Woo Hoo!  We made it to Papercraft Friday #100!  And I mean “we” because as much as I love papercraft, I doubt I would have consistently blogged about it week after week if I hadn’t got such great interest and response from everyone.  So what did I choose for #100?  It had to be the God Phoenix from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.  Possibly more well known in the U.S. as just the Phoenix in the Americanized and heavily edited Battle of the Planets, which featured that added little robot that fans now love to hate.  So when Studio Time Ring posted it in Tamasoft’s Pepakura Gallery, I knew I had my #100.  Bird, Go!  Transmute!

(2024 Note: The above links do not appear to longer work any longer. I am therefore assuming that the files are in the public domain and am hosting them here. Instructions Model)

I’m currently building this one and hoped to have it ready to go for today, but life got in the way and I still have a long way to go.  Papercraft Friday stops for no build though, so I’ll do a followup post of the build when it’s done.  Here’s a little preview:

In honor of Papercraft Friday #100, I figured I’d dig into the blog stats and see what the three most popular papercraft posts have been.  And they are…. *drumroll*

3rd Place –Papercraft Friday #8 – Dragon
This one surprised me.  I didn’t realize until I started analyzing the stats that this would come in third.  While you might think that this one just benefits from the fact that it was one of the early ones and it has time on its side, it’s consistently high, even as recent as the last 3 months of data.

2nd Place – Weighted Companion Cube
This isn’t even technically a Papercraft Friday post, but it could be know as the origin of the series.  It reinvigorated my interest in paper modelling, and after seeing it consistently attract interest months after the original post, I started to think that maybe I should do a regular segment on papercraft.  And so Papercraft Friday was born.

1st Place – Papercraft Friday #4 – Link and the King of Red Lions
I gave up counting how many weeks that this post has been the #1 viewed post since I blogged it in August 2008, even as the site traffic has risen consistently month after month.  Only one post on the entire blog has more unique page views.  It comes from Ninjatoes’ Papercraft Webpage, so it’s no surprise why I thought another great Link model from there deserved the runner-up spot last week.

The party’s only just begun as Papercraft Friday rolls on.  Thanks to the great modellers out there who provide us with these great models to build, and to everyone out there for following Papercraft Friday at ZarkSeven.

Not keen on this one?  Want more?  Check out other Papercraft Friday posts.