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Papercraft Star Destroyer

Mon, Aug 28, 2017 | 200 Words

Things have been pretty busy over the last few months, but I found some time to smash out a nifty new papercraft and keeping with my “sci-fi vehicles” theme I did a papercraft Imperial I-class Star Destroyer from the Star Wars universe. This model has minor detail, very similar to the StarCraft Battlecruiser. Cutting and gluing cardstock with extra detail straight onto the large flat section gives the appearance of more depth for very little extra work.

Modular Origami

Sun, Apr 23, 2017 | 400 Words

From 2006 to 2008 I spent a of time making paper lucky stars, eventually hitting my goal of filling a small jar with 1000 of them. This turned out to be good practice for the next few years where I eventually folded over 1000 paper cranes after reading the classic tale Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes. It took the better part of 6 years and I don’t keep all of them in one place, many decorated spaces at work or were left with thank you notes for waitstaff or friends.

Papercraft MechWarrior #1

Thu, May 26, 2016 | 300 Words

After my success with the papercraft Battlecruiser from Starcraft I decided to complete another model based on machinery from a sci-fi franchise. Initially I looked at my library of Warhammer 40k vehicle templates but realised many had major structural issues. Eventually I resolved to build a heavy star of Clan mechs, with the current plan involving a Shadow Cat (medium), Timber Wolf (heavy), Summoner (heavy), Mad Dog (heavy), and Dire Wolf (assault).

Papercraft Battlecruiser

Sun, Dec 20, 2015 | 300 Words

Continuing on from the reveal of the first completed piece in my last post, I kept working on this model in the afternoons and on weekends as a meditative and skill-testing hobby. In the above pic I have all the completed parts for one wing. The little tubes on the wing sections caused me probably the most grief, just really fiddly and hard to keep formed when using this cardstock (~200gsm).

Papercraft Revisited

Wed, Nov 11, 2015 | 300 Words

In more recent times I’ve been getting back into origami, regularly folding cranes and lucky stars; small, meditative pieces that help clear the mind and relax an individual in the stress of the day. However part of me wanted to get back into something a bit more complex that would also require an abundance of patience. Papercraft. I use to haunt the /po/ board on 4chan, never posting but just skimming for interesting models and saving them to my computer.