Card Modeling FAQ

Free models

• Looks Like... Paper Models has a free sample.
• Rob Ives' Cardboard Engineering page has some automata, in the `Hands on' section.
• Digital Navy has a 1:250 scale models of the German WWI torpedo boat V-108, an Admirable class minesweeper-subchaser, and sample turret (with catapult and floatplane) from their USS Arizona kit.
• L'Instant Durable has a sample model of the Campanile di San Marco in Venice.
• Moshe Lemer has several models, including a ModelArt Spitfire.
• MicroTactix have a couple of free samples of their cardstock building kits.
• Bildrum arkitektkontor has a villa.
• Phillip Fickling Dimensional Design have a submarine.
• Papermodelworld.com has Cee the Bee.
• Other PC WhistleStop samples can be found at the All Gauge Page.
• Delta 7 Studios have a Mercury Redstone 8.
• Paper Shipwright have a 1:250 scale model of HMVS Cerberus.

  from designer David Hathaway <info@papershipwright.co.uk>: This model comes with a track record - a half-finished version helped me win 1st prize in the Miscellaneous category at the 22nd International Model Exhibition at RAF Halton, UK and David Okamura has won two prizes at IPMS shows with his beta-build version.

• Michelis Modell have a Hamburg streetcar.
• Paper Creations has a simple F-15.
• Cuspa Paper Models have a Celtic monastery.
• Fryer's Kits have a free trebuchet.
• NEW Flat-Pack Heads Card Models have a polyhedral head.
• Beppi's Paper Model Page has two models available to download.
• Lou Coatney has a sample Butler class destroyer escort.
• Thomas Pleiner's own WWW pages are not presently available, but he has made his Cessna 172 "Skyhawk" and a railway station model available through Saul Jacobs' Paper/Card Model Page.
• Micromodels - So Called, two models. Not the same as the well known Micromodels® line of architectural models. This is a fairly blatant abuse of the Micromodels® trademark, and the models themselves are fairly crude, not up to the Micromodels® standard at all, but they are free.
• Ulrich Prahn's Star Trek Cardboard Models features four models, the shuttlepod El-Baz, the shuttlecraft Magellan, a Romulan scout vessel, and the SS Botany Bay.
• The Key to Time, a paper model of the artifact of the same name from the Dr. Who television programme.
• The Tardis Databanks have a tab-and-slot model of Dr. Who's Tardis.
• Grace Sylvan has a simple house and store.
• Syozo Kubo has a little model of a WISE craft. Don't ask me what it is, follow the link!
• Fred Gassit's Bikerama has a model of a Ducati 851 motorcycle.
• Kelly's Rav4 site has a Toyota Rav4.
• Billy's Shed, the Wargamer's Home for Cut Out Scenery, has eight or nine simple models to use as props for gaming.
• The Astronomican has buildings and props for the Warhammer 40,000 miniatures wargame.
• Bile's Paper Rhino Site also has models for the Warhammer 40k miniatures wargame. Bile reports his site has been a victim of its own success: "2000-11-14: OK, I had some problems here. The site caused too much traffic. Thanks to Dennis from Portent.Net, who removed the link instantly. Now the number of visits is in a somehow legal range again. We should still try to keep the traffic low, so please do only download templates you really want to do the next time."
• Ben Zuidwijk has a Business card which makes up into a simple little airplane.
• Toy Theatre Magazine has a pop-up book.
• Jim Ramsay has a mechanical Guardian Angel.
• Denis Obriot's Amiga Maquette page has trains, boats and some other models. Some can be downloaded directly (look for the telephone icon); others are available by mail or e-mail.
• Ralph Currell has 1:32 models of the V-1 Flying Bomb and V-2 Rocket, and other models.
• Fitz' Tabletop Models pages has several buildings in 25 mm scale.
• Co Walinga has a flapping bird.
• This Unofficial Star Wars site has a model of the Star Wars T-16 Skyhopper.
• Pierre Gauriat has a fortified medieval church, a castle, a Dewoitine D510 fighter, several automobiles, and an Ariane 4 rocket.
• Ryszard Marszandt has a Citroen HY van. This model is based on Pierre Gauriat's Citroen H model.
• Yasunori Nagaoka's Pokara Paper Craft has 12 simple models of a Honda CR-V. You can download them individually or in a bundle with instructions. There's also an instructions page on the web, with pictures that are easy to follow.
• Erwin de Jong's Cut & Paste Sci-Fi has a model of the Martian Tripod from The War of The Worlds, R2-D2, and models from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. (With the mergyer of Xoom and other sites, the link above may not work. If not, try here.)
• Natsuhiko Konoshita's Out Flat has colour and black-and-white models of his rally Subaru.
• Hans-Jürgen Geibel has a few models of his own design. He also has many models which are not original, but are free downloads available from other sites. Unfortunately, the original sources for the models are not credited. This is not only a disservice to the original creators, but makes it hard to figure which are original and not duplicates. The listing of the site here should not be taken to imply that the FAQ editor approves of this practice.
• TomTom's Aviation and Scale Model Resources has a 1/144 scale aircraft hanger.
• Mitsuaki Ohashi has automobiles and Macintosh computers.
• Nobuo Koizumi's Karat Creek Model Design has a couple of models of narrow gauge railroad cars.
• Phil Koopman, Jr., has a web page featuring the Fly 'N' Things models developed by the late Phil Koopman, Sr.
• David Sigüenza has a hypothetical Fockw-Wulf Projekt II plane, and a T-28 of his own design, and an SR-71 designed by Min-Soo Jong.
• The Star Wars site theforce.net has a Naboo fighter, apparently scanned from the Czech magazine ABC.
• Zio Prudenzio has several aircraft.
• Formosa Paper Models has a model of 'Honmaochen', a sort of Taiwanese castle.
• Yasu Tanaka has models of F-1 racers and some other automobiles. In English and Japanese.
• Lucia Dunbar has a simple model of a house in Tuscany.
• Luigi Saso has a Greek tavern and several other models. (Alternate server.)
• Jun's Paper Craft Page has a rabbit. In English and Japanese Jun Mitani also has Tenkai, shareware software for developing paper models, and 3D Card Maker, for generating pop-up greeting cards. Sample greeting cards are available.
• Shashank H. Mardikar has a Fokker Eindecker E.III.
• David Hathaway has models of famous chairs, among other things.
• Re-Re has Citroens and airplanes (en Francais et Anglais.)
• SiuLam has paper buses.
• Volker Preikschat has race car models.
• Vikimouse has some simple models.
• Bento Ramalho has model cars (in Portugese, English, and Spanish.)
• Jim's Dollhouse Pages have a variety of dollhouse furniture and decorations.
• B. J. George's Paperville USA has O gauge models.
• Bo Magnusson has a Swedish summer cottage.
• Saul Jacobs' Paper/Card Model Page has several free models: an ME 262 by Clark Britton, a T 28 by David Sigüenza, and a railway station and a Cessna 172 by Thomas Pleiner.
• Igneous' Gateway has a Fokker F. XVIII 'Snip'. Look for Bouwplaten in the Dutch corner.
• Ray Morris has two model locomotives in the Micromodels tradition.
• Tord Hokenstrom has vehicles and buildings in HO scale.
• Toshimasa Mitsutake's Paper Craft Design has two buildings.
• Pierre Fontaine has a spacecraft and two buildings.
• Zoffbred's Volvo page has a Volvo V70 T5, Volvo V70 (2000), and a Volvo V40.
• This site has a caravel and a pirate ship, and several other subjects.
• The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts has an Art on the Net program, including:
  • Model of Anne Frank's house, by Ai Shimizu.
  • Statue of Liberty, by Kazuya Takemoto.
  • A building damaged by A-bomb, by Hidechika Takahisa.
• The Pegasus Art Forum has a Paper Craft links page, containing links to many sites containing free models, most in Japanese.
• The Public Museum of Grand Rapids has a little chair, a canoe, and some other toys on their Fun Stuff page.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art has a Paper Model of a Pharaoh Death Mask.
• The Glendale Public Library has a model of their bookmobile.
• Michael Serdarusic has a model of Der Mannheimer Wasserturm.
• The Minnesota Museum of the Mississippi has a model of their building, on the About the Museum page.
• The Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation have a small model of the Duyfken, the first European ship to visit Australia.
• Royal Insight has a very simple model of the British Royal Family's Gold State Coach.
• The Krimpenerwaard Youth Fire Brigade (?) has a simple fire truck.
• Holostroika.net have an Algarvian house.
• KDF-Wagen have a Type 2 VW bus and a Type 2 VW pickup.
• From the movie Hellraiser, a Lament Configuration puzzle box.
• For Swiss citizens living abroad, a free building.
• Kanamaru Construction Co. has construction machinery. Similar models are available from the Hiratsu Building Constructor's Office. These models are reported to be from Sugoneta.
• Tehniska Zalozba Slovenije, d.d. have a Cessna model 172 (follow the link to Tim.)
• Sequoia Aircraft Corporation have models of their F.8L Falco.
• Boy Scout Troop 516 have a model of their bus, a 1981 Thomas Pusher.
• The Back Yard Yacht Builders Association have three sailboats in 1:32 scale.
• Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi have a model of their Rega 320C power shovel.
• The 21st Century World Heritage Workshop has a monthly series of models on architectural themes. (In English and Japanese.)
• From NASA:
  • Build Your Own Mars Pathfinder Spacecraft Model.
  • A paper model of SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The model is a little simplistic, but it's a unique subject. There are also simple models of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory and the Nasa Lear Jet.
  • A 1/37 scale model of the Cassini Spacecraft. For reference, see here. A simpler version of Cassini is also available.
  • Pioneer 10 paper model.
  • Galileo paper model.
  • Folding Paper Model of the Magnetosphere, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • The Landsat-7 Satellite model.
  • Mars Orbiter Spacecraft model, 1:24 scale, in pdf format. The Mars Polar Lander is also available. More information on the spacecraft is available from the builder, Lockheed Martin Astronautics.
  • Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft.
  • NASA's Great Observatories Kit
  • Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
  • Space Shuttle
  • Stardust Spacecraft in 1:26 scale.
  • A simple model of the X-33 is including in the lesson guide, "Proportionality: The X-Plane Generation", found here.
  • The HESSI (High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) spacecraft.
  • From the Genesis Mission, a Genesis mission spacecraft model.
  • Terra satellite model.
• SpaceNet Canada has paper models of NASA's Great Observatories, specifically the Hubble Space Telescope and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
• Make your own Yohkoh Satellite, from the Yohkoh Public Outreach Project.
• Space Craft International has a free Lunar Prospector.
• Jan Heirtzler, of the Space Science Group at the University of New Hampshire, has a model of the Advanced Composition Explorer satellite. The model is available in 1:8, 1:16, and 1:32 scale.
• ISAS have a simple model of the Planet-B Japanese Mars Probe.
• The University of Stellenbosch Electronic Systems Laboratory have Papersat, a paper model of the Sunsat satellite.
• Spaceart.com have icosahedral models of the planets, designed by Calvin J. Hamilton.
• Raimondo Fortezza, of the Microgravity Advanced Research and Support Center in Naples, has 1:100 and 1:144 scale models of the International Space Station. The model is free if downloaded, but you can also purchase a printed version by mail. There is also a model of the space shuttle Endeavor available.
• Jens A Lerch has a model of the Roton reusable space launch vehicle.
• The Center for Space Physics has a model of the TERRIERS satellite.
• From the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior:
  • Make Your Own Paper Model of a Volcano.
  • Geologic animations and paper models. All are Macintosh HyperCard documents.
  • Educational Models to Illustrate Geological Phenomena
  • Model of Effects of Ice on a Mountain Valley.
• Geoblox has a sample model of a mid-ocean rift, demonstrating paleomagnetic banding.
• Tau Rho Alpha and the Australian Geologic Survey Organization have models on a geologic theme (volcano, globe, trilobite, &c.)
• Dental Friends have Dental Town, a collection of buildings, vehicles, &c., including a dental office. The models are very basic, but you can get them customized with the name of your own dental practice.
• Touch-3D is a CAD package for Macintosh computer which can unfold three dimensional designs to two dimensional surfaces. Their Downloads page includes three paper models created with their software: a telephone, an auto body, and a speedboat.
• Steve McGuire's Print-N-Play Toys has some simple stand up toys, a race car, and a haunted house.
• The Opel Association of North America has a paper model of an Opel GT.
• The Vancouver Mini Club has several Paper Cut-out Minis.
• Pulp Fiction Central and Chris Kalb offer The Spider Kit, including all you need to be the The Spider of pulp fiction fame.
• The Madison MG Group has an MGB paper model, courtesy of Moss Motors, Ltd.
• Eildienst Baum has simple but colourful model of a MAN L2000 delivery truck, in their livery.
• Humongous Entertainment has a model toy called Pop-Up Putt-Putt.
• In conjunction with their educational CD, Bridge to Reading, Owl & Mouse Educational Software has some free software for Windows: Make a Town will print patterns for 10 houses, 8 stores and a library; Make a Village will print patterns for a church, an apartment house, more houses, and more stores; Make a Farm will print patterns for farm buildings; and Build your own Medieval Castle This software is oriented towards lower elementary school children.
• Saturn Japan has a few simple models available at their web site, in English and Japanese. Other model cars are available from Akira Mizorogi. The Christian Science Monitor has an article on Mr. Mizorogi, complete with a Porsche 911s model. The Hondafan, sponsored by Honda of Japan, features very simple cars and buildings designed by Mr. Mizorogi.
• Toyota Motor Phillipines Corporation has a Toyota Corolla, in your choice of four colors.
• Nissan Japan has a model car, also a R390GT1 Le Mans Challenge racing car.
• GoGo! Papercraft has a variety of simple models of cars. If you don't understand Japanese, they're easy to find by trial and error.
• Volvo Japan has several models; follow the links to the 'Play Page.' If you have trouble loading the page, try clicking back and reloading it. Volvo also has another page with models. This page also sometimes seems to have trouble loading.
• Ben & Jerry's (yes, the ice cream ones) have some paper crafts available: The original Ben & Jerry's store, a station wagon, a cow, and a New England Village, 6 buildings in approximately HO scale.
• Yamaha (in Japanese and English) have models of their Vmax, YZF-R1, and Xjr1300 motorcycles, and a set of seasonally themed models. In 1999, they did a series of rare animals of Japan. For 2000, they have been doing a series of rare animals of the world. Note that as they release each new animal in the series, they drop the previous one, so if you're interested, save your copy now. (The rare animals of Japan series from 1999 is available.)
• Landrum & Brown has models of a 747-400 and a 737, and they promise to add more.
• Canon Japan has much of a small RR layout, although it seems to be lacking rolling stock. Canon has more stuff here.
• West Japan Railway Company has models of some of their trains. I have been unable to find a path to the models in the English language portion of their site, but this link takes you to the Japanese description of the models.
• The Helicopter Emergency Medical Service of London has two models of their Virgin HEMS Dauphin helicopter. One is a highly detailed 1/48 scale model; the other is a simpler version of the same aircraft. Both include detailed and illustrated instructions. This model is reviewed below, with the ModelArt models.
• The comic strip Dry Bones has a very simple model of a cartoon character, Mr. Shuldig, in an armchair. Look in the Free Gifts section.
• The publisher Atelier GAG of Bremen, Germany, has a lighthouse and a Mercury space capsule.
• MacUser/Japan magazine has models of Macintosh computers.
• iMacWorld magazine has an iMac computer.
• Acer Computers have some models of their computers.
• Sea Box, Inc. has a model of a 20' ISO cargo container, if you fill out their survey.
• Sakai Heavy Industries have a sort of steam roller.
• Konica have a camera.
• Mouse-house.co.uk have accessories for computer mice.
• UHU, the German glue company, has some simple models for children. Although most of UHU's web pages are tri-lingual, the models are only available in the German section.
• Ecotruck have a model of one of their trucks. (Japanese)
• CAW's workshop has several models of fanciful robots and spacecraft. The spacecraft seem to be inspired by the Starcraft computer game.

  from Mike Hungerford<chthulhu@sdccu.net>: From the main page there are two links: vopc.htm and scpc.htm, for "Virtual On Paper Craft" and "Starcraft Paper Craft," respectively. The models on the VO page are, from top to bottom, the "XBV-13-T11 Bal Bas Bow" Virtuaroid, and the "Z-Gradt Sun Cannon." The models on the SC page are simply "Battle Cruiser" and "Probe."

• Peramodel has four samples, a Mandarin Duck, a Camel, a Tyranosaurus Rex, and an UltraSeven.
• Here is a "Desk Top Case", apparently a model of a computer of some kind.
• Tom Snyder Productions has four sample buildings from their Community Construction Kit.
• Weiss Custom Miniatures has a simple Paper Model of a WWI German Biplane.
• The Stuttgart Streetcar company have some simple models of Swiss city buses and trains.
• Baud et Bui have 5 building models, including the Museum of Saint-Denis. They also have a number of other paper projects, including some paper cutting/origamic constructs.
• Gakuen Tetsudo (in English) is a model railroad club in Tokyo. They have two trolleys and two airplanes, apparently samples from CDs (in English.)
• The Sev Wide Web has the Enterforaprize, a model reminiscent of the Star Trek Enterprise. They'll also sell you an Enterforaprize D model.
• Deutsche Welle, the German shortwave broadcaster, has a model of their broadcasting van.
• The Lint Hotel in Cologne has a model of their building.
• Oak Leaf Studios have an OO scale signalbox.
• Shelter Systems have geodesic domes.
• Grand Illusions has a dragon, designed by Jerry Andrus of Binary Arts.
• Fujioka, a Japanese fly fishing enthusiast, has models of trout (in Japanese and English.)
• Circus Zaretti has a model circus.
• A robot inspired by the television show Futurama. If you have an older browser, you can bypass the Shockwave front panel with this link.
• Inspired by Star Trek, a computer console.
• Various non-English, mostly Japanese, sites, lumped together here because I don't understand the site well enough to provide a description.
  • This site has an F-117A, a B-17, and a Kubelwaggon, all in black and white.
  • Alfa Romeo 156.
  • Simple animals.
  • More simple animals.
  • A building.
  • A bunch of buses and streetcars.
  • A car.
  • A little truck and a lap top computer.
  • Yokogawa Electric Corporation has a model of one of their products, a DUONUS210.
  • HP has animals and cars.
  • Fiat Panda.
  • Cars, Macintosh computers.
  • Manikin.
  • Train.
  • Manikin.
  • Easter Island head, penguin, etc.
  • Penguin.
  • Streetcar.
  • Buses, updated monthly.
  • Simple emergency vehicles.
  • Video game.
  • The Hotel Taiseikan has trains.
  • This is a page of links to Japanese papercraft sites.
  • Science fiction inspired stuff? Page 1, Page 2, Page 3. These are all part of the "Page of Kami Kou Sen, which also includes pictures of other models (apparently not downloadable), a links page, and other paper model related information.
  • Lada Niva automobile, also a Humvee.
  • Simple automobiles?
  • Trains
  • Automobiles
  • Trolleys
  • Orca, Manta Ray, etc.
  • Insects
  • CEM Kids have airplanes and insects. Follow the craft link, then look for the back number and update links.
  • Rail car
  • Very simple trams
  • UCHIDENO-KODUCHI JPN (Hirohito Saito): Pochi dog, auto, Mitsubishi semi
  • Simple bus
  • Very simple animals
  • Simple automobiles
  • Buses, a trolley, and an apartment block
  • Minis
  • Gregory Horror Show Paper Craft Collection
  • A Cessna 172
  • Citroen XM, Citroen H truck
  • VF-1 and VF-1s (anime spacecraft)
  • This site has a monkey, and a couple of others. You have to poke around a bit, if you don't read Japanese.
  • This one is Korean.
  • Another Korean? site and a second page on the same server. The front end for these sites seems to be here. It's tough to navigate if you don't read Korean, but if you turn off Javascript it's a little easier.
  • GatterRobo-2
  • Ishikawa Bank has a variety of simple models. If you don't read Japanese, you'll have to poke around (if you can't find it, try here).
  • MAX7 3D Paper has models, I think based on a computer wargame.
  • Sonnori have some Korean building models, apparently props for a game called Acturus.
  • Honda Vamos van
  • Macintosh Classic II and a banana.
  • Mitsubishi RVR
  • Gansuke has a kingfisher and another bird.
  • Asakayama Syaryou has trolleys.
  • A robot from a Playstation 2 game.
  • Puzzle land have a dodecahedron maze.
  • Firetrucks
  • Automobiles
  • Automobile
  • Ogisan Koubou: Jeep and bus
  • NASDA H-2 rocket
  • This one is Brazilian, but my Portugese isn't much better than my Japanese: a Bugatti and a simple little hound.
  • Some kind of anarchist commune? (German)
  • Simple fire truck (Austrian.)
  • An orchid (Austrian.)
  • Paper Car have automobiles and an HMMV (Korean.)
  • Helicopters
  • This site seems to rotate through various models, favouring robot or science fiction themes. It takes some poking around to find links to download models.
  • Laptop computers
  • The Sakurajima Electric Railroad Page have sight-seeing buses.
  • Kami Kobo has an angel flapping its wings.
  • Chiba Eiwa High School Library
  • Mitsubishi Mirage Dingo
  • Model RR accessories (en Espanol.)
  • Automobile.
  • Cars, trucks, and buses in HO scale from Tord Hökenström (Svenska.)
  • The Industrial Palace of Prague.
  • Tirol houses.
  • 3D Paper Model Net has a Buzz Lightyear model and some others. Unfortunately, a lot of their content is not original.
  • Flying Yak-38
  • Toukou: Toyota 2000 GT, Nissan Skyline, RX-7, Honda S800, '71 Fairlady 240ZG
  • Sculpture of a feline head
  • Odakyu Kids has a high-speed train.
  • A CV-3000ark vending machine, apparently used to issue certificates of residence in Japan.
  • Cessna 172 (Polish.)
  • A bunch of Fiats and one Citroen.
  • Very simple model of Kaisyu, a ship of the Tokyo Cruise Ship Company.