I've seen others posting their hobbies here, so I though why not.
I'm not sure how it's called in English actually, I think it's 'card modelling', but I also saw 'papercraft' somewhere.
You probably saw it somewhere or played with it as a kid (or with your kids), in this form:
You basically make simple solids out of paper, cubes and cylinders, and glue them together so they form a shape that may remind you of a real life object (or made up one for that matter). All details outside of general shape are painted.
You can go further than that and model something in 3D, then unfold it and print out. This way models as complicated as this are made:
This is how paper models are known around the world AFAIK and this is NOT my hobby.
In Poland and generally in eastern Europe paper models evolved into something else. For example, this is made of paper:
And this:
And this:
Highly detailed models of real life objects. Military equipment from WWII is most common, but other things are made too (buildings or wind-ships for example).
This is/was my hobby since I was a kid, but as with everything I do, there were long periods when I didn't do anything about it. I'm getting back to modelling for some time now and if someone is interested I may post some of my work here. If no one is interested I'll cry myself to sleep then ok.
As this is a 'comeback' and I'm relearning all the skills involved, my current models are quite simple, plus speed of work is rather slow, so don't expect anything spectacular.
Oh, right, I should be posting this on some specialized forum for card modelling. I am on a few, but I don't really like those places. They all fall into one of two categories:
- nest of elitist pricks, where you get shouted at for virtually everything not perfect, not pro level photos mainly
- infantile circle jerks, where everything everyone does is just super and so wonderful
So there, a little rant at the end, it's TDWTF after all.