About Us

Paper-Craft Interest Group aka PCIG is a non-profitable group of papercraft enthusiasts. We are special fans of paper airplanes basically airliners such as Airbus series and Boeing series.

The founders of this group are Bken Sai aka Bkensky, Pedro David Ramalho and Berke Babaoglu aka Cat46. Bkensky is from Nepal. A small yet world renowned country from the South-Asian region. Pedro is a papermodeler and a student of aeronautics from Portugal. Cat46 is from Turkey. One and only country to have cities both is Europe and Asia. He is a very good papermodeler and does basic recolorings of airliners using just MSPaint!!...

The concept of making a group and promoting papercrafting and recoloring was not for sure but it happened slowly. Its quite a long time more than a year since Bkensky posted a link in paper-replika.com as a request to make a recolor of B757 in Nepal Airlines Livery. A young fellow commented on the link to recolor work for TAP livery in A330 body instead!! He was Pedro. Pedro became the reason of enthusiasm for Bkensky to start recoloring work that he has never done. No idea how to do it at all. Then one day, while going through posts in paper-replika.com, he came across a Korean A330 submited by ZION. There was mentioned that he used Adobe Photoshop™ for the recoloring. That was the "light bulb". Since Bkensky was well familiar with the application, recoloring an A330 in TAP new livery started and succeeded after many modifications and improvements. The first step was quite a good start.

The recoloring brought both closer and became very good friends. Social media was there for the communication and idea sharing. Then after TAP, followed SATA A320, A320 STAR ALLIANCE, A320 Volaris, A330 Ethiopian Airlines (even when they operated B757s), and many more... Eventually, A very famous fellow in paper-replika.com's A320 recoloring category was making them curious to team up with him. Days passed by and that fellow was found to be co-operative, good hearted and a very big fan of "Galata Saray", a football club from Turkey. They all team up to finally work together as Bkensky and Berke doing recorings and Pedro beta buid testing them. The rise of PCIG started.

Not untill the recent project of Airbus A310, PCIG was just for recoloring and sharing templates. But after that, a need of new identity as paper-craft designers and sellers came into mind. Its true that many people prefer a free model but instead of customizing other templates or models, making one by own helps to establish an identity and a new contributor in this interesting world of papermodeling.

The first product for 3APmodels is going to be Airbus A310 which is under improvement phase. Good people like Miguel Quilab, Sir John Bowden and Matthew Herbert are contributing for the improvement of the model. Miguel helped me with the vectorization of the windows, cargo doors, cabin doors, cockpit canopy etc. Sir John helped me with the vectorization of the fuselage and engine parts and Matthew (RunwayOneRightSix) is beta building it. Snapshots will be posted soon.

Paper-Craft Interest Group aka PCIG is a non-profit group founded by papermodeling enthusiasts. Three friends teamed up to make this group a thing of publicinterest.The founding members consists of Bken Raj Sai (aka bkensky) from Nepal, Pedro David Ramalho from Portugal and Berke Baboglu from Turkey. Bkensky is a self taught graphic designer and a 3D modeler and papercrafter. Pedro is a student of Aeronautics and is fond of paper airliners. he makes them very nice and clean. Berke Babaoglu is in aircraft maintence in Turkish Airlines and is very good in recoloring and making paper-airliners. He uses just MSPaint for the recolorings, quite impressive works!

The history behind the birth of PCIG is unique and quite interesting. It came as a surprise and is winning most peoples heart in the social medai. It all started from a post in paper-replika.com's airliner download section. A Boeing B757 United Airlines was on the download lists. I simply commented to request a recolored version of the B757 in Nepal Airlines's simple livery of blue and red strips. Instead, I got the request to do recolor work for another airliner A330-300 available on the site by Pedro. It took me into an awkward situation at first as I had no idea how to recolor the models. You can guess that from the request I posted on the page of paper-replika.com's post. But it was worth of a request as I was being motivated to start my recolor works. But how to start!??

Totally lost and confused. I thought the 3D model needs to be painted by some sort of software then only I get the livery. Still no clue for days. But GOD came to my rescue and a post was the form he took. Korean Air A330-300 by ZION recolored using Adobe Photoshop™! "Photoshop huh!! I am quite familiar with it, lets give it a try!" But still didn't knew how to align the livery and color selection was quite not working as raster images of the real airliners were greatly infulenced by the lights and shadows. Color selection was done by using "eyedropper" tool but they varied from point to point. Still trying to do my first recoring was quite fun and learnt a lot. Then I refered to documents and images in the internet and the results were fruitful. All the recolors I did are beta built by Pedro. He is an official beta tester of PCIG.

Pedro and I became freinds eventually after a year and another talented guy caught our attention. It was his color section and recoloring tectiques that amazed me. Berke aka Cat46 uses just MSPaint for the recolors and does it great. He already publised many recolored templates before we met. I quite like the way he selects the livery works, quite easy and clean liveries are on his hitlist. He is a very good papermodeler and a great fan of "GALATA-SARAY", a football club from Turkey.