Build Your Own Paper Robots: 14 Mecha Models to Print Out and Assemble - Hardcover

Julius Perdana; Josh Buczynski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905814542 ISBN 13: 9781905814541

Publisher: ILEX, 2009

Synopsis

Build Your Own Paper Robots contains 14 amazing robot models to colour, print and build, with step-by-step instructions on how to assemble them. The CD contains ready-to-print templates, plus a range of patterns and colours that allow over 250 variants of the scaleable models to be made. The robots have articulated joints and are poseable - enabling you to make exciting scenes of interplanetary exploration, technological adventure and future war.

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Review

"a handsome hardback volume with an included CDROM featuring printable designs for 14 kick-ass articulated papercraft robots. Also included are scalable, layer-separated line-art versions of the bots, so that you can render them bigger or smaller, and color them to your own taste, assembling printable robot armies with your printer, some card-stock and glue."
-- Cory Doctorow at boingboing.net, July 21st 2009

About the Author

JULIUS PERDANA is a professional 3D animator and modeler. He first fell in love with papercrafting back in 1992, and it has been his hobby ever since. He is the founder of the popular papercrafting website Paper Replika boasting thousands of registered members, and downloadable paper models, from military tanks and mecha robots to spacecraft and dioramas.JOSH BUCZYNSKI build his first paper model (a dodecahedron) back in high school. Much later, the popularity of paper models on the internet provided a great foundation for learning and exploring his own ideas. Years of hobbying around have gone into making poseable paper bots for the sole purpose of covering his desk.

Edition details

• Publisher: ILEX
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905814542
• ISBN 13: 9781905814541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96