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Discovered Mr Shin Tanaka from the archives of Urban Retro Lifestyle, a paper toy designer who has generously offered some of his beautifully designed paper toys (the more collectable than playable type of toy) for download as templates in PDF format.

© Shin Tanaka

There are currently seven series of free Spiky Babies from Shin Tanaka. Only templates from [Series 07] can be downloaded as the older series have been sold out and cannot be downloaded anymore (You can still view the gallery of the toys in the other series to find out what you have missed out, though)

Here’s all the toys available for [Series 07].

© Shin Tanaka

I’m not sure whether series become sold out after a pre-determined number of downloads or after a certain period of time so do visit his website quickly at shin.co.nr and get your Spiky Babies before [Series 07] is sold out

© Shin Tanaka

By the way, there are also Mask Hoodies available for download too (Currently Series 01 to 03 are available). I prefer the Spiky Babies though - they’re much cuter

Another nifty thing about these Spiky Babies is that you cannot choose the template to download as the server selects a random template for you to download everytime you click on Open a box Feels like buying one of those Japanese toy capsules (Gashapon) or those boxed trading figurines/kits at China Square Central in SG. (BTW, there’s a pretty good SG Gashapon site @ www.gashaponrakuen.com)

&copy Shin Tanaka

The server chose Yok aka Mr Big Moustache for me. He looks like a sleepy-eyed version of the Pringles mascot

There’s actually a way to download the templates for Series 05 to 07 via Google Search after you download one of the templates - hint: the site: keyword will be very useful I’m not going to list the direct links here because I don’t think that’s very fair to Mr Tanaka. Besides, clicking repeatedly on Open a box to try to get the one you’re looking for is pretty exciting stuff ;p

A promotional 1/144 papercraft model of a late model German Tiger I, one of the most distinctive tanks of World War II. The papercraft was designed by Masahiro Takamoto for Sega’s Advanced Daisenryaku 2001 or Advanced 大戦略 2001, a (old!) game for Sega Dreamcast.

© Sega

The completed model should look like the one in the photo below taken from Sega’s website for Advanced 大戦略 2001.

© Sega

The Tiger I (German designation: PzKpfw VI Ausf. E) was a 55 tonne tank armed with the 88mm KwK L/56 gun. The characteristic blocky and angular silhouette of this tank was due to the Tiger I being designed before the advent of the Soviet T-34 hammered home the benefits of sloped armor for additional ballistic protection.

For even more information on the Tiger I, visit The Armor Site and Achtung Panzer!.

You can view the other tanks in this series of papercraft tanks - King Tiger, Panther Ausf G, M4A1/A3 Sherman, SU-85, SU-122 and two variants of the T-34 at this gallery here. Unfortunately, only the Tiger I model plans are available for download (instructions w/photos - text in Japanese)

The main page for the papercraft tanks are located here in the Specials section of the Advanced 大戦略 2001 site.

After covering so many papercraft plans (actually only 7) for download, I finally found the definitive blog for papercraft plans. Overusing the Google Image Search instead of Google Web Search does have its drawback

Anyway, Papercraft World boasts some of the best links to papercraft plans on the .NET. Chances are if you happen to come here looking for a particular papercraft plan and couldn’t find it, Papercraft World should have it - hey, it isn’t called Papercraft World for nothing

Some of my favourite papercraft plans from Papercraft World ranging from speakerdogs - WTF are speakerdogs? Click to find out :), Star Wars vehicles, necromancers to Aston Martin cars, cubic characters and of course munkey! papercraft.

Munkey going bananas over at Papercraft World.

Even if you aren’t a papercraft fan, check out what experts can do like this anime girl.

Here’s another post related to Aliens after going bananas over the Aliens franchise due to overexposure to AliensRL and bloody Wikipedia.

See below for a 1:1 paper scale model of the M41A Pulse Rifle used by the Colonial Marines in the Aliens movies created by Jan Rukr in 2003.

© Jan Rukr

Any gun nut or Aliens fanatic will love the fantastic detailing of this model, especially on the barrel and handguard. Some parts of the model are movable too - judging from the plans I believe the pump action for the underslung grenade launcher, trigger and charging handle can be moved and the magazine inserted/removed. .

The model comprises 30! A4 printouts with approximately 200 parts - yes, I have downloaded the RAR file and counted them Download the plans for the M41A here. (3.33 MB - Requires RAR extractor e.g WinRAR / 7-Zip)

Also see Jan’s other papercraft creations and plans for the vehicles in the Aliens movies on his website.

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Some downloadable papercraft plans for Gundam mini-figs ala Lego style Gundam Universe mobile suits.

Clockwise from top left: MS-06 Zaku II, MS-06S Zaku II Commander Type (Char Aznable Custom), MS-07B Gouf, MS-09 Dom, YMS-14S Gelgoog Commander Type (Char Aznable Custom) and the RX-78-2 Gundam.

  
  
  
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There’s also papercraft plans for Star Wars mini-figs like Clone Troopers, Imperial Stormtroopers and Boba Fett - too bad there isn’t a General Grievous papercraft mini-fig

  
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All the plans are available as JPG files on piromodel.fc2web.com.

I would like to credit the creator of these great papercraft plans but I can’t seem to find his/her name anywhere. Anyone can read Japanese here?

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