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[Cato]

Just started to unpack some boxes that has crossed the pacific twice.
Used to do a lot of papercraft in the days. Time to start again I think.

Very old and all made from basic copy-paper you buy at office-works.
Front guy is an AT-AT pilot of course. My fav.
I have boxes more of these basic lego-sw troopers. It is basically just a simple template
and then you add guns, decals or antennas on the helmet, but they are basically all the same.

The small AT-AT is different though. It is meant to be a lot ot bigger, and I built a lot and lot of them in the
proper size.
This guy however is made from super paper-thin paper (? ) and was a bitch to make.
Jjust like his bigger siblings, the joints at the main body and the knee mid leg all work and bend
via an eloberate interlocking disk system.
Yes. That is right.
The legs do move. You can bend them at where they fit the body, you can bend the knees, you can bend them at the ancle,

Making the one in this picture was hard since it was so much smaller than the original plans but I still wanted to have a model with fully
movable legs.


I can post later pictures of "army of larger AT-ATs and AT-STs" or even much better things like an armada of various star destroyers, x-wings, tie fighters, tie bombers or even a shitload of crafts from battlestar gal
actica.


Hey you, you who read all this, Try out papercraft. It is really cool! And you can get to build heaps of really cool models
Best of all? It is virtualy free. Standard copy paper is super super cheap. And aside from that, you just need a rubber mat,
a scalpel, a pen or two, a ruler and that is pretty much it.
You cant find many hobbies cheaper than this to get into.


Want to see my star destroyer armada? Like this post and it can happen.

 

[Cato]

I am so boomer. Why is it so hard and take me so long to get a simple picture to be visible in a post.
EviLore Any chance we can get a boomer button in the UI to just ask "yeah, old man, do you really think your post is complete right now?"

Anyway, I managed to get the picture to show up. AT-AT pilot is the boss of all storm troopers. That is why he is in front.
I am happy but know I will mess up again when it comes to the picture of the AT-AT army :-(


As linking to the templates of these SW papercraft thingies is at the most liberal reading in the grey-zone copyright-wise,
I won't post links to the templates. But just google "papercraft" and you will find many many sites with plans for basically anything and everything.

This one I want to build. But I am not skilled enough yet. One day though.
(The interiours and details are crazy.)

www.papercraftsquare.com - Discovery One Papercraft

www.papercraftsquare.com - 2001 Space Odyssey Discovery One Free Paper Model Download

I did build a Space 1999 Eagle. It took forever due to the mesh holding the craft together. Then one of the children tried to play with it and did not understand that thin paper models are super fragile :-(
Oh, well, I will build another one.

 

[Cato]

These two guys made it through with very little damage, which was easy to fix.
The stands, funnily enough, were almost completely crushed

Only found three star destroyers so far and they are mostly in VERY good shape (made them out of thick card stock to bring out 3d features in the layering of the hull) except for the two domes on to of the bridges. Storage has eaten all the domes but it should be easy to print new ones and repair the models.
(I thought I had a lot more than 3 thought)

 

[triplestation]

i remember doing this kind of stuff in the 3rd grade

awesome

 

[Stiflers Mom]

These two guys made it through with very little damage, which was easy to fix.
The stands, funnily enough, were almost completely crushed

Only found three star destroyers so far and they are mostly in VERY good shape (made them out of thick card stock to bring out 3d features in the layering of the hull) except for the two domes on to of the bridges. Storage has eaten all the domes but it should be easy to print new ones and repair the models.
(I thought I had a lot more than 3 thought)

Love the design of the colonial Viper..

Must be some fiddly work to get this assembled and glued...
Well done, Sir..

 

[Scotty W]

When I get bored, I frequently like to draw stars. A few gears ago, I discovered the Pythagorean star.

Then I started to draw it with curved lines. I have found that I can inscribe 4 in a circle, but it is a bit messy, since I have to draw it by hand. Still looks sweet though.

 

[Cato]

Haven't had time to fix them yet. So some missing domes :-(
Lego star destroyer in the background for scale. The paper ones are about one foot in length.

It is really really awesome to run around in the house with a star destroyer in one hand and a viper in the other and just go pew-pew-pew

 

[Cato]

These guys are very easy to build. Very suitable for a first-project for anyone that wants to try papercraft.
There are virtually no curved surfaces at all so as long as you can cut flat card stock and glue it together you should get an excellent result.

They look pretty awesome too when you hang them with strings from the ceiling!

Oh, get a PSIO too. They are awesome.

 

[Cato]

Love the design of the colonial Viper..

Must be some fiddly work to get this assembled and glued...
Well done, Sir..

There were a lot of curved surfaces on it so it was pretty fiddly for me. (I am nowhere as good as lots of these japaneese guys, but it was tricky enough for me.)
Was all worth it though when you can hold them in your hands, run around and do pew-pew-pew.
All these hours to build them immediately paid off.

The vipers take about ~6-8 hours to build each.
The lego-minifig-troopers take about 1-2 hours each once you get used to them.
30-45 minutes to cut them out and 30-45 minutes to fold and glue together.
Each trooper is just a single A4 piece of paper that you print, cut, fold and glue. No curved surfaces except for the helmet.

 

[Cato]

Love the design of the colonial Viper..

Must be some fiddly work to get this assembled and glued...
Well done, Sir..

Did you notice I mounted the guns differently between the two?
On the one to the right the weapons are attached to the edge of the wing and that is the original design.
The weapons then end up pretty close to the main body of the craft though.
It looks better that way in this photo.

The one to the left I mounted the weapons under the wing instead and thus made the space between the wing/weapon and the body much wider.
Not in the photo, but reality, I think it looks better and more aggressive that way.
The photo does not show it though :-(

When I build more of them, half of them will be MARK-2A, i.e. the canon build to the right,
and the other half will be MARK-2B, the roughnecks using the viper on the left
I will invent special lore to explain why the roughnecks use this non-canon placement of the weapons.