Miscellaneous, Paper Model Making Helpers

Free paper models, information, paper model/paper toy creation utilities for paper modeling...

American Postcards - Lots of images of vintage postcards

Dover Publications - Sign up for the Dover Sampler, and each week we’ll send you an email with links to free content from books favored by customers like you. Download, print, enjoy!

Clever Lunch Box Design - Eco friendly cardboard lunch box that when opened has built-in plate. Clever.

Jen Stark - Beautiful paper cut designs.

Making Toy Theatres

MIT, 3D Printing - Three Dimensional Printing is a process under development at MIT for the rapid and flexible production of prototype parts, end-use parts, and tools directly from a CAD model...

Mr. McGroovys - Free plans for cardboard play structures: castle, pirate ship, space ship, train and more. He also sells "box rivets"

Paper Model Forum - Mike Hungerford's Google Groups

PDO File Viewer

Cardboard Cad-A-Pult - Instructions for how to make a catapult out of cardboard.

Scale Model Net - Has a free paper model category, very nice.

Paper Model/Paper Toy Making Helpers

Blender - Very popular free open source 3d modeling program. Has an unfolder plugin called Unfolder that will unfold your 3d models.

Designing Paper Models

Dioramas Pro - Software to create miniature gaming dioramas, props and buildings, there are free samples available.

Dt Online - Has an interactive package/box design section.

Geometric Model Software and Makers

Metasequoia - 3d modeling program, freeware version available

MilkShape 3D - Low cost 3d modeling program

Paper Modeling with David T. Okamura

Pepakura Designer - Very nice paper model creator!

Printies in Paint - Lessons on how to make some basic printies (paper models) using the Windows Paint program.

SketchUp - Google's 3d modeling program. There is a functional free version. We love the program, though we are still learning to use it.

Sketcup Unfold Script - 3rd party script that allows you to unfold in Google's Sketchup modeling program. Easy to use.

Star Ship Schematics - Free schematics covering Star Trek, Battle Star Galactica, Babylon 5 and Space Battleship Yamato, Very Nice!

Tank-CAM

Ultimate Papercraft 3D - Papercraft designer software for MS Windows. There is a demo trial version available.

Ultimate Unwrap3D - Ultimate Unwrap3D is a speciality Windows tool for unwrapping 3D models. Demo available.

Waybe Unfold for SketchUp 7 - Free 15 day demo for SketchUp plugin that unfold models designed in SketchUp.