We love the Japanese director and artist Miyazaki and his wonderful films “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, My Neighbor Totoro”, “Princess Mononoke”, “Spirited Away” and the rest. Our daughter is a fan too, especially Howl’s Moving Castle. I found two paper craft models of the castle, one is from a book, now out of print, from Studio Ghibli itself, the other is a free download from the Japanese Epson site.
I’m saving this project for winter, when we have more time. I’ve already printed out the one from Epson, only 26 sheets, but the instructions are in Japanese. There is a rough English translation from a fan that’s a little helpful, but it’s still a daunting project. I’ve flipped through the printed pages and have my doubts whether I can do it or not.
Ben Millett crafted this Studio Ghibli version from the book and it looks great! He even made a time lapse movie of the process with the iSight on his laptop. Check it out here
Last Thursday, I finished the papercraft project I started about 3 weeks ago. Spending a couple of hours each night, I spent about 72 total hours, and watched 24 movies.
This is the Mother Of All Paper Craft Models and Ben has inspired me to actually tackle it someday. I think.
Ben’s flickr photos
Ben’s movie
The book
Kindly post the epson web site for downloading?
thanks
Comment by psc — February 14, 2008 @ 7:51 pm
The downloadable howl’s paper craft at Epson has been down for a while.
But here is a great link with a different PDF file (same model, different art):
http://paperkraft.blogspot.com/2006/03/howls-moving-castle.html
Cheers,
Jason
Comment by jason1044 — February 14, 2008 @ 8:12 pm
i’m a huge miyazaki fan, and this is just beauutiful. nice work!
Comment by daniel — February 15, 2008 @ 7:13 am
Totally fantastic!
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your work just made me lost for words. i’m literally gasping here.
really awesome.
wish i had the patience/dedication to do this.
Comment by justine — February 21, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
Justine,
Ben Millett created this castle - not me. I just blogged it. Please send him a note, I’m sure he’ll be pleased to hear from you:
http://ben.momillett.org/archives/2007/07/22/hmc-papercraft/
Jason
Comment by Jason Thompson — February 21, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
This makes me all tingly inside.
Comment by Brittany — February 22, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
Dude, that thing is freaking AWESOME!!!!! how’d you do it?
Comment by ollie vargas — February 24, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
Ollie - I didn’t make it - Ben did:
http://ben.momillett.org/archives/2007/07/22/hmc-papercraft/
Check out his site. He’s really talented!
Comment by Jason Thompson — February 24, 2008 @ 10:33 pm
the epson one can be found here:
http://www.lifeinbook.com/2007/10/28/howls-moving-castle-papercraft.html
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could you please!!!!!!!!!!! tell me where i can get this model!!!!!
Comment by Rida — February 6, 2009 @ 9:04 am
thank you so much, i will try on this model.It’s really awesome
Comment by thanhcong — March 21, 2009 @ 10:37 am
That is the best thing i’ve ever seen! Gonna have to try make one now myself…! Cheers for posting it!
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