The IIgs version was likely the only color version of this software, and it has surprising quality of detail for an early computer! I have collected the full-color IIgs patterns to share below.Īlso below I offer the Decorator’s Guide, which includes assembly instructions, tips and ideas. The Apple IIgs version is pre-decorated and in full color, while the C64 version is in black and white. The Christmas Kit contains several templates, designed to be loaded into a paint program to be decorated using fill patterns and clip art, or by drawing your own artwork directly on the templates. While doing research for my Toy Shop blog, I discovered the existence of another software package for the Commodore 64 called “Paper Models – The Christmas Kit.” Created by Carol and Ivan Manley, this intriguing program allows you to decorate and print three-dimensional card models of a Christmas train and a Dickens Christmas village, as well as paper ornaments, decorations, and gift boxes, using clip art and fill patterns. (Skip the chatter! Take me to the models!)

Now you can download, print and build your very own Christmas Kit scenes with any PC or Mac! For more paper modeling with computers of yore, see my Toy Shop page! I have collected the original full-color Apple IIgs model parts here, to share them with the paper modeling community. It allowed you to decorate and print paper models of a Dickens Christmas Village, a Christmas Train, and several different three-dimensional paper ornaments and gift packages. The Christmas Kit is a very different kind of computer program from the ’80s.

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