Saturday, 4. November 2006
Space Invaders Papercraft
pixeleye, 09:54h
"Hi Dirk,
you might find this of interest. Besides gaming, and classic gaming at that, one of my other hobbies is building papercraft models. Mainly of sci-fi stuff such as robots, spaceships, and the like.
As for gaming, I have seen some video game related papercraft models such as arcade machines, popular Nintendo characters like Mario, and even paper versions of game systems like the Game Cube and the original model Game Boy Advance. While these were cool, I noticed there werent any papercraft models done on the really classic stuff before the Nintendo age.
So with that in mind, I thought I would try my hand at creating my own papercraft models based on a classic game before the Nintendo era. Being my first try at designing a papercraft model, I wanted something that was both simple to build, yet would make for a cool 3-D model.
Then I thought of the perfect classic game that had characters that would be easy to turn into neat paper models. And that game is Space Invaders! So I present to you my 3-D papercraft renderings of the aliens from Space Invaders.
Just click on the link to the download the papercraft file. The file contains part sheets and assembly instruction diagrams to print out and build all 3 Space Invaders aliens shown in the attached image. These are good sized models. The smallest being 6 x 6 inches, to the largest being 9 x 6 inches.
All you´ll need to build these models are white glue, a X-ACTO knife, and a metal ruler (to use as a cutting guide when cutting out parts). For a building tip, be sure to lightly score any folds with a X-ACTO knife to get a nice clean sharp fold. Enjoy!
After Space Invaders, the next classic game I plan to make papercraft models from will be Galaga. Look for those to be posted on the download page of my site soon.
Thanks,
James Catalano"
