Circus Papercraft

The Sweet Paul Magazine website offers a free collection of circus papercraft. The templates in the collection are unique in that they are scans of hand-painted watercolors rather than the digitally produced images one usually sees. Included in the collection are the circus wagon pictured, as well as mini clown masks, playful monkey "drink buddies", and Rosamunda, a dancing elephant automata. The entire set may be downloaded as a single zip file here.

Life Size Incredible Hulk Papercraft

And in this corner, standing at 2 meters tall (yet weighing only a few pounds)... It's a life size papercraft Hulk! This is one of those paper models you have to be a little crazy to build. It wouldn't hurt to have a stockpile of ink cartridges for your printer either. The two part, 383 page Pepapkura PDO template was created by Metal Heart at Paper Juke and may be downloaded here.

DIY 3D Doctor Who Diorama Greeting Card

This 3d Doctor Who diorama was created by DeviantART member RudeAndGinger to be used as a greeting card. The card expands like an accordion to give a 3D view inside the good doctor's TARDIS. The template for the diorama includes three different Doctor Who cut outs. To download the template and detailed instructions go here, right click on the image, and pick "save as" to save the PDF file.

Power Rangers Papercraft: Violet Wolf Ranger Helmet

In 2008, the sixteenth season of the Power Rangers television show aired in the US. The theme of the season was "Power Rangers Jungle Fury" and each of the Ranger's costumes had an animal theme. This is a full size paper model of the Violet Wolf Ranger's helmet. The Pepakura PDO template for the model was created by DeviantART member Joedme4 and may be downloaded here. Previously, I posted a papercraft Power Rangers Morpher Belt Buckle.

Realistic Papercraft Chicken

This delightful papercraft chicken is available for download here. Judging by the size of the template for the chicken, the finished model should be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. I am impressed that such a small papercraft has so much detail!

Other Papercraft Birds:

Hummingbird

Magpie

Dodo

Java Sparrow

Moa

Retro Ray Gun Papercraft

Ray at Ravensblight has added a delightful retro sci-fi pistol to his collection of free papercraft templates.  The gun, which is officially named an "electrospheric ray gun", would not look out of place in an episode of Flash Gordon. The template for the gun may be downloaded here.

Papercraft Castle

This papercraft castle was created by Monica who lives in Northern Sweden. Inspired by Kilkenny Castle in Ireland, the model was constructed using color card stock and double sided tape. The template download for the castle includes several different file formats, including files that may be used as cutting files for Craft Robo cutting machines. This and several other architectural models may be downloaded from Monica's site here.

Vintage Dukes of Hazzard Papercraft Playset

The Dukes of Hazzard television series ran from 1979 till 1985.  In 1982, a Dukes of Hazzard "Punch-Out Fun" book was published. The papercraft set inside the book included:

• 2D Cut outs of the show's main characters
•  A 3D model of the Hazzard Garage
• 3D models of cars seen in the show including the General Lee Dodge Charger, Daisy Duke's Jeep CJ-7, and Sheriff Coltrane's police car.
• Miscellaneous 3D accessories including hay bales and a road block.

Scans of the book may be viewed at Reis O'Brian's blog.

Papercraft Gnomes

This plethora of gnomes, or I should say "snorfs", is the creation of Maarten Janssens at 3EyedBear. There are fifteen different snorfs in all, each with a unique name. Click on the image of the snorf that you want here to download its PDF template.

Printable Movie Prop Tarot Cards

MarkWynn shared with me these printable replica tarot cards based on cards appearing in the movie Now You See Me, a 2013 thriller about a group of four magicians who use their illusion skills to rob banks. Each of the cards has a front and a back which must be printed, cut out, then glued together. For a finishing touch, color the edge of the cards with a black marker. JPG images of the cards may be downloaded here.