Build Your Own Paper Robots: 100s of Mecha Model Designs on CD to Print Out and Assemble: Perdana, Julius, Buczynski, Josh: Amazon.com: Books

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Build Your Own Paper Robots: 100s of Mecha Model Designs on CD to Print Out and Assemble Hardcover – Bargain Price, August 18, 2009

by Julius Perdana (Author), Josh Buczynski (Author)

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Have you ever watched the Autobots battle the evil Decepticons in Transformers and wished you could be in on the action? Now you can create a world of fantastic paper robots that you can color, print, and build yourself with this amazing book and CD combo. It has everything you need to complete the fantasy--thorough step-by-step assembly instructions and illustrations are in the book, while the CD has 14 ready-to-print, customizable robot templates.
Colors, designs, and size can be manipulated using any standard editing package so you can create over 250 variants for a full robot army. The models print out on letter-sized paper and are assembled using rubber bands or fishing line, it's that easy! There are even templates for a cityscape suitable for crushing or a Super Dimension- type fortress for a robot takeover.
From shape-changing Transformer-types to chunky Gundam-esque mobile suits, there's mecha for makers of all skill levels. So if you're a first-time model maker or just a fan of robots, anime, and manga, there's bound to be the perfect project waiting for you in Build Your Own Paper Robot.

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96 pages
Language

English
Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date

August 18, 2009
Dimensions

8.49 x 0.51 x 11.31 inches
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JULIUS PERDANA is a professional 3D animator and modeler. He first fell in love with papercrafting back in 1992, and it has been his hobby ever since. He is the founder of the popular papercrafting website Paper Replika boasting thousands of registered members, and downloadable paper models, from military tanks and mecha robots to spacecraft and dioramas. JOSH BUCZYNSKI build his first paper model (a dodecahedron) back in high school. Much later, the popularity of paper models on the internet provided a great foundation for learning and exploring his own ideas. Years of hobbying around have gone into making poseable paper bots for the sole purpose of covering his desk.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0058M8ZU2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin; Har/Cdr edition (August 18, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.49 x 0.51 x 11.31 inches

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Mr. Frederick R. Ahrens III

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2017

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great read

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Build your own Paper Robots

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2013

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Very useful and educational book. Fun to build paper robots!! Recommend to anyone whose child loves robots! A great book.

Son was happy but...

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2014

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Print outs are small. Took to copy store to enlarge and was told they could not because of copywright on the program

Nice book, only 12 robots

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2009

Pros: Nice robot designs, well detailed directions, and some flavor text description that older children would probably enjoy.

Cons: Only 12 robot designs, not "hundreds".

I'm guessing that the publisher put "hundreds of mecha model designs" in the title because the templates for each of the 12 robots are provided in 2 formats: both a colored pdf file, and an uncolored psd file. While some people will appreciate the opportunity to use Photoshop or Gimp to custom-color their mechas, I hardly think that is sufficient to call 12 mecha designs "hundreds".

Decent book, dishonest title.

15 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2009

My son also expected "hundreds" of robots on the CD, but there are only 12. Bear in mind that you have to purchase card stock to print the designs, use your own color ink (ours ran low on the first one) and then cut out each design. A lot of work for one model.

9 people found this helpful

way way too hard

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2011

received this as a gift for 6 year old son. I basically had to do it all, and it was abominably difficult. Find the right paper, get the print colours right, cut it out (yikes!), and glue/tape/pin together. It took me weeks of working late at night to finish one project. Finished projects only sort-of work. Not robotic. Fiddly. I'm 45 years old and good at this kind of stuff, but never again.

4 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2012

I am 49 years old and I have been working on one of these for 7 years! I am an engineer for heaven's sake. Mine transformed into a wad of cardboard.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2016

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Excellent, will use again.

くろまじん

かっこいいロボットのデータが入っています

Reviewed in Japan on September 26, 2013

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最初は、本に直接図面が書いてあって切り抜くのかと思っていたのですが、
実は付属のcdの中のデータをプリントして作る物のようでした。

まあ、プリントできる物なので色がつけられるという事でその点では
このタイプもいいかなと思います。

あと、安かったのもポイント高いです！

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