Sunday, December 31, 2023

free papercraft JMSDF Ozuki Air Training Group White Arrows T-5 plane


Some years ago, the JMSDF Ozuki Air Training Group Twitter account reached 10,000 followers, and they celebrated it by sharing a free papercraft of a T-5 plane from their White Arrows aerobatics team!

Download + build your own free papercraft JMSDF Ozuki Air Training Group White Arrows T-5 plane (by kamino-ss for JMSDF Ozuki Air Training Group):

(download instructions: click the "mod.go.jp/msdf/oz-atg/download/..." links in JMSDF Ozuki Air Training Group's tweet)

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Bocchinokamiasobi's (2024 Year of the) Dragon papercrafts



Looks like Bocchinokamiasobi is getting ready for the 2024 Year of the Dragon! 🐉

Download + build your own free (Year of the Dragon) papercrafts (+lots more, by Bocchinokamiasobi):

Friday, December 29, 2023

free papercraft MBS Liyonchan mascot 20th anniversary van


Liyonchan 🦁 is the official mascot for the Japanese Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) television station. In 2023 he had his 20th anniversary, so of course you can download a fun papercraft from their website!

Download + build your own free papercraft MBS Liyonchan mascot 20th anniversary van (by MBS):

Thursday, December 28, 2023

free papercraft cymbal-banging elephant


This elephant will bang two cymbals 🐘 together when you squeeze it; but he won't drive you crazy with the noise  - because it's just paper! (you might get horrified by his rather mouth, though, or is that just me...?)

Download + build your own free papercraft cymbal-banging elephant (by Honda):

free Sasatoku Maneki Neko papercraft toys


After Christmas, the New Year is already fast approaching of course!

Let's hope Sasatoku's papercraft Maneki Neko (lucky cats) will provide everybody with good fortune in 2024! 🐱

Download + build your own free Maneki Neko papercraft toys (+lots more, by Sasatoku):

(download instructions: click the yellow "型紙ダウンロード" button on Sasatoku's website; if you want, you can let Sasatoku know whether you're an individual ("個人") or a company ("法人") and why you want to download the papercraft; the feedback is entirely optional though, you can also just click the grey "送信・ダウンロード" button to download the papercraft)

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

3x free papercraft Alfa Romeo GTA 1300 Junior race car by METMANIA


If you don't like the white and green paint scheme on this papercraft Alfa Romeo GTA 1300 Junior race car, you can also make it in a red or an orange Jägermeister version! 
 
Download + build your own free papercraft Alfa Romeo GTA 1300 Junior race car (by METMANIA blog):




Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Perfect Dark Joanna Dark papercraft WIP 1 : only the beginning


I had hoped to have finished Joanna Dark for my papercraft 3D shooter series in 2023 (since the Perfect Dark game is set in 2023) but thanks to some extremely busy months, as you can see I'm just starting on it with only a few days to go in 2023 (belated Merry Christmas by the way!)

I extracted her game model from the Nintendo 64 version using the same method as for Turok, but since making a papercraft takes me a lot longer than a few days, finishing it will just have to be one of my New Year resolutions for 2024 (along with all the other papercrafts on my ever growing to do-list!)

Stay tuned! 😀

Monday, December 25, 2023

Sofs Designs stylish Christmas papercraft freebies


I showed you Sophie Marcoux's cute papercraft Plant Creature earlier, and if you like that, here are some  of her stylish papercraft Christmas freebies that fit perfect for this time of the year. 🎅

Download + build your own free stylish Christmas papercrafts (+more, by Sofs Designs):
(download instructions: click the pictures for the PDF parts files)

Sunday, December 24, 2023

free papercraft Italian ocean liners SS Duilio and SS Gulio Cesare by Retrocale



Maybe it's because it's the Christmas season, and maybe it's because they're sister ships, but this thisime Retrocale made two papercraft ships to share with other ship-loving papercrafters in one go! 🚢🎄😀

The SS Duilio was launched in 1916 already but only completed in 1923, after her sister ship the SS Gulio Cesare was already completed after been ordered in 1920!

Both ships served as ocean liners for the Italian shipping company Navigazione Generale Italiana but were chartered to the International Red Cross in World War II and ultimately sunk by Allied bombers (luckily after already been laid up).

Download + build your own free papercraft Italian ocean liners SS Duilio and SS Gulio Cesare (+more, by Retrocale):

free cute papercraft Meidi-Ya animal friends and Christmas boot and cake


Meidi-Ya is one of those stores that has kept the papercraft section on their webpage alive since many years already, and they even added more fun papercrafts since last time I checked, like sunvisors, cute giftboxes and satchels and even a new paper toy elephant friend 🐘, and even some Christmas papercrafts! 🎄

Download + build your own free cute papercraft animal friends and Christmas boot and cake (+more, by Meidi-Ya):

Saturday, December 23, 2023

free papercraft Christmas tree & card


Although Pocky seems to have removed the cute papercraft panda eating a Pocky stick from their website (you can still download it using the Wayback Machine though 🙂) I saw that they have a new papercraft Christmas tree and Christmas card now to enjoy! 🎄

Download + build your own free papercraft Christmas tree & card (by Pocky):

Friday, December 22, 2023

free Leonara Camusso Christmas papercraft toys


If you enjoyed the cute papercraft toys from Leonara Camusso that I showed you earlier, you're bound to like these  Christmas ones that she made for Christmas too! 🎄🎅

Download + build your own free Christmas papercraft toys (+more, by Leonara Camusso):

Thursday, December 21, 2023

free official Lottie Dottie Chicken Christmas tree and more papercraft toys



In 2022, I showed you some cute official paper toys from the Lottie Dottie Chicken cartoon. Well, it looks like since then, they added a Christmas tree!

(and if you go to the Spanish Site of "Gallina pintadita" you will find an chicken coop that doesn't seem to be on on the English site: link)

Download + build your own free official Lottie Dottie Chicken Christmas tree and Chicken coop papercraft toys (+more by Lottie Dottie Chicken):


Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Pinoart's free papercraft Santa Clauses


I showed you Pinoart’s papercraft red, green and white Santa Clauses a few years ago, and this year he added a blue one too! 🎅

Download + build free papercraft Santa Clauses (+lots more, by Pinoart):

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

free Paperpino 2022 Christmas papercrafts


How did I miss Paperpino’s little papercraft Christmas Village last year?? Look how colorful it is! (I can only deduce that I must have been sleeping, because I missed his “tumbling Santa” papercraft toy too…!) 

 Download + build your own free 2022 Christmas papercrafts (+lots more, by PaperPino):



free New Life Ministries Christmas papercrafts


I showed you some of the papercrafts on the New Life Ministries website a few years ago, but did you know they have lots more including several Christmas papercrafts? 🎄

Download + build your own free Christmas papercrafts (by New Life Ministries):

free papercraft Perú Ministerio de Cultura Christmas version paper toy


Earlier this year, I showed you some papercraft toys of the Perú Ministerio de Cultura, but I didn't know that in 2021, they shared a Christmas version of The Priestes of Chornancap and the Lord of Sípan too! 🤶🎅

Download + build your own free papercraft Peruvian Culture Christmas version paper toys (+more, by Perú Ministerio de Cultura):
(download instructions: click the "bit.ly/..." links in the Perú Ministerio de Cultura's Facebook posts)

Sunday, December 17, 2023

free Sasatoku papercraft Christmas pudding 2023


This delicious looking Christmas pudding 🎅🎄 is the third free themed papercraft treat box that Sasatoku shared in 2023, but there are lots more themed papercrafts on their website already from earlier years too!

Download + build your own free papercraft Christmas pudding (+lots more, by Sasatoku):

(download instructions: click the yellow "型紙ダウンロード" button on Sasatoku's website; if you want, you can let Sasatoku know whether you're an individual ("個人") or a company ("法人") and why you want to download the papercraft; the feedback is entirely optional though, you can also just click the grey "送信・ダウンロード" button to download the papercraft)

free Kallboys Christmas papercraft Rheinauwelle boat swing attraction


The Kallboys from Mondorf along the Rhine in Germany made tons of papercrafts already over the years! Each Christmas they like to make a special one, and for 2023 they made this fun boat swing attraction! ⛵🎄

Download + build your own free papercraft Rheinauwelle boat swing attraction (+lots more, by Kallboys):

Saturday, December 16, 2023

free papercraft Christmas Market by Rob Ives for Brother Creative Center


I told you about how Rob Ives is a great designer of paper automata already, but did you know he also made lots of regular papercrafts for Brother Creative Center, like this cute town Christmas market? 🎅🎄  (and lots more!)

Download + build your own free papercraft Christmas Market (by Rob Ives for Brother Creative Center):

free papercraft Trucker’s World by MAN Christmas truck


Does Santa really deliver all those Christmas presents using an old sleigh...? 🎅
Or does he employ a big Christmas truck like this papercraft one? 🚚

Download + build your own free papercraft Christmas truck (by Trucker’s World by MAN):

Friday, December 15, 2023

free Bildrum.se papercraft mirror dinghy Våga Christmas gift


Last year's Christmas gift 🎄🎁 from Gunnar's Bildrum.se website was a papercraft Tordmulen motorboat. Gunnar's 2023 Christmas gift is similar in that it's a papercraft boat, but this time it's a sailing version. ⛵😀

It's actually based on a small dinghy type that Gunnar made in full scale from a kit in the 1970s to and that he enjoyed for many years for himself and with his family!

Download + build your own free papercraft mirror dinghy Våga Christmas gift (+lots more, by Bildrum.se):

Sunday, December 10, 2023

free Papercraft Tactics Final Fantasy Tactics windmill


Papercraft Tactics shared this papercraft Final Fantasy Tactics windmill map earlier this year from the actual map they extracted from the game! 🎮

They shared it for free on their blog explaining that you'll need to add or remove some of the gluing flaps (and you don't need all the parts) to build it yourself too, and they also shared download some 3D printable parts for the mechanical pieces to make the sails spin (link)! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft Final Fantasy Tactics windmill (by Papercraft Tactics):

(don't forget to read through the Papercraft Tactics' blogpost for some helpful notes!)

Saturday, December 9, 2023

papercraft Christmas printable freebies


I showed you M. Gulin's haunted house papercraft for Halloween 🎃 last year, but maybe you like Christmas 🎅 better?

Luckily M. Gulin has some printable freebies for that too! 😀

The rocket ship and the Christmas train even have a pre-colored version, and a version that kids can color and decorate themselves!

Download + build your own free papercraft Christmas printables (+lots more, by M. Gulin):

Friday, December 8, 2023

free Sanyo Kogyo papercraft Christmas toys


Now that Sinterklaas has left for Spain on December 6 until next year again, The Netherlands can officially get ready for Christmas!

Although to be honest, most stores have already been selling Christmas stuff for weeks already anyway, so let's post some Christmas papercrafts too! 🎅🎄😉

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



Sunday, December 3, 2023

free Coop papercraft color-yourself Sinterklaas gift box


I told you about the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition of kids leaving out a shoe for Sinterklaas, but that some stores opt for other things for kids to leave at their store to get a fun little present instead too. 😉

Coop for example is handing out these cute papercraft gift boxes for kids to color this year for de Sint to fill with presents! 🎁

Download +build your own free papercraft color-yourself Sinterklaas gift box (by Coop):

Saturday, December 2, 2023

free cute JASDF Naha air base control team mascot


Don't worry, the airplanes on the JASDF NAHA air base don't really have to rely on a dog to guide : there's a whole control team and this is just their colorful papercraft mascot! 🛫🐶


Download + build your own free cute JASDF Naha air base control team mascot (by JASDF Naha ACTS):

(download instructions: click the "≫ふぁだPペーパークラフト" link below the papercraft pictures on the JASDF Naha ACTS webpage for the parts and the "≫ふぁだPの作り方①" link for the instructions)

Sunday, November 26, 2023

free Raccoo Venture game papercraft toy and contest!




Raccoo Venture is a 3D platform game by Diego Ras to be released on December 14 for Steam (PC), Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and X/S and Playstation 4/5. 🎮

What's more, QUbyte Interactive is having a contest where you can win a free copy for the platform that you prefer!

How, you ask?
  1. Download a paper toy of Raccoo from the official website: https://www.raccooventure.com/
  2. Take a picture of your paper Raccoo it in the most unusual place you can think of
  3. Post it as a reply in QUByte Interactive's tweet about the contest with the hastag #RVPapertoy here: https://twitter.com/qubytegames/status/1727323058677887337
  4. Then on the launch date December 14 2023, hopefully you'll be chosen as one of the 10 winners! 🏆

Download the free Raccoo Venture papercraft toy from the official website:

Read QUByte's full contest tweet:

Good luck and have fun! 🦝

Saturday, November 25, 2023

free papercraft color-yourself Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) shoes and other papercrafts


Christmas 🎅🎄 is a very big holiday in The Netherlands, but on December 5 we will have another holiday first called Pakjesavond! 🎁🌙

With the rising popularity of Christmas over the years as a family holiday, Pakjesavond is really a children's holiday nowadays when late in the evening a figure called Sinterklaas ("Sint Nicolaas": Saint Nicholas of Bari, the bishop of Myra) goes through towns as
an old man with a big white beard dressed in red riding his horse over the roofs of our houses and dropping presents through the chimneys of kids that have been nice all year - or a lump of coal for children that have been bad (or even worse, beats them with a rod and takes them back with him to Spain where he stays during 11 months of the year...! 😱)

The historical Saint Nicholas and modern day Sinterklaas arriving in The Netherlands.

Sounds crazy? Or actually patially very familiiar...? That's probably because Sinterklaas is widely considered as the origin of North America's Santa Clause (a.k.a. Saint Nick, duh...)

(and if you think this sounds a lot like Vunter Slaush than I'm willing to bet you saw season 15 episode 04 "Crack Baby Athletic Association" of South Park - Dutch kids actually do sing "Vunter Slaush Kapushkuh" on Pakjesavond - with slightly different lyrics though... 😉)

So: what does this Dutch Children's holiday tradition have to do with papercraft?

Well, a lot of Dutch stores (especially supermarkets) allow children that have been good all year to leave one of their shoes in the store, so that the store owners (eh, I mean Saint Nicholas of course...!) can put a little present in it for when the children come to pick up their shoe again on December 5th.  🏪👞👟🥿🎁 😀

And well, I guess because it's pretty unsanitary to have lots of children's shoes in your store (and children would have one cold foot during the winter month of November...! ⛄) they usually give out special blank shoes as a papercraft template ("bouwplaat" or "knutselplaat") for children to color and decorate themselves and leave instead. 😊

Usually you can get the papercraft shoe template at the store where you can leave it, but sometimes stores also let you download it from their website. And of course you can also just put it next to the fireplace (or radiator nowadays) in your own home!

Don't forget to leave a yummy carrot for Saint Nicholas' horse in your shoe (and your wish list for Sinterklaas of course!) 🥕🐎

Download + build your own free papercraft color-yourself Saint Nicholas shoes and other papercrafts (from various Dutch stores):
(you can also check your local Dutch supermarket to see if they have printed template for you! 😉)

Thursday, November 23, 2023

free papercraft Sakulife-chan mascot and other activities


Ikari Holdings wants to make beautiful cities with cleanliness and a good environment under the name Sakulife. On their website you can download fun activities that kids can do - including games and (of course 😉) a cute papercraft of their mascot Sakulife-chan! 🌸

Download + build your own free papercraft Sakulife-chan mascot (+lots more, by Sakulife):

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

free Bother Print Terrace papercraft Kawasaki buses


If you look through all the papercrafts that Brother made for their fans so far like a town marina, a highway, and lots more, you can make yourself a nice little town by now I think! 🏡

But of course it would be even better with some public transportation to get around your paper town!

Download + build your own free papercraft Kawasaki buses (+ lots more, by Brother Print Terrace):


Tuesday, November 21, 2023

free papercraft robot automaton by Rob Ives




As a papercrafter, Rob Ives is well known for making paper "automata" (papercrafts with parts that move!) that you can build yourself from his templates!

I showed you a free paper toy robot that he uploaded to vectortuts+ before, and here's another one that he shared on Instructables! 🤖

Download + build your own free papercraft robot automaton (by Rob Ives on Instructables):

(download instructions: click the "paperbot.pdf" button just above "Step 1" of the tutorial on Rob Ives' Instructible article)

Monday, November 20, 2023

free papercraft S.S. Maha Vajiravuit


Retrocale made another old steam ship for you to make as a papercraft: the S.S. Maha Vajiravuit (or Vajiravudh) that used to travel between Bangkok, Tringanu (Terengganu) and Singapore along the coast of old Siam (modern day Thailand)

Download + build your own free papercraft S.S. Maha Vajiravuit (+more, by Retrocale):

Sunday, November 19, 2023

free Aomori Prefectural Police papercraft police cars & holiday trucks


Many years ago, the Aomori Prefectural Police had a webpage where kids could download some simple papercraft caps and things to "play police" with. That old webpage is gone now (probably since a while already), but you can still download the papercrafts from an archived version of the webpage. 👮

And even better: there's a new papercraft webpage with two patrol cars and a special truck with a Christmas 🎄 theme - and two Halloween 🎃 versions that I somehow missed a little while ago... 😉

Download + build your own free papercraft police patrol cars and Christmas and Halloween trucks (by Aomori Prefectural Police):

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

free papercraft Japanese Red Cross Society ambulance


Wouldn't you feel better already if you saw a cute bunny paramedic pull up in a red cross ambulance?  😊 🐰🚑

Download + build your own free papercraft Red Cross ambulance (by Japanese Red Cross Society Nara Prefecture Branch):

(download instructions: click the "救急車ペーパークラフトの用紙はコチラ" link at the top of the Japanese Red Cross Society page)

Sunday, November 12, 2023

free papercraft Funerositora-chan


Yesterday it was "Sint Maarten" ("St. Martin's Day", named after the Roman soldier Martinus that cut off half of his warm cloak  to share with a shivering beggar and converted to Catholicism to became bishop Martin of Tours) when in some parts of the Netherlands children still go around town with a lantern to sing (and collect candy 😁) in his honor (kinda like a Halloween for the low-countries).

St. Martin sharing half of his cloak with a beggar and children with lanterns singing to get candy on St. Martin's day.

But I was very surprised to see that tfrog from Japan apparantly knows about this Dutch tradition too, because he released this super cute papercraft of Funerositora-chan holding her lantern (an original character created by Anmaku Tokeru, a mysterious child walking around with a top hat, lantern and scythe...) yesterday to coincide with the holiday! 🏮

...or maybe it was just a serendipitous coincidence...? 😉

Download + build your own free papercraft Funerositora-chan (+lots more, by tfrog):

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

Saturday, November 11, 2023

free Freiwillige Feuerwehr Dorf an der Pram fire trucks


If you've been hoping for more free papercraft Austrian Fire trucks - then go to the website of the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Dorf an der Pram. 🚒😊

Download + build your own free Dorf an der Pram fire trucks (by Freiwillige Feuerwehr Dorf an der Pram):

Friday, November 10, 2023

free papercraft Freiwillige Feuerwehr Aderklaa fire truck


The Freiwillige Feuerwehr Aderklaa has this fun papercraft fire truck o download from their website! 🚒🙂

Download + build your own free papercraft fire truck (Freiwillige Feuerwehr Aderklaa):

(download instructions: click the "Bastelbogen RLFA Aderklaa" link at the bottom of Freiwillige Feuerwehr Aderklaa's website)

Thursday, November 9, 2023

free papercraft Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Göpfritz an der Wild fire truck


Don't worry, here's another free papercraft Austrian fire truck! 🚒😉

Download + build your own free papercraft fire truck (by Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Göpfritz an der Wild):

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

free papercraft Kremsmünster fire truck


Somebody at the Kremsmünster fire department must have thought: if I take some good, straight on pictures of our fire truck, you could make a papercraft model of it! 🚒

And guess what?

they were right! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft fire truck (by Feuerwehr Kremsmünster):

(download instructions: click the "BASTELBOGEN LFB-A" link on the Feuerwehr Kremsmünster's website)

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

free papercraft Freiwillige Feuerwehr Gaaden fire truck


Even though we don't have to find ways to keep occupied while we have to stay home because of the corona virus anymore, maybe you'll want to just to build this little fire truck from the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Gaaden for fun! 🚒

Download  +build your own free papercraft emergency fire team vehicle (by Freiwillige Feuerwehr Gaaden):

Monday, November 6, 2023

free papercraft Magirus Easter Bunny fire truck pencil box


How about an Easter riddle, since we're getting closer to Christmas:

What do you get when a company like Magirus that makes fire trucks and fire fighting equipment creates a papercraft for Easter?

An Easter Bunny driving a fire truck pencil box! 🐰🚒

Download + build your own free papercraft Easter Bunny fire truck pencil box (by Magirus):