Web Page with Collection of Paper Model Sites

[John Wagenseil]

"Kanmon KaikoFerry Papercraft
The Kanmon Straits (関門海峡 Kanmon Kaikyō) or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands. The Kanmon Straits can be crossed in a number of ways, the oldest of which are the ferries. You can download a simple papercraft of the Kanmon Kaikyo Ferry"

https://web.archive.org/web/20100210...kkferry.co.jp/

An easy but pretty model of a tourist ferry in Japan.
The model button is on the right, the second link below the red flashing "New".
The original URL is dead, but the information lives on at the internet archive.

[John Wagenseil]

www.ducks.ca/assets/2015/09/frog-korean.pdf

More paper models of animals that live in wet places
http://www.ducks.ca/resources/educators/paper-animal-models/

These are not Japanese paper models but some of them are accompanied by Asian language educational materials.

The dragon fly in Vietnamese is especially nice and would look great hovering over a computer monitor
http://www.ducks.ca/assets/2015/09/dragonfly-vietnamese.pdf

[Vermin_King]

When I downloaded these, they only had the 'All Models' version. I'm glad they added the individual downloads

[biyu]

Originally Posted by John Wagenseil

I apologize if I overdosed everyone with too many paper models. I stumbled onto a mother load of Japanese paper model sites and had a hard time stopping. I finally stopped when I got tired, not when I ran out of sites to explore and post.

im looking good planes as i can only get 8 or so a day from downloads section here and i think thats too few so thankies--military and neat lol

[John Wagenseil]

The very prolific and also skilled designer at
箱之工房 - トップ
http://lazylife.at-ninja.jp/
has just released a 1/72nd paper model of the WW2 Lee M3 tank.

[Foute Man]

Originally Posted by John Wagenseil

From an archived site, several small scale but well detailed (lots of tiny parts) ship models. One of the models is of a freighter that was sunk during WW2. There are no instructions, you will have to figure out how they go together from the parts numbering sequence and the thumbnail pictures of the finished models. These look like nice models and a worthwhile build for someone interested in classic pre container era shipping.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100307...nksato/kit.htm

(The 2008 to 2010 page saves have the models)

If any of you find sites with good paper models please take the time to submit the URL of the main page and the URL of the models themselves to the "Wayback Machine". Otherwise great models like these and like Zio Prudenzio's for example could be lost forever when the original web site is no longer maintained.

Some of these ships have appeared on a certain russian downloadsite with building pics. posting a link to that site is out of the question i guess, because a lot of "pirate" models on that site...

[John Wagenseil]

http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/533605-post106.html

Originally Posted by Foute Man

Some of these ships have appeared on a certain russian downloadsite with building pics. posting a link to that site is out of the question i guess, because a lot of "pirate" models on that site...

It is a pity that sometimes the only sites that preserve models that would otherwise be lost are the pirate sites. At least in this case the ship models were posted on a individual's web site, so that they could be preserved by the Internet Archive.
These are actually very nice water line models, and a couple of them are on my never to be completed , every growing to build list. The fact they have only part numbers, no instructions, makes them a bit of a puzzle.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit foundation and one day it might shut down it its funding runs out, which means the legitimate host of other wise lost forever models will be gone.
Models that are posted on Download sites by their designers are also ephemeral, since those sites are often targeted by governmental agencies and shut down since they often host materials that violate copyright laws.

I explored the site in the original post and found these links:

Pictures of assembled paper models
https://web.archive.org/web/20100309...sato/index.htm

More paper model ships to download
http://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/01kanku/paper/paper.htm
Archived links to JSDF naval submarines (Kongo and Oyasio) and a LOVE BIRD (inko):
https://web.archive.org/web/20030625...e.jp/kusimaru/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030608...inko/inko.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030605...ngo/kongo.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030608...io/oyasio.html

An easy to make WW2 Akagi aircraft carrier:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030619...agi/akagi.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030414.../img/akagi.gif

A set of dead links, maybe someone here can track down the missing models:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050827...rame3_4_1.html
(edit, I think I found the model, see the next posts)

[John Wagenseil]

https://web.archive.org/web/20060302...un/oriana.html

Download the PDFs of the model. Then visit the page liinks with the instructions.
This is a large detailed model of a cruise ship.

A prior thread about this model
Oriana

I should have checked first but the original site is still up, here it is
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http://www.d9.dion.ne.jp/~senaun/oriana.html

[John Wagenseil]

https://web.archive.org/web/20050312...aru_model.html

[John Wagenseil]

https://web.archive.org/web/20030402...aru_model.html

Explore the earlier saves to find the paper model.

or
https://web.archive.org/web/20050321...aru_model.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030402...l/advanced.PDF
https://web.archive.org/web/20030402...del/manual.PDF

And the Nippon Maru model download page in a language that resembles English:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050204...e_model_E.html