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Your first papertoy

What was the first papertoy that you put together? The one that started it all.

For me, it was a preprinted model of Fox's Arwing in an old issue of Nintendo power. I think I held it together with tape than glue but it came out very nice. This was more than a few years ago. I had no idea what was papercraft at the time so I didn't get into again until little over a year ago. But I still remember that Arwing model I made.

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Permalink Reply by Trace on March 5, 2009 at 4:27pm

How I got started on papercrafting, I'm not quite sure. Paper Planes led to origami, which led to papercrafting. Back then I had no Idea what I was doing. I was trying to get the ninjatoes link model put together with tiny bite of scotch tape. My first serious papercraft was the link model from ninjatoes, of course, but I never completely built one until about a year later, when I had actual glue. Oh, by the way Tawa, the arwing you speak of was posted a while back on Nintendo Papercraft; here is a .zip file of it. (Attachment)

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Nintendo_Arwing.zip, 1.9 MB

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Permalink Reply by thedaydreamkid on March 6, 2009 at 12:16am: My first was the Stay Puft Marshmallow man CubeeCraft.

I saw a bump for the site one evening watching Adult Swim. They were showing off some paper toys resembling characters from the many shows that play.

After that I found Matt Hawkins, Marshall, Nice Bunny, SpeakerDog and the list goes on.

Hoping to put out my first custom design and "skinning" of other designs out soon.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sal Azad on March 6, 2009 at 3:34am: astroboy from japan designer .. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anna Blume & Henk Engst on March 6, 2009 at 11:28am: Readymech tentaclops, printed it out and gave it to my girlfriend. The first I made myself was Domo-Kun, from Cubeecraft.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by TipTop on March 10, 2009 at 9:03pm: My first paper toy was the Cubeecraft Storm Trooper, and like Dr Shazam i saw Marshall Alexander's work and the bug caught hold. But before all that i built a model of The Globe Theatre when i was ten that came with a magazine called Discovery. (it was a fortnightly historical magazine with a different model in each issue); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Imawan Atmosudirdjo on April 27, 2009 at 11:57pm: my first paper toy was something from cubeecraft! thanks cubee!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Luke 'Glood' on April 28, 2009 at 11:28am: The first paper model (and only paper model) I have designed is Stanley the Gloo-Bear; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Errata on April 29, 2009 at 11:23pm: my first was an Optimus Prime from paper robot's 1999; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris on June 1, 2009 at 3:42am: A paper craft gorilla that took ages to make. I didn't like it so I covered it in paper mache and fibre glass to build up the features. I left it in my shed and mice ate half of it leaving a wierd half gorilla terminator. I am currently looking for other animals to collaborate with.; ▶ Reply to This