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Written by Terri Stone on February 23, 2009
Paper crafting is an art form that's accessible both to artists and to those of who just like to play with scissors.
If you're part of the latter group, getting started is easy. You simply download templates from sites like these:
3EyedBear
CubeeCraft
Grumm
Macula
PaperCraftx
Paper Modelz
Do you know of other paper-craft sources, or have you created a template you want to share? Tell us by posting here!
Papercraft
Caution: What you are about to read may result in a life long addiction to cardmodeling!
For those not aware of this type of craft, prepare to be astonished! There are paper model (cardmodel) sites to suite just about every interest and level of skill.
Yamaha has incredibly detailed motorcycles as well as a broad range of Japanese cultural items and endangered species.
http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/entertainment/papercraft/
Space:
Real; space
http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_real.html
Science fiction space
http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_scifi.html
Disney:
http://www.seite42.de/indexe.htm
Most of the printer manufactures offer a selection of models
Canon's offers something for everyone:
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/1006/
Here is the aptly titled Paper Toys site
http://www.papertoys.com/
Here is a Russian site (use google page translator)
http://www.cardarmy.ru/links.htm
This artist has created some wonderful Trout models:
http://www.itow.com/amago/papercraft/papercraft2.html
How about some simple Architectural models:
http://members.shaw.ca/woa/models.htm
Here is one for the typographers in the crowd (you know who you are)
http://www.epson.com.hk/files/minisite/papercraft/others.htm
That is from the Epson site
http://www.epson.com.hk/files/minisite/papercraft
And on and on....
Some free downloads
http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/pages/freedownloads.html . Flying Oig has lots of models for sale, also.