Canon has a bald eagle paper model up. My partner wants me to build it and mail it to Stephen Colbert, because my partner has a crush. I'm not getting involved.
Meanwhile, there's this extraordinarily cute and easy little guy over here at Marshall Alexander's site, you may need flash player to see it. It's a little guy in a hazmat suit looking quite alarmed at the test tube of pink stuff that's just exploded all over him. I painted the pinky-haz-goo stuff over with a couple of coats of clear glow in the dark nail polish when I was done building.
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My own contribution to the World of Papercraft:
I don't know if you've come across Patrick Hughes and his reverspectives.
He paints 3D sculptures / paintings / constructions which have inverted perspective... a simple example would be a truncated pyramid jutting out from the wall, painted to look like the interior of a room, with the "far wall" painted onto the side that's actually closest to the viewer (i.e. the small truncated end of the pyramid). It looks convincing until the viewer moves, when the conflicting visual cues cause all manner of perceptual discombobulation.
OK. So I was looking at the images on his gallery one day, and wondered about reverse-engineering the design, to be printed out on card and stuck together.
The results are low-resolution, and blatantly plagiaristic, but they make me happy. Anyway, what I'm leading up to, if they sound like your kind, I can post you the .bmp files.
I hate to say it, but I'm not really seeing what he's doing. I don't know if it's the dyslexia or the migraines, both of which can play merry hell with your sense of perspective, but I can't quite work out what the effect is supposed to be. It's just giving me a raging headache. *sigh*
If you're happy with it, though, that's what matters.
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