Ninjatoes' papercraft weblog

Monday, October 27, 2025

papercraft Halloween Jack-o-lantern

Jack-o-lanterns 🎃 are really a quintessential decoration for Halloween but the pumpkins they can be very messy to hollow out to make space for a light - except when you make them out of papercraft! 😊

Download + buid your own free papercraft Halloween Jack-o-lantern (by HP Printables):

https://printables.hp.com/nz/en/printable/default/paper-pumpkin-candle-holder-crafts-halloween-series

free papercraft Tsuruoka City garbage truck

Students could build their own free papercraft garbage truck in a black-and-white/color yourself or a colored version truck at the Tsuruoka Environment Fair and what's more, you can also just download one right now at home to enjoy! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft garbage truck (by Tsuruoka City):

https://www.city.tsuruoka.lg.jp/kurashi/gomi-seikatsu/kakushuseido/papercraft.html

(download instructions: click the two "ごみ収集車ペーパークラフト" PDF links just below the pictures near the bottom on Tsuruoka City's website)

Sunday, October 26, 2025

free papercraft Dracula's Castle

I showed you a free Designs by Miss Mandee papercraft Christmas Village Toy Store last year, and I just hope you found the free papercraft Dracula's Castle 🦇🏰 for Halloween 🎃 too along all of the other creations at Designs by Miss Mandee! 😀

She creates her papercrafts to be cut out using a cutting machine on colored cardstock, but if you don't have one you can do that by hand too and/or color it yourself any way you want to! 😊

Download + build your own free papercraft b/w Dracula's Castle (by Designs by Miss Mandee):

https://www.designsbymissmandee.com/2021/10/draculas-castle/

Friday, October 24, 2025

free Rodrigo Rivas Costa's Papercraft tool with cool Pokémon and die examples!

"And now, for something completely different!" Well, "something somewhat different" I guess, in that it isn't really a 'daily download' papercraft that I found and am telling you about that you can just download and build yourself for free. ...wait, you can just do that too... You know, let's just start telling you! 😊

You know, I've used Pepakura for a VERY long time to make papercraft models and I still absolutely love it! There are actually many other 'unwrappers' that you can use though, and Papercraft from Rodrigo Rivas Costa is another one! 😀

Papercraft looks like Pepakura that you can install on your computer to use offline or like the online Paper Maker, just a version that looks like it
fewer options (but that really doesn't 😉).

It's a standalone application, meaning you can download it to your computer, but you don't actually have to install it on your computer! You can just download and unpack the last Papercraft Asset (like the 32- or 64-bit version Zip-files for Microsoft Windows or the DMG file for MacOS computers) at the bottom from Rodrigo Rivas Costa's Github account and just unpack it in a folder to run it: 😃

https://github.com/rodrigorc/papercraft/releases/

NOTE: my Microsoft Defender SmartScreen doesn't recognize rodrigorc as a big software publisher, so the first time I ran his Papercraft application it told me it wanted to protect my computer from harm: ONLY CLICK More info to reveal the Run anyway button if you trust it of course!

If you do trust it and download it, you can use Rodrigo's Papercraft tool from a file folder from your computer! 😀 It's a pretty self-explanatory tool and there's a whole README on Rodrigo's Github to learn how to Import a new *.obj or *.stl 3D model (that you do need to make first in Blender for example) and (of course I would say 😉) it can also import Pepakura *.pdo files.

What's more, if you look in the unpacked download folder, you can also Open four *.craft files (that's the very aptly named file extension for the Papercraft tool 😊): Rodrigo added a papercraft die 🎲 and (because I think he's a Pokémon fan to, just look at his user icon on his Github page 😉) a papercraft low-poly Bulbasaur 🌱, Charmander 🔥 and Pikachu 🗲 (made by Agustin Arroyo under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license) to show you what his Papercraft tool can do and to get you started!

I think Rodrigo's Papercraft is a very cool unwrapping tool, so check it out and if you create any nice paper model, Rodigo would appreciate it if you open an issue on Papercraft's Github page and send some pictures! 😀

Rodrigo Rivas Costa's Papercraft tool:

https://github.com/rodrigorc/papercraft/releases/

Thursday, October 23, 2025

free papercraft Settsu City fire engine truck

Settsu City has a fire department headquarters and three branch offices (the Senrioka branch, the Torikai branch and the Ajio branch). This free papercraft pumper firetruck 🚒 was apparantly created by a fire department employee themselves!

Download + build your own free papercraft fire engine truck (Settsu City Official Web Site):

https://www.city.settsu.osaka.jp/soshiki/shoubousho/yobou/1202.html

(download instructions: click the PDF link near the bottom of the Settsu City Web Site; also here, there click the papercraft template on GoguyNet's webpage for the PDF file)