August 3, 2013

Life Size Dragon Ball Z Papercraft

Goku and Kid Buu are characters in both the Dragon Ball Z manga and the animated television series. In the manga, Kid Buu is the final villain encountered by the Dragon Ball heroes. These life size paper models of Goku and Buu were created by Paper Juke. The templates for the models may be downloaded here and here.

Other Life Size Paper Models:

R2-D2
S.U.N. Elementalist
Baby Groot

28 comments:

  1. I'll print the Buu blank and them paint it mannualy just to see how it looks.

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    1. That would hide the white edges of the paper.

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  2. Hi, how do you harden the paper? Is it also hollow inside? thanks!

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    1. The paper used is card stock so it is rigid enough not to require hardening. Yes, the models are hollow inside.

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    2. Are you still in business

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  3. I keep getting dead links for Goku no matter where I go. Buu seems to still work though.

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    1. I updated the Goku link above with an alternate download location. Try again.

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  4. password protected y

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    1. Open with Pepakura Viewer not Pepakura Designer.

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  5. hi :D
    i have 120-150 gsm cardstock
    is it strong enough to hold it?

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    1. 120-150 gsm most likely will work. If you want to be 100% sure, I would go with 150-200 gsm.

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  6. Do you need to resize the buu to be the size in the picture or is the file set to that size, its only 12 pages so i don't feel it could be the full size.

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    1. The file is set for a model that is 15" (38 cm) tall. The model in the photo looks like it is at least twice that size. Since the author of the model locked the PDO it will be difficult to scale it up, but there are ways...

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    2. Thanks so much for the reply, ill do some research and see if that guy released his scale anywhere online

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  7. I keep getting dead links for Buu

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  8. 300gsm for goku , is it good ?

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  9. what scale are used to make life-size models, by the way, awesome work

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    1. There is no easy answer to your question. The scale varies according to the scale of the original 3D model used to create the papercraft.

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  10. Hi good day ! How tall is the kid buu?

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  11. Need to make a Majin vegeta one!

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  12. Hello. Nice work you got there!! I was doing it and i found an part that i coudn't figure out how to bend it. Could you show me where i look to learn how to do that part?

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    1. Open the PDO file and click on the part in question on the 2D layout. The part will be highlighted in the 3D layout which should give you an idea of how the part needs to be folded. Also, be sure to look at the PDO that has fold lines shown and not the "lineless" version.

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    1. It is blurry because the creator of the papercraft probably used a video game 3D model as the basis of his papercraft. Those video game textures were never intended to be enlarged to life size, so they are blurry. However, despite having blurry textures, the finished model still looks good, as seen in the photo above.

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