FREE paper models

David Webber, the Community Manager of the Universal Record Database (URDB.org), told me about this website and some amazing records they have there.

You’ll get a greater sense if you check out the site, but they gathered a few papercraft related records. Here are a few highlights:

• Largest Origami Cube
• Widest Duct Tape Flower
• Shortest Greeting Card Collection
• Most Paper Airplanes Stuck In Hair At Once
• Most Paper Airplanes Constructed And Flown In One Minute
• Slowest Time For Cardboard Box Parachute To Descend 15 Feet

So what? Can you beat them???

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• Anime Girl
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Foldplay.com lets you put four of your own photos onto a 3D moving paper sculpture known as a kaleidocycle.

Just upload your photos, or select some of them. They’ll slice, dice and stretch them onto a triangular grid. Print it out, score, cut, fold, and glue. They have a slideshow with complete directions. Presto! You have a personalized 3D paper sculpture with your smiling face turning around and around.

They’re easy to make if you have some experience with paper models.

Since 2005, Dutch comic-illustrator/designer Maarten Janssens has rediscovered the world of paper kits. His lifelong fascination with pictures, characters and paper-material came together in what soon became his project-of-love 3EyedBear. It still took two years before the project aired due to work and lack of direction, but in 07, Maarten launched his website which immediately became very successful.

The work still gets in the way, so the project is evening-, night- and weekendfueled but the direction appeared quite simple: It’s wrapped around the concept not only to create a basic and accessible awareness and little community for those who like papercraft, but mainly as an experiment to prove the philosophy that simple 3-dimensional ideas can travel as paperkits all around the world without cultural or natural boundaries. Because they translate easily into bits and bytes, you only need a computer, a printer, some scissors and glue to get started.

Visit Maarten website at http://www.3eyedbear.com