Papercraft Failure #1 - Sonic the Hedgehog

My first very real defeat in the papercrafting world.  Sonic the Hedgehog came with instructions in Japanese, and with a whole bunch of fiddly cuts and folds.  This papercraft model was far beyond by meagre skills and, after many hours of just not getting it right, I screwed it up into crumpled wads A picture has been taken of a few of those wads.
Please feel free to try this one yourself - I'm sure you'll do better.  Apparently it's possible, because I've seen some completed.
Downloadable from Paperkraft. 

Papercraft #11 - The Borg Cube

Hailing from the Star Trek universe comes the Borg Cube.  This cube was fairly easy to put together and I only made a few alignment errors, but I had a large amount of trouble with the base it stands on.  Dozens upon dozens of tiny cut paper triangles that needed to be positioned Just So.  It did come with visual instructions, so that was appreciated.  I would name the Borg cube, but the Borg have designations so I guess we call it…Cube?  The download said this was the ship assigned to attack Earth in the First Contact movie.  You know, the one with the creepy Borg Queen and Captain Picard channeling Rambo.

Found on Paperkraft, designed by Shunichi Makino.

Papercraft #10 - The TARDIS

Oh my word, where can I begin with the evil?  Alright, so it’s the TARDIS from Doctor Who.  You’d think a box wouldn’t be hard to assemble but this one gave me so much trouble that I had to do it twice, and it STILL isn’t right. 

Made by Iron Cow Productions, it did come with basic (very basic) instructions, but it just wasn’t enough for me.  I tried, I really did, but these stubby fingers just couldn’t get everything in place.  Note the askew “Police Box” bar at the top.  Note the fact that it sits on its base a good half-centimetre off centre.  Note its general buggeredness.  Sort of like the real TARDIS, I guess, but I am not proud of this one.

Papercraft #9 - The Tunnel Rat

From the sewers of Los Angeles (as the New York City sewers are filled with pesky ninja turtles) comes Goober, the tunnel rat.  Ready to tag any wall, any time! Found on Paperkraft and designed by Jonny Chiba, he was a pain in the backside to put together, even though he only had a few pieces.  The face and the back of the head just did NOT want to go together properly, and the area to glue down the arms was folded a little too short on one side.

Papercraft #8 - The King Can in Horrorwood

Instead of using the white template for Kingcan (part of the Box Can Family) I chose a redesign from Horrorwood Hills, which does disturbing papercraft designs.  I have named him the Deep One.  Unfortunately, I glued his feet on backward, so his back is now his chest. I really have no excuse for this - can't blame the fingers, it was purely lack of attention that did that. On the back (now the front) it says Abyssus Abyssum Invocat which means, roughly, deep calls to deep.

Papercraft #7 - The e440 Squirrel in Green Tile

Ok, so there’s a website called E440, where the creator made a squirrel template and then invited artists to do their own redesigns of it.  I’ve downloaded two of them – a steampunk squirrel I will work sometime soon, and this one that looks like a kind of green tile, sort of unhealthy and sick.

He was actually very easy, once I found that I really DID need to read the instructions on how to weigh down his front so he wouldn’t fall backward.  I have named him Chunder.

This model made by Marko Zubak here.