A little update after my last post about Grim Grinning Grunt.
![a [mck] custom](http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/grim_grinning_grunt_v01a.jpg "Grim Grinning Grunt")
You can now download the custom hedKase on the site of NiceBunny!
And with a little help from yours truly it’s now possible to link directly to a specific model: so to view my custom HedKase: Grim Grinning Grunt download the model and enjoy!
This is a first for me: I finished a custom design!
I have a very bad habit of starting something, but never finishing it… I think I have about 6 custom toy designs (from different designers) laying around that need just a little attention and then they’re done.
Without knowing it, NiceBunny made me realize that when someone does me a favor (i.e. create a custom Grumm) I will return that favor…
In this case I created a custom HedKase created by NiceBunny.
And what fun I had doing that:
and I call him/it Grim Grinning Grunt
It’s possible that you don’t recognize the original HedKase
….
I modified it a little 🙂
This is my way of saying: thx NiceBunny for a great Grumm Custom and I hope you enjoy Grim Grinning Grunt
I have written about the paperToys book from Matt Hawkins before: it’s a book about the most talented paperToy designers in the world!
(and I’m part of that group 😉 )
Because the list is so impressive I should write about these people…..
And I already did that: a lot of these paperToy designers are part of my Urban papercraft series
But there are some where I will not write about: not because they are not talented, but they don’t meet the requirements for my definition of Urban Papercraft. So I hope I don’t offend someone, but this group of designers will be striked out (like this)
I see I have my work cut out for me….
I haven’t got time to build it myself 🙁 , or create a downloadable template, but I had to share this with you.
The first custom Grumm in 2008
and more will follow!
NiceBunny has create a custom Grumm: GrummBunny
It now part of a bigger family:
Do you want to create a custom Grumm: I would be honored :). You can download the blank Grumm template, or get inspired by Grumm The Screamer Red which you can download.
NiceBunny can be found in a lot of places:
http://www.nicepapertoys.com/profile/NiceBunny (the social network create by NiceBunny)
http://www.nicebunny.com/
to name 2
I will create asap a download link
Visit the Grumm homepage for GrummBunny!
Or for you lazy bastard:
(The .ZIP file contains a .PDF)
A image that I made to promote Grumm and Son of a Grumm in particular on mySpace.
It seems to be working: the group of digital friends is slowly growing 😉
Read more in a previous post or about the Urban Papertoy book
Matt Hawkins started a book about papertoys which will be publish early 2009 (read more about this in a previous post).
I contributed Son of a Grumm, which is an exclusive custom Grumm design, to this book.
If you curious about the first half of the papertoys for the book (working title ‘Urban paper’), goto the Custom Paper Toys-account at Flickr.
if you want to more about Grumm visit it’s homepage and perhaps make a custom.
Last year I was invited to joint a group of 24 of the most talented paper toy designers in the world. Matt Hawkins (you know him from his site Custom Paper Toys or his contributions to Paperforest) started a book which will be publish early 2009.
On the image you see the first half of the papertoys:
Just visit flickr and see the notes on the picture, so you see who made what….
My toy is the one with the gun: I call it Son of a Grumm.
When I have my own pictures of it, I will post it here
I just updated the new Grumm homepage:
For the people that don’t know who Grumm is: read something about this moody piece of paper.
And if your not doing anything, read everything 😉 , build Grumm the Screamer Red and be one the 10497 people who downloaded it (and, I hope, put it together) or create a custom design and send them to me. (with 9057 downloads you expect a lot of customs…. 🙁 )
I mention before that I got noticed by happysucks.com with a number 10 position for Grumm: in there post about “Paper Toy for Adults“.
This article is also read by one of my favorite papercraft sites Paperforest which triggered an avalanche of links to Grumm.
And to put some icing on the cake: one day later I got a post from boingboing!
This all happened without my knowledge: I was on a 3 week holiday in Thailand.
So I want to thank everybody who downloaded Grumm, linked to my site, made Grumm and customized Grumm.
Here some other nice articles about Grumm: urbanretrolifestyle.com, welikeplay.org.
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:
Some on this list also can be found on this site
So thanx for the nice top 10 spot!
