Get Your Anime Papercraft On
Monday 20 October 2008 @ 1:53 am | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 4 Comments
Too cheap to buy anime figures? Yearning for the days of arts and crafts back in school? It’s time you got your papercraft on. Just paper, scissors, some glue and free time can get you some pretty spiffy stuff to put on your shelves. The Japanese have gone crazy for papercraft in the last couple of years, with message boards entirely dedicated to sharing models, techniques and collections. They even have Pepakura, a 3D modeling software that prints out patterns for papercraft.
There’s tons of stuff out there for you to do in a boring weekend, anime models, planes, cars, guns, tanks. Here’s a list of sites where you can get models like the amazingly cute Hatsune Miku you see above.
PaperKraft – Best English resource
Cafetera – One of the best papercraft designers, in Japanese
Sasatoku – More of a general collection of models, still, pretty neat stuff.
And of course you’ll need a copy of Pepakura to view and print most of these, but an entrepreneurial internet person like you should easily manage to complete that. Or, you know, be lazy and click here to download the Pepakura viewer.
Thanks to desudesu for the idea, resources and photo of his awesome Miku
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Here’s a but more information for those who might be interested in papercrafts.
For easy models like the Hatsune Miku, scissors, glue, and computer paper will work fine. If you want to make more challenging papercrafts, you’ll need to invest in a few items:
1) An X-ACTO knife/hobby knife or a break-away blade for precise cutting.
2) A rubber cutting board.
3) 80-110 lb. Cardstock. Regular computer paper is really flimsy and you don’t want your painstakingly made models to collapse from weak paper.
4) You’ll need a ruler and (fairly) sharp edge to score the paper. I use the tip of a mechanical pencil.
As for glue, basic white school glue works fine. I personally use craft glue, but as long as you let ecerything dry, it should be just fine.
When building the papercraft, make sure to take your time. Cut out, score, fold, and glue slowly. I’ve messed up the most basic models from stupid mistakes from rushing.
And last, I’ll leave a few links.
http://papercraft.wikidot.com/papercraft:snake-in-a-box
Contains Snake in a Box, an easy and cool papercraft.
http://members.home.nl/saarloos/
Ninjatoes’ papercraft webpage. It’s got some great papercraft, although much of it is pretty advanced. I’d advise to steer clear of the Final Fantasy and Zelda models until you have some experience.
Great resources Sparkster! Thanks so much!
Thanks for all points of interest and resources. I love doing papercraft works.
[...] These are all wonderful and would probably make a great addition to your desk. If you’ve got a couple of hours free, a knack for crafts or impressive patience, you should really try and make a couple. Also remember to read our previous post on anime papercraft and general papercraft resources and tips. [...]