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Papercraft or Card Modelling is the making of scale models from sheets of card on which the parts are pre-printed, usually in full colour, for one to cut out, fold, score and glue together. An activity usually pursued as a hobby.

Popularity
Card modelling boomed during World War 11, as paper was one of the few items that was not restricted. But as plastic kits became common, interest in paper decreased. The availability of models on the Internet has caused popularity again to increase.

Location
Papercraft is an activity pursued in your own home, and appears to be generally most popular in Europe and Japan.

Age
Papercraft modelling can be pursued by all ages, from four or five years of age, upwards.

Ability
To make papercraft models, the modeller needs to posses the ability to follow step by step written instructions, and the responsibility to use a very sharp knife. Children may use kits that can be punched out, avoiding the need to use a knife.

Description
For the best finish models must be cut out, using a hobby knife. Experienced hobbyists recommend cutting models out, guiding the knife with a ruler, scoring any edges to be folded with a blunt instrument and then gluing the pieces together with a thin coat of "white glue" "PVA") applied with a small paint brush. One of the features of this kind of modeling is that the models are usually pre-painted. When you have finished assembling the model, it is displayable, without the need for painting.

Dedication
Experienced hobbyists often (scratchbuild), draw their models by hand. The advent of home printing also allows models to be scaled up or down very easily, and although pre-decorated many people do customize their models with paint and added detail.

Potential
Although most papercraft models are built as stand alone models, many scratch built models are used to create backdrops or cynic affects, for other modelling activities (model railways or motors).

Closely Related Activities
origami 449 (the folding of paper without the need of cutting or glue) Model railways 390,

Cost
Minimal.

Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.

Energy

Arms

Legs

Sight

Hearing

Speech

Learning

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