Chicago's landmarks as papercraft postcards

The postcards from BuildYourOwnChicago.com can be assembled into 3D papercraft "micromodels" of the great landmarks and transit vehicles of Chicago. The free samples on the site look very promising. Link (Thanks, Mike!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , September 21, 2007 11:01 AM]

I notice there's no giant copyright-infringing reflecting bean in there...

[#2 posted by Anonymous , September 21, 2007 11:40 AM]

These are great! I got a paper Sears Tower postcard at Quimbys in Wicker Park earlier this year. It was a challenging build, but it looks fantastic (and is fantastically detailed). They're very inexpensive in the store (I think they were less than 5 bucks) and a great 2-3 hour project.

-Harry Smith

[#3 posted by Anonymous , September 21, 2007 12:05 PM]

I got a bunch of those for my fiancee last Christmas at the Chicago Architecture Foundation - the boxier builders apparently are easy to put together. Anything curvy such as the Lake Point Tower (the leftmost building in the photo above) is a pretty huge pain in the ass.

[#4 posted by kayke , September 21, 2007 12:16 PM]

Seriously? No Soldier Field? Maybe they're not football fans...

[#5 posted by Stacyj , September 21, 2007 1:22 PM]

Aww, you know you miss a town when looking at a picture of little paper models of it makes you feel all nostalgic-like. Those are very cool, I really like that they included some less "obvious" landmarks like the Corncobs right along with the Sears Tower and the Hancock Tower and what-not (though it does make me giggle to see that Picasso Status looming so hugely over so many of the other models, hee). And they've even got L tracks!! What fun!

There goes -my- weekend ...

[#6 posted by dictyevangelist , September 21, 2007 8:47 PM]

I bought a ton of these cards to give away in China and Japan on a trip I made last year and they were very well-received. You can also buy them at Quimby's Queer Store!