Disaster papercraft

Disaster Dioramas: a collection of free, downloadable papercraft depicting great historical disasters. The Hindenberg and the Titanic are presently available and more are to come. Disaster Dioramas (via Make)

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kaiza

Yeah you should just set the model on fire.

And take the Titanic model into the bathtub next time.
squirrelgirl

i would hardly call 2 a collection…
membrain

Wow this is pretty cool, thanks Cory! Much less scary than the paper CCTVs hihi
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

HuronBob, I want to do 9/11 as a snowglobe, with a model jet that slides down a transparent (= invisible) slide when you turn it right-side-up, and the snow replaced with tiny whirling square “documents”.
Jake0748

Fill that paper Hindenburg with hydrogen gas for some REAL fun.
sonny p fontaine

yes, TAKUAN again and again.
sonny p fontaine

in a non-creepy platonic manner of course.
archer

cool
i had the same exprience when i was a child
genericvox

What, no manatee?
doublethink

THE HUMANITY!!
Takuan

a little paper Iraq?
John Coulthart

Rather than screaming, I’d prefer a snowglobe which, when shaken, plays 30 seconds of the Weather Girls singing “It’s Raining Men”.

This reminds me, I used to have a set of “Death Cult: The Jonestown Massacre Memorial Cards”, drawn by different underground cartoonists in the style of Mars Attacks. “Card 26: Spiking The Kool-Aid”, “Card 28: Cyanide Convulsions”, etc.
sonny p fontaine

i’m openly professing my love for you Teresa.
Takuan

again?
Gulliver

Do the historical inaccuracies bother anybody besides me? Titanic sinking backwards, fire breaking out amidships on Hindenburg … I mean, if you’re gonna make a historical diorama …