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Paper Model: Hieronymus Bosch Monster

I love the internet. One minute you’re browsing though an interesting site, and then this next minute you find something you would never have dreamed was possible. It’s almost like someone granted a wish that I didn’t know I had. Atom from the website Glue² chronicle has created some paper models of the monsters from Hieronymus Bosch paintings. Regular readers here will know that I like making paper models. (Here is a Silent Hill Pyramid Head papercraft I made recently.) Of course the minute I found these Hieronymus Bosch monsters I had to make one. The model I made today is the tower fish from The Temptation of St. Anthony. Atom has three other Hieronymus Bosch paper models available so if you like making paper models, you should check out his site.

Detail from Hieronymus Bosch Temptation of Saint Anthony Left Panel

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.

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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.

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Here is the papercraft Heironymus Bosch monster finished.

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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!

Cool Weird Hieronymus Bosch figurines on eBay

Another Pyramid Head Paper Model

I had so much fun building a Pyramid Head paper model in January that I decided to do it again. I found an interesting model by harlancore. The thing that’s really interesting is that you can take the helmet off of this one, which strikes me as being akin to pulling the curtain aside to reveal the Wizard of Oz or making the Elephant Man lie flat on his back. It just doesn’t seem right. Pyramid Head is one of my heroes. The Wikipedia page on Pyramid Head spends a lot of time talking about psychology and what possible meanings Pyramid Head could have to the characters in the game, and that’s all really nice, but while I admire him for having psychological depth, all that would be worthless without his strong work ethic, and the fact that Pyramid Head obviously takes time out of his day to really project his menace.

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

Paper Red Pyramid with Hat Off

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

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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!

Pyramid Head Paper Model

I think sometimes when you’re a person who is as menacing as I am, people have a lot of preconceived notions. Like for instance, they might think I like to limp around with a hump on my back and that maybe a terrible accident has made my hands into horrible claws. Or maybe they think that years of crawling around in tunnels deep under the earth has blunted my senses. Well I’m here to dispel some of these stereotypes about things that bump around in the dark. We don’t just BUMP around in the dark all the time. We can be deep and sensitive and creative in the dark as well. This week I’m excited to share a paper model I made of Pyramid Head from Silent Hill. The original design is by Chamoo232 who has a lot of cool paper models on her site.

Pyramid Head from Silent Hill

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.

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The Shunned House
H.P. Lovecraft




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