“Gangster’s Palace” Papercraft by Brian Gubicza

I posted about the “Gangster’s Palace” print by Brian Gubicza a while ago. With this papercraft version, the finished product is a small box about 2 inches wide and 1.5 inches tall and deep, with 3 layers of cutouts to give it a sort of shadowbox effect.

I found the PDF template below on a French site called “Paper Toy.” I’m hosting it here as well just in case something happens to that version. You need to print it out on some nice thick paper or card stock and then assemble it with some glue. It wasn’t very hard, although I probably could have been a bit more precise with some of my cuts. Using a metal ruler and an exacto knife might have helped. It’s a cute little project that reminds me a bit of the Blockheadz papercraft figures I got last year, although of course that is completely different in scale and complexity.