Paper model
A paper model , also called papercraft or pepakura , is a standing model made of paper . In contrast to classic cardboard model making , the handicraft sheets are mainly distributed via the Internet and can be printed out by the hobbyist on the home printer .
General
While cardboard model making can look back on an eventful and long history, paper models are a fairly recent phenomenon that began with equipping private apartments with computers , internet and printers. Based in Japan , printer manufacturers there began a few years ago to provide their customers with websites with free paper model downloads .
This has enjoyed rapid growth in popularity; hobbyists could quickly and easily download handicraft instructions and edit them with scissors and paper. While the world of cardboard models has long been limited to buildings and vehicles of all kinds, that of paper models can no longer be overlooked. In addition to classic buildings and vehicles, there are, for example, comic characters, dinosaurs, wild animals and domestic animals, fantasy creatures, craft ideas suitable for the season or for events, such as party decorations, or even simple everyday objects.
With the development of 3D software and other software that converts a 3D model into handicraft instructions (for example Dunreeb Cutout or Pepakura Designer ), new scenes and hobbyists whose real hobby is less about making handicraft instructions than about doing it have established themselves To develop craft ideas for others. Communities emerged - initially in Japan - in which fans and artists meet, artists, for example, provide blank handicraft instructions that can be designed by the paper model makers, and there are now various offers in the field of paper models in German-speaking countries.
