To mark the date one month before the release of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, the website Alice 2010 has posted a Cheshire Cat paper toy. Check it out!
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Regular readers here will know that besides papercrafts, I am also a really big fan of Cthulhu and H.P. Lovecraft. It’s so wonderful to have the two come together in one place.
This is another papercraft by Jerom, who designs great monster papercraft. If you haven’t been to his site yet, you should really check it out. He’s the person who designed the awesome Proxima Centari paper monster that I built a few months back.
One cool thing about this model is that it comes with a screaming “cultist.” Also, it can be made in three different colors! There is green, orange, and black (the black is available through Dreamland Toyworks).
“Above these apparent hieroglyphics was a figure of evidently pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution forbade a very clear idea of its nature. It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings, but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.” – H.P. Lovecraft from The Call of Cthulhu
I’ve been hinting around for a couple of weeks about a top secret project that’s been taking almost all of my time, and I finally finished it! It’s my first paper model ever, and it’s a valentine to the lovely Other Mother from the movie Coraline. Below is a picture of the finished papercraft. You can go to the Other Mother page to download the Papercraft Coraline Doll. I’m so excited. Have fun!
Don’t miss Coraline Central.
Sometime I look up at the sky and I spend some time thinking about the universe and my place in it. I consider how small and insignificant my life might seem to the universe. Just another monster. Sometimes, I wonder about monsters on other planets. Of course, I know the truth about that but I’ve been sworn to secrecy by the Agents. I could tell you but my web host would be shut down within minutes of posting the real truth. So for now I’ll just say that IF there were alien monsters, and IF they were interested in taking over the Earth, then sleeping with a shotgun under your pillow wouldn’t help save you OR your little doggie from the coming terror.
On the plus side, you can have fun while the clock ticks down (that is IF the clock is ticking.) Here’s a great alien monster paper model to bide the time. This might be my favorite horror model yet, and it is very easy to make. It’s the Papertoy Proxima Centauri by Jerom. He has a great blog filled with cool paper models, especially monsters. If you want to download this model to make it yourself, don’t miss the high res copy – look for the link marked ICI.
I had a little extra fun with this model and put a white LED in it. So that it would light up from inside. Check it out.
Pictured here is a terrifying alien paper model
Here at Dark in the Dark, we don’t just do book reviews. We also do horror paper toys, or whatever you call them: Paper Models, Papercrafts, or Paper Toys.
Alien Paper Model in its Horrifying Embryonic Stage
I feel the same way about paper models that I do about origami. With both arts there is a sweet spot between complexity and simplicity. Most of us don’t have the skills or patience of brain surgeons. And very few of us are going to get paid to sit around and put together paper models (although of course a monster can always dream.) This model is definitely over on the simple side, taking only about 15 minutes to build, but ends up being really cool.
Horror Papertoy with the lights on.
I have something of a backlog of paper toys to make and post, unfortunately. In the past I’ve posted three different Pyramid Head paper models. Here is the first Pyramid Head Papercraft. Here are model number two and toy number three. I’ve also posted a Hieronymus Bosch Monster Paper Model. Hopefully I’ll get some more posted soon. Maybe the next time I’ll post some paper model building tips.
More terrifying views of Jerom’s Proxima Centari Paper Toy
Here’s the rig I built into the bottom of the paper model to hold the LED light. So the light goes into the hole there and then slides over into the slot which holds it. The other holes there are so light comes out of the bottom of the toy. Obviously, I photoshopped the wires out of the above pictures. The wires hang out of the bottom. I should come up with something more permanent.
It looks like we’ve got ourselves a girl alien paper model here.
Question: What’s more terrifying than one alien paper model glowing in the dark?
Answer: Waking up the next morning to find two of them! Ah! Ah! Ahhhhhh!
And then they ate me. (OK. OK. No they didn’t.)
Update – We’ve gotten some attention and have been featured on Superpunch and Nice Paper Toys dot com. Thanks everybody!
It seems like I haven’t been having the best of times lately. In the past few months I’ve had bird attacks, and lost bunny rabbits hopping around in the basement (*shudder*.) Also I’ve been suffering from these mood swings where occasionally I find myself inexplicably in a jolly mood (I know, I know, I should see my witch doctor about these laughing fits I’ve been having.) At times like these I look for some kind of escape, and what better way than to express myself creatively?
I don’t know what it is but I seem to be having way too much fun with these Pyramid Head Paper Models. This is the third one I’m posting. Here are the other two: Pyramid Head Paper Model number one. And Pyramid Head Papercraft number two. I’ve also been building other paper models, like this Hieronymus Bosch Monster Paper Model. I’ve also been checking out the paper models over at Ravensblight.
I found this papermodel over at the /po/ archives. It was very simple and took me maybe ten minutes to put together.
So I keep wondering, what is it about Pyramid Head anyhow? The people who made the Silent Hill video game were definitely on the ball when they created this character. I also really love the bubble headed nurses, and I’ve been thinking it would be fun to make a paper model of one of the Silent Hill nurses. Here’s a wikipedia page with the different Silent Hill monsters listed. I guess in Silent Hill Origins there’s a character who is very much like Pyramid Head in that he wears something on his head and carries a huge knife, but who isn’t the pyramid head. He’s called the butcher.
Here are the places the Pyramid Head shows up: Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill Homecoming (as the Bogeyman), The Arcade, and the Motion Picture. There is a creature that resembles Pyramid Head but is not in Silent Hill 3. They are creatures who hang by one arm and hold a doll in the other hand and have black heads, but don’t wear the signature pyramid helmet.
Here is the SD Pyramid Head after having brutally sectioned a mandarin orange.
Well that’s it for today. Does anybody know where a monster can get more delightful Silent Hill Paper Models?
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