We understand that we do not yet have an enormous amount of kick-ass kits and of course we have our heroes we'de like you to meet. For the always hungry paperkitters here are some links to infinite paperkitting-galore. Hint us a URL if you think we missed one. All other advice and broken link comment is welcome as well.

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  • Keisuke Saka is one of Japan's most honored paper karakuri-engineers. Karakuri (Japanese meaning trick mechanism) are devices whose mechanical movement is designed solely to amuse or surprise. Saka's beautiful designs are thoughtful with only a few moving parts, yet producing elegant movement. Here or here, a chance to freely download one of his designs!
  • Shin Tanaka, puts urban and customizing into paper-toyz. Lots of superb designers take a shot at paperkitting.
  • Flying Pig, England-based automata-engineer Rob Ives shows that paperkitting isn't just an Asian craft. He's world-class!
  • We really like the cute and thoughtfull designs of Toy's Lavatory. It's very hard to make paperkits look easy to build.
  • ReadyMech has flatpack toys for you to go creative on.

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  • Custom Paper Toys, a blog by Matt Hawkins, devoted to his paper toy work, including a (downloadable) Free Paper Toy of the Month. More Matt-madness can be found on Flickr.
  • cardboy calendar 2007, who-else but Mark James, the creator of Cardboy to create an all paper boy: the CardBoy Calender! and he is downloadable for free :)
  • Brickboy by Dutch artist Sjors Trimbach apparently hits the right nerve. There are allready over 30 custom-designed versions of the blocked kit for downloading and still counting.
  • Maybe the most popular DIY papertoy around: PiPi from 100%loading. Nuff said, it's kind of ultimate and the amount of custom-designs proves that point. And you learn a bit of Chinese along the way :)
  • BigChief Design is a Milan-based digital graphic design company with a very popular toy called, ehm, Big Chief.
  • NiceBunny's emperium grows fast. And for a good reason: it's a bit complex toy, but with great attitude.
  • Again a very customizable toy: Speakerbox from Ben the Illustrator.
  • Loulou: funny stuff, and with the infamous 'Poepgat Puppies'!
  • Marshall Alexander, kind of fresh (just like us), but surprisingly nifty with every new model.
  • Toypaper, an ongrowing little paperworld with lovely stuff
  • Ultimate DIY: Papercritters, totally digital online design.
  • Whith Super-Bastard, from Undoboy, you cannot stop designing.

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  • Robo-T, robots are made for paper, especially the 50's blocked look of them. I don't understand all the Japanese on this website but see it as adventurous clicking around, unlocking all kinds of robot models!
  • Paper Robots 1999, with, ehrm, paper robots.

Paperworlds
  • Boooon-City, a children's paperworld with cars.
  • It's calles PaperHorsePark, it looks like it, but we still don't understand what it's for excactly.

Nuts
  • The Karakuri Corner, karakuri you'll have to pay for these kits, but it shows you some top notch paper-paradise
  • Micro Paper Planes, Don’t throw away those used metro cards and business cards! Make your very own fleet of paper airplanes from them. The website's visual power will make you nuts too :)
  • Another reason why Japanese crafters make us nuts: Kei Craft.
  • N. Hayashi is A-R-T! 
  • A big portfolio from Yamaha.  And we ask ourselves: how do they do it? Bad for sleep, but highly recommended for looking at least. Ever wandered how to build a motorbike bold by pipe out of paper?
  • Howl's Moving Castle, why not?

Looking
  • Carlo Giovani, a Brazilian designer/illustrator who's easy with paper.
  • OpticalToys brings back old-school optical illusions. You can buy them too, but we kept on looking  :)

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  • First do some homework here  :)
  • And a little bit more (we are hooked anyway!  :)

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  • Bubble Jet Printer Creative Park, Canon is kind to let you search for cartridge-boundaries with an extensive download-section for papercraft. I really liked their scientific kits (think volcano's and eclipses), although I cannot find them anymore.
  • What about a real camera, made of paper? It's been developed in communistic Czechoslovakia so it's gót to work.
  • Paperino, good old school, with always fascinating automata's.
  • Different quality paperkits, but hey, it's Disney.
  • Raven's blight, all paper, all eerie horror. Yummie!
  • Looks great above the fireplace and you don't have to kill fish: PaperTrout.
  • Sasatoku has all kinds of paper stuff.
  • If you can't find it at ss42, it probably doesn't excist.

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