Make Your Own Hellboy Gun

Annalee Newitz — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:19:44 PST

This is the Samaritan gun, the big-barreled shooter that Hellboy uses only after muttering "Ohhh crap." When you're fighting elementals or underworld devils, you'll want one of these at your side. And now you can make one - out of paper.

ToyCyte calls our attention to the amazing papercraft design for this gun, which isn't just cool-looking but is apparently functional. It even includes papercraft bullets. Just visit the Way Nifty blog and check out their 14 pages of patterns - you can print them out, cut them out, and start folding your way into supernatural badassery. Perfect for a weekend indoors, hiding from the winter cold.

Samaritan Gun Papercraft [Way Nifty via ToyCyte]

Feed Your Watchmen Action Figure Addiction on the Cheap

Nisha Gopalan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:20:00 PDT

We were trolling one of our favorite Watchmen sites recently and noticed that the movie’s action figures are available for pre-order at about 20 bucks a piece. Because we are itching to reenact, say, the Doc Manhattan fighting in ’Nam scene a casa, we naturally need them all—and, well, that’s gonna add up. So instead of handing over cash to The Man for some PVC, we scavenged the net for Watchmen papercraft. And…mission accomplished! We've got pointers to the best Watchmen papercraft how-tos — along with a handy ratings chart so you know which superhero matches your paper folding skills.

Just what is papercraft? It’s is an addictive art (skill?) in which you fold together pieces of paper to construct an action figure. (Many folks out on the web helpfully provide easy-to-use PDF designs to help you make the toy.) Think of it as stylin’ 3D origami, only pop culturey. All you need is access to a color printer, heavy paper, and some clear tape.

EASY
Rorschach [via Toy a Day]
Doctor Manhattan
Batman
A dude from V
Hellyboy

MODERATE
Grand Theft Auto IV scene [via Papercraft World]
Young Link from The Legend of Zelda

HARD
Iron Man [via Paperkraft]
Star Wars ships [Papercraft World]

Image courtesy of Invasores Espaciales

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Make Your Own Hellboy Gun

Feed Your Watchmen Action Figure Addiction on the Cheap