Sprite Stitch Board!

Okay, I don't think I've actually made a show-off thread until now. I just got reminded that I haven't posted any images from my days as a papercrafter, so I figure now's as good a time to start the thread up as any.


PAPERCRAFT:
Puddlejumper from Stargate: Atlantis
Stormtrooper helmet and a bomb from Windwaker. I left the bomb open so that I could carry dice around in it... right before my life filled up too much to do tabletop gaming. :/
Snorlax
Skull from Windwaker (looking quite battered), and a partial shot of an adorable Trojan horse craft I found floating about.
This was a brilliant idea by the Paperpokes crew: a Pokemon card with Pikachu extruded into 3D.
Oddish
Mushrooms!
I made Lapras before I knew how to make a pretty papercraft, but she was so much fun to put together!
Diglett
The Enterprise-D shuttle "Hubble"
My junk bin. Contains stuff that wound up getting trashed by kids and cats, as well as a few test crafts.

MECH PAPERCRAFT:

For a long time, I used to hang out on a forum specifically for crafting the mechs from Battletech.
My pride and joy: a customized Timber Wolf, with mods for the arm guns, the shoulder missile pods, armor plates, and everything, right down to the way the toes connected. I converted a powered armor suit model as well and stuck it on top. The entire diorama commemorates an exhibition match using the Battletech tabletop rules in which my wife's armor unit took down an enormous mech solo. The diorama is in my wife's office where she does lawyering.

Linebacker (with exclusive Calvin & Hobbes skin!)

Kit Fox with modified guns

Cougar with modified guns

Shadow Cat with modified guns, missile ports, and tissue paper jump jets

The Shadow Cat was a fun build - I reinforced the hip and legs so thoroughly that you could take a hammer to them.

STITCHING:

(somewhat incomplete; presented from newest to oldest)
Header for my blog
Baby Metroid cell phone charm
Where There Are Bees
Luna & Artemis for my spouse. Original pattern by SonnySplendor here.

A Commander Keen / Dopefish for my brother-in-law. The Galactic Standard beneath reads "Just Keep Swimming".

Bring Your Alien Baby to Work Day (my entry to the coloring book challenge).

The infamous SMB enemy pants badges. (pants, hee hee)

My contributions to the Star Trek book. Qo'noS is Johloh's pattern that I stitched and sent off; the raktajino stitch is my design and my stitching.

Do Not Feed the Metroid, from this forum, modified to include glow-in-the-dark outlining.

Minidex 251 for a board challenge

Ness & Mike for a board challenge

Skyward Gallade for a board challenge

Gunpei Yokoi's Pirates! for a board challenge

Modified LoZ bookmark

They are amazing, especially the papercraft

I see no junk here. Only some seriously awesome papercraft and some excellent stitching.

Everything is awesome!

I've actually been curious as to what you make, now I need wonder no longer! Awesome stuff RMDC!

Quite impressive. Especially all the robots and Pokemon.

Ally wrote:I've actually been curious as to what you make, now I need wonder no longer!

Ironically, part of the reason I've become so engrossed in stitching is because my printer grew too recalcitrant to allow me to continue papercrafting.

But now I prefer the portability of stitching, as well as the fact that a dude stitching in public is apparently so mind-blowing to bystanders that I'm singlehandedly destroying the patriarchy wherever I go.

I stopped stitching in public when I started getting stared at by other girls around my age who seemed shocked that there were actually younger people who still sewed! You can't win on that front!

RMDC wrote:But now I prefer the portability of stitching, as well as the fact that a dude stitching in public is apparently so mind-blowing to bystanders that I'm singlehandedly destroying the patriarchy wherever I go.

haha, I know how that feels. When my father in law first saw that I really really enjoyed stitching, he started questioning certain aspects of my personal life. When others start doing that, I just show them WHAT I'm stitching and that usually causes them to ignore me like they originally would have!

Those are some really awesome papercraft pieces too. Now you have successfully gotten me interested in yet another form of crafting...