Chinese New Year Papercrafts

For the past few weeks we've had a lot of posts about Chinese New Year papercrafts, well today's the big day, it's officially Chinese New Year 2008 or also known in some parts of the world as Lunar New Year. As people around the world celebrate this traditional Chinese holiday, here's a list of previous related posts plus a new one. If you're not aware, this year is the Year of the Rat according to the Chinese Zodiac, so most of the links below would be related to the tailed one. We'll add this mouse (holding cheese) to our Chinese New Year papercrafts, it's accompanied by two other creatures: a cute cat and boar. Kung Hei Fat Choi!



Mouse papercraft [Biglobe.ne.jp]

Chinese Zodiac Papercraft 1 [Related Posts]
Chinese Zodiac Papercraft 2
Year fo the Rat Papercraft 1
Year of the Rat Papercraft 2

Anime Cat Papercraft - +Kareha

From the +KAREHA web site, here's a free anime cat papercraft. Japanese papercraft designer, Yuta-Mu, has named this adorable looking creature Mayonen. You can also check out some other paper models displayed on the site, I think they were previous works and are currently not available for download. Meow...

Anime Cat Papercraft [+KAREHA]

Shinaneko Cat [Related Posts]
Toro Papercraft /Sony Cat
Kiki's Delivery Service - Jiji the Cat

Cute Papercraft Toys - Kamimodel

From paper engineer Tetsuya Watabe's Kamimodel web site, we bring you his version of designer papercraft called ROMMY Sloth Paper Toys. There are currently four models on the site, but only 3 are available for free download. The first one is called "No. 02", then we have "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss", and finally "Manager XX".

What is a designer papercraft anyway?

If you don't know what a designer papercraft is, it's a description I call the simple and easy papercrafts that have a single pattern but is made to look like individually unique paper models by using various colors or textures to "re-color" or "re-paint" it, some patterns are even modified slightly. I've been seeing a surge in these kinds of paper models lately, and a majority of them coming from the graphic design and illustrator communities. There's an ongoing debate about the designer papercrafts real place within the papercraft community. Some like them and some don't. A lot of old-school papercrafters I know don't really like the idea of re-coloring the same pattern over-and-over, but I have a different take on it. I see these designer papercrafts as a good promotional tool to get new people to take up our craft and for beginners to easily developed their assembling techniques. Old-school papercrafters with their highly detailed paper models should not be worried about this at all, because eventually, the beginners that pick up this easy papercrafts would want to move on to something a bit more challenging.

Rommy Sloth Papercraft Toys [kamimodel]


Some good examples of designer papercrafts:

NiceBunny HedKase Papercraft
Pixtoyz Papercraft
Ninja Turtles Papercraft + Sonic and Knuckles
Devil May Cry Papercraft + Black Spidey

Super Robot / Mecha Anime Papercrafts

Here's another amazing anime papercraft collection straight from Italia, this time it's from Anime Mania. There are 23 old-school mecha anime papercrafts in their collelction and it includes some of my all time favorites like Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3, and Mobile Suit Gundam. Anime fans are going to love these classic super robot papercrafts and papercrafters are surely going to get an overload. I'm feeling nostalgic just by looking at the photos. All these anime papercrafts are free to download, just head on to the site and start clicking. You might also want to check out the other related links below, it's from the other Italian papercraft site - Paper Invaders. Have fun!



Super Robot / Mecha Anime Papercrafts [AnimeMania]

Transformers Papercraft - Decepticon Ravage [Related Post]
Transformers Papercraft - Decepticon Rumble
More Transformers Papercraft

Valentine's Day Paper Flowers

After I did the Valentine's Day post from Canon's Creative Park I've been constantly receiving e-mail requests for other related sites that have Valentine's papercrafts. I started browsing around and I found this new entry on HP's Activity Center. There's a couple of pretty looking papercraft flowers worth checking out(Fuchsia flower and a Lily bouquet), and the rest are miscellaneous papercraft-related projects for kids.



Valentine's Day Papercraft [HP]

other Valentine's Papercraft [Related Post]

Team Fortress 2 Papercraft

Just received an e-mail about some interesting stuff happening over at our friend Guillermo's place, something about a Team Fortress papercraft. Let's go find out.



From the looks of it they've got three Team Fortress papercrafts available so far, it includes the Heavy, Pyro, and the Spy. You can see from the sample photo above (Spy) on what the finished model would look like. As mentioned on their site, I would like to point out that the low-poly 3D models were created by digital artist Tom Tallian. And a job well done to Guillermo for creating the papercraft patterns.

Team Fortress 2 Papercraft [Bongo-Papercraft]
Low Poly 3D Models [TomTallian]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Papercraft

"Heroes in a half shell, turtle power!" just a quickie post guys, here are some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle papercrafts courtesy of 4Kids TV. Simple and easy papercrafts for kids and beginners, the whole gang is here in hako (box) form - Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael. An added bonus is the Sonic and Knuckles papercraft from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series.



Ninja Turtles Papercraft + Sonic and Knuckles [4Kids TV]

Sonic the Hedgehog [Related Posts]
Shadow the Hedgehog

Konica Minolta Animal Papercrafts

Konica Minolta is a company known mainly for their optical devices, medical and graphic imaging, office equipment, and measuring instruments. They were also known for their camera business back when they were still doing it, they have given it up due to financial losses. But in spite of all their difficulties, they found time to provide us with some good quality papercrafts. There's this section on their Japanese web site about environmental awareness, in it they have some animal papercrafts that are highly endangered. They might look like a funny bunch, but their situation is no laughing matter. Habitat destruction and hunting are the common threats that they share with each other. So build an animal papercraft in their likeness and help educate others of their plight.

Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)
Ishikawa's frog (Rana ishikawae)
Japanese Leaf Turtle (Geomyda japonica)
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao)
Cape Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

Animal Papercrafts [Konica Minolta]

Devil May Cry Papercraft

Sonicscape Jun has just left a message informing us of his latest creations on his new site, let's check it out. Sonicscape calls it the Trooper 3.2 series 1 and currently includes two paper models. This time it's a Devil May Cry papercraft featuring a Nero paper model, just in time for the official release of the game Devil May cry 4 (Jan 31) in Japan and a few days later here in the US (Feb 5). This papercraft even comes with its own Red Queen (sword).



The other interesting paper model on the site is the Black Spidey papercraft. From the feature film Spider-Man 3, Black Spidey came out when that sentient alien, Venom symbiote, attached itself to Spider-Man and bonded with him turning him into a super-villain. When Spider-Man rejected the symbiote it merged with another symbiote (Eddie Brock) turning him into Venom.

Devil May Cry Papercraft [Fx Console]

Playstation 3 Papercraft [Related Posts]
Xbox 360 Papercraft

Honda Papercraft Cars - Honda Toy Town

The last one of the Japanese big 3 automakers is here. After going through the impressive lineup of Nissan papercrafts and Toyota's lonely four, we now have the official Honda papercrafts. Honda is the most popular among the three (at least for me) when it comes to car design, but when I took a look at their site I had a dismal view of their papercraft section. The designer of the Honda papercrafts was Mizorogi Akira, yes he's the same person that designed the Mitsubishi papercrafts and what a world of difference, just by lookin at the picture you can clearly tell that he prefers one over the other (just kidding). I guess these Honda paper cars are geared towards children, very young children. I tried to dig through Honda's site but I couldn't find anything else. It's better than nothing right? so here it is, the cute, the cartoony, the funny looking Honda papercraft cars. Enjoy.



Honda Papercraft [Honda.co.jp]

Nissan Papercraft [Related Posts]
Mitsubishi Papercraft
Toyota Papercraft

Valentine's Day Papercraft

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, you can make it really special for that special someone by creating your own Valentine's Day pop-up card or gift box. We're doing Valentine's entries early so you'll have enough time to finish them. Canon has put up a special Valentine's Day papercraft page were they have compiled their most beautiful papercrafts for this special occasion. There are a variety of gift boxes for you to choose from, pretty paper bouquets, greeting cards (both regular and pop-up), and sets of envelopes and their matching stationaries.



Special Valentine's Day Papercraft [Canon]

Valentine's Day Post 1 [Related Posts]
Valentine's Day Post 2
Valentine's Day Post 3

Sexy Messhe Papercraft

Is she a space nurse? a space bunny? or both? Here's an update from the moekami site (Japanese), I don't have a clue who she is but the she's good enough to be posted here. It's got a sci-fi space nurse theme to it and the filename indicates the name Messhe, so we'll just call it a Messhe papercraft. Head on to the authors site to download this paper model and some others worth noting.



Messhe Papercraft? [moekami]
Moekami Site [Homepage]

Hellboy Bust Papercraft

Designer BazookaJo has now finished his latest creation, the Hellboy papercraft, and is now available for free download at his site. The Hellboy character was created by Mike Mignola under Dark Horse Comics. A film was made back in 2004 featuring Ron Perlman as Hellboy and a sequel is scheduled for July of this year titled Hellboy II: The Golden Army, can't wait. The pattern and instruction is available at the designer's site and a separate build-guide can be found at Bongo-papercraft. You can also check out this cool new trailer of the movie.



Hellboy Bust [BazookaJo]
Hellboy How-to-Build [Bongo-Papercraft]

MacBook Air Papercraft

I knew it was just a matter of time, after Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) revealed the MacBook Air a couple of weeks ago at Macworld 2008 we now have our first MacBook Air papercraft. The good folks at AP Community just sent us some email to inform us of this sweet creation by designer Roland Saekow and a cool video to go along with it. The MacBook Air papercraft even comes with it's own Manila envelope, now what do you say to that ^_^. If you're looking for other Apple / Mac related paper models check out the related post below for the complete list.



MacBook Air [Ap Community]
Apple/Mac Papercrafts for the Faithful [Related Post]

Sankichi Armored Robot Papercraft

There's nothing more we like here than cute robot paper models, here is an update from the Peparoido Project site featuring the Sankichi Armored Robot Papercraft. It's a fantasy site of the designer filled with robotic creations ranging from armored nekobots (catbots) to cute chibibots. The designer named it Sankichi, probably after the 1940's samurai movie. Although there's alot on the picture there's actually just one pattern for it - you have to print it on colored cardstock paper to get that variation, the rest is for the Sankichi robot's gadgets and weapons. Yeah, it looks like a cross between Yoshimitsu and R2-D2.



Sankichi Robot [Peparoido - links are at the bottom of the page]
Peparoido Collection

Mitsubishi Papercraft Cars

We have Mitsubishi Motors' papercraft cars today, they're not in Japan's big 3 auto makers but within the top ten. On their official web site, there are 33 paper cars and some of them out have cut-out paper stand-ins. It doesn't showcase the depth of their car line-up, but instead, the majority of the papercraft focuses more on the variety of their two most popular brands, the Pajero (SUV) and the Lancer Evolution. Designed by Mizorogi Akira. They may not be in the big 3, but they definitely beat Toyota with the paper model count. Check it out!



Mitsubishi Paper Cars [Mitsubishi.co.jp]
Mitsubishi Paper Cars [Translated Version]
Mizorogi Akira [Home Page]

C-3PO Papercraft - Star Wars

A popular character in Star Wars and probably one of the most notable droids of all time, this golden protocol droid was created by a young Anakin Skywalker(Darth Vader later on) and was primarily designed to serve humans. C-3PO is usually seen with that other popular quirky droid R2-D2 (astromech). Threepio handles translation (6 million forms of communication), customs, and etiquette - basic liaisons between humans and the other alien culture their encounter.



This C3PO papercraft model is from Japanese designer/site? uhu02, there are other great sci-fi papercraft models on the site based on other great epic films that you can check out. There's a Time Machine paper model based on H.G. Wells classic film of the same name, a Robby the Robot paper model from Forbidden Planet, a very sexy Maria papercraft from Metropolis, Space Pod paper model from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bladerunner Blaster, and Will Smith's Noisy Cricket from Men In Black 2.

Star Wars C-3PO Paper Model [Download Page]

Toyota Motor Co. Papercraft Cars

Are you having fun with our Nissan papercraft post? this time it's Toyota's turn to show their paper model cars, so let's head on over to their official site and see what we can find. Compared to Nissans' impressive 80+ collection, Toyota, Japan's #1 car maker comes in at a measly 4 paper cars. The four cars are comprised of the following: a 1967 Toyota 1600GT, 1961 Toyota Publica, 1967 Toyota 2000GT, and a 1965 Toyota Sports 800. All of these Toyota sports cars are also touring/race champions. The two other patterns(brown, green) you see on the bottom of the picture are the road and guardrail papercrafts that come with the the cars. I guess they were going for the "quality not quantity" stuff. Although I don't see it that way with these cars, some of you might, and that's what counts.

So what's up Toyota, where are the good cars?



Toyota Papercraft Cars [Toyota.co.jp]
Toyota Papercraft Cars [Translated Version]

Indian Peafowl Papercraft - Canon 3D

An update to the Canon 3D papercraft site, this beautiful looking papercraft bird that you're looking at is an Indian peafowl. Description by Canon 3D:

"The Indian peafowl is the national bird of India, and can be found mainly in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and other areas of south Asia. The male, known as the peacock, has large, brightly-colored feathers, which he displays to attract females (peahens) during courtship in spring. Peacock feathers are a beautiful iridescent blue, making them popular for use in artwork. Peafowl are also considered very useful birds to keep as they eat poisonous insects and snakes."

Peafowl Papercraft [Canon 3D]

For The Serious Papercraft Collector

List of paper model kits inside. I went through eBay last night and here's what I found, these are some of the legit paper model kits that you can acquire today.

Lineage 2 Female Elf Warrior

Ultraman Series - Red King

Ultraman

Mazinger Z

Arcadia