On November 28, 2003, Mr. Lope featured some Nintendo card models.

This link was derived from a search for the word “model” conducted via Mr. Lope’s search facility. Not included in the search results was the April 29, 2002 link to the Paper Engineer’s Workshop, the online presence of Keisuke Saka, whose work highlights the sculptural qualities of automata.

UPDATE: D’oh! Mr. Lope beat me to the workshop link here. On his site he notes he likes the Dreaming Penguin – I’m partial to the Doomed Fish, but I like the chairs and also ‘the most famous quartet in the world,’ neither apparenty kitted, more’s the pity.

UPDATE II: And look! Dan’s got the Yamaha papercraft stashed down in there too!

I can’t stop!

Yamaha

Yamaha offers a range of models both predictable and not. A samurai helmet! Frogs! Snails!.

Also available are many models of animals, including a polar bear and a penguin. One assumes the bear might easily become a yeti. I did not notice the presence or absence of a club. Furthering the video-game wildlife concept is of course the
hedgehog. Alas, however, no badger nor snake.

Wizards of the Coast

Dungeons and Dragons village and keep construction kit, including gatehouse, houses, walls, and, of course, a mausoleum and graveyard. Alas, no cathedral.

3D Papercraft

Japanese (commercial?) site, framed. In the column to the left, click ‘new’ or other topic heading. ‘New’ will open an 86 page list of offsit elinks from which I pluck another obscure Trek model at Homespun Magixx, an utterly kawaii hamster, and a selection of guitars.

(This was originally an update but grew as I explored the Czech model site. Chezchloslovakia was a center of paper modeling back in the seventies and there are continual and lovely new kits coming from the Czech Republic today.)

Three more from BB. I’ve seen the NASA stuff, may have seen the Star Wars stuff, and the Aliens rifle is new to me. The Aliens site also has a wide range of other models available. Unfortunately it’s framed which makes it hard to link to properly. The modeler (a Czech) also includes a link labeled ‘My Building Process‘ which explains how he develops his models from extant 3D models. His English is not 100% but like his models he gets the important stuff correct.

Models available from him include the APC, the entire colony (understandably ‘under construction’), and projected models of more or less everything in the entire film. This guy is pretty ambitious. Finally, under his link marked bonus, he provides some intriguing models from a variety of sources including Star Trek movie-era Starbase and in some ways the most intriguing, a spacecraft model credited as being from the ‘great Czech comic Galaxia‘ but which is in fact unquestionably at least based on the original Battlestar Galactica.

Again I say, what, no Space 1999?

UPDATE: whoops, almost forgot. A Tron lightcycle.