Papercraft Designs, Models and Instructions

July 25, 2008 6:16 PM

Got some time to kill? Well then, maybe you should start exploring the exciting world of papercraft! To get you started, here's a link to 100 free paper models and toys. Once you're done there, you might want to start checking out card modeling, build some skyscraper models, animals and motorcycles and when you get really good, faces of real people such as these. There's even some creative paper modeling websites out there for the kids and people who like Pokemon and Nintendo. And if all those links still aren't enough to satiate your new found lust for papercraft, check out this papercraft search engine for even more designs.
posted by Effigy2000 (12 comments total)

aargh! Not enough free time! awesome links Effigy2000
posted by dabitch at 6:21 PM on July 25, 2008

Multiple versions of the high speed TGV train.
posted by Mitheral at 6:41 PM on July 25, 2008

Previous papercraft posts here and here.
posted by jozxyqk at 6:55 PM on July 25, 2008

Yeah! Crafts to do with the kids that I think are fun too. There are only so many things I can invent on my own. (And that number of things would be..one. We made some nice masks one day.)
posted by amj at 7:05 PM on July 25, 2008

Shameless self link to papercraft versions of a flying squid and other marine animals.
posted by cephalopodcast at 7:09 PM on July 25, 2008

Is this something I would need to have paper to understand?

(Oh, I keed.)
posted by Kloryne at 7:44 PM on July 25, 2008

Oh dear, now I shall have to create more martians.... Thank you very much. I'm going to make this one.
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 7:51 PM on July 25, 2008

The Prince of All Cosmos, for you Katamari fans out there.
posted by Pope Guilty at 12:30 AM on July 26, 2008

I WILL build this
posted by mattoxic at 4:17 AM on July 26, 2008

Wait wait wait. We hate steampunk but love papercraft? I need to start keeping notes.
posted by DU at 4:36 AM on July 26, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]

DU: we just try to keep the BB-ers on their toes in terms of arbiters-of-cool. To grant them too much cool-trend-setting cred would lead to an ego-singularity. We don't want that: MeFi is within the event horizon of that event. I won't go into more details here, because that would be tipping our hat too much, but you should get the idea.
posted by dylanjames at 8:45 AM on July 26, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Here is a far-out project that I found on Flickr. It's a hybrid papercraft-photograph-globe that's similar to a polyhedral map.
posted by Tube at 9:05 PM on July 26, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]