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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 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)

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Permalink Reply by Imawan Atmosudirdjo on April 27, 2009 at 11:57pm

my first paper toy was something from cubeecraft! thanks cubee!!

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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

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Permalink Reply by Errata on April 29, 2009 at 11:23pm

my first was an Optimus Prime from paper robot's 1999

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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.

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Permalink Reply by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] on February 20, 2012 at 11:40am

I build that one too (not my first papertoy though)

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Permalink Reply by Steo on February 20, 2012 at 9:55am

Lelouche Lamprouge by Chris Beaumont of Cubeecraft. Saw it on adult swim. http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/1564

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Permalink Reply by EULE on March 5, 2012 at 11:57pm

my first papertoy was hellboy by hamhead or something. :P

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Permalink Reply by Foxox on July 18, 2012 at 4:48pm

I made St30's fish papercraft at his house. The amount of papercrafts in his room is astonishing to say the least. I just designed my first model, it's on the front page. I think it's an udder masterpiece.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Willis on August 1, 2012 at 1:51pm

My first paper toy was a Dr Who Tardis of my own design made out of thin red card and sellotape. It must have been about 4cm tall. I was only 8 at the time. Many years later after a lifetime of origami, point of sale design and fascination with paper in general, I discovered Toy-A-Day and I was hooked.

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Permalink Reply by Wallace A. Lowe Jr. on September 3, 2012 at 8:50pm

I stumbled on Behemoth's Castle Crashers (the Red Knight, I think) as one of the pages in a design magazine. I had no idea what Castle Crashers, or this incredibly cool thing called papercraft was, but I was hooked.

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Permalink Reply by Daveybird on October 22, 2012 at 6:15pm

I think my first papertoy was a rudimentary NASCAR of Rusty Wallace's 1997 car I made myself. No folds or seperations, just scrunch and tape! Over time, I got better.