Disney TaleSpin Seaplane Paper Model

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

Space Invaders Pop-up

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

St. Paul's Cathedral

Day of the Dead Skull

Spanish Galleon 

Tower of Babel Ziggurat

1966 Cadillac Paper Model

The first Cadillac Coupe de Ville was produced in 1949. The Coupe de Ville went through several generations of design after that time; the most famous era being the late 1950's, during which the car sported some of the largest "tail fins" ever to grace an America automobile. This 1:24 scale paper model by North07 is of the 1966 design for the Coupe. A Pepakura PDO template and instructions may be found on his website located here. North also has a 1963 Chevy Impala model for download as well! In 2006, the Coupe de Ville was renamed the Cadillac DTS.

Other Papercraft Cars:

1996 Jeep Cherokee

1972 AMC Gremlin

1993 Dodge Viper

1965 Ford Thunderbird

1982 Pontiac Firebird

Japanese Cityscape Papercraft

This cityscape paper model was created by the Mansei Company as a craft activity for children. The scene depicted is a panorama of the Akihabara area of Tokyo. Akihabara is a major shopping district for electronics and all things related to anime, manga, and video games. The district takes its name from the nearby train station (which is the low brown building in the model). Printable PDFs and photo instructions for this papercraft may be found here.

Other Architecture Paper Models:

HO Scale Historic Illinois Buildings
N Scale German Village

10mm RPG Urban Architecture

Czech Churches

Philippines Architecture Collection

Harry Potter Snape Paper Toy

Severus Snape is an important character in the Harry Potter universe. Best known as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, for a period of time, Snape was also Headmaster of the school. This papercraft fan art of Snape is a free printable from Karthik, an illustrator who lives in Berlin. The template for the toy may be downloaded here. Snape figures prominently in the Harry Potter storyline because of his unrequited love of Harry's mother, Lily.

Other Paper Toy Characters:

Harry Potter

Moana
Baby Yoda

Dark Knight

Little Prince

Year of the Ox Papercraft

In February, these papercraft oxen were created by artist, Aktuelle Beitrage to celebrate 2021, the Year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac. There are six different oxen available: yellow, white, red, blue, black and a plain black one with no floral decorations.  The PDF template for each of the different oxen may be downloaded here. My favorite part of these paper toys are the birds! ^^

Other Papercraft Animals:

Line Art Rabbit
Cow Buggy
Winged Reindeer
Maharaja's Elephant
Poseable Squid
Gray Wolf

Japanese Railroad Paper Models

I am impressed by the shear quantity of the free papercraft available on the JR West website. There are dozens of models of Japanese trains available for download, everything from nineteenth century steam locomotives to modern day "bullet trains". And as if that was not enough, there are also train station paper models and railroad tracks to go with the trains. Pictured is just a sampling of all that is available. It takes some browsing to get to every piece in the collection, but it is well worth the effort. I am not sure of the exact scale of the models, but the railroad cars appear to be about 8" (20 cm) in length.

Related Papercraft:

Mister Rogers Red Trolley
Pullman Car
Mini TGV Engines
San Francisco Street Car
MLP Friendship Express

End Game Captain America Papercraft

I am a long time Captain America fan. My all-time favorite Cap moment out of the MCU movies was in Avengers: End Game when Steve Rogers picks up Thor's hammer in the battle against Thanos. Imagine my delight, then, when I found this End Game Captain America paper model by WR Papercraft! Standing at about 18" (45 cm) tall, the model is fair-sized, which is a good thing as many of the parts are small. The printable template for the model is available for download here. The download includes both PDF and Pepakura PDO files. Build photos are by Woon.

Related Marvel Papercraft:

Full Size Mjolnir
Mini Traditional Cap Shield
Avengers Paper Toy Collection
Wakandan Shields Captain America
Thanos with Gauntlet

2020 Mustang GT500 Papercraft

To help fight boredom during the quarantine, last year Car and Driver magazine released a free paper model of the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. The model is super simple. It has only two parts (one being the rear spoiler!). The printable PDF for the model may be downloaded here. If green is not your cup of tea, there are four other color schemes of the model available. At the time of its release, Ford promoted the 2020 GT500 as being "the most powerful street-legal Ford in history".

Other Papercraft Automobiles:

1997 Corvette
1993 Dodge Viper
1968 Shelby Mustang
1967 Toyota 2000GT
1956 Thunderbird

Papercraft Cicada

While this papercraft cicada may look like origami at first glance, it is actually a glue-less paper model (i.e. cutting is employed, in addition to folding). What is amazing about this model is its template contains just one piece. This single piece is cut out and then carefully folded to give the result in the photo. The printable template for the model was created by Fumito Nozaki and is available at the website located here. After following the link, click on the blue text under the photo to download the PDF. The template is black and white, so printing on color paper is required for the best results. The cicada in the photo was printed on metallic paper.

Other Papercraft Bugs:

Tarantula

Beetles

Scorpion

Butterfly