17 years of Stahlhart Papercraft with papercraft WWII pilot figures and free papercraft cars! :o)

It has been some special weeks weeks for Stahlhart Papercraft! On March 17, it was 17 years since the site went live and for their anniversary they made some new free papercraft World War 2 pilot figurines!

And before in Februari you could already download some fun free papercraft cars 🚗 (and learn how to make your own ones in Blender 🙂)

 

And you can always just download lots more free papercraft airplanes 🛫 (and lots of other papercrafts of course!)

Download + build your own free papercraft cars + WWII pilot figures (by Stahlhart):

• World War 2 pilots: http://papercraft.stahlhart.net/pilot_main.php
• lots of cars: http://papercraft.stahlhart.net/simple-cars_main.php
  

free papercraft One Piece "Going Merry" from 2004! ;o)

In 1999, Toei Animation released the anime series (based on the1997 manga series by Eiichiro Oda of course)  about a funny pirate crew  💀 looking for the "One Piece" treasure! In 2023, Netflix released a funny live action series based on the anime, and in March 2026 (now), they released season 2! :o)

Now, the anime series is still going strong too (there are more than 1,155 episodes already in 2026, wow! 😲) and although the Netflix series probably won't last thát long, it is said there are some new fun characters to be introduced this season of course! 😉

I *loved* the anime series, so in 2004, as my seventh papercraft I made my own papercraft (hand drawn back then because I  didn't know any better) of their "Going Merry" ship (because I sucked (and I still do 😉) at making my own characters form scratch to make into papercraft and there just wasn't a game of One Piece back then.... 😊).

It was a lot of fun for me to see that lots of people liked and built it themselves over the years (and took the  time and effort to show me how much fun they had: https://ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2011/12/papercraft-going-merries-tribute.html)

If you like the Netflix One Piece series and want to build your own "Going Merry" too? You still can of course! 😉

(spoiler alert: The Going Merry gets broken at one point, but it's replaced by the "Thousand Sunny", and you can build that one too as an official one by Toei Animation or one by Paper-Replika.com who  also made a bigger Going Merry in 2011: link).

my own free papercraft "Going Merry" from 2004:

https://ninjatoes.com/category/miscellaneous/one-piece/

download mirror of a repaint of my Going Merry + Mini Merry by chiohunpp (?):

https://ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2012/01/papercraft-going-merry-repaint-mini.html

official "Thousand Sunny" by Toei Animation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150216031336/http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/onep/special/sny.php

(unfortunately not all the download work anymore through the Wayback Machine, but if you search a bit online, you can still probably easily find it somewhere I think - but if you really can't, you can try Paper-Replika's version (who also made a bigger "Going Merry" in 2011) through my blog here: https://ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2013/01/papercraft-one-piece-thousand-sunny_11.html)

And of course you can search online and on my blog here for lots of other papercraft One Piece characters and other Going Merry en Thousand Sunny ships!

Have fun building! (and watching the series of course 😉)

nitter as Twitter alternative so you don't have to be logged into 'X' anymore!

nitter with my public tweets

Twitter ('X') that doesn't show you any of them

For about 2 years or so I think, Twitter ('X') needs you to he logged in to X to see people's timelines (like this papercraft one from me that I'm shamelessly promoting here now: @ninjatoespaper 😉).

Now, you can still just sign up for X (formerly know as Twitter) for free of course and everything just works fine again, but it's another extra treshold that random visitors  to my blog here would have to do go through for just a simple hobby like papercraft (and with free things like Twitter "you are the product" then of course, and understandably not every body wants that...)

I deleted my Twitter wdget after a  while because I didn't want that for them, but now I found nitter, which basically lets you find any twitter timeline with their public tweets (which my free papercraft Tweets are of course so that everybody can see them 😊) and shows them for free kinda just like Twitter did earlier!

It doesn't work on my main ninjatoes.com site (because that just has a cheap basic plan that doesn't allow iframes that nitter uses for the widget 😊) but as you can see on the left side on my free Blogspot blog here it does let you view all my tweets without you having to be logged into  X again!

free papercraft Touhou Project Inubashiri Momiji

There are just way too many characters in the Touhou Project games to know them all… 😞 So just take my word for it (that I just came up with by translation a Japanese text using Google to be honest 😇) that this papercraft Momiji Inubashiri 🐺 that Nobi made from the Touhou Project is meant to patrol Yokai Mountain! 🌄

Download + build your own free papercraft Touhou Project Inubashiri Momiji (+ lots more, by Nobi):

http://sumatorausagi.seesaa.net/category/15431104-1.html

(download instructions: click the green "ペパクラ椛.zip" link just below the first image on Nobi's post)

free Chinese Zodiac Year of the Horse papercraft

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to finish my Majora's Mask Epona papercraft (which would basically young Epona 🐎) for the 2026 Chinese Zodiac Year of the Horse that I was planning to make (well I haven't been able to start it at all actually... 😞)

I think this year Chinese New Year's celebration will be on 17 February so it's a bit early (not as early as Pinoart though 😉) and you can see lots of other Chinese Zodiac animals from other papercrafters too! Go to Stahlhart to download the special horse papercraft 🐎 they made this year! (and they have also been making other Chinese Zodiac animals for some years now! 😉)

Download + build your own free Chinese Zodiac Year of the Horse papercraft (+lots more, by Stahlhart):

http://papercraft.stahlhart.net/small-horse_main.php

free Alterna Festival papercraft windmill and gift box

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote came from La Mancha (and honestly he was just a fictional characters from several hundred years ago of course... 😉) but if he hád lived today and wouldn't have started fighting windmills on his first expedition, he might have visited El Bonillo, Spain on July the 3rd and 4th later this year!

Because then the Alterna Festival music festival will be held there, where music lovers can enjoy the fusion of rock, punk, metal, rap and more! For Christmas 🎄 last month (sorry that I only noticed it today 😀) they shared this fun little papercraft windmill (and a little giftbox to share it in!) for everybody that thinks it's fun to share too! 🙂

Download + build your own free papercraft windmill and gift box (by Alterna Festival):

https://www.alternafestival.es/

(download instructions: scroll down and click the "DESCARGAR" button below "REGALA NACION POR NAVIDAD" on Alterna Festival's website)

free papercraft Metro de Madrid subway trains

On the Metro de Madrid webpage you can download lots of free papercraft subway trains, including Chinese New Year 🎆and Christmas 🎄 versions!

Download + build your own free papercraft subway trains (by Metro de Madrid):

• regular subway trains: https://www.metromadrid.es/en/node/2799 (under the "Recortables de trenes emblemáticos" header)
• Chinese New Year version: https://www.metromadrid.es/es/noticia/un-recortable-del-tren-especial-ano-nuevo-chino-para-imprimir-y-montar (click the "Descarga el PDF en tu ordenador" link)
• Christmas version: https://www.metromadrid.es/es/noticia/descargate-nuestro-recortable-del-tren-de-la-navidad (click the "aqui" link in the first paragraph of text)