April 29, 2023

Game of Thrones Papercraft Coins

GoT Bastelbogen Coins
Papercraft coins are curious thing. Not much to them really. There are three parts: a front, a back, and a thin strip for the edge of the coin. Usually, the reason people build them is for a fan art display. Such is the case for Hellsword Papercraft who has created a collection of papercraft coins from Game of Thrones. There are nine different coins in the collection. I am not a GoT expert, but I think there are nine coins because there is one coin from each of the nine administrative regions of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Printable templates for the coins may be downloaded here.

Related Papercraft Fan Art:

Headpiece to the Staff of Ra
Final Fantasy X-2 Coins
National Treasure Masonic Medallion
Skyrim Gold Septim Coins
Hunger Games Mockingjay Pin

April 22, 2023

3D Papercraft Cicada Shell

Cicada Husk Bastelbogen
Across the world, there are more than 3000 species of the insect known as the "cicada". Each of the species has a common feature: the nymphs shed their skins to emerge as winged adults. At the right time of the year you can find hundreds of their empty shells clinging to plants and trees. Just the thing for scaring your little sister! ;) This 3D papercraft cicada shell was created by a Japanese papercraft designer in 2008. The template for the model consists of 7 JPG images which may be downloaded here. There is a link on the download page to photo instructions showing how to build the model. The estimated length of the model is 12" (30 cm).

Other Papercraft Bugs:

Mexican Tarantula
Emporer Butterfly
Arabian Fat-tailed Scorpion
Rhinoceros Beetle
Swallowtail Butterfly Origami

April 9, 2023

Nintendo Samus Aran Papercraft

Metroid Bastelbogen
Samus Aran is the playable main character of the long-running series of Metroid video games by Nintendo. In 2009, Gollum999 created this Samus paper model for the now defunct Nintendo-Papercraft website. Fortunately, the papercraft template for the model is still available here! The download includes both PDF and Pepakura PDO templates as well as some written instructions. The first appearance of Samus Aran was in the original 1986 Metroid video game.

Other Video Game Character Paper Models:

Prince of Persia
Marvel Punisher
FNAF Withered Freddy
Crash Bandicoot
Cupheads

April 5, 2023

Easy Mini Star Destroyer Papercraft

Easy Star Destroyer Bastelbogen
Japanese papercraft designer, Masayui, created several free paper models as "gifts" during the coronavirus lockdown in 2020 to help those shut in cope with the situation. One of these models was the simple mini Star Wars Star Destroyer pictured above. The template for the model may be downloaded here. As you can see there are two ships included in the template, one half the size of the other. The model is not any particular scale. Print as large or as small as you like!

Other Miniature Papercraft by Masayui:

RMS Titanic
Zoids Command Wolf