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Métro ticket papercraft

Here’s an amazing feat of the hands and brain: this guy transformed the Paris métro ticket into an X-wing fighter. (via BoingBoing)

BoingBoing has frequent posts on papercraft. After seeing Le Chateau Ambulant, I was wanting a related activity to do with my daughter … and saw this castle papercraft project (free! well, uh, … ink). We started together, she would cut out some of the simple parts, but now she “really likes to watch.” We’re about halfway through, page 14 I think. It’s amazingly time-consuming. All the instructions are in Japanese, but no problems so far.

I don’t think I ever heard about papercraft before the BB posts. It’s strangely attractive, it’s concrete and physical, it forces me to slow down and it doesn’t involve a keyboard.

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2 Responses to “Métro ticket papercraft”

  1. Shay Says:
    September 25th, 2005 at 16:53

    Hi,

    Sorry to trouble you, but I stumbled across this from BoingBoing and was wondering if you could direct me to another copy of (or email me) the exe’s for the Howl papercraft. It seems HP have taken down the original links. :P

    Thanks,
    Shay

  2. Dave Says:
    September 27th, 2005 at 06:48

    Hi Shay,

    I confirmed that the old links on the Epson site are dead, and a brief google tour was fruitless :-(. Files are too big to mail directly but I mailed you about other options.

    Dave

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