Paper Toys: The Walkind Dead's Rick, Daryl & Michonne

I was preoccupied making paper toys before typhoon Glenda hit the Philippines and, yes, as the title says, I did The Walking Dead's Rick's, Daryl's and Michonne's. Thanks to Enrique for sharing his templates! (Although, I'd love it if he also shared his other TWD templates especially the zombies. :))

I was also able to take photos of the paper toys, complete with backdrop and all, before the series of rotating brownouts. Don't I have much free time on my hands, huh? Haha!

First, here are photos of the paper toys and the backdrop with my ever reliable P250 desk lamp.

Now, here's the staged photo of the toys with the backdrop and a little help from Photoshop...

I'm actually thinking of tackling Adobe Illustrator to learn how to make my own paper toys (and clip arts, too) but I'm still finding time to do it. I'm too lazy for it right now. Haha! But I can't wait for The Walking Dead Season 5! Haha!

My next paper toy project: The Simpsons. ^^

ADAM Bomb + Garfield

Everyone, say hello to ADAM Bomb, the newest addition to my paper toys collection.

He's the one I was telling you about a couple of posts ago. Ain't he a cutie? If you're not familiar with him, he's one of the Garbage Pail Kids, a series of trading cards designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. I used to collect these cards when I was in high school or college (I'm really not sure when) and I'm thinking of collecting them again.ADAM is the only GPK paper toy I found in the net (there's also the trash can but it's only available to the 30 Years of Garbage pledgers) and I really hope they do make more.

Anyway, he's got a twin buddy in my collection (they're twins because I made them on the same day)... please say hi to Garfield...

 

Garfield is another favorite character of mine. We both hate Mondays, we both don't eat raisins, we both love lasagnas, we're both fond of dogs, and last but definitely not the least is we're both fat and lazy. Haha! Need I say more? :P

Now, here's a teaser to a set of paper toys I'm making now...

The 3 Great Swingers

Here is the last installment of the paper toys I've already done before I start posting the new ones. Meet The 3 Great Swingers... Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Thanks to The Paper Pack by Kriegel for the templates. (I also copied how he took photos of the three paper toys. Haha!)

These three were a challenge to make and I'm thinking of doing them again, slowly and carefully this time. (Yeah, I'm OC like that. Haha!)

I'm also planning to make Sammy a little bigger because they look good displayed together except that Sammy's a bit smaller than the other two. It's him or I'll have to make the other two smaller (which I think will be more difficult to build). We'll see...

I just have a couple more templates lined up to be built then I'll wok on these three again.

Paper Toy Time Again

I'll be leaving in a few for the pro-RH Bill rally in Baguio tomorrow (Hello sunburn!) but before I leave, I just want to share something with you because I'm really excited about it. My printer/scanner is now fixed. Yay! The scanner was misaligned for some reason while I was scanning my postcards and since it's a scanner and printer in one, the printer won't function, too, unless I get the scanner fixed first. So, I brought it to the service center yesterday and finally got it fixed. Now, I'm back to making paper toys. Woohoo! Haha! Yeah, I'm this excited about this particular one and this can't wait until get back from my trip (that's tomorrow evening LOL).

So, before I leave for Baguio, I leave you with this...

 

Garbage Pail Kids!!! Yeah, baby! Haha!

MAD's Alfred E. Neuman

This is Alfred E. Nueman, MAD Magazine’s mascot and cover boy. MAD is a well-known, long-running satirical magazine. It was launched first as a comic before it became a magazine.

I don’t read MAD anymore but I was very fond of it before (I’m thinking of reading it again and, maybe, collecting it, too.) and when I saw this paper toy, I knew I had to make this. Thanks to Elias Silveira for creating the template and sharing it on his flickr account. He also made a Christmas version of the paper toy and I still have to make that one… in time for Christmas this year, maybe?

This fellow’s the biggest paper toy I’ve done so far and he's definitely a favorite! He measures about 10 inches tall including the platform. I love, love, love his “What, me worry?” shirt and I just might get me one exactly like that. Heehee. You can also change his face into one with his tongue sticking out. :P

I’m getting all excited already just thinking about getting the shirt done. I’m also thinking of making a hand-carved rubber stamp version.

Paper Toys

Here's another hobby of mine >> making paper toys. I accidentally learned about paper toys while I was Googling for pinhole camera templates. I thought they're cute and challenging so I gave it a try. Making a paper toy gave me a couple of cuts and made my hand ache but I enjoyed it very much. The very first ones that I made were Darth Vader and R2D2 minis but my nephew claimed them already. Haha! I'll try to borrow them next time so I can take a picture, promise!

It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark...

Remember this line? Yes, it's from Michael Jackson's Thriller and this is what my next paper toys are about. I found these templates of Zombie MJ and Wolf MJ and printed them right away without hesitation. Now, here they are...

 

Next are these two severed zombie heads...

 

It was fun making these two and much funner taking their photos. I had to wait until late night to take a picture of these bloody heads because I didn’t want to scare my neighbors and make them think I’m some kind of a nutcase. Haha! Imagine me staging these heads in the middle of the street at around midnight  complete with sachets of ketchup as bloody props.. I sure didn’t scare our neighbors but there was this dog which kept barking and I could hear its owner shushing it. Haha! 

I don’t mean to scare you with this post (Not yet. Haha!), it’s just that I was on a The Walking Dead high when I started this hobby, thus, all these zombies. The severed ones I made in time for Halloween.

If you’re not familiar with what a paper toy is, they’re printed paper pieces that you need to cut and assemble. You will need a printer, cardstocks, x-acto knife or cutter, scissors, cutting mat, glue, exactness or precision, and a lot of patience for this hobby. Also, you’ll need to keep an emergency kit somewhere near your work area in case of emergency cuts (happened to me a lot of times already haha). Yeah, funny but true! So, if you see me with a bandage on one of my fingers, you’ll know for sure that I’m doing some cutting.