100 Exceptional Free Paper Models and Toys

February 14th, 2008  |  51 Comments
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photoshop listsThere is an underlying web world about papercraft modeling. It is not visible. It is hard to find. And, in many cases, the web sites are in a language that most of us can’t read. But, believe me, it is huge. And it is not about printable cards or paper dolls, or even scrapbooking. It is about stunningly good looking three dimensional paper models: Gadgets, toys, characters, cars, robots, spaceships, airplanes, buildings and even working photo cameras. You name it. This list gathers some notable models available for download. But this is just a small sample. At the end of the article you will find links to paper modeling books, paper models directories, paper modeling software and tutorials, and paper models blogs, which in my opinion are the most important of all, just because they are constantly updated and the owners seem to have access to information that’s very difficult to find. Grab your X-Acto knife, some glue and start building now!
Yamaha MT01 Tyrannosaurus Rex Butterfly
Kayakiri Moving Copernican System and Moving Ptolemaic System Beagle
peafowl Tiger Orangutan
Craft town Merry go round School
Chinese dragon Notre Dame Mont Saint Michel
Sagres II Animal puzzle Gift box
Gift box Batmovile 1966 Buttlecup PowerPuff girl
Piano Macs Tyrrel P34 Ford
Arrows A21 Lamborghini Countach LP400 Honda Motocompo
Readymech Pink Readymech Jed Tentaclopse
Mantis monkey Battlehearse
Face plate Deluxe coffin boxes Splatter bot
Hovel AT-AT Snow walker Millenium falcon
Tie Fighter Sand crawler Lens Head RB
Gun Walker Lens Head Leans Head B
Wild urp Princess Kitty XWing fighter
Hedkase Transformers Time machine Noisy cricket
Blaster Metropolis Maria Jaguar mk2
Bear wedding SD Gundam RGM-8
Rickenbacker 330/340 Gretsch G6120W Martin D45
Marvin The Martian Wacky Racers The Compact Pussycat Wacky Racers The Creepy Coupe
Gurgel X12-0L Kirari Siino Tera Pak
Mach 5 Turtle Rabbit
Lizard Bulldozer Hotrod
Aibo Ifbot Haunted mansion
Haunted mansion Fungus house Clasroom
Madcat Mech Market Doll house
Tiger I tank Davinci code cryptex Drums set
Giant hornet Roasted turkey Raw and grilled steak
Airplane Pentax MX Camera Crown
Retro TV set Japanese food Fruit basket
Garden Shed R2D2 Garamon
Train time machine Howl's moving castle Moving paper woodpecker
  Print and play triazzle puzzle  

Papercraft Modeling Books

Paper Engineering: 3D Techniques for a 2D Material

Paper Engineering: 3D Techniques for a 2D Material

The Toymaker: Paper Toys That You Can Make Yourself

The Toymaker: Paper Toys That You Can Make Yourself

Paper Toys

Paper Toys

Piazza San Giovanni in Florence: Scale Architectual Paper Model

Piazza San Giovanni in Florence: Scale Architectual Paper Model

Automata and Mechanical Toys

Automata and Mechanical Toys

Cut and Make Japanese Masks

Cut and Make Japanese Masks

More Papercraft Modeling Sites

Papercraft Modeling Blogs

.: Paper Forest, Paper Kraft, Gundam and Robot Anime, and Papercraft World These four blogs have enough information to keep you busy for the rest of your life. No kidding. They are constantly updated and the information they bring is outstanding. If you don’t like to do your own research and investigation, chances are that what you are looking for is hidden here in these blogs. A must read. These four blogs were of a great help when writing this article. A big thank you to the owners!!

Papercraft Models Directories and Networks

.: 3D Paper Model and Space Station 42 If you want to get your hands dirty browsing though lots of information, these two directories contain all kinds of models ordered by categories. .: Nice Paper Toys Nice Paper Toys is a new and exciting network of papercraft artists. You can browse their works and download the free models.

Papercraft Software

.: Pepakura Designer Pepakura Designer allows you to create paper craft models from already made 3D models. Some paper models around the web are created with this software and exported in .pdo file format. You can download the free Pepakura .pdo viewer here.

Papercraft Modeling Tutorials

.: How to design a paper model This tutorial guides you through the process of designing your own paper models from scratch. .: How to make papercraft models High quality and very well done video tutorials that shows the basic tips and techniques to build your own paper models. Some advanced tips too. .:NEW - Download, print, fold, paste Low Tech Magazine wrote an article similar to this one with some models that are not featured in this list. They linked to this article as an additional resource. Thanks!!

51 Responses to “100 Exceptional Free Paper Models and Toys”

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  3. Jenny Says:

    heh that’s pretty cool. i didn’t know you could make all of that out of paper.

  4. Benny Says:

    Super cool! Wish I had more time for such projects!

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  7. kwx Says:

    I really think you shoudn’t have missed out the Yamaha-motor papercraft. They are ultra fine and yet free of charge!

    http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/entertainment/papercraft/

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    There is a great illustrator in the UK - Ben the Illustrator. Who has an extensive collection of Paper Toy Dogs called Speaker Dogs.
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  16. qureyoon Says:

    this is a beautiful selection ! great work here !! loved it ! *subscribed ;)

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    Great models!

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    Best regards!

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  27. DitaVonB Says:

    Cool! But there is an underlying web world about just about everything.

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  29. marc Says:

    k wapo k es esto.
    io montare una moto de esas 1na MT1 i una special

  30. sir jorge Says:

    Yeah, this is awesome, underlying web world or not, this is just plain awesome.

  31. petnos Says:

    Good list, thanks.

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  34. Pepper Lim Says:

    Brilliant! Just brilliant!

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    Contrary to what the publishers seem to believe, these photos would be much more interesting to me it they weren’t airbrushed so heavily. I would like to see that they are works of paper, not photo manipulation.

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