***June***

Minor Update with big letters - June 20, 2003

- Like it says its a minor update, meaning no new models. There is a One Piece model, but I'll wait until it is available. So what is new?

- I finished building the Astro boy paper model today and it looks pretty good... a few touch ups with a black and red pen and you don't notice the white bits from a far. Being a polygonal type model (CG polygon flattened out), there are no smooth bits and everything looks all a bit too blocky, and its tricky to put together especially when you make it small. I made it half its size (fit the 4 pages on 2 A4 pages) and it was a little tricky and black and red pens were needed.

- Megaman Battle Network 3 and Advance Wars 2: Block Hole Rising have been released and damn am I excited or what. I haven't finished playing the first Advance Wars yet... I'm stuck on the last boss guy. I probably won't be playing much of any other game besides MMBN3 because its that good. Also Splinter Cell, Jet Grind Radio, GT Advance 3, The Hulk, Daredevil and Wing Commander Prophecy have been released. Although these games are good, I prefer MMBN. There is also a drop-down list of the GBA and SNES games that I have and thus recommend you should play or at least have a look at. Enjoy.

- I also found a few plastic models that I added to my Toys page. Including Kampher, 2 Regults, a Glaug and some others. I have the plastic toy of the Harmony Gold Robotech Regult I bought when Robotech was screening on tv in Australia a few years back... I'll see if I can find a picture of it.

Omega Supreme - June 20, 2003

- The world of mecha paper models hasn't been very interesting lately. Only 2 new entries in the past 2 months, which is bad. I wish the Wing or ZZ Gundam models would surface someday soon. I've added them to my wanted list.

From that guy who made all those hako-clone transformers models and the bigger Constructicon comes Omega Supreme. Like the others this is a little chunky. It doesn't have a great deal of detail for its size compared to say the Eva models, but I can't complain. To compensate for the lack of high detail I build this guys models small. It makes building it more challenging. I wouldn't recommend anything smaller than 25% though. He is supposed to have a transformable version aswell, but it isn't finished yet, so I'd recommend waiting a little while until the transformable version is available.

- There are a few more gun models available also. A better Tokarev, a Desert Eagle and a Jackal which is off some playstation game. Its a good idea to visit the site regularly because he has a new gun at least twice a month.

- People who are into building models themselves should take notice of this site. http://www.suurland.com/ This guy does some really good 3D stuff in Max. He has a 'blue prints' section on his site which has heaps of "3 view drawings" of all sorts of real life vechiles. Unfortunately no mecha designs or anything, but for people who want help building a 3D model or have a go at scratch building should check this site out.

- Also there is a site that everyone who enjoys paper model building should have bookmarked. http://www.3dpapermodel.com.tw/ Its been around for ages, and is a pretty good place to find new releases available to download. Its thet last source I got to when all my others are exhausted. Go to the "new" section on the left side to check out the new releases.

***May***

Metal Gear Solid Rex and Astro boy link - May 30, 2003

- I don't know much about Metal Gear Solid, apart from the fact that if was supposed to be one of the best games available on PSX/PS2. Anyhow, this grabbed my attention because its a robot. So yay for Metal Gear Solid fans and yay for robot fans! If you still don't know what i'm talking about there's a picture at the bottom of this message. The website has 2 versions to download the uber hi-res version [about 50mb of jpegs!] and the more desirable low-res version [about 5mb total]. The only difference i can see is that the hi-res version is much bigger... but 50mb!!! I haven't downloaded the hi-res version myself because its well 50mb I would rather save for something much better, for example the Macross Zero trailer! More on that later...

- I finally put the link to the Astro boy model i mentioned last, you all probably have found it yourselves by now anyway.

- This isn't papermodel related, but what the heck... there's a new Macross series in production/or some episodes have been finished... i dunno i need to dig up more on this, but it should be good. More veritech mecha to drool over. It looks like it it is do be made similar to the Zoids series. The mecha all 3dish and the rest the usual tradition animation. Go here for more info. I'm looking for the trailer.

Astro boy and Monster update - May 18, 2003

- There is a Astro boy model available. I forgot to retrieve a link so you'll have to wait until my next update for that, but yeah its a pretty cool model.

- My Destroid Monster is coming along nicely. I have re-built the body adding more detail from what was literally a few oddly shaped cubes. Now it looks a lot more like the real thing. Go here to get more info and a few pictures.

- There are a few new guns available from that guy so check out his site, plus a colt, which i linked in the 'real' section. The gun models are getting much better as more detail is being incorporated.

- Its been big in the game section this time, with a heap of new [and old] games that have caught my eye, including the new Megaman Zero on GBA and Macross games on the arcade.

- There is also a few new toys in the 'toys' section including some cool Front Mission models and a Patlabor toy.

- On other stuff, go to www.theanimatrix.com [i thats the link] and download the 4 free Animatrix shorts or even better buy the Animatrix DVD [which includes all the 9 shorts plus bonus stuff] which should be available soon [or now]. Its pretty damn cool. Also all the Animatrix shorts were shown at selected cinemas here in Sydney, Australia recently, dunno if they are still showing, but if they are I'd suggest you check them out while you can. Can't wait to see The Matrix Reloaded!!!

Destroid Monster! - May 2, 2003

- Some guy posted a link to a very cool robotech toy site on the smartgroups papermodel group and suggested that someone should have a crack at building the Destroid Monster. As a second year newbie to the papermodel stuff, I thought I'd have a crack at it. At the momment it's looking pretty funny, as some things are a bit out of proportion. I have made a rough body, leg and arm. I'm trying to incorporate a curved foot, but its becoming rather difficult. I may have to settle for something a bit more polygonal. I'm trying to keep it simple aswell, kind of in the same style as that guy that has made the gerwalk and jet versions of the valkyrie. I'm also going to try and get it be in proportion with that guys valkyries so it worldn't look funny on your shelf. Its still far from completion, but hopefully all goes well.

- There are a few new games I've played so check em out here. I've also uploaded the first scene of the Pixelatrix finally. I haven't finished the background yet... but I have an excuse. Scroll down a bit further on the pixel page and you'll find a heap of Transformers icons. Also the wanted toy page is up.

- The other day while adding a new model I noticed that some models are linked to bogus places! A while back I was going to upload some files to a new server thingy, but I never got around to doing it.... and I couldn't be bothered to do it now either. I'm gonna scrap all the bogus stuff as it just takes up too much of my time. So if a model doesn't have a link I won't bother. Unless of course someone asks for it. I'm thinking of scrapping a whole heap cause i'm not a server guru guy who likes shifting files around all the time and updating multiple pages. There is also too many pictures on my site, or they are the wrong format or something. I'm gonna go ape with the delete button or convert them to gifs.

***April***

Asimo and New VS-F1 Valkyrie - April 25, 2003

- Asimo, it's all I have to say really. A reliable source gave me a copy of the 1:8 Asimo model so I will upload it as you can't find it easily elsewhere.

- The first Valkyrie I uploaded was rather crappy. It looked a bit ok, but it wasn't coloured, had a few design flaws and construction was far from easy. The same guy that made the Gerwalk version has also made a Valkyrie version! A few design changes, but pretty much everything is the same. It has retractable wings [which it must have otherwise theres no point], and even a nifty little stand with "VS-F1 Valkyrie" labelled on it. This has definately replaced the previous Valkyrie model. A must build.

- This isn't news as such, but I have finished building Eva Unit01 and I must say it sure does look swell standing inbetween Gundam and Unit00. It was a bit harder to build than Unit00 too. The 'wings' on the shoulders were a bit complicated.

- If your wondering why I haven't uploaded the Pixelatrix thing I promised a few weeks ago, is well I haven't finished the background yet. I've been busy building Gundam and Unit01 and making Transformers out of pixels. Plus I was dumbfounded by the Matrix Reloaded trailer :)

- That VoltesV model that I mentioned doesn't have blueprints. The creator got back to me and said he built it from scratch without creating plans. I don't think he is going to create the blueprints anytime soon either.

- There are a few other new pictures/links and odd models uploaded aswell, so browse around. Also I have finally got a counter and a guest book up. So if you want to ask me something or are requesting a model drop a note in the guestbook, by clicking on the link at the top. I'm also still looking for a decent free server to store some models, mainly the big eva and gundam ones, because people are saying that the original server is extremely slow and downloads don't complete properly. So if you know of a good free server that accepts all file types, drop a message in the guest book. Also some links might not work, I have to check them all, so I am sorry for any inconvenience.

Asimo and Voltes? - April 12, 2003

- Asimo? Yes Asimo. I have found a few pictures of the Honda built humanoid that can flush my toilet and more, and have sent my probes out looking for a copy of the plans. He will end up next to my Cam08 model on my shelf.

- Mmm this reminds me of Voltron... but not the tiger one that most of us know of. I remember when I was younger there were 2 videos that I always hired from the video store. My sister hired Care bears and I hired Voltron and the other was this other Voltron guy. This is probably it. I dunno, it was so long ago [hehe about 10 years]. The pictures of it bring back memmories as a friend had the actual transformable toy... so I need to do some digging. The site called it a Voltes V Godaikin and is from some super robot show that was shown in the Philippines. Anyhow there is a guy who has made a paper version of the transformable vechiles. But like I just said, I need to do some more digging. Look out for more on this soon.

- Some bad news. My source that I asked about the Zelda models has come back saying that they are no longer available as they are in back issues of a Gamecube magazine and difficult/impossible to get. So unfortunately we will just have to stare at the pictures. Also I forgot to upload the sonic models. I updated the html pages, but forgot to upload the actual jpegs. Sorry bout that. It should be up now.

SonicTeam - April 10, 2003

- As I promised, I have uploaded the Sonic Team models that were not easily available for people outside Japan. It includes Sonic, Shadow a parrot and funny looking penguin [obviously from the latest sonic game]. The same guy that gave me the sonic models also is also trying to see if his japanese friend can dig up anything about the much wanted zelda model . Hopefully I get some good news in the near future.

- Other than that I haven't much news... I've been incredibly busy building the Gundam RX-78 and now Eva Unit01, and I haven't been online for a while. That also goes the same for the pixelatrix thing. I haven't been bothered with creating a back ground yet and I up to my knees in paper and glue. I have however [while i'm waiting for the next 10 or so pages to print] created a few more animated cursors [based on an insect theme] and started creating some of the actions [door kick in, draw gun, flash light] for the police officers in the next scene in the pixelatrix.

- I'm also going to try get a feedback/guestbook/forum thing up and running and start up a more convenient paper model community. I know there are much larger and popular groups around, but they usually just contain repetitive conversations about copyright laws or how to print a new model. This guestbook will probably replace my group, as there won't be the need for logging in or anything and a much easier way to request models, supply links and mention new models. I dunno... I'm going to experiment with it a bit.

***MARCH***

Getter Robo, Votoms Brutish Dog & SonicTeam - March 28, 2003

- A few more models that I downloaded from the legendary modelgundam site, Getter robo and Brutish Dog mech. I dunno if thats the correct name for the Getter one, but I thinks its right. If not check the picture to see what it is. I spent ages trying to find a picture of the models, but I only found the box pic.

- A while ago on the smartgroups paper group someone poster a message about sonic team having a few Sonic models. Unfortunately you had to be in Japan to get them. But alas! as I mentioned in my last post, i was given a copy of the models and you will able to download them and build them along with the japanese!

- Also I have decided not to upload files that are already available online. Why? Because its a waste of my time, and webspace. Lately I've been looking for 50mb of free webspace for these new models and it takes too long so, I'll only upload files that don't or no longer exist online. This means we will have to rely on links, which I don't particulary like, but its much easier for me. I will try to link directly to the file for your convenience.

- I finished the Gundam RX-78 model the other day, and damn its fine. It stands in a corner where my eva unit00 model was. The gundam model is pretty stable and can easily stand on its own, although its leaning slightly backwards. I had a problem with the unit00 model as the legs weren't very stable. The weight of the body gave in and the legs bent in a place or two. Now I hang unit00 from the corner that its in, thus relieving the legs of bending again, but now i'm worried that the fishing line that I strung it up with might tear the paper... oh well. I'm tossing up whether to do either eva unit01 or the brutishdog model... I'm gonna leave the Zaku model for now, until I get a new ink cartridge.

- I have sort of finished the first scene of the Pixelatrix. I said 'sort of' because i still need a background, which I am working on now, so another week or so and i'll upload it.

Gundam CRAZY! Zaku, RX-78, SDRX-93 & Eva Unit01!! - March 22, 2003

- If you are a member of my group you may have already had heard the news that there are some new models out. But if not, well then you get the news a bit later. There is a gundam modelling site [in some weird language] and they have posted up a heap of gundam/mecha paper models. I have been to this site before, but I didn't notice the download paper model section. A visitor of this site told me about this, so I thank you. Anyhow there are a heap of models to download from there. This includes those really big ones that are hard to come by. You'll find Eva Unit00 Prototype, Eva Unit01 Test, Gundam RX-78, Gundam Zaku, SD Gundam RX-93 and a handful of other models [by the name of Getter or Gatter? Dendrobium? Bruttish Dog? a Mazinger Z head?].

- Most of us have probably already downloaded, printed and built the Eva Unit00 model, so I won't go into that, but we do have a new one... Eva Unit 01! As soon as I have found the space to upload it to my site, you'll be able to get it from here. For those that can't wait, join my group and check the link section. You'll find it on my site as soon as I upload it.

- This is another wanted model that I can remove from my list below, the Gundam RX-78. This is as big as the Eva models and the pdf is like 52 pages!! So make sure you are stocked up on colour ink for your printer. Also I have all the pieces to the Zaku model. A while back there was a site which supplied the Zaku model for download, but it kicked up a stink in the paper model community because there was a zip file or 2 that was corrupt and thus we couldn't extract I think it was an arm and a leg. This new site has uncorrupt copies of the files so now the Zaku model should be up for download soon also. There is also a Gundam model of the chibi[small] kind, SD Gundam RX-93. This model reminds me of the plastic models that I have found at my local Hobby Co. for 12 dollars. This model will be uploaded before the others, mainly because of its smaller file size. So I'll use this model as a teaser!

- As for the other models, I don't know them by name and I downloaded the others instead. I'll download them during the week and I'll see if they are worthy of uploading.

- Away from the mecha models... I have also come across a few box head models as well as characters from the Klonoa game on GBA. Talking about game models, some of you might know about those Sonic and Shadow models from Sonicteam that no one can get unless you are over in Japan. Well a somewhat friend-of-a-friend of mine got them and scanned them for him and he has kindy passed them on to me [after a heap of zip problems!! hehe]. So my next update will have some pictures of them and maybe a downloadable copy.

- Away from paper models altogther, i'm thinking of removing the game section... or maybe trimming it a bit. All those pictures aren't good for 56k modem users like myself. Plus my Pixelatrix animation is coming along nicely. The first scene where agent Smith tells the cop "...your men are already dead..." is complete. I'm now finishing off the intro, with all the text and zooming effects. You know the part where the camera zooms in and goes into the number '0' and you see the matrix, well thats all trippy line work that hurts your eyes if you look at it too much. You know when lines that are too close together move across other lines that are too close together and you get a weird pattern thing happening, can't remember what that effect is called. Well thats what I've kind of done... can't wait to show people. Scene 1 should be finished within the next 2-3 weeks, depending on how much time I spend making the new Gundam and Eva models!

- On other news, I'm gonna try reduce the amount of images that I have on my site. I went browsing my site online the other day and found that it is rather slow and a heap of images don't load up. I've been busy building models and haven't had the time to spend on my site so I'll be trying to do a bit of construction and revamping in the next week or so. Thanks to 3 huge mecha models I now have a huge chunk of megabites to upload now [so far almost 50mb!! phwoar!] and this means that some links might not work as I haven't uploaded the files yet [i'm gonna need a few hosts :) If anyone knows a free web host server that accepts all file types please email me!! You'll get your models faster!]. Otherwise it might take some time [but no more than 3 weeks], so don't stress... all should be good.

New stuff, including complete Zaku model. - March 17, 2003

- Sorry about some of the glitches I have had, but hopefully they are all sorted out now. Finally some fantastic news. I have found a site which has a Gundam RX-78 and the Zaku model that people have been complaining about because of a corrupt file. I still need to download all the files, so look out for them on my next update. I haven't got all the files yet, because either their server is crap or the way I was downloading them was crap, because it took double the time if not more, than it should have taken to download a file.

- There is also a heap of box-head type transformer models. Find em in the Mecha section.

- And finally, my wish list has expanded and I have added some new picks of models that I would like to get my glue covered hands on. Check them out at the bottom of the page.

A NEW host! - March 10, 2003

- I apologise that I haven't upgraded my site. Sometime in Februrary my site completely screwed up. My account at Tripod no longer had my files, instead it had files from another site. I dunno if its a screw up on the Tripod server, but I'm sick of it. I've tried and waited for almost half a month to see if it is fixed or anything, but nuh. So now that I have found a new place (even though angelfire is part of the tripod thingy) to store my stuff hopefully all is peachy. There also is a slight name change, it is still PaperandGlue, but it has an '01' added to the end of it, as in site one. I have an awful feeling i'm going to have to upload all my zip files again on another site.

- The good news is that you haven't missed out on much. I hadn't been able to find any models for ages, until now. They're not major ones, but they are still models. I have also had a go at making one of those cube head models, you know the ones that have cubes for heads... anyhow yeah he is called Bad Ben and you can find him here, under the other section. I also have another one called Dopey Jim, he isn't coloured yet.

- My pixel work has also been coming along well also. I have pretty much completed the first scene out of the movie The Matrix, in my pixel movie called 'The Pixelatrix'. Some of the timing is a little fast, especially where the dialogue is concerned. I should have that finished and started on the difficult trinity scene by the end of the month.

- Some more bad news, I have given up on making my Patlabor AV-98 Ingram model for the time being. I think I concentrate more on my box head models and the pixelatrix.

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***FEBRUARY***

Pixel crazy!! - February 7, 2003

- A little while ago, about the same time as when I discovered paper models, I discovered the wonderful world of pixels! This included animated gifs, animated cursors, icons and just still pixel pictures. Just lately I have gone a bit mafia/gangsta/hitmen crazy (maybe it has something to do with watching a lot of action movies and the sopranos?) and made a little animated gif called "the mob", which is the little animated thing above. Now I have gone a little nuts and started making a few other 'mob' animations and some matrix and starwars inspired gifs. So what has this got to do with paper models? Well nothing really... but now that I have at least 10Mb+ of space on my site, I decided I would show off some of my pixel work and link to some great pixel artists. You will find icons and cursors made by me and other artists in the NEW pixel section. Enjoy.

NEED MORE SPACE!! - February 7, 2003

- Unfortunately this tripod site only allows me to have about 20Mb of stuff. I reduced the size of some images without losing any quality, so now I just have to find a new site. I'll have the one main site (this one), where all the html stuff and all the pictures are stored and then I'll have a few other sites, which has no html stuff, just server space full of all the models. Which will enable me to have lots of pictures on the site! YAY! So if a model doesn't work, or a page doesn't load, it means i'm busying uploading files and stuff. I plan to do this over the next week or so, depending on how much time I spend online.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

New Models and More Robots to Drool Over - February 5, 2003

- I have refound a guy who makes some really cool robot models. He's the one that I got the Eva Jetalone model from. I cruised around his site and found that he is making a few models that I wouldn't mind having my hands on. Click here to see the new models to drool over!

- It must be 'find-anime-characters' month, because I have come across a few cute looking anime characters from this little hamster thing to a weird 'frost' thing from some PS2 game. Check the 'Other' section to find them.

- Its not a new model to rave about, but because of the One Piece models I have, I thought this anime style Grim Reaper should sit along with it. It kinda reminds me of a enemy out of MegaMan Battle Network on Gameboy Advance.

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- I have also uploaded pictures of the gaming consoles and various others, the link for the roly poly tanks and some others.

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• Locust
• VF-S1 Veritech Fighter - Gerwalk mode

 

Robotech Battloid Mech - January 15, 2003

- With the release of the new Robotech game on Gamecube, I got all excited and started building a veritech fighter in Maya. By using some of the plans from the aircraft mode version of the veritech, I have completed a prototype of the humanoid version of the mech.

- The first prototype is saved and ready for printing. By the time I next update this, the model should be complete (with colour!).

My current paper model projects	Progress	Image
Robotech VF-S1 Battloid Veritech Fighter	- Prototype stage - Stopped building
Patlabor Ingram Labor Unit	- 3D model in Maya half complete - stopped building
Robotech Enemy Commander Battlepod	- Sketches and idea stage

 

3D Paper Modelling Apps Update - January 10, 2003

- Initially, I couldn't export .obj files from Maya. After flicking through the huge manual and fiddling with Maya for a few hours, I realised that the '.obj export plugin' wasn't loaded. I don't know if this is default or not, but I went into the Plugin Manager and clicked on the 'loaded' & 'autoload' checkboxes so that in the future I can export obj files without having to load the plugin each time.

- Also .obj files don't like nurbs either. I says 'Ignored Nurb Surfaces' or something when I export. So far it only like polygons. I haven't tried Sub-Division surfaces yet. So the models will end up a bit blockish, due to the fact that I'm stuck in polys (unless you want a multi-faced surface, making building harder and more complex.

- More surfaces = more folds = harder to build. Which I ain't going to do at the momment.

- I haven't figured out the texturing process in Tenkai yet. It seems a bit weird, but its probably a simple process. I'm too busy trying to make a successful model, let alone worrying about the colours of it.

 

3D Paper Modelling Apps. - January 5, 2003

- I have started walking into the realm of making my own paper models from scratch (a Patlabor Ingram!!), and am looking for simple ways of constructing 3D models, without using rulers and the need to remake pieces over and over again because it was out by 5mm.

- I had a small look around, and I have found a nifty tool called - Tenkai (which means 'unfold' in japanese), and this program just does that, unfolds your 3D models.

Accepts these file extensions: HexaSuper (*.6ks) Wavefront (*.obj) AutoCAD (*.dxf) HexaGreat3D (*.rok) Metasequoia (*.mqo) 3D Studio (*.3ds) VRML (*.wrl) Tenkai Info (*.tke)

http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/jun_m/tenkai/index-eng.html

...and then with a click of a button it converts it to a flat image, with gluing tabs, ready for printing and construction. This is pretty cool and I'm try it out. It's shareware, so you can only save models that have 20 or less faces... it will still unfold large models, but it just won't save the image files.

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