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!

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

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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!

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?

This is a detail from the left panel of the painting. It’s kind of above most of the action and in the distance. Here’s a wikipedia page with more information about the whole painting.

The Tower Fish paper model is pretty complicated and took me several hours to put together. It’s a Pepakura-generated model, and sometimes models that come out of that software can be harder to make than human-designed models.

Here is the papercraft Heironymus Bosch monster finished.

Here is the Tower Fish with the Hammer Bird from Alice in Wonderland. The Hammer Bird is a model by paperinside. I’ll definitely be making more of these papercrafts in the future!

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Here’s the Pyramid Head paper model without the helmet on.

A final picture of the Pyramid Head paper model during construction.

Something about the tongue here makes him look like he’s got a “Colombian necktie”. Kind of sick but somehow appropriate to the horror papercraft theme.

I really appreciate how there is a whole paper model culture online now. There are people everywhere designing papercraft models and posting them on the internet. It’s totally a great thing. They are inexpensive, and when you get a really good one, they’re fun to put together and then the paper models also look really great. I’ve been thinking that sometime I should write a post on tips for how to make a really good paper model. Things like how to score the pieces first and the best ways to cut out some of the more fiddly pieces of paper. I guess that’s for another time. In the meanwhile, enjoy this Pyramid Head Paper Model. Thanks for stopping by!

I don’t know about you but it seems like pyramid head is a pretty insane character. I mean, for one thing, that knife is pretty huge. So a person ends up thinking the whole pyramid head things is Freudian. Pyramid head seems to be very popular. He appears in some of the Silent Hill games, but I guess mostly in Silent Hill 2. In the movie he shows up once dragging a body around, and then later, pyramid head pulls the skin clean off one of the characters, which is pretty brutal. I don’t know about you, but if I was walking down the street and saw pyramid head walking towards me, I might cross the street.

In Silent Hill 2, pyramid head seems to do quite a few awful things. For one, he seems to kill a few people, including Maria. He is also seen doing something kind of sexual looking but maybe not sexual in a kitchen with two Mannequin creatures. There are a lot of YouTube clips of that. For that matter, there are quite a few YouTube clips of various scenes with Pyramid Head. At one point there are two pyramid heads and they eventually impale their own heads on their own spears, killing themselves. Yes it is a wild and wooly world in Silent Hill.

I really like making paper models. I think I’ve talked about it before. When you’re making a paper model, you do a lot of cutting of the paper. And then also you glue the model together. Then you have a finished paper model. I have a bunch of papercrafts, from mummies to monsters. It’s very satisfying to make paper models, and besides the paper and the ink that you have to buy, it’s pretty cheap to make them too. I love making paper models!

Thanks for tuning in. This has been about the Pyramid Head Paper Model.