Since around 2005, I've been building papercraft projects in my spare time. Now that it's summer again, I've had more spare time than usual, and have been picking up production on some new projects. Some folks in the chatroom have wanted to see some of them, so I figured I'd make a thread to show them off. So as to make this thread slightly more friendly to the dial-up users, I'll simply link to the pics, rather than posting them here.

Most of the little crafts I started off with didn't survive the trips back and forth to school, but this little guy did...

Mr. Saturn

Not too complex, but not bad for one of the first ones I did. I did several other little ones before attempting a couple of larger ones...

Dragon Head 1
Dragon Head 2

They turned out well, and have managed to avoid being smushed over the years. I always found it strange that dragon head 2 was just a head, as dragon head 1 was an enlarged version of a smaller version of itself, seen here...

Big Dragon

That one took me about a month to get through, it's about 2 and a half feet tall. Kinda sucks that it's mostly crushed now... I was entirely sick of papercraft by the end of that thing, and took a pretty long break from it, until shortly after the Da Vinci Code movie came out, and all sorts of versions of this came out...

Cryptex

It does work, though it's a little finicky and you have to use a very gentle touch with it. I ended up using it in one of my D&D quests as a prop, and you should've seen the look on my player's faces when they finally got it open, only to find this...

Little Cryptex

Same model, scaled down. It fit perfectly inside of its bigger self, and I think it came out better than the larger one. Around this time, the papercraft and origami board was started on 4chan, so I started getting a lot of new models... many of which I still haven't put together yet. One papercraft designer became somewhat of a celebrity on /po/, Chamoo232. Her papercraft designs were dead on accurate, ranging from very simple to immensely complex. (I still won't go anywhere near that Cerberus model...) She started off with a lot of Metal Gear Solid and Half-Life 2 models, and I picked up this little guy...

Headcrab, view 1
Headcrab, view 2

He ended up turning out really well, and I made use of him in my both my art class and digital photography class this past semester. And no, he isn't named Lamar.

Metal Gear Rex, view 1
Metal Gear Rex, view 2

This is a model that was released in E3, just before the release of Metal Gear Solid 3. I had built that model, but my printer screwed up and printed it smaller than it was supposed to be, and it got smashed before long. A little over a year ago, someone took the effort to recolor the original model (which was a blueish-green for some reason) and enlarge it. The small candle in the picture is necessary for support, the big guy can't stand on his own two feet. For years, people cried out for a Ray model to go along with their Rex, but got nothing... Until Chamoo232 gave the world this...

Metal Gear Ray, view 1
Metal Gear Ray, view 2

This was scaled to the size of the original model, not the new enlarged version which I built, so it's a little bit funny seeing a shrimpy Ray. The tail was probably the most annoying thing on that to build...

Jade Dragon 1
Jade Dragon 2

This is my latest large project, my first attempt at an automated papercraft. ...Sadly, it didn't turn out very well. Only some of the bars slide up and down easily, and most of them don't sit well on the wheels on the bottom. Still looks kind of nice, though, and I'm sure if I really tried, I could take a bunch of still photos and animate it so that it looked like it moved smoothly. Now with all that big stuff out of the way, here's a handful of smaller projects I did over the years...

Bomb
N64 logo
Whistle
Snake in a Box

The bomb and the N64 logo are both pretty old, while the whistle and the Snake in a Box are pretty new. I still love the Snake in the Box, as simple as it is... it's just a pair of legs attached to an empty box, but it looks so good like that. The whistle actually works, the middle section acts as a bellows and produces a nice, high pitched whistle.

My next project is the Master Sword in its pedestal from Ocarina of Time, though I haven't even printed it out yet. I'll post some pics once it's done. So... what do you all think?

Sure, I'll make a video working on one of these. Not the Master Sword, though, I think I'll work on something smaller and more interesting... As I said, I have plenty in my folder that I haven't gotten around to building yet.

I may build one of the creatures from Alice in Wonderland, but I haven't decided which yet... These are the options:

http://ferahgo.8m.com/Alice.html

All of them are built with only a single page of parts, so there's not really any differences in difficulty between them. It'd be nice if more of the creatures were created like this, though, I'd love to create that broom dog, or the birdcage bird.

I'll probably make this video tomorrow, so if you have any preference on which animal you'd like to see created, just let me know.

^ Yeah, that site has a ton of great pieces, that's where I got the Master Sword piece that I'm currently working on.

Update on the video... I filmed it, and there were some shenanigans involved in getting Windows Movie Maker to recognize the video files... But somewhere along the line, half of the videos got corrupted. The model came out really crappy anyway, the design was really bad... seconds after the video ended, the head fell off.

I think I'll do a second attempt at it, but not in video form, just in picture form. ...And I'm definitely not doing one of the other Alice creatures, I think I'll try one of those Nintendo papercrafts.

Well, I'm not finished working on this page yet, but I figured I'd show you what I have so far...

http://ferahgo.8m.com/papercraft.html

If you like, you can just view one of the images and increase the numbers up to 31, all the images have been uploaded, I just haven't finished the page yet.