April 28, 2021

Printable Minecraft Treasure Chest

Minecraft Chest Bastelbogen
In the Minecraft video game, the fastest way of finding buried treasure is to use a treasure map (of course!). The treasure is always contained in a chest. There are many types of items to be found in treasure chests including gold ingots, diamonds, iron swords, prismarine crystals and TNT. This large papercraft Minecraft chest was created by Steven Bear in 2014. The PDF template for the box may be downloaded here. This paper model is fairly easy to build, but if you need help, there is a video tutorial located here. Minecraft was first released in 2011.

Other Printable Treasure Boxes:

Viking Sea Chest
Mermaid Chest
Kingdom Hearts II Chests
Tinkerbell Jewelry Box

April 25, 2021

Marvel Ironheart Papercraft

Ironheart Bastelbogen
It is rumored Marvel Studios is working on an Ironheart series for Disney+. In the Marvel Universe, Ironheart is a 15-year-old girl genius who reverse engineers one of Iron Man's suits of armor to create a suit of armor for herself. This paper model of the character was created by Unfold Brazil (build photo by Sinsis). The Pepakura PDO file for the model may be downloaded here. [Please note the download differs somewhat from the model pictured - Unfold Brazil must have modified the model sometime after its initial release.] Actress Dominique Thorne is currently slated to play Ironheart in the Disney+ series.

Other Iron Man Related Papercraft:

Iron Man Origami
1:1 Scale 2008 Movie Helmet
Disney XD Promotion Model

April 16, 2021

Disney TaleSpin Seaplane Paper Model

Conway L-16 Bastelbogen
Part of Disney's animated television lineup in the 1990's was a show called TaleSpin. TaleSpin was set in the late 1930's and featured anthropomorphized characters from Disney's 1967 movie, The Jungle Book. The show's plot centers around Baloo the Bear who flies a "Conwing L-16" seaplane named Sea Duck. This paper model of the Sea Duck was created by DeviantART member Strangename19, whose design imagines what the airplane would be like if it were real. A PDF template for the model may be downloaded here. This papercraft is not recommended for beginners as there are no instructions and the parts have no gluing tabs. The design of the Conwing L-16 is thought to be a mashup of two real world aircraft: the Grumman HU-16 Albatross and the Fairchild C-82 Packet.

Other Papercraft Airplanes:

Pitts S-1S
Deformed Supermarine Spitfire
Fokker DR1
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Deformed Grumman J2F Duck

April 7, 2021

Space Invaders Pop-up

Vintage Video Game Papercraft
The first arcade I remember frequenting had mostly pinball machines. In amongst the pinball machines were two black and white video games: Asteroids and Space Invaders. These pixelated space invader pop-ups bring back memories of carefree hours spent in that arcade. The template for the pop-up invaders was created by Popupology and may be downloaded for free on their website. The invaders are small enough that six of them may be printed on a single sheet of cardstock. The color of the pop-ups in the photo was achieved by printing on yellow cardstock.

Previous Pop-up Papercraft:

8-Bit Video Game Characters