Fun Stuff: Papercraft Turkey Dinner
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As we head into the shortened Thanksgiving week, we’d like to offer our traditional holiday papercraft project. This delectable roast turkey was found on a Japanese site. We’ve bundled the templates into a single easy-to-download PDF:
Continue across the jump for links to the original site (with Google translations into English).
Link: Atelier Fare Turkey (in English)
Link: Assembly Instructions (in English)
Source: This project was uncovered many months ago by our intrepid office manager David Ingersoll. You can also take a look at the papercraft projects we’ve collected over the years in our new tips blog archive.

November 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Lol, nice. It kinda looks like a face crab too!
November 24th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Hi Gershon, I’m not exactly sure what a face crab is, but the the original site does claim this template is actually a chicken. We’re calling it a turkey for Thanksgiving.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:21 am
I think the name is ‘headcrab’, and yes, I agree it looks like one. Kind of silly to call a chicken a turkey just because you want it to be, though. The size and proportions are different.
November 25th, 2008 at 5:40 am
@ Craig> Think tt’s Half Life’s (game) equivalent of the Alien (movie) face hugger
November 25th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Okay. Here is a link to the Wikipedia entry for headcrab. I learn something new every day.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Well said, finally a good report on this stuff