Moai Papercraft

Moai (or mo‘ai) are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), mostly between 1250 and 1500 CE. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on Ahu (platforms) which were mostly at the island's perimeter. Almost all have overly large heads three fifths the size of their body. The Moai are the 'living faces' (aringa ora) and representations of chiefly, deified ancestors. Sitting on their Ahus with their backs to the sea, these statues were still gazing across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island, but most were then cast down during conflict between different clans on the island-wiki

Moai Papercraft

Speed Racer Papercraft - Mach 5

So the Speed Racer movie is coming out next week, I've seen both the domestic and international trailer a few times and I still remain unsold based on it. As a fan of the original anime series (Mach GoGoGo), it's really hard to describe how I feel about the look of this movie without pulling my hair out. There's also a Speed Racer video game tie-in for the Nintendo Wii, maybe that's the reason for the overly done flashy eye-candy. And Mach 6 instead of the Mach 5, hopefully the Wachowski brothers can pull this one off.



Here's the original Speed Racer Mach 5 papercraft from Paper Inside.

Speed Racer Papercraft - Mach 5 [Paper Inside/Claudio Dias]

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Milk Pudding Papercraft

Here's a milk pudding papercraft that is shaped like "You-Know-What."
Milk Pudding Papercraft

Cute Papercraft Toys - Cherry Moo

Inspired by the hundreds of Cherry Blossom festivals and Hanami during spring time in Japan, the latest from Kamimodel's ROMMY Sloth paper toy series is a reflection of that beautiful scenery. This paper toy will be available until the end of May so download it now.

Rommy Sloth Papercraft Toy - Cherry Moo [kamimodel]

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Tango-No-Sekku Papercraft

I mentioned on a previous post about Japan's Children's Day festival being held yearly on the 5th of May, and that Boy's Day (Tango no Sekku) is also celebrated during this time. Samurai warrior dolls, armors, swords, and bows are prominently displayed inside houses along with carp streamers flown outside to symbolize the strength and determination of the carp in Japanese folklore.

In connection to the recent posts regarding Tango no Sekku, here is a Kabuto-Kazari (Samurai warrior battle helmet) papercraft and an origami carp streamer.

Kabuto-Kazari (battle helmet papercraft) [Yamaha Motors]
Origami Carp Streamer [Canon Creative Park]

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Yatterman Papercraft - Yatter-Bark

This dog-shaped robot is the rescue vehicle used by Gan and Ai on the anime series. It's equipped with a bell and a siren. Yatter-Bark doesn't have any cockpit for the Yatterman duo, instead they just hang on to its sides. This papercraft is from the folks at Cubic Character and is not connected to our previous Yatterman post which featured Omotchama, but both are related.

Yatterman Papercraft - Yatter-Bark [Cubic Character]

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SD Gundam Papercraft - MS-06S Zaku II

Something similar to yesterday's Gundam papercraft, this is the MS-06S Zaku II Commander Type. It has the has the same color and is also piloted by the greatest mobile suite ace of the One Year War, Char Aznable. This S-type Zaku is identical to the MS-06F (green) except for its reactor and the additional antenna on the head - indicates a squad leader.



Gundam Papercraft - SD MS-06S Zaku II [Shirokuma-Tawagoto]

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Pokemon Papercraft - Magnemite / Magneton

We're looking at the Magnemite papercraft from designer Kirasu. This Pokemon is a robotic lifeform that looks like an eyeball in a metal socket with a horse shoe magnet on each of its sides. There's three Philips head screws attached to it, two for its feet, and one on top of its head, probably an antenna. It's considered to be an Electrical/Steel type, and just like some of the other Pokemon the Magnemite has an evolved form called the Magneton. Just build three Magnemites and you've got yourself a Magneton. The pattern is in PDO format so you'll need the free Pepakura viewer to open this file. Thanks to the designer for sending it in.

Pokemon Papercraft - Magnemite / Magneton [Kirasu via Mediafire]

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SD Gundam Papercraft - MS-14S Gelgoog

This is the highly modified version of the mass produced Gelgoog piloted by Zeon ace pilot Char Aznable, it sports a distinct red color to identify its pilot's own personal custom mecha and to compliment his nickname, the Red Comet. The main pattern has no color so you'll have to print it on colored cardstock paper.



SD Gundam Papercraft - MS-14S Gelgoog [kk-factory]

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Angry Bear Paper Toy

"An'ry Bear, the angriest bear in the world" is now up for download on designer Alexander Shen's art blog. I like the new twist to this one, the designer included a small comic to go along with what An'ry Bear is all about.

An'ry Bear Paper Toy [Wondering Panda Comics]

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Realistic Scorpion Papercraft

This realistic (Androctonus crassicauda)scorpion papercraft has just been released. Fattail or fat-tailed scorpion is the common name given to scorpions of the genus Androctonus, one of the most dangerous groups of scorpion species in the world.
Scorpion Paper Model

Relax Bear Papercraft - Children's Day

May 5 is Children's Day in Japan, they observe Tango-No-Sekku (Boy's Festival) to celebrate children's healthy growth and happiness. From late April to early May families display brightly colored carp streamers hoisted on a bamboo pole outside their homes called Koi-Nobori, a carp is flown for each son in the family - with the sizes ranging from big (eldest) to small (youngest). Why the carp? the Japanese consider it the most spirited of fish, because of its strength, vigor, and perseverance when swimming upstream.



Inside the house, families display armor, swords, bows, and Boy's Day Dolls (gogatuningyo). The kuma0rila blog has now put up this new Relax Bear papercraft with Relax Bear (Rilakkuma) himself on a carp suit and his friend Korilakkuma wearing a cute red apron of some sort.

Relax Bear Papercraft - Children's Day [kuma0rila]

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Formula One Papercraft - Lola Mk4

This F1 car was constructed by the Lola company and originally designed by its founder and owner, Eric Broadley for the Bowmaker Racing Team. This cartoony take on the Lola Mk4 is from the Ichiyama's Paper Cards site.



Formula One Papercraft - Lola Mk4 [Ichiyama's Paper Cards]

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Flying Papercraft Airplanes

Some good paper aircrafts to add to our growing collection from our friends at Yuki's Flying Cardmodels. There's only three papercraft airplanes right now, but more will be added soon. Includes a Saab J35F "Draken", a BAE Systems Hawk T1, and the newest one, a DHC-1 Chipmunk. Fly on!

Papercraft Airplanes [Yuki's Flying Cardmodels]

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Legend of Zelda Papercraft - Floormaster

We have tons of Nintendo papercraft here on our site - Legend of Zelda, Mario Brothers, Pokemon - but if you want even more, let's visit the (unofficial) Nintendo Papercraft site by Drummyralf. I'm seeing some good paper models there that I haven't posted before, starting out with some Legend of Zelda papercrafts, Floormaster from The Wind Waker series and Epona (horse) from Ocarina of Time. Then there's the Super Mario characters like Magic Mushroom, Bob-omb,Koopa Troopa, and many more. Not all the papercrafts are Chokipeta-quality, but they're good enough in their own way. Enjoy kids.

And to Nintendo Co., with all that ridiculous amount of money ($1 billion) that you're raking in from the Wii and DS, couldn't you at least provide us some official papercrafts. The cost of it, wouldn't even put a dent on your wallet.

Legend of Zelda Papercraft - Floormaster [Nintendo Papercraft/Drummyralf]

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Relax Bear Papercrafts: Rilakkuma & Korilakkuma

Two new cute relax bears have just been posted. The first is a merman or should I say merbear? The other is Korilakkuma Kintaro version.
Rilakkuma Papercrafts

Television & Washing Machine Transformers Papercrafts

Jonah Penne has just sent me a link to his television transformers papercraft. It's a follow-up to his washing machine robot that came out a few months back. These robots really transform. Check 'em out.
television papercraft
washing machine papercraft

Star Trek Papercraft - USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D

This is the USS Enterprise-D (NCC-1701-D), also known as the Flagship of the Federation. It's a Galaxy-class starship and the fifth Federation Starfleet ship to bear the name Enterprise. Was used in Star Trek Generations, with the charismatic Captain Jean-Luc Picard at the helm. Follow the link below, go to the bottom of the page to find the goods.

Star Trek Papercraft - USS Enterprise D [Ninjatoes]

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Legend of Zelda: Epona Papercraft

Epona is Link's horse. Epona is named after a Celtic Goddess of horses, and has a unique song, which is often used as a way to tame and/or summon her. In Ocarina of Time, Epona was born and raised at the Lon Lon Ranch and was personally handled by Malon.
Epona Papercraft

Star Trek Papercraft: USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) (or Enterprise-D, to distinguish it from prior starships with the same name) is a 24th century starship in the Star Trek fictional universe and the principal setting of the Star Trek: Next Generation series series. The Enterprise-D is a Galaxy class ship and the fifth Federation starship to carry the name-wiki
ninjatoes' star trek papercrafts

SD Zeta Gundam Papercraft - MSZ-008 ZII

This MSZ-008 Gundam papercraft is based on Fujita Kazumi's stunningly gorgeous ZII concept design that never made it into the Zeta Gundam anime series. Includes the mega beam rifle.



SD Zeta Gundam Papercraft - MSZ-008 ZII [Cubic Character]

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Kung Fu Panda Papercrafts

Kung Fu Panda is an animated film about a panda who learns martial arts and then uses this new ability to fight his enemies. The film will be released on June 6, 2008. While waiting for that, build yourself these awesome papercrafts from hp. There's Master Crane, Master Mantis, Master Monkey, Master Po(panda), Master Tigress and Master Viper.

hp papercraft

Megaman Papercraft

Capcom's mascot Megaman or Rockman in Japan is the latest papercraft of Christopher Beaumont's growing hako collection.
Cubeecraft

Kung Fu Panda Papercraft

With a ton of good movies lined up for summer 2008, DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda is probably one of the most anticpated film for younger audiences, right there with Pixar's Wall-E. The story is about a lazy, slacker panda named Po who teams up with the legendary Furious Five (Tigress, Crane, Mantis,Viper, and Monkey) under the guidance of Master Shifu, to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard called Tai Lung.

Here's another great release from HP, the Kung Fu Panda papercraft are cute and much better than they're first try (remember Shrek 3D?) The paper model set includes all of the Furious Five and Master Panda Po. Grab them now and be sure to "Prepare for Awesomeness"

Kung Fu Panda Papercraft [HP]

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2008 Olympic Papercraft Mascots

The Fuwa or "good luck dolls" in Chinese are the official mascots for the 2008 Summer Olympics being held in Beijing. They were designed by Han Meilin and consist of five members. They are Beibei (blue), Jingjing (black), Huanhuan (red), Yingying (yellow?) and Nini (green) - like other mascots before them, each one represents a color from the five Olympic Rings. I'm not sure about Yinying though, one of the official colors is yellow, but he looks more orange to me. Probably a result of China flexing its muscle again, defiant as always.

The designer calls himself paperpop and makes his home at the cardmodel site (China). He has released the first (Beibei) of the five Olympic papercrafts and would continue to do so on the 24th of each month until all five mascots are done, with the last one being on the actual end date of the Olympic games.

Don't forget to bookmark and come back on the scheduled release dates:
BeiBei - April 24 (Available Now), JingJing - May 24, HuanHuan - June 24, YingYing - July 24, NiNi - August 24.

2008 Olympic Papercraft Mascots [cardmodels.cn]

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Ibara Paper Spinner

We've got one for the kids today, this is a simple paper spinner / pinwheel released by Japanese video game company, Cave. This is based on their PlayStation 2 vertical shooter game called Ibara. Assembly is easy and straightforward so no problems there. The center of the blade holds a round interchangeable piece that has the photo of the characters in the game.



Ibara Paper Spinner [via Mediafire]

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Ford Cobra Papercraft

Here's a good-looking Ford Cobra car papercraft. It comes in a pdo(pepakura) file with fifteen pages of parts. This model has a height of 12.1 cm and width of 32.6 cm.

Ford Cobra Papercraft

Olympic Mascot Fuwa BeiBei Papercraft

The Fuwa which means "good luck dolls" in Chinese are the official mascots for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

The cute Fuwa group consists of five members according to the traditional five elements: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Each of the five names is designed to look like a plausible name for a small child, while also achieving a more complex task: when the first syllable of each name is put together, it sounds nearly identical to the phrase "北京欢迎你 Běijīng huānyíng nǐ" which means "Beijing welcomes you".

Two of the five mascots represent members of endangered species – Jingjing the giant panda and Yingying the Tibetan antelope. The other two, Huanhuan and Nini, represent the Olympic flame and the swallow respectively. Each of the five figures also embodies the color of one of the five Olympic rings-wiki

BeiBie which is currently available for download represents a fish. This model has five pages of parts. The other four papercrafts will be available on a monthly basis. I'll let you know when they're available.

Fuwa(Olympic Mascots) Papercraft

Toshiba Papercraft Buildings

Toshiba is a manufacturing company known for their high technology, electrical engineering and electronics businesses, but a division called Toshiba TEC stands out for their cash register systems. They speciliaze in Point of Sale Systems (POS) and Electronic Cash Registers (ECR). They've provided some ten free papercraft buildings of the business establishments that use their popular cash register systems. The buildings range from your typical convenience store, to coffee shops, all the way to the big retail and department store chains.

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Video Game Paper Toys - Cubeecraft Update

Cubeecraft time, these are the new cubic paper models available on the their site. The last we visited, it was the Super Mario papercraft - this time we've got Megaman, Sam and Max, Bender (Futurama), StrongBad (Homestar Runner), and a few others I don't recognize - but maybe you could.

Video Game Paper Toys [Cubeecraft]

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Chibi Anime Papercraft - Shikako Maejima

Glue2Chronicle has a new model added to their Kira Kira papercraft series, after Kirari Shiino and Sarina Kashiwara we now have Shikako Maejima, who is the bass player of the band.



Chibi Anime Papercraft - Shikako Maejima [Glue2Chronicle/atom]

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Toshiba TEC Mini Town Papercrafts

Toshiba TEC is a Japanese company that manufactures document processing and telecommunications equipment, motors, cleaners, health equipment, and compressors. They have ten different building models including restaurant, shops and others that will let you create a mini town.

Toshiba Papercraft

Car Papercraft - Ford Cobra A/C

So far our car papercraft posts have been mostly on Japanese car makers with one post going to the US (NASCAR) and another one to Italy (Lamborghini). Paper designer Jimmy Crackskull e-mailed us about his very own creation, the Ford Cobra AC, and this classic American muscle car adds another for the US side. Check it out.

Ford Cobra Papercraft [Jimmy Crackskull Wonderous Treasures]

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Arcade Papercraft - Moon Patrol Diorama

An old classic arcade game, this one is. It's a side scrolling shooter in which you control a lunar rover trying to cross over pitted and rocky terrain while avoiding attacks coming from alien space crafts over head and tanks up front. Designer Marianne Mazurowski over at the Conejo/Coneja blog has created this cool Moon Patrol papercraft diorama for us to gaze at. The patterns are not yet finalized so keep your eyes glued here for the update. For now, let's head over to the link below and reminisce on the good old days when joystick and a couple buttons was king.

Moon Patrol Papercraft Diorama [Conejo/Coneja]

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Earth Day Papercraft - 2008

Today is Earth Day, a day that we call for action to protect our blue planet's fragile ecosystems from our excessive and unrestrained use of its natural resources. I've searched for some Earth Day papercraft or anything related to it but there's not much out there that has good quality to them. These three however, fit perfectly. We start of with Canon's Globe Puzzle papercraft, we've previously shown this one before but its a very good paper model and educational tool that we'll show it again.



Next we go to Italia to our friend Pino's place (Paperpino) for his Earth Relief Globe papercraft, and finally we visit Japan to see the eco-kun papercraft character, it's a mascot for the Kahma Company Ltd. that promotes eco-friendly products - Kahma is a DIY hardware and household goods store, similar to Home Depot or Lowes here in the US.

Globe Puzzle Papercraft [Canon Creative Park]
Earth Relief Globe Papercraft [Paperpino]
Eco-kun Papercraft Mascot [Kahma]

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Canon Papercraft Update: Thoroughbred(Horse)

The Thoroughbred is a breed of horse first developed during the 17th and 18th centuries in England, by crossbreeding Arabians with native horses to produce superior racing horses.The Thoroughbred has been called the ultimate work of art ever produced by man, and has a height of around 160 to 170cm (to the shoulders), weighing between 450 and 500kg. Its well-developed chest and hindquarters make it a fast runner. It can run at speeds of up to 60 or 70km/h for minutes on end, even with a 50kg rider on its back.However, its thin legs are prone to injuries.In terms of temperament, it is a very delicate horse, sensitive to loud noises and bright lights.
Canon Papercraft

Canon Papercraft - Thoroughbred

New update on the Canon Creative Park, first up is a Thoroughbred papercraft on their Animals section - Thoroughbreds are a popular horse breed used in horse racing and best known for their speed and agility. This horse breed was a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares. Up next is a mobile papercraft on the Toys section - this ones has a sky and sea theme going on with it and serves as a good interior decoration. Finally, we've got some paper party goods on the Seasons & Holidays section - includes a paper crown, tiara, birthday party hat, wall decor, and tons of banners. Grab em'.

Canon Papercraft - Thoroughbred [Creative Park]

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Transformers Papercraft - Bumblebee

Since its going to be a big one, Paper Inside has now given the green light for their Bumblebee papercraft (film version). They've released the head part to get us started and to lessen the build time for the entire papercraft. Designer Claudio Dias has also added a cool mod to the head by incorporating LED lights for Bumblebee's eyes. Follow the link below to download the goods and to see the progress of this awesome paper model.

Transformers Papercraft - Bumblebee [Paper Inside]

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Transformers: Bumblebee Papercraft - Head

I have been eagerly anticipating Claudio Diaz's Bumblebee papercraft. Lots of people have been waiting to build this great looking model including me. Well, the wait is over. He just released the head parts. The arm parts are next.
Bumblebee Papercraft

Terra Cotta Animal Finger Puppet Papercraft

Remember the political finger puppets I posted a while back? Well, here's a new set that your kids will surely love. Download a penguin, a cute dog, two cats and a duck.
Terra Cotta Finger Puppets