Business Card Polyhedra

This model by Harrison Ainsworth is one in a series of five glueless constructions of the Platonic solids built using standard business cards. Detailed instructions for building each of the five models may be found at Harrison's website here. The pictured model is an icosahedron. Instructions are also available for models of a tetrahedron, a cube, an octahedron, and a dodecahedron.

Walking MechWarrior Automata

Here is one of the best paper automata I have come across in ages. The creator of the automata, J. Hodgie of Ontario, Canada, claims that this is his first attempt at paper automation, but he has done an excellent job. The model is specifically the Madcat/Timberwolf type battlemech from the MechWarrior video game series. To view a video of the model in action check out the post here on Instructables.com. Along with the video you will find a PDF download of the template and detailed instructions illustrated with photographs. There is a color-it-yourself blank template available for download as well if you are in the mood to customize.

1915 Automobile Papercraft

Before I built this car, the oldest papercraft template I had done was a 1934 Eiffel Tower. This template however dates back to 1915 and is scanned from an old McCall's Magazine of that year. I am not sure if this car is supposed represent a specific brand of automobile or if it is just a generic representation of the automobiles of the time period. A download of the two piece template is available from the Antique Automobile Club of America at their website here.

Bobblehead Robot Dog Paper Toy

This cute paper toy is the 2008 creation of Shirley-Ann (a.k.a Missy) at the UK website missweblash.com. Missy has two bobblehead robot dogs available for download, this one titled "Rusty Dogbot" and a silver colored version titled "Stoopid Jazbot". The bobblehead action is provided by installing a spring from a retractable ink pen as the dog's neck. Missy's build photo of her Jazbot shows the ears curled and treads attached the opposite of my build, but I kinda like the way mine turned out better. ;) If you want to build one for yourself, you can grab them here and here.

Star Wars Paper Mask Jackpot

Starwars.com has a total of 32 different paper masks available for download! The masks are offered in three separate collections. The Anakin Skywalker and General Grievous masks pictured above are part of a collection of 17 Episode III masks created by various Star Wars illustrators. Downloads of the masks may be found here. The Asajj Ventress mask is part of a collection of 6 children's party masks of Clone Wars characters. These masks were issued to celebrate the premier of the Clone Wars 3D animated television series on Cartoon Network and are available here. Finally, the C-3PO mask is available here as part of a collection of 9 masks of characters from the Star Wars Original Trilogy. These masks are scans of masks that originally appeared in the 1983 book, The Star Wars Book of Masks. Happy printing and cutting Star Wars fans!

A Note About Browsing Tektonten Papercraft

I think most people know this already, but for those of you who don't... In an effort to make Tektonten Papercraft load as quickly as possible I have set six as the maximum number of posts that display per page. This applies as well to the "List of Post Topics" shown at the left side of the page. So, for example, if you click on a post topic that indicates that it has a total of ten posts you will initially only see the six most recent posts under that topic. In order to see the four other posts of the ten it is necessary to click on the "older posts" link at the bottom of the page. Thanks!

Looney Tunes Martian Maggot Papercraft

The personal spaceship of the Looney Tunes character Marvin Martian was first introduced in the 1953 animated short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. In the cartoon, Marvin lands his ship, the Martian Maggot, on Planet X to claim its "Illudium Phosdex" resources in the name of Mars. This 7.5" (19 cm) long paper model of the Martian Maggot was created by Mike Hungerford, USA in 2004 and is available for download at his website here.