Thursday, December 30, 2021

free papercraft PostPet Momo-chan home


Wouldn't you love it if everytime you got an email 📧, a cute pink bear 🧸 would tell you about it?

Well, in 1997s, this was possible in Japan with PostPet from So-Net!

Download + build your own free papercraft PostPet Momo-chan home (by So-Net):

(download instructions: scroll down and click the pink "カラフルバージョン" and "まっしろバージョン" buttons just below the papercraft picture)

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

New papercraft Tomb Raider vignette start!


Remember when I did the classic Tomb Raider game model extraction tutorial, and I explained how from The Last Revelation onwards, you had two sets of meshes that you needed to merge together: Lara skin and Lara skin joints?

Well, they never match up perfectly in the animations captured with the TRViewer tool, resulting in lots of holes and gaps that need to be fixed before the 3D game model can be made into a physical papercraft.

To be honest though, it's not really much different from any other extracted Tomb Raider game model that you want to make into a paper model (they always have a lot of 'collisions' and 'floating' body parts to keep the game models simple and the games running smoothly for the time😉);

There are just even more of them... 😋


...oh, and that weird pose Lara seems to be in for the vignette? Well, maybe it will make more sense in the next WIP update. 😊


Stay tuned!

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

free papercraft Ainu people animals, home and food dish


The Ainu are an indigenous people of the lands around the Sea of Okhotsk, including the northern largest island of Japan, Hokkaido. 🗾

The Upopoy-Magazine website has several papercrafts of things relating to their culture, like a guardian spirit Blakiston owl 🦉, crow 🐦, salmon 🐟, fox 🦊, sika deer 🦌 and whale 🐋 building blocks, a traditional Chise (Ainu house) 🏠, and an Ohoa food dish 🍲.

And what's more: there are also some papercrafts "greyed out" right now, so maybe those will become available in a little while? Be sure to check back on the Upopoy website every now and then!

Download + build your own free papercraft Ainu animals, home and food dish (by Upopoy-Magazine):

Monday, December 27, 2021

free official Earth Defense Force 6 giant ant papercraft


Earth Defense Force 6 is delayed until 2022, so how ever will fans pass the time until then...?? 😕

Well maybe by building an army of giant ants using the official papercraft from the Earth Defense Force 6 website! 🐜

Download + build your own free official Earth Defense Force 6 giant ant papercraft (by Earth Defense Force 6):

Sunday, December 26, 2021

free PokeCreations papercraft Pokémon Snowpoint City


I figured to do this week's Papercraft Pokémon Sunday on an actual Sunday! 😋

It's another awesome papercraft Pokémon city by PokeCreation: Snowpoint! They even made the little boat and crane. 😊

Download + build your own free papercraft Pokémon Snowpoint City (+more, by PokeCreation):

(you'll need the free Pepakura Viewer to open *.pdo files!)

Friday, December 24, 2021

Paper Christmas Santa, Elf and Rudolph papercraft toy freebies!


A while ago, Paper-Christmas launched their new website, and if you didn't know that yet, I felt now was the perfect time to tell you because they made their Santa, Elf and Rudolph papercraft toys free for all!

Download + build your own free Paper Christmas papercraft toys (by Paper Christmas): 

Thursday, December 23, 2021

free David Landis Kooky Craftable and Desktop Gremlins Santa Clause papercraft toys


You probably know the Desktop Gremlins papercraft toys that David Landis made before, but he two other series of supercute popculture papercraft toys: Paper Plushies and Kooky Craftables! 🎅🎄

Download + build your own free Santa Clause papercraft toys (by Landis Productions):
(and don't forget the Paper Plushies series as well for some more cute papercrafts toys!)





Wednesday, December 22, 2021

free cute Cubefold Santa Clause papercraft toy


Cubefolds are papercraft toys for any occasion

...including a cute little Santa Clause for Christmas. 🎅🎄

Download + build your own free cute Santa Clause papercraft toy (+lots more, by Cubefold):


Tuesday, December 21, 2021

free papercraft gingerbread Mondorf Christmas village


I have heard of gingerbread houses, but a whole gingerbread town?? But wait! It's actually made out of papercraft, by the Mondorf Kallboys! 🏠🏡🎄 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft gingerbread Mondorf Christmas village (+lots more, by Kallboys):

Monday, December 20, 2021

free 2020 Merry Little Christmas village houses


Last December, the dutch television channel RTL 4 aired a cute show about people making Merry Little Christmas villages! With just 2 episodes though, it was a bit... short...

Simultaneously, Intratuin (one of the biggest garden center franchises in the Netherlands) was having a competition for people to make their own Merry Little Christmas villages using these cute little papercraft bakery, notary's house and townhouse! 🏠🏡🎄

Now the competition is over of course, but you can always enjoy building last year's Merry Little Christmas houses for this year! 😊

Download + build your own free 2020 Merry Little Christmas village houses (by RTL 4 / Intratuin):

Saturday, December 18, 2021

FREE papercraft Doomguy release! :o)

 

                                           Papercraft Doomguy To Do-list:
          • Extract 3D game model
          • Remodel 3D game model
          • Test unfold
          • Test build
          • Rinse and repeat as needed
          • Final unfold
          • Final templates
          • Final build
          • Instructions
          • Pictures/video
          • Release 😊
          • Next papercraft
Download your own free papercraft Doomguy!









Have fun building!





Wednesday, December 15, 2021

free official papercraft Pokémon Dialga and Palkia


Wait... why are we having a Papercraft Pokémon Sunday on a Wednesday??

Well, because I just found about these official free papercraft Pokémon Dialga and Palkia to celebrate the release of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl and I douldn't wait to tell you! 😀

Download + build your own free official papercraft Pokémon Dialga and Palkia (by Pokémon UK):



Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Papercraft Doomguy WIP7; final vs test build


What's this!? A weekday's update...? Who are you and what have you done with ninjatoes???

In all seriousness though, I'm always amazed what a difference edge-coloring makes on a papercraft model! 😀

Monday, December 13, 2021

free papercraft Touhou Hopeless Masquerade Hata no Kokoro


Hata no Kokoro's dress... it's like it's happy 🙂 and sad 😟 at the same time...

Download + build your own free papercraft Touhou Hopeless Masquerade Hata no Kokoro (+lots more, by Nobi): 

(download instructions: click the green "ペパクラこころ改.zip" link in the post on Nobi's weblog)

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Papercraft Doomguy WIP6; the final stretch


If you've been keeping up to date with the progress on my papercraft-2-be Doomguy, you'll know that the test build went very nicely (that of the Rocketlauncher as well 🙂)!


So I went ahead and with some minor edits I did the final unfold and started making the final templates. I wanted to make a Doomguy logo in the classic Doom style on the template (using tutvid's huge tutorial; or most of it anyway 😉).

It adds absolutely nothing to the actual papercraft of course, but it was fun and I think it actually turned out pretty nice!


But with the final templates done now (well, often I'll end up changing some of the parts numbers around, or switch a gluing flap or two in Pepakura, really just minor things). I can start finishing the papercraft now, though. Starting with making the final build for myself next. 🙂

Stay tuned!



                                            Papercraft Doomguy To Do-list:
        • Extract 3D game model
        • Remodel 3D game model
        • Test unfold
        • Test build
        • Rinse and repeat as needed
        • Final unfold
        • Final templates
        • Final build
        • Instructions
        • Pictures/video
        • Release
        • Next papercraft 😊

Friday, December 10, 2021

free papercraft standerdmolen Den Olden Florus windmill


Did you know thate there are actually several different standard types of historical windmills? "Den Olden Florus" for example is a 'standerdmolen', one of the oldest types of wooden windmills in the low countries!

Download + build tour own free papercraft standerdmolen windmill (by P. Brons on Den Olden Florus):

Thursday, December 9, 2021

free 2015 Puurveense Molen windmill


When foreigners think about the Netherlands, their minds undoubtedly wander to rows and rows of windmills (those are the ones we used to claim much of our land from the seas!)

And while it's true, we do have a lot of historical windmills (more than a thousand actually, we even have a National Mill Day each year!), most of them nowadays are just solitary grain windmills (and many of them are still maintained and in operation by volunteers!)

So of course we have papercraft versions of some of them too! 😀

This "Puurveense Molen" one looks very historical, but it was actually built in 2015 to replace a mill that was lost to a fire many years before. It was however 'rebuilt' at a different location and in a very different style from the original one, using the carcass of a whole other windmill...

the old windmill was actual a different, shorter one from the 'rebuilt' one

Download + build your own free 2015 Puurveense Windmill (by P. Brons on Molenpraat):

(download instructions: click "Show more" in the description below the video on theMolenpraat YouTube channel to find the "https://drive.google.com/file/d/..." download link)

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

gratis ADD robotje bouwplaat van de Nederlands kinderfilm Captain Nova


NL:
Je zult de bouwplaten van Ontwerpstudio Dot by Dot al een beetje kennen van de vorige keren; deze keer hebben ze ter promotie van de Nederlands sciencefiction film Captain Nova een bouwplaat gemaakt van het schattige robotje ADD uit de film! 😀

En het heeft denk ik geholpen, want tijdens het Cinekid Festival van afgelopen oktober heeft Captain Nova  zowel de Cinekid Leeuw voor de Beste Kinderfilm, de Beste Nederlands Kinderfilm, én de publieksprijs gewonnen - en hij draait nu in de Nederlandse bioscopen! 🎥


Download + bouw je eigen gratis ADD robotje  bouwplaat van de film Captain Nova (+ nog veel meer, van Ontwerpstudio Dot by Dot):



EN:
The thrilling sciencefiction movie Captain Nova was the big winner at this October's Cinekid Festival in the Netherlands, taking the prizes for Best Children's Film, Best Dutch Children's Film and the Audience Award🎥

There's a cute robot in the movie and Ontwerpstudio Dot by Dot, which you know from other fun papercrafts before, made it into a free papercraft!

Download + build your own free papercraft Captain Nova robot ADD (+lots more, by Ontwerpstudio Dot by Dot):

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

free papercraft Toga dam


The Netherlands are quite flat, so we don't really have big dams here. In Japan, they have plenty of them, even papercraft ones! I showed you some before, and here is one of the Toga Dam:

Download + build your own free papercraft Toga dam (by Toga Dam Construction Office):

Monday, December 6, 2021

free Miyako Taxi papercraft 80th Anniversary Edition taxicabs


Miyako Taxi's 80th anniversary was actually last year already, but you can still download and enjoy the two special papercraft taxis! 🚕😀

Download + build your own free papercraft 80th Anniversary Edition taxicabs (by Miyako Taxi):

(download instructions: click the orange "...タクシー" buttons on the Miyako Taxi website)

Sunday, December 5, 2021

free Pokecreation papercraft JubiLife city

See? I told you Pokécreation would make more papercraft Pokemon cities! (well, I hoped they would 😊)

(and I think you can see why it took a bit longer to paperfy Jubilife City than Twinleaf and Sandgem earlier... It's huge!)

Download + build your own free papercraft Pokémon JubiLife city (by Pokecreation Papercrafts):

(you'll need the free Pepakura Viewer to open *.pdo files!)

(Papercraft Pokémon Sunday for the win! 😋)

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Papercraft Doomguy WIP5; test build


Despite a very busy week, I did manage to almost finish the test build for papercraft Doomguy! 😀





Stay tuned!



Friday, December 3, 2021

free papercraft hand-held Hubble space telescope


Wow, I wrote about these hand-held Hubble space telescope papercrafts 13 years ago, and while "Unknown" let me know the links were dead, it turned out the HubbleSite had just been rearranged a bit and these papercraft (and PVC 😉) plans are still available free to download! 🔭
(Download instructions: get all the Directions and Pattern Sheets under "Download Options" on the right side of the HubbleSite Hand Held Hubble webpages)

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

cute PaperPoly papercraft freebies


It's been another very long and tiring day, but don't let that spoil your papercraft fun: here are some more papercrafts you can enjoy for free: PaperPoly has lots of supercute papercrafts for sale, but also a couple of equally cute freebies to try out! 🟠🍹🎄⭐🍉

Download + build your own cute papercraft orange juice, Christmas tree topper and watermelon slice freebies (by PaperPoly):



Tuesday, November 30, 2021

free papercraft KNRM Zandvoort Anna Poulisse rescue boat


I'm having a *very* busy week, but I just *have* to take the time to try to explain the difference between the Dutch organizations of the Reddingsbrigade (Rescue Squad) and the KNRM (Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution)!

...as an excuse to share another neat free papercraft with you all of course! 😀

You see, the Dutch Redddingsbrigade is mainly active at and near the Dutch beaches 🏊, preventively educating mainly younger people about the dangers of the open water and assisting them when they get in trouble (you've seen a cute little Reddingsbrigade zodiac boat papercraft before 😉).

The KNSM however is the Dutch volunteer organization dedicated to rescuing people out on the open North and Waddden Seas along The Netherlands' coast. 🌊🚢

The Annie Poulisse is one of the KNSM's rescue boats, stationed at Zandvoort, and the KNRM Zandvoort has a really nice papercraft if this vessel in both a 1/100 scale (making it 10 cm long) and scale 1/55 (making it about 18 cm long).


Download + build your own free papercraft  KNRM Zandvoort Anna Poulisse rescue boat (by KNRM Zandvoort):

(download instructions: click "See more" in KNRM Zandvoort's Facebook post to find the two "https://dropbox.com/s/... download links)

Sunday, November 28, 2021

free kindergarten school buses


These buses are not for everybody: they are school buses for young children whose parents can't bring them to kindergarten themselves each day so that they can still attend! 🎒🚍

Download + build your own free kindergarten school buses (by Dokakusha Social Welfare Corporation Kamiishizu Children's Forest):

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Papercraft Doomguy WIP4


So I remodelled the last piece for the papercraft, the Rocket Launcher, a bit too. 😊

It's really pretty much the same idea as for the rest of the model of course, looking at which parts won't work in papercraft form, thinking out in your head how you want to assemble the finished paper model, and then remodelling the game model accordingly, usually in sections when there are a collisions (pieces going trough each other).

But even when you take your time to think out everything in your head the best you can, it's always possible things don't work out the way you thought, so I always do a test build and change it when needed.

And as you can see, I already unfolded it in Pepakura Designer, so that's what I'll do next. 😀


Stay tuned!

Friday, November 26, 2021

free black-and-white/color-yourself Beckford's Tower


Can you build this papercraft Beckford's Tower that Savannah Storm made for the Bath Preservation Trust's Beckford's Tower and Museum quicker than it took to build the real one? 😋

Download + build your own free black-and-white/color-yourself Beckford's Tower (by Savannah Storm for Beckford's Tower and Museum):

(download instructions: click the "DIFFICULT TOWER PAPERCRAFT" button on the Beckford's Tower and Museum Family Learning Resources webpage; there's an "EASY TOWER PAPERCRAFT" version too 😉)



Thursday, November 25, 2021

free Hammeren lighthouse by Gunnar


You should already know Gunnar's Bildrum website, because he likes to share many of his papercrafts with you! 😊

Okay, so this is really his Christmas gift 🎁🎄 from last year already, but "last year" is nothing compared to the 73 years since he visited the Hammeren lighthouse on the island of Bornholm before he decided to make this papercraft to share with you! 🔦🚢


Download + build your own free Bornholm Hammeren lighthouse (+lots more, by Bildrum.se):