Tag Archives: paper models

Christmas Village

Posted on December 3, 2022 by paperpino

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Electro Man is the forbidden dream of so many collectors that at the end of 2021 it was auctioned for $84,000. Yes, that’s right, you heard me right: eighty-four thousand dollars!!! It is a 1960s Japanese tin robot, battery-powered, … Continue reading →

Posted in 1. Paper Automata, 2. Paper Models, 5. Paper Toys | Tagged automi di carta, Electro Paper Man, paper automata, paper models, paper toys | 5 Comments

The boxy-Christmas Set

Posted on December 4, 2019 by paperpino

Original 3d models by PolygunShoot (www.cgtrader.com) modified and adapted at paperPino’s workshop in Trieste (Italy). These paper models are easy to build as they consist of boxes, boxes, and more boxes… For best results, I suggest to use 200 g/sqm … Continue reading →

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COELUM STELLATUM CHRISTIANUM (1660)

Posted on November 23, 2014 by paperpino

Whilst Kepler was studying the planets motion, his son-in-law Jacob Bartsch, astronomer, Wilhelm Schickard, the astronomer and professor of Oriental languages at Tübingen, and Julius Schiller (c. 1580 – 1627), a lawyer from Ausburg, together with others were planning the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2. Paper Models, 3. Paper Globes | Tagged celestial globe, Cellarius, globo celeste, mappamondo di carta, paper globe, paper models, Schiller | 8 Comments

Do you remember “The MATRIX”?

Posted on August 10, 2014 by paperpino

after the hako infection (2004)…

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DRACULA (Hako version, 2004)

Posted on September 27, 2013 by paperpino

Years ago, paper modellers community was very excited by the so called hako designs, small paper figures mainly made of boxy parts assembled together. There was a bloom of paper hakos, some of them truly exquisite. As many others, I designed some hako models, too. Dracula was the first … Continue reading →

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Nocturnal Celestial Globe / Globo Celeste Notturno

Posted on April 27, 2013 by paperpino

Petrus Plancius (Pieter Platevoet, 1552-1622) was a famous Flemish cartographer. He included new constellations in the austral celestial emisphere. In 1612, he drew 12 gores for a 14.5 cm diameter celestial globe, with eight new … Continue reading →