Southern Chinese Lion Dance( 舞狮) – A Flat Paper Model
This post is in celebration of the Lunar New Year 25th January 2020. The Lunar New Year or Spring Festival is celebrated by most of East Asia except Japan,...
Satsuki and Mei’s House from My Neighbor Totoro サツキとメイの家
This is the third model feature from the anime movie “My Neighbor Totoro” which is the eclectic 1950’s country house that the Kusakabe family moved to at the beginning...
Japanese Five Story Pagoda 五重塔
The Japanese pagoda, while originally derived from Chinese prototypes, came to have distinctive architectural features all of its own. Pagodas usually come in 3 or 5 levels, and some...
Find Mei! – Cat Bus from My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ – ネコバス)
As I continue on my series of paper card models of memorable characters from Hayao Miyazake’s fantasy movie “My Neighbor Totoro” , we have the Cat Bus. A zany...
Motorized Tricycle from “My Neighbor Totoro” となりのトトロ
My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ) is one of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki movies because it captures the magic of a childhood in the countryside much like my own at a...
Japanese 28cm Howitzer – The Hammer of Port Arthur (日本二十八糎榴弾砲)
The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 foreshadowed the type of warfare that the 20th century was going to experience, dominated by machines and technology. Although the territorial gains of this...