The Download Munkey : Tracking the Treasure Down …

Halloween-inspired papercraft from BadCat Designs as featured on cubeelog, the official blog for Chris Beaumont’s Cubee Craft series.

© BadCat Design

A set of spooky-looking cats that require no glue and tape to assemble just like the other Cubees – simply print, cut, fold and enjoy! Count Catula is my favourite of the five Scare-D-Cats – always had a soft spot for pale aristocats in black cloaks with bloodshot eyes and pearl white fangs Moldy green Zombie Cat is rather cool too.

© Cubeecraft.com

There’s more Halloween Cubees (seven to be exact) at the official Halloween section of Cubee Craft where Jack O’ Lanterns, Werewolf, Frankenstein and a cute little ghost await you.

Download the Halloween Cubees and the Scare-D-Cats.

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Guess what I found at MIT (yes, the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – two very cool papercraft sites recommended by the Toy Product Design course at the MIT OpenCourseware site.

© PaperRobots1999.com

The first one is PaperRobots1999.com where you can find plans for building a series of papercraft figures with articulated limbs, which of course makes them far more posable than the typical static papermodels. Don’t let the site name fool you since it’s not all paper robots over there – there’s Spiderman and Ash Williams from the Army of Darkness among the classic Transformers like Optimus Prime, Megatron and even a transformable Jetfire.

© PaperRobots1999.com

The other papercraft site featured was Fwis’ Readymech series – somewhat similiar to the designer papercraft of Shin Tanaka. The main draw of these papertoys are the colourful illustrations on the majority of these cute little toys. Some of my faves below.

© Fwis

Check out PaperRobots1999 and ReadyMech Toys or MIT OpenCourseWare’s Toy Design Course.

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First seen on the Papercraft Paradise, these cool road roller (aka steamroller) scale models are official downloadable papercraft from Sakai Heavy Industries and represent a selection of their many road roller models. The detailed parts for each vehicle are printed clearly in a very high quality PDF – there’s no blurry or jagged lines in these PDFs.

© Sakai Heavy Industries, Ltd

The TZ701 (40+ parts) and GW750 (75+ parts) seem to the two Sakai vehicles that are commonly seen at local roadworks. Gotta take a closer look at those vehicles next time I see them to identify the exact model numbers.

© Sakai Heavy Industries, Ltd

A TZ701 (top) and GW750 (bottom)

Specialized road construction vehicles like these road rollers and pavers happen to be my third favourite construction vehicles after excavators and those huge Liebherr/Terex truck cranes. Now to look for a papercraft excavator

Download the papercraft plans for these Sakai Heavy Industries road rollers.

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Haven’t been recommending much papercraft apart from Shin Tanaka’s Spiky Babies these days despite the glut of excellent models being showcased at two of the papercraft blogs, Papercraft Paradise and Papercraft World that I visit quite frequently.

Today I’m proud to present Chris Beaumont’s cool Cubee Craft series, mainly for the fact that he has made one of my favourite 80’s cartoon characters, the cute fluffy Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from The Real Ghostbusters, into an equally adorable paper toy.

© Chris Beaumont

Chris has also transformed quite a number of other characters from popular culture into paper toys, ranging from games – Master Chief from Halo, anime – Salchiel from Neon Genesis Evangelion, to comic superhero Rockeeter and movies such as the iconic Imperial Stormtrooper from Star Wars. There’s even a limited edition paper toy available for download until 20 March 2008 to commemorate Nine Inch Nails’ new album Ghosts I-IV. What’s even more amazing is that these toys are designed as snap together papercraft without the need for messy glue and adhesives

© Chris Beaumont

Imperial Stormtrooper & Salchiel templates

Chris also promises a new paper toy every week, so it’ll be pretty interesting to see what he comes up with, especially when his inspirations for new characters come from such a broad spectrum of popular culture influences. I think a Pac-Man paper toy would be a cool addition to the series

Read about Chris and his Cubee Craft collection at Urban Retro Lifestyle which is a wonderful place to visit if you’re into urban art, designer/vinyl toys and other cool stuff (who isn’t )

Download your very own Cubee Craft paper toys.

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A new series of the adorable Spiky Baby paper toys by Shin Tanaka is ready for download This set of Spiky Babies is the largest collection yet with a total of 38 designs illustrated by artists and graphic designers worldwide.

© Shin Tanaka

My top nine in ascending order.

© Shin Tanaka

Terry’s Factory – Reminds me of a Chinese zombie aka Jiang Shi

© Shin Tanaka

Bshit – Love the smiley face with the eyepatch

© Shin Tanaka

Hariken – A nice depature from the usual cute designs

© Shin Tanaka

Akira’s Factory – Love the colours and the multiple eyes

© Shin Tanaka

Akishi Nishida – Mmm… Watermelons

© Shin Tanaka

Kazuhiro Hino – Reminds me of the masks worn by Luchadores (more masks & luchadores over @ deadlicious)

© Shin Tanaka

Koraters

© Shin Tanaka

Mochiwo – I think my dear thoo2 will love this one and the one below

© Shin Tanaka

Nekonoko

The rest of the Deluxe series below.














© Shin Tanaka

Oh yeah, even the box template is also available for download

© Shin Tanaka

As the templates are “blindboxed” and randomly chosen when you click on the Open a Box! button at the download page on Shin Tanaka’s official site, be prepared to click for a long time to collect the entire series (or use a Flash disassembler like Flasm – read my earlier introductory article on Flasm)

Download the Spiky Baby Deluxe Series toys.

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