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Downloadable Origami Motorcycles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the somthing-completely-different dept.

gse writes "This is too cool. Yamaha has a series of very realistic origami motorcycles, freely downloadable from their website. There's also a cool little article on how the models are made. I knew the office dyesub would come in handy someday!"

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  1. not really origami by dakkar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "origami" means something like "folded paper". The Yamaha models are made by cutting and pasting paper, not folding. So they're not origami.

    They're cool nonetheless...

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  2. BMW paper cars by geirt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Something to do in the Christmas holiday: BMW paper cars

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  3. If you're interested in this sort of thing... by jcr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have a look at 'Paper Models International'. I've been buying models from them occasionally for over ten years, and they've got some amazing things in the catalog.

    Check out the JS Schrieber models of the Chartre Cathedral, and the first German locomotive, "Der Adler". The detail is fantastic.

    -jcr

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  4. Way more than a year. by carndearg · · Score: 2, Interesting
    As far as I know these have been up for way more than just a year. They certainly did the rounds on a motorcycle mailing list I'm on a few years ago.

    At the time I remember quite a few list members downloaded and tried them but quite a few very shaky paper R1s went to the breakers because these kits are not paper modelling for the beginner or the faint hearted.

    Still, topmarks to Yamaha for doing such a cool thing!

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  5. More paper fun by FunkyRat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've always been fascinated by origami and paper models. Perhaps that's because I am so very bad at both. Anyway, here's some more paper goodness.

    • Star Trek paper models. There's a fantastically detailed Enterprise 1701 (refit) there.
    • Origami and Math. My calculus teacher in high school had a whole array (pardon the pun) of paper polyhedra.
    • Origami dinosaurs. I love the paper Tyranosaurus. Now if I only had paper Marshall, Will and Holly's to go with these I could play Origami Land of the Lost!
  6. More Enterprise fun by dabadab · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And while you are it, there is an Enterprise model made out of a 3.5" floppy. It's actually fairly easy to do and it's waaaay geeky :)

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  7. Re:not really origami - but this is! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://home.earthlink.net/~fredwarning/moto.htm

  8. It is called card modeling or paper modeling... by popala · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The idea of paper/card models is not really that new. There is a great selection of card models available for purchase or download. The Yamaha models mentioned in this article are very simple compare to professionally designed and printed models. Virtually anything you ask for is out there. Poland is the leader in this hobby. To get an idea of what I'm talking about take a look at some of these links:
    Radom card modeling contest
    Krasnystaw card modeling contest
    Andrzej Halinski: leading publisher of card models
    Card model gallery
    High quality electronically published card models
    More sophisticated models have thousands of parts and are very realistic. A model of USS Saratoga from publisher Fly Model in scale 1:200 has over 3200 parts (that includes couple squadrones of airplanes). Card models are also mostly in large scales (1:33 airplanes, 1:25 vehicles and 1:200 ships) and a whole lot cheaper than plastic models.