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Left 4 Dead fans, get your folding skills ready for The Tank papercraft photo

I've seen some papercraft in my day, ranging from deliciously simple to complex beyond belief, so I'm at this point where I can just kind of glance at a model and know what it will take to go into it. One look at The Tank above from Left 4 Dead, and I feel pretty much assured that'd I'd be more likely to slit my wrists with the Exacto than I would to actually make my version look anything like what you see above.

I'm sure not all of you have meat hands like I do, though, so if you'd like to give it a shot, you can download the PDF here.

[Via Kotaku]


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garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 16:40
garison
Why are you so emo, Colette? :P
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 16:42
MrSadistic
Looks like it belongs in a Nintendo DS game or something.
taumpytears's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 16:45
taumpytears
You can do it Colette! You gotta believe!
lv99ron's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 16:47
lv99ron
Wow. Most people would just throw it away instead of taking the extreme way out. Just wait till you see the papercraft witch with individual fingers.
STUVNING's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 16:47
STUVNING
Looks deliciously "Quakey".
grafkhun's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 16:49
grafkhun
heh, I think I could do that, I tried my hand at papercraft a few times (all atempts failed though) but this one doesn't look too hard. Anyways, go for it Colette, the only way to find out if you can do it is if you try!
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 16:53
Professor Pew
Welp, time to turn on the ole photoshop and update this papercraft print with Workman's face!
Spartacus's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 17:15
Spartacus
Every time anybody posts a papercraft model anywhere, they always joke about how they have meat hands or no artistic skill or what have you, but a model like this seriously isn't that hard. If you want to try making it, really, go for it. It takes 20 minutes and you might be surprised at how easy it is.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 17:23
Mxyzptlk
Professor Pew just had a brilliant idea. I want to see the results!
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 17:42
falinter
Imagining Colette with literal meat hands is deliciously funny.
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 18:09
Wexx
I glanced at this and thought it was a Colossus. Papercraft always had me really frustrated (the one time I tried it). I'm not good at crafty things :(
coffeesash's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 18:10
coffeesash
You don't have meat hands :) I think this is quite an advanced papercraft right?
Jonathan Kerr's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 18:20
Jonathan Kerr
I can barely do the simple ones ;-;
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 18:24
-PL-
Aww, I saw the picture and thought it was screenshots for a Wii version of L4D.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 18:49
Holyetheline
Slit your wrists? You need to stop listening to The Spill Canvas.
Endstiem's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 20:14
Endstiem
Aww, I saw the picture and thought it was screenshots for a Wii version of L4D.

..... DAMN.
Dan CiTi's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 21:01
Dan CiTi
This just makes me yearn for a papercraft/celshaded mod. I'm glad I got the Valve Complete pack during the sale.
solidgoomba's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/02/2009 23:06
solidgoomba
This looks pretty easy, I'll have to make one when I get back to school since I don't have any cardstock here. I think he'll look nice next to Pyramid head
nebones's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/03/2009 00:57
nebones
yum
SpikeDelight's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/04/2009 04:10
SpikeDelight
Dat's a lot of folds without real corners! Probably one of the hardest things to do in papercraft imo.
sumdawg's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/05/2009 22:06
sumdawg
I'm a huge fan of anything horror in general but I seem to be one of the few people in my circle of friends that hate left4dead. I don't know...I just don't like it at all lol.
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