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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 Anubis on February 8, 2008 at 4:12pm

my first model was matt hawkin's "Tribunny".

From then onwards (a year ago) i have been obsessed! :)

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Permalink Reply by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] on February 8, 2008 at 4:16pm

As a kid I've build a battle ship, but the first papertoy model was a Brickboy by Sjors Trimbach

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Permalink Reply by Dr.Shazam on February 8, 2008 at 6:49pm

I think the Readymech Pirate by Fwis was my first, but I didn't really catch the fever until I saw Nana the monkey astronaut by Marshall Alexander. If you're reading this, Thanks, Marshall for getting me hooked on papertoys with your design!

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Permalink Reply by Matt Hawkins on February 9, 2008 at 2:57pm

I don't really remember any from my childhood but the first one I built that got me interested in designing my own was Destroy-o-tron by LouLou.

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Permalink Reply by Jerom on February 9, 2008 at 6:23pm

The first ones I've seen were the Fwis papertoys ... and I built Skeletron in the same journey! (in february 2007) because he have two "faces", white and black.

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Permalink Reply by FIAWOL on February 15, 2008 at 5:42am

i stumbled across a "nice bunny" papertoy on the "make" magizine website. i think i was looking for instructions on how to make a handheld atari but i noticed a post about a samurai bunny toy made out of paper. so i printed it out, put it together( i think i used wood glue because that is all i had) and as soon as it was finished i put it an my shelf and dove right back into the internet to find more. way to go Nice Bunny.

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Permalink Reply by Castleforte on February 25, 2008 at 11:52pm

Hehe! That's sweet man!

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Permalink Reply by BewareTheCute on February 25, 2008 at 3:47pm

When I was a kid (sometime in the early 80s), I put together a carnival with a Ferris Wheel and lots of little pieces. No idea what company it was or what happened to it, but I vividly remember how satisfying it was to build.

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Permalink Reply by Anubis on February 25, 2008 at 6:32pm

dude, that osunds AWESOME! a carnival?? that is such a GREAT idea for a paper toy! :) :) :)

its a pity you dont remember the model's creator, otherwise i would HAPPILY make that model ANY day :)

sounds cool man! :)

Anubis

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Permalink Reply by ben the illustrator on March 1, 2008 at 3:18am

Mine was Sjors' Brickboy, same as mck, Sjors also pretty much started me off with doing my own, and he did the first custom Speakerdog paper toy, top man Sjors.

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Permalink Reply by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] on March 3, 2008 at 3:25am

Sjors was also the first who commented on my first papertoy: Grumm

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Permalink Reply by ring on March 15, 2008 at 2:23pm

The first papertoy i build was my own blank version. At that moment i had never heard about papertoys. Or maybe... yes, i once build some 'Fabeltjeskrant' characters. The first toys i found online were Brickboy and the Readymechs... I was really surprised to find all those great papertoys on the internet.