[Premium] Optimus Prime Papercraft ver. Juancho Aran

Hello everyone, I've just realized that up till now,  most of my posts are about Gundam Papercraft. As a guy, I do like robot papercraft, and Gundam is the best of them. But today I have something new to share with you. This one is also a Robot papercraft, but from a different franchise: Transformers. Today papercraft is the leader of the Autobots: Optimus Prime.

Optimus Prime Custom Papercraft

Designer: Juancho Aran

Builder: Juancho Aran

I believe we're all familiar with the Transformers franchise. So I will start to say about the design of this model. As you can see, this design of Optimus Prime is custom-made. It doesn't come from any movie or book. Actually, this paper model was based on the Flame Toys Furai Model: Optimus Prime Attack mode. This model (and other Furai models) somehow make me think they're a combination between Gundam and Transformers. It's Transformers characters with Gundam's design style.

Flame Toys Furai Model: Optimus Prime Attack mode

Paper model Adaptation

Because of this design, the model can't transform into a truck or any vehicle. In case you're wondering about wheels on his legs or exhaust pipes on his shoulder, then It's just a decoration. In exchange for that, We have Optimus Prime in excellent shape. We can make many dramatic poses without even trying.

I created gifs to show you how his body looks all around:

Body and Head

without arms

Full model

This paper model was designed by Juancho Aran. He's also the designer of the RX 78-2 Gundam Papercraft that I wrote about previously in my blog. The model is 45cm high (without weapons). You will need up to 52 pages in total to print the whole template for him.

One last thing, You can buy the template for $69. Contact Juancho Aran using the embed link I put in his name to go to his Facebook page. We don't know how long he will keep selling this, so be quick.

There are 2 types of equipment designed for this model: An axe and a rifle. But Juancho Aran didn't make the rifle, so all we have is Optimus Prime wielding his battle axe:

Thank you for reading, see ya soon!