Paper craft, or paper models, are models constructed mainly from sheets of heavy paper, paperboard, card stock, or foam. Yamaha’s Paper Craft team has taken the wraps off another awesome project, this time celebrating rally racing. As with their other models, the rally display is made entirely out of paper, and Yamaha is releasing full printable templates and instructions for people to make their own displays. The Dakar Paper Craft is the second in a series of intricate racing displays following last year’s theme commemorating Valentino Rossi‘s mindboggling pass on Casey Stoner on Laguna Seca‘s Corkscrew during the 2008 US Grand Prix.

The XTZ850R is a production rally bike which Yamaha Motor used in the 1995 Paris-Dakar Rally. Developed using the two-cylinder engine from the TDM850 road sports motorcycle, it was also a production-based model with equipment and performance of such quality as to enter the infamous rally in stock form.

The YZ450F is a production four-stroke motocross bike that incorporates various innovative technologies. It is the base model for the machine that won the Motocross World Championship four times in a row between 2003 and 2006, with Stefan Everts as the rider. In addition, theYZ450F has also won numerous titles in AMA Supercross and AMA Motocross Championships held in North America.

You can download A4-size PDF files of this Yamaha Paper Craft, divided into A, B, and C blocks. Go here to see parts data and assembly instructions.