I've posted about my quilling project in my previous
post which you can read about it here. Quilling is a part of modelling craft using paper;
and there are many others, such as origami and papercraft. Papercraft, or paper
model is 3D model constructed from sheets of paper or card stock that was cut,
folded and glued together. In fact, my first craft project was on papercraft
and since then I've started to involve in the craft scene (hence the name
Papercraft House).
(Photo Credit: cp.c-ij.com)
(Photo Credit: www.mypapercraft.net)
Papercraft can be a model of anything be it a building, an
F1 racing car, a spaceship shuttle or a Transformers robot. Not to mention that
you can size it as big as you wish, some people even built a life-sized Zelda
paper model, while others built wearable Ironman suit. Jonathan
Brand built a 1:1 scale of a Mustang with all complete parts, including the
engine, using only paper. Awesome. You can read it more here.
What’s so cool about papercraft is that it’s free, well not
totally free since you’ll need to buy paper and stuff but the design templates
are mostly free. And since you can print it yourself you’re not afraid of
making any mistake in building your model. Messed up one part? Just print
another one, that’s it. I do that all the time.
One of my favourite reference site is paper-replika.com
where you can download papercraft template for free. What’s more the
owner/creator of the site actually design alot of papercraft model by himself,
as example the optimus prime model in the
picture above. Julius Perdana, I salute you sir! Big time!!
As for the model, I loves mecha robot, especially Mobile
Suit Gundam. Therefore when I first come into papercraft I decided to build something like this,
It’s a massive mobile weapons platform “Dendrobium” with the
RX-78 GP03S Gundam “Stamen” from the anime Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory designed
by Kyuri. But with a 95 (!) sheets of paper to cut, fold and glue I changed my
mind. Instead I went for a simpler model to work on for my first project. I
found a cool Small Deformed (SD) Gundam designed by 333bankin which is great for beginner
like me.
You can check his website at 333bankin.blog58.fc2.com .
It’s in Japanese though so you’ll need to get your Google translate working.
And here is my first attempt on Gundam Papercraft:
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