Papercraft and Papermodel: March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Libyan technical vehicle Papercraft

Title : Libyan technical vehicle Papercraft
Libyan ZX Auto based technical
Genre : Papercraft
Designer : Yudho
Builder : Yudho
Publisher : www.mypapermodel.blogspot.com
Scale : 1:50
Paper Used : Art Paper 150 gsm
Adhesive : PVaC White Glue
Color : Printed with laser printer
Working Time : 5 Hrs
Difficulty : 2/5

North Africa and Middle East are now in crisis, the authoritarian governments are in danger. People are tired of authoritarian govenment style, start from Tunisia and then Egypt and now it's Libya, people start to do a revolution. In Libya, i see a lot of double cabin SUV that bring a light anti aircraft gun (something like a 12,7 mm dshk or a 20-50 mm gun) on a tripod, and its used by the Libyan revolution army. Civilian vehicles that are being weaponized remembering me to similiar fighting vehicle configuration in some countries that are having a civil war. Somalia (you can see them in Black Hawk Down movie), some other countries in Afrika, Irak, Afghanistan, and now Libya. It is often used by irriguler army such as rebel army and revolution army.
I also heard that some mercenaries (eg : Blackwater) are using this fighting vehicle configuration, a double or single cabin SUV with a gun in the back.

Based on wikipeda, A technical is a type of improvised fighting vehicle, typically a civilian or military non-combat vehicle, modified to provide an offensive capability. It is usually an open-backed civilian pickup truck or four-wheel drive vehicle mounting a machine gun, light anti-aircraft gun, recoilless rifle, or other support weapon. In Somalia, where The term technical describing such a vehicle appears to have originated in, techincal is used to show strength and charisma of warlords. The more technical that a warlord has, the more powerfull he is.

The Libyan technical vehicle Papercraft is based on ZX auto Grand Tiger or ZX Auto Delux pickup. ZX auto or Zhong Xing Auto is a Chinese Automobile manufacturer. This double cabin pickup truck is prepared to compete with the other fifth generation of pickup models such as TUNDRA™ and NISSAN FRONTIER™. During the revolution In Libya, ZX auto is used as a fighting vehicle. You can see this car, with a gun which is mounted on the back, on your tv screen or somewher on the sites that talk about Libya Uprising. There are Toyota Hilux and Mitsubishi Strada Triton that used by revolution army as fighting vehicle (technical) but i think ZX auto is the best for the next papermodel because of the unique and it has cool tribal painting on its door.

The soldier is carrying AK-47 Assault Rifle

And this is it, Libyan technical vehicle Papercraft has been released, you can download here complete with a libyan revolution troop action figure papercraft and boxes of ammo!!!

Libyan Technical Vehicle Instruction

Libyan Technical Vehicle Instruction

Libyan Technical Vehicle Instruction 1

This model is completed with an action figure with AK-47 that can be put on the back side of the vehicle. You will get two optional mode of front wheel, straight and stocks. Please use part 7B if you want your model just be straight forward in action, and use part 7A if you want another pose (your car model will be turning left).

Libyan Technical Vehicle Instruction 2

Libyan Technical Vehicle Instruction 3

These are several pictures from pepakura viewer that may help you find out the correct position of some parts that confusing enough

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Friday, March 4, 2011

Pertamina's Oil Truck, Pertamax Carrier

Title : Pertamina's Oil Truck, Pertamax Carrier
Genre : Papercraft
Designer : Yudho
Builder : Yudho
Publisher : www.mypapermodel.blogspot.com
Scale : 1:50
Paper Used : Art Paper 210 gsm
Adhesive : PVaC White Glue
Color : Printed with laser printer
Working Time : 7 Hrs
Difficulty : 2/5

This model is a part of Truck series. Fortunately i am interested in oil truck carrier, and i choose Pertamina as the state owned corporation that operates so many oil trucks. There are so many Pertamina's oil trucks on the street and it helps a lot because there are just lack of oil truck references on the internet. So that, i need to do a little research to get sufficient references of Pertamax Carrier oil truck, especially their photos. Just for your information, Pertamax is the top Pertamina's product of gasoline. In the fact, Pertamax has higher octan value than premium, another Pertamina's product of gasoline. So that, Pertamax is better for your car than premium, but it is more expensive.

Backside of Pertamax papercraft

This Pertamax carrier papercraft was based on my previous papercraft design, Premium carrier oil truck (it was "Pertamina's Oil truck" in my previous post), what i had to do was resizing some parts of it because i wanted to make a Pertamax carrier that brought 8000 L of gasoline. FYI, My previous model, premium carrier oil truck papercraft, was built for carrying 16000 L of gasoline. So this pertamax carrier papercraft had similiarity but not identical to premium carrier. If you had built the premium carrier papercraft, i thought that it would be easy for you to build this model. This model was an easy an simple model, you could make it even this was the first time you built a papercraft. So if you wanted to build this papercraft, please follow this to get it for free!!!