My lil bro and my nieces love this stuff...
Paper toys are toys made of paper. They are constructed in several ways, by folding, as in paper airplanes, paper fortune tellers or Origami, or by cutting, decorating or assembling pieces of paper with glue or tape to create a paper doll or paper model. (Wikipedia)
Paper models, also called card models or papercraft, are models constructed mainly from sheets of heavy paper or card stock as a hobby. It may be considered a broad category that contains origami, and card modelling, with origami being a paper model made from folding paper (without using glue), and card modelling as the making of scale models from sheets of card on which the parts were printed, usually in full colour, for one to cut out, fold, score and glue together. They appear to be generally more popular in Europe and Japan than in the United States. (paper-replika.com)
Now its popular in Indonesia...
Hwem, If u have a such a boring day and wanna do something different, do the craft like this, all u do it just, DOWNLOAD it, PRINT it, CUT it, SCORE it, FOLD it, STICK it, and ARRANGE it.
What u need is
For a normal model (height 10-40cm) use 100-200 gr paper.
For a mini model (height less than 5 cm) use paper under 100 gr paper
(tips taken from perikertas.com)
hints: Some other paper model lover use photo paper for luxurious result
Voilaaa... with a will and pray, u can have such a nice paper toys like this like this...
(my lil bro made this, he download from this site)
(Full body, Patlabor, besides patlabor he made, bajaj, transformer truck, aircraft, and Lebaran series)
(MarioBros and Spiderman, a paper toys that i made long time ago, a gift from an event last year, cute)
This is some cool site that u can join in, and download some paper toys for FREE...
- http://perikertas.com/ - its a community for a paper toys lovers, there is tip&trick for all lover and member.
- http://www.paper-replika.com/ - love this site, COOL, many models with colors, and all over the world know this site.
- http://paperkrap.blogspot.com/ - it's a blog and many cool paper model here, love this one too.
- http://kertascraft.com/ - indonesia cool stuff is here, there is washboard, ketupat, kopaja, Bajaj etc.
- http://www.nanibird.com/ - it sez, "All the lil' birdies are free for you to enjoy. Download, print, cut and play!"
- http://www.nicepapertoys.com/ - u can upload u'r paper toys creation here, meet some paper toys artist.
- http://www.papertoys.com - this site contain a lot of models u can download, but not so much color added here, but all good model.
Thats all i know...Happy Crafting Guys!!!
