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Awesome Papercraft

PaperTrophy

PaperTrophy

Build your own polygonal menagerie with these colorful pre-cut, pre-creased paper animal sculptures. Available individually or as a bundle. Sadly, the awesome XXL gorilla has an equally XXL price of $199.

Vince: The Cardboard Human Skull

Vince: The Cardboard Human Skull
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Cardboard Safari’s laser-cut build-it-yourself skull models come in a variety of color schemes, including white, black, natural and zebra-striped. Choose from a 2-3/4″ tall or 6″ tall versions. The boxed edition is especially awesome.

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Fantastic Fox Display Window

Fantastic Fox Display Window

This amazing window display for Hermès was created by Thibault Zimmermann and Lucie Thomas aka Zim&Zou, who we’ve featured previously. While many of the objects are papercraft, the fox was made from leather.

Paper Submachine Gun Kit

Paper Submachine Gun Kit
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The perfect weapon for cardboard warfare, this papercraft kit provides die-cut templates for your very own Heckler & Koch MP7A1 submachine gun, complete with removable clip. Guaranteed not to fire actual bullets.

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams

Paul Bischof builds insanely detailed papercraft models of race cars. Ultimately, his knowledge of car design and attention to detail has led him to a career designing actual Formula 1 parts for the Infiniti Red Bull Racing team.

Cut Paper Light Boxes

Cut Paper Light Boxes

Artists Hari & Deepti create intricate illustrations by cutting and layering sheets of paper, then adding LED light. In plain white light, they’re ethereal, when illuminated, they’re magical. Watch them make a huge version here here.

Cardboard Dragon

Cardboard Dragon

Artist CHAé46 created this epic dragon sculpture using nothing but cardboard. It doesn’t even look like he used any glue, and just slotted all the pieces together. Sadly, due to its flammable composition, it won’t be breathing fire.

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Manila Folder 777

Manila Folder 777

This amazing 1:60 scale model of a Boeing 777 airliner is being crafted from thousands of meticulously cut pieces of manila folders by papercraft artist Luca Iaconi-Stewart. The doors even have working hinges. WIP videos here.

Cardboard Adidas Shoes

Cardboard Adidas Shoes

To promote its 2014 lineup of Adidas sneakers, apparel store Chimp had artist Chris Anderson make replicas of the upcoming stock using recycled cardboard. The level of detail and likeness that Chris achieved is quite impressive.

Robocop Cardboard Remake

Robocop Cardboard Remake

(NSFW: Language) Comic Book Girl Lindsay Ames puts her incredible cardboard Robocop costume to good use, reenacting a scene from the original film in her full paper regalia. Perhaps a better idea than a reboot of the franchise.

Paper Chess Set

Paper Chess Set
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A flat-pack chess set that’s easily assembled from sheets of thick, pre-cut cardboard. We love the look of the pieces, though you wouldn’t want to play it in the rain. It’s also not all that portable once it’s assembled.

Papercraft Lamborghini Aventador

Papercraft Lamborghini Aventador

Taras Lesko adds one more car to his cardboard collection. He built this 8ft. long replica of the Lamborghini Aventador as it appears in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. You can buy the template for a 30″ version of this build on his website.

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Johan Scherft’s Papercraft Birds

Johan Scherft’s Papercraft Birds

Johan Scherft makes realistic life-size papercraft scale models of birds. He makes templates on a PC then paints the printed templates by hand. He also has a few colored templates on his site and tutorials on YouTube.

Papercraft Pagani Zonda

Papercraft Pagani Zonda

Taras Lesko, the man behind the Papercraft Bugatti Veyron returns with another intricately detailed supercar model you can print and build yourself. Concerned that you don’t have the skills? Watch the instruction video first.

Laser-Cut Paper Art

Laser-Cut Paper Art

Artist Eric Standley creates insanely detailed paper artworks. Each piece is made of more than a hundred layers of laser-cut paper “in an attempt to capture the reverence of the infinite.”

The Legend of Digital Zelda

The Legend of Digital Zelda

Using Toon.FX, VFXer FinalCutKing made this wondrous short featuring the travels of a papercut Link as he takes a new journey – though numerous computer screens on a mission to rescue Zelda.

Giant Ghetto Blaster

Giant Ghetto Blaster

Mini Schweiz and ad agency Draftfcb/Lowe Group commissioned Bartek Elsner to build this much-larger-than-life boom box, crafted out of cardboard for the International Radio Festival in Zurich.

Moneygami

Moneygami

Graphic designer and origami artist Yosuke Hasegawa folds paper bills in such a way that the person on the bill ends up wearing a headgear. He’s even made trading cards of his moneygami.

Hexaflexagons

Hexaflexagons

Math geek Vi Hart explains how to use extra scraps of notebook paper to fill time during boring lectures and mess with your mind at the same time. We forgot how much fun these things were.

Walking Paper Robot

Walking Paper Robot

Countless precisely-cut strips of paper and tiny gears comprise this amazing mechanical marvel – a biped robot assembled entirely from paper, a few wood dowels, and powered by rubber bands.

Papercraft Bugatti Veyron

Papercraft Bugatti Veyron

While most of us will never be able to afford the $2 million+ dollar pricetag of an actual Veyron, we can live vicariously through this intricate paper model you can cut out and build for yourself.

Paper Cross-Sections

Paper Cross-Sections

Lisa Nilsson’s Tissue Series are surprisingly realistic cross-sections of the human body made only using rolled and shaped strips of paper, a technique also known as quilling. More here and here.

Insect Origami

Insect Origami

Multi-talented artist Brian Chan from the MIT Hobby shop has created a wonderful award-winning collection of complex, intricate origami insects, made from uncut, single sheets of paper.

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