Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Papermodel websites

So if you are bored, too lazy to go out and buy stuff for your new project, and have access to a computer/printer, I have a cool time killer for you...  Papermodels.

The internet has allowed us to do more from our homes than before.  Remember buying those papermodel books where you cut out pieces and glue or tape them together to make cool items?  Now you can just download the pictures and go straight to work!  No need to go to the store anymore.

1.  Yamaha Paper Crafts - http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/entertainment/papercraft/
Probably one of my all time favorite papermodel websites is the Yamaha paper crafts website.  This one has been around for a while and they have some really fun stuff.  You can do animals, scenes, greeting cards, and motorcycles (of course).  They are pretty well detailed.

2.  Corolla AE86 - http://ginreimokei.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-109.html
One of the first papermodels I ever did was an ae86 model that I randomly found on the internet.  There have been many iterations of these and this is just one of them.

3.  Canon Creative Park - http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/1006/
Similar to the Yamaha site, this one features really nice papermodels with really good detail.  Check it out and impress your friends.

4.  Paper Robots - http://www.paperrobots1999.com/home.html
Awesome site for the papermodel fan and the robot fan.  If you like stuff like transformers and you like paper cuts, the smell of glue, and impressing your friends with a model you made but someone else engineered, this is the site for you.

There are many many more sites out there that you can visit.  There has been a few days where I would spend hours looking for the right model to do only to find out I had spent an hour or two just looking.  By then, I didn't have time to actually build the model.  Still, the detail and the work put into creating these are awesome!