The Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun was first produced by the Swiss company Oerlikon Contraves in 1914, it was either sold to or stolen by all sides during WWI and WWII and continues to be used today.

About the Death Machines Series

The weapons in the Death Machines series embody the highest values of “good design”; good engineering, reliable performance, robust construction. They are icons of design that have not only shaped global conflicts but also our collective aesthetic sensibilities through countless films, TV shows and news images.

The Death Machines paper kits bring the contradictory experience of weapons into the home; admirably designed and aesthetically fascinating and simultaneously terrifyingly in their lethality. Each handmade part becomes a medium for the maker's reaction to the subject.

The first in the Death Machines series, the paper AK-47, was published by Die Gestalten Verlag in 2007.