Paper Craft Rally Cars

There’s this whole sub-culture of hobbyists out there working with just paper, it’s called Paper Craft.

I had seen it on other geeky and Gizmo blogs, where people with a lot of time on their hands make 12 foot models of the Bismark and the Millennium Falcon and what not.

But, as luck would have it, there’s paper craft guys that can use nothing but card stock and glue to make things like rally cars.

Back when I was a kid, and used to make models myself, I’d see these “kits” from Germany referred to as ‘card models’. It was a stack of thin-ish cardboard adding up to about the size of a Time magazine. All the bits for the completed model was in there, all you had to do was cut them out, and glue them together, as instructed.

But now, all you need is a half-way decent printer and some blank card stock of your own, and you can do the same thing for free.

Sounds interesting if I was better at it and had the inclination, because there’s some pretty cool cars here … I notice they have a Lancia Stratos, which looks like it was folded from paper in real life, so making a model of one from actual paper should be easy.

Anyway, interesting stuff.

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