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This was my most recent build. Embarrassingly I started it about 18 months ago with grandiose visions of building a fully functional toy from just a relatively simple free template found online. I’ve always wanted to include retractable landing gear in one of my models and therefore embarked...

I’ve always wanted to build paper action figures ever since my youth when my parents would refuse me extra money to go out and buy the toys. It was something I could never master by scratch but these days templates can be found to help with that. This C-3PO template was a bit short for the 12”...

Having had a couple of builds under my belt I decided to go all out when I found a decent sized R2-D2 papercraft template. I’ve always focused on building toys, not models, since my childhood so I did quite a bit of greebling on this. The end build turned out to be about the size of the original...

This was my second modern day papercraft build. I splurged on this one and got the template printed at a professional printer (Staples here in Canada) and I was pleased with the resulting clarity on the model. There was a bit of greebling on this model but not too much. I made the laser turrets...

Hi all! In my introduction I mentioned a YouTube of a Star Wars fan film that I animated on Super-8 film when I was in middle school. There has since been a couple of requests for a link to that YouTube so I thought I would start a new thread here where I would include the link and talk about...

My first foray into Papercrafting (as we know it today and not the scratch builds I did as a kid) was a build of the AT-AT from The Empire Strikes Back. This was a very common download which I printed on my own ink-jet printer on card stock. I soon learned that I would need to visit a...

Hi everyone. My name is Les and I’m a papercraftaholic. “Hi Les”. I’ve been building paper models ever since I was about 7 in the 1970s when my Dad brought home some cardboard lining from his meat shop at the grocery store he worked at. After cutting the parts off the cardboard with meat stains...