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Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: Chiba

Jon Greenwell aka Jonny Chiba aka Johboy has create some paper models with a heavy hiphop flavour.
Me like very much…. indeed. 🙂

The latest:
New Model Football Crazies

You can help by creating opponents: just download a blank copy and build your own futbal team

And the very cool HEADNODDAz serie:
HEADNODDAz no.1 more to come
HEADNODDAz no.1

HEADNODDAz no.2 the remix
HEADNODDAz no.2 the remix
papermodel;

and the original HEADNODDAz no.1

And a character named Baghead:

and there are also some trains…
all I can say: go check Chiba out

[via paperforest or papercraftparadise]

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Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: Paper Robots (update 2)

The first time I talked about paperrobots it had 4 models.

The papermodels from Paper Robots are amazing: they are almost as good as a action figure.
It has joints that move freely and smoothly. There are characters with joint, and now there are 2 transformers. Yes, they transform into a truck or a jet….

Since my last post there have been some additions:

Model 5: Evil Dead´s ASH!

Model 6: Paper Robot´s BLUE STEEL 1999

Model 7: Classic SPIDER-MAN

Model 8: Black Simbiote SPIDER-MAN

And another transformer model (like Optimus Prime)
Model 9: Transforming JETFIRE

You can find the downloads of the papermodels on the site of paperrobots and find more pictures on flickr.

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Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: SIZZA

Nick Knite has created a flatpack papertoy named SIZZA
It’s a paper toy inspired by readymech.

SIZZA is now also open for custom versions, you need to drop a comment and you will get hooked up.

Here some examples:
S-Troopz Army
S-Troopz Army

SIZZA – get your kickz!
SIZZA - get your kickz!

SIZZA – Hello Sizzy
SIZZA - Hello Sizzy

SIZZA – Return of the black Ninja
SIZZA - Return of the black Ninja

SIZZA – Papercut
SIZZA - Papercut

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Design

Papercraft project: BYODP

Update #1: This project seems to be discontinued, so the only way to see something of it is via wayback machine

I have seen this project before, but I’m not very enthusiastic about this project.
Probably because it’s not a toy. But there are some very nice skins.

BUILD YOUR OWN DEATH PROJECT

BUILD YOUR OWN DEATH PROJECT aka byodp from
irreal.
Design your very own cigarette pack, the way you want it. I’m not a smoker, but these artworks makes you almost sorry that you don’t. (well…. not really)

You can download a blank template here. And if you want to know more about this project, read this explanation

Check out the designs or visit flickr

[via ragandbone (thx for reminding me of this project)]

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Design

Another small update on my site design

Still refining the css for this blog, I’m getting there.

Today I added 2 new plugins to my list of WordPress plugins:

CG-FlashyTitles for the nicely rendered Headers, and this is one of the user-friendliest plugin I’ve ever seen.
CG-FlashyTitles
And is based upon sIFR

Contact Form ][ because my contact page didn’t have a contact form anymore. I know that sandbox has the possibility to add commentfrom, but does this at the bottom of the page, and I wanted it in the page.

There are some other plugins I want to activate (WP-PageNavi , Ultimate Tag Warrior and Related Entries), but they all need a little tempering with the .PHP files.
That not really a problem, but the release of WordPress 2.3 is very close.
And with that the release of Sandbox 1.0, so tempering with the PHP files have to wait till then.

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Design Improvement

New design for my blog (finally!)

For the readers of my blog: there is a new design.

(for the RSS readers: New design for [mck])

After using the Blix theme from kingcosmonaut for more than a year, I changed the theme into one of my own design.

I’ve talked about more than once.. but for some reason the build of my design always stopped in the final phase of the building process.

So I gave myself one month to create and build my theme (last month was typography animation month, so that way I created some extra time)

I used sandbox from http://www.plaintxt.org/ because it’s a

… theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS.

and there is a ongoing discussion about including sandbox into WordPress 2.4.

So it seemed a good idea to start building with the help of sandbox.

There are some stuff that need to be changed, and tested…. I will keep you posted.

🙂

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Urban papercraft

Shin Tanaka – Spiky baby [series 8] is out

SPIKE BABY series from Shin Tanaka is starting with SPIKE BABY[SERIES 08].

So you know what to do, check it out

Shin Tanaka papertoy series are only active for a short time and you missed it 🙁

And here are the individual locations for the download:
ADRIAN_GANDER
Aliceandthecat
EL_GATO_CHIMNEY
FINGERPRINTS
FRUITY_LOU
IZUMI_FUJIWARA
Jeff_Martin
Satoshi_Okano
SLUGLIFE
BOX_
S
P
I
K
Y
B1
A
B2
Y

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Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: Phil Toyz

Wow…., what can I say, I hade the same feeling I had when I “found” Shin Tanaka
Phil is a (very) talented papercraft (and probably more then that) designer from Italy, check out his myspace page.

If been checking this incredible urban paper craft creator for a while, but I never noticed the BIG sign (thx toysrevil for pointing it out):

Phil toys

otherwise I would have written about this guy before.
The PhilToy myspace page is not very clear (there is not a lot of information).
And you can’t download the designs for G-Boy or Noise, but you can create a custom design for G-Boy is you send an email to PHIL and a template will be sent to you.

And to start your creativity: here are some designs:

do I need to say more? G-boy if phat!

There is another great design from Phil: Noise

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Grumm Urban papercraft

Top 10 notation for Grumm

For a while you can download Grumm on this blog.

Grumm is a paper toy / papercraft / paper model or what ever you want to call it.
Because I’m swamped with work (started a new job) I haven’t got time to spend on Grumm and the promotion of it.

But even without that, Happy Sucks noticed Grumm:
they (??) created a Top 10 Paper Toy for Adults:

Grumm is placed at number 10, and I seem to be in good company:

  1. PP BEAR
  2. Spikey Baby
  3. Mask Hoody
  4. Mr. Robot
  5. Card Boy
  6. Brick Boy
  7. Hand Holders
  8. Big Chief
  9. Nice Bunny
  10. Grumm

Some on this list also can be found on this site

So thanx for the nice top 10 spot!

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Design Grumm Urban papercraft

Grumm update

Grumm has now it’s own page on this blog: visit Grumm and read more about download and custom Grumm papercraft.

I’ve not been working on Grumm for I while, but I did find some time to put different files online so you can build/customize it.

Grumm The Screamer Red can be downloaded here.
Grumm The Screamer Red

And for custom Grumm designs; there is also a blank template which can be downloaded here.
Grumm Blank

Visit the Grumm page for more information and downloads.

The page needs some work, but I hope this will start some feedback about the templates and design.
So start building/customizing Grumm…

Because I’m swamped with work I haven’t got time to create a nice page. This page is more an update for people who wanted to build a Grumm, and now they can.