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Papercraft Models

Papercraft Models, also called paper models, card models or papercraft, are models constructed from sheets of paper or card. To make a papercraft model, you will need to get the model design and print it on sheets of cards or paper, usually in full colour. Next will be to cut out the model, fold, score and glue them together.

Free Papercraft Models Sites

Websites where you can download free papercraft models. Just download, print it using your own printer and construct the paper models yourself.

Canon 3D Papercraft: Canon Inc. provides a wealth of free download materials on this site.Paper Craft paper planes give hours of enjoyment as they soar through the air!In addition, there is a wealth of free download content, with themes like Animals, Buildings of the World and Dinosaurs.
Paper Crafts | YAMAHA MOTOR: Make your own paper models of motorcycles, rare animals and more
Free Paper Toys, Paper Models and Paper Crafts at ss42.com: Free paper toys: Airplanes, Spacescraft, SciFi, Origami, Origamic Architecture and more.
SF Paper Craft Gallery: Star Wars Paper Crafts - TIE-Fighter, TIE-Interceptor, StarDestroyer, Sand crawler, Millennium Falcon, etc.
Paper Invaders: Transformers Paper Crafts - Ratchet, Ironhide, Soundwave, Ravage, Rumble, etc

Printing Your Papercraft Models

Printing your Paper Craft models is easy, just use a color printer and print the paper models using paper with a certain stiffness ( e.g. Canon Matte Photo Paper )

Tools for Constructing Paper Modeling

Books on Papercraft Models

3D Paper Models of Famous Landmark

Papercraft Models Photos

Papercraft Ness and Hellboy by hellfroze

I especially like his hat. by Kamikaze Stoat

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GinaArjona Oct 19, 2011 @ 8:00 am | delete

Cool! B-)

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Wiliam Hodson Sep 20, 2011 @ 4:50 am | delete

There is much speculation as to the origin of origami. While Japan seems to have had the most large tradition, there is evidence of independent origami traditions in China, Germany and Spain, among other places. However because paper decomposes rapidly, there is very little direct evidence of its age or origins, aside from references in published material. origami paper

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papermotor Aug 6, 2011 @ 5:34 am | delete

Papercraft models are one of the best things, i think. Everybody can do it. You can find many simple models to download for children. Usually they are free, especially the simple ones. There are many complex models as well. Lot's of car and motor manufacturers have a site to download nice looking and detailed free models, as you could read above.