokisato. It's very well designed and comes in a variety of colors that include white, gray, pink, purple, yellow, and a special one that has the lucky red color.

Rat Papercraft - [Download Page]

Finding Nemo Papercraft - Bruce

This is an update to the Finding Nemo post, it was requested yesterday and I thought I posted it already, but when I checked, nada. This Bruce papercraft came out a month after Paperinside released Nemo and Marlin. If you haven't seen the movie, there's no reason not to, this is one of the best animation films that came out of Pixar Studios, so go watch it. Bruce is a great white shark and is a recovering fish eater who Marlin and Dory encountered on their quest to find Nemo. "Fish our friends, not food".



Bruce - [Download Page]

Robots Papercraft

Robots is a big budget animated film back in 2005 released by 20th Century Fox and produced by Blue Sky Studios. It's about a world populated by mechanical beings/robots were the protagonist, a genius inventor that goes by the name Rodney Copperbottom, goest on an adventure to make the world a better place and meet his idol Bigweld. Along the way he is joined by a beautiful bot named Cappy, a spunky one named Piper, and a funny bot named Fender. These Robots papercraft have been released for free download on the official 20th Century Fox Japan web site ages ago but I've never really done a proper post on it. Includes all the robots mentioned above. For the fans of the movie and those of you that have missed it before, have fun and enjoy.

Robots - [Download Page]

Transformers Papercraft - Decepticon Rumble

We have a new Transformers papercraft, plus one to the Decepticons, it's Rumble. He's the microcasette partnered with Soundwave along side with the other casettes, Ravage and Laserbeak. So far PaperInvaders has brought us Ratchet and Ironhide for the Autobots side and Soundwave, Ravage, and now Rumble for the Decepticons. From the looks of it I'm guessing that Laserbeak is next, I also want to point out that the height to size ratio is dead on for these paper models as you can see from the pics below. As always, free download is available at the links below.



Decepticon Rumble - [Download Page]

The Powerpuff Girls Papercraft

Cartoon Networks Powerpuff Girls is about three overly-cute-super-powered girls fighting monsters, aliens, and mad scientists while dealing with their childhood, they're main goal is to get rid of the evil bad guys and save the world from destruction, of course all that has to be done before bedtime. The show is somewhat of a humorous take on your standard superhero fare and makes use of 1960's pop culture reference. From Brazilian designer Claudio Dias (Finding Nemo, Harry Potter) here's the Powerpuff Girls papercraft featuring Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. Have fun kids!

Powerpuff Girls - [Download Page]

Year of the Rat Papercraft

According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year 2008 is a Year of the Rat (Earth). It starts on February 7 (Chinese New Year) and ends on January 25, 2009. It says that the Rat Year is a time of renewal and hard work (sigh), that patience and making the most of every opportunity you can find are the key to success - at least for this year. Today, we have a set of paper models designed by Yasuyuki Wada of the Japanese site - Injan.net



The one in particular is the Year of the Rat papercraft which comes in 3 colors (cyan, magenta, yellow). There are two others that you can download, a ladybug beetle papercraft and a some sort of boar papercraft. All their models are free to download and are very easy to assemble.

Injan.net - [Download Page]

New Year, New Changes

Happy New Year to everybody, I hope you are all having a wonderful time. I want to take this time to thank everyone who have given their time and interests to support and help us grow. As you can see by now the site is having an overhaul, so please bear with me for a few days as I slowly roll out the new changes and fix some of the other kinks.