free papercraft Anpanman characters

I had no idea how many characters are in the Japanese children's series Anpanman, but these papercrafts should give you an idea! 

Download + build your own free papercraft Anpanman characters (by Easy Craft):

https://easycraft.web.fc2.com/

Joanna Dark 64 papercraft WIP 4: test build 1

 Yay! I finally managed to do some actual papercrafting again! 😀

Even if it is just a quick and dirty early testbuild of little paper Joanna Dark 64 that I've been trying to work on off and on for months now with no real end in sight yet...

So although a lot of things on this testbuild ended up being too tricky to build for my liking (the hands for example, as always😋) and although I already worked on the original extracted game textures and 3D model a lot already, there are still a lot more things I want to change before getting to a final and releasable version that I can be happy with.

I'm still busy as ever since the last months with everyday life (ugh 😡) so I have no idea how long it will still take me, but it was fun to do some real papercrafting again. Like all good things, it's a process. And I will get there. Have fun and stay tuned! 👍

free papercraft Nippon TREX truck

Challenge yourself with a Japanese papercraft truck from Nippon TREX! 🚚

Download + build your own free papercraft truck (from Nippon TREX):

https://www.trex.co.jp/child/

Nagano City Official Website free papercraft fire trucks and ambulance

Do you need proof of how busy I've been this year so far?

The first week of April is already over and my last post about free papercraft fire trucks 🚒🚑 that I found on a website of a Japanese city was in November...! 😲

Download + build your own free papercraft fire trucks and ambulance (by Nagano City Official Website):

https://www.city.nagano.nagano.jp/n800500/kids/p001904.html

free official Spirit City: Lofi Sessions spirits papercraft toys

If you can't wait until April 8 to collect your own loyal spirits for a relaxing time in Spirit City: Lofi Version, you can make free official papercrafts of Dustbunny, and Lenny and Earlybirb now already like @ajisaiiroiro's shows in her tweet!

Download + build your own free official Spirit City: Lofi Sessions spirits papercraft toys (by Spirit City: Lofi Sessions):

https://twitter.com/SpiritCityLofi/status/1775893241881313379

free papercraft toy Baby Gym babies

Hi! Do you come here often? Do you want to make a baby?

...no wait don't run away! I'm not a creep, I'm talking about a paper toy one from Baby Gym! 👼

Download + build your own free papercraft toy babies (by Baby Gym):

https://www.meubabygym.com/post/paper-toy-da-baby-gym

free tabletop gaming papercrafts

Did I really never show you Dave Graffam's papercraft website...?!

...because I've known for years already that he has some really great tabletop papercrafts that you can veryeasily customize to your liking by turning on or off layers in the PDF files, including these free ones!

Download + buils your own free tabletop gaming papercrafts (by Dave Graffam):

http://www.davesgames.net/catalog-free-models.htm

free papercraft holiday themed police cars

There are a bunch of new seasonal themed papercraft police cars since last time on the Aomori Prefectural Police website!

Download + build your own free papercraft holiday themed police cars (by Aomori Prefectural Police):

https://www.police.pref.aomori.jp/syo/ajigasawa/paper.html

free papercraft chocolade (!) Vanilla campaign truck

I like that Vanilla always shares fun truck papercrafts for their campaigns. Currently they're running a campaign in Kyoto and they already shared a colorful truck and bus,  and now they made a basically chocolade version of the truck! 

(which my dutch brain finds very funny because up until now, I thought the most that the world could hope for when it comes to chocolade and vanilla working together was this): ☮😊

Download+ build your own free papercraft chocolade (!) Vanilla campaign truck (by Vanilla):

https://twitter.com/vanilla_qzin/status/1771750926694359093

free papercraft farm building and silo (+more!)

Papercraft-N made lots of free papercraft historical buildings already that you can use to make fun little dioramas, and they just shared this new farm building on their website!

Download + build your own free papercraft farm building and silo (+lots more, by Papercraft-N):

https://www.eonet.ne.jp/~paper-n/open.html

cute free papercraft Splatoon Octoling girl by shiroi38132723

shiroi38132723 shared a fish skull that you can wear on your head earlier (!? To be clear though: it was a papercraft one like you can get in the Splatoon game 🦑) but maybe you'll like this new Octoling girl better? 😀

Download + build your own cute free papercraft Splatoon Octoling girl (by shiroi38132723 in the Japanese Pepakura Gallery):

https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer_ja/pepakura-gallery/details.php?id=1724

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

Péricles' Wing Commander papercrafts

A short while ago, Anonymous commented on the FreeSpace GTD Galatea feature post that I made many years ago that they remembered a couple more free Freespace papercrafts too?

At that time I didn't remember that the creator was Péricles (who made other free sci-fi Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and video game papercrafts too 🙂) but Anonymous managed to track them down after all! 👍

Although the Blog do Péricles doesn't work anymore directly, you can still download the papercrafts by:

1. Visiting Péricles' old blog using the WayBack Machine
2. Then after clicking one of the download links, copy+paste the original MediaFire links that it finds in the address bar of your browser (so without the https://web.archive/org/web/... parts) to get them working! 😀

I think it's a good example of not giving up so easily! Anonymous found exactly what they were looking for in the end, so they can enjoy the papercrafts they wanted now! 😀

Now maybe you don't understand why I'm telling you about Freespace papercrafts when I'm showing you a picture of Wing Commander papercrafts?

That's because Péricles also made those a long time ago, and luckily those ones are still simply directly available from his Paper Commander website! 😀

Download + build your own free Wing Commander papercrafts (by Paper Commander Péricles):

https://papercommander.solsector.net/

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

free papercraft child's mouth and throat choking hazard model

I'm sure in most countries there are Consumer Safety organizations that warn about the hazards of children choking on small toys, but probably only in Japan they would think about making a papercraft of a child's head to warn about it! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft child's mouth and throat choking hazard model (by Consumer Affair Agency):

https://www.caa.go.jp/policies/policy/consumer_safety/caution/caution_015/

(download instructions: scroll down and download the PDF files just below the picture of the papercraft model on the Consumer Affair Agency's website)

Javierini's free papercraft Pokémon Spearow

I'm still not making a lot of progress on paper Joanna Dark at the moment (sorry - as you noticed I don't even have a lot of time showing you a "daily download" that you can find for free on other websites right now - especially not every day at the moment... 😆) so I figured I'd go back to another site that has been around a long time to make this a Papercraft Pokémon Sunday again... 👍

Javierini has made lots of papercraft Pokémon already (and other papercrafts too!) and he still very regularly makes new ones! His latest one is this Spearow!

Download + build your own free papercraft Pokémon Spearow (+lots more, by Javierini):

https://jav-papercraft.blogspot.com/2024/02/spearow.html

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

free papercraft Toei Bus mascot Minkuru

Don't tell me you're surprised that Japanese bus companies like Toei Bus have cute mascots (which people can download as free papercrafts from their websites 😃)

Download + build your own free papercraft Toei Bus mascot Minkuru (by Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Transportation):

https://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/bus/minkuru/coloring.html

(download instruction: scroll down Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Transportation's website and click the 5 links just below the picture of papercraft Minkuru for the instructions and the parts)

free Vanilla Recruitment papercraft Kyoto-only promotional truck and bus

I still don't know what Vanilla is exactly (I think it's like a recruitment company for higher paying jobs?) but I did see before that they like using free papercrafts in their campaigns, like a pink promotional truck one here and a blue one here.

And now also this extra colorful truck and a bus for a Kyoto-only campaign! 🚚🚌😀

Download + build your own free papercraft Kyoto-only promotional truck and bus (by Vanilla):

https://twitter.com/vanilla_qzin/status/1756226496161775989

free Guardabosques papercraft lovebirds

I don't know if Guardabosques is really a forest ranger too 🌲, but I do know that they make lots of papercraft works for all kinds of companies, including these cute papercraft lovebirds 💑🐦(and two other ones) for the HP Printables website!

Download + build your own free papercraft lovebirds (by Guardabosques for Brother Creative Center):

https://printables.hp.com/us/en/printable/birds-in-love-craft-valentine-s-day-series

2024 Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

Yes of course I've started playing the new Tomb Raider I-III Remastered versions (as the PC versions on Steam). 😀

I'm playing them in the original blocky/pixelated style really only because I like the nostalgia for me; so I love that Aspyr made it so easy to switch between the classic and Remastered style by just pressing the F1 key when playing whenever I want to see the difference! 😍

Because I proudly admit that I'm a sucker for my nostalgia, I will keep making my papercraft Tomb Raider vignettes in the blocky/pixelated style though! 💪

In case you were wondering for yourself: the extraction method for the 3D game models and textures that I always use on my original PC CD-ROM versions also works for the blocky/pixelated version of the Remastered games  for PC (because Aspyr basically just included the same level data - including the ones for the extra/Gold add-ons this time! 😀).

It does NOT work for the Remastered 3D models because their data seems to be in a whole different file format (.trg) that the tool I use can not open!

If you want too though, you can very easily view the Remastered textures as .dds image files from the game folders that Steam's creates when installing the games! (always make a copy of the files to play with them if you want too of course!!)

Have fun building! (and playing!) 😀

Joanna Dark 64 papercraft WIP 3 update

Work on Joanna Dark 64 is progressing - very slowly...

I edited the textures to make them fit on the 3D model the way I think Joanna looks in the original Perfect Dark game on the Nintendo 64. A lot of the textures still don't match perfectly when repositioned, and I still have a lot work to do on them in general. I also made them just a bit crisper since I have to work on them so much anyway...

I reduced the number of polygons like I always do when I make a game model into a papercraft (so I don't end up with a million tiny paper parts for a game character from an over 20 years old game 😱) but then I added some extra polygons again because just like Quakeguy, game Joanna only has stubby blocks for hands, so I remodelled those into basic 3D hands like other games from that era so paper Joanna will be able to actually hold her Falcon 2 pistol!

Long story short: it's taking me a lot of time (which I don't really have at the moment...) but I'll get there! 😉

Stay tuned!

free Stahlhart Year of the Dragon papercraft

Stahlhart made lots of free aircraft papercrafts, but also several Chinese Zodiac papercrafts! 2024 is the Year of the Dragon again, and he also has a papercraft for that. 🐉🙂

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

http://papercraft.stahlhart.net/lucky-dragon_main.php

free PinoArt papercraft 2024 Chinese New Year of the Dragon

Pinoart made two cool red and black dragon papercrafts last September, and they also made these simpler ones specifically for the 2024 Chinese New Year of the Dragon already, which is now finally here! 🐉🎆😀

Download + build your own free papercraft 2024 Chinese New Year of the Dragon (+lots more, by PinoArt):

https://pinoart.jp/papercraft/lets-print-a-new-years-card-dragon-2024-02-f

free papercraft CT-scan and pharmacy packaging machines

Katu109 has to receive medical care that impacts his life in a big way. He made a blog about the special Universal Design Food he has to eat - and he  also likes to make original papercrafts sometimes! He put his papercrafts of a CT-scanning and pharmacy packaging machines on his blog that you can download and enjoy yourself for free as well!

Download + build your own free papercraft CT-scan and pharmacy packaging machines (by Katu109):

• CT-scanning machine: https://note.com/katu109/n/nfb802ad0cfc8
• pharmacy packaging machine: https://note.com/katu109/n/nb5aa44faa26c 

(download instructions: click the green "ダウンロード" buttons on Katu 109's blog)

Ninjatoes.com from now on, ad-free and all! :o)

Today I:

1) Fixed all the broken image links on my main papercraft webpage (where you can download all the papercrafts I made myself for free!) 😊
2) Paid for a Wordpress.com subscription plan so that it doesn't show ads anymore (because that way it's even more fun to visit) 👍
3) Got a personal domain name so that it can also be reached using ninjatoes.com from now on! ✂️🎉

So what are you waiting for? Go check it out! 😀

free papercraft Chikugo City Hanemaru mascot by Kubo-chan

Kubo-chan made a papercraft of ChikugoCity's Hanemaru mascot that you can download and make yourself for free!

Download + build your own free papercraft Chikugo City Hanemaru mascot (by Kubo-chan for Chikugo City):

https://www.city.chikugo.lg.jp/kankou/_6137/_8425.html

(download instructions: scroll all the way down to the "PDF形式" download links on Chikugo City's webpage)

free papercraft prisoner transport van by Studio Ferrazzo

Studio Ferrazzo created this free papercraft prisoner van for the Dutch police; it even has a working side door! 😊 

Download + build your own free papercraft prisoner transport van (by Studio Ferrezzo):

https://ferrazzo.nl/portfolio/bouwplaat-politiebus/

(download instructions: click the "Download de bouwplaat hier." link on  Studio Ferrazzo's website and then the "Full resolution (2382 × 1684)" link at the bottom of the new page that opens)

Heppoko Paper Model Studio free papercraft 1/350 scale V-22 Osprey aircraft and Gerald Ford aircraft carrier

Well that was fast!

Heppoko's V-22 Osprey is also released already now after the matching Seahawk helicopter and the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier herself!

Download + build your own free papercraft 1/350 scale V-22 Osprey aircraft (and lots more, by Heppoko Paper Model Studio):

• V-22 Osprey: https://papermodel.jp/v22_350.html
• CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and other aircraft: https://papermodel.jp/cvn78-index.html

free papercraft 1/350 scale Seahawk helicopter for Heppoko's free papercraft aircraft carrier!

So I thought that Heppoko Paper Model Studio's free 1/350 scale papercraft E-2D Hawkeye AWACS plane I showed you a little while ago would be a final release for their free 1/350 scale papercraft CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier that they had finished and released.

But apparantly, it wasn't! 😃

They released a 1-350 scale MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopter to go with it now too, and they also shared on their Twitter account that are already prototyping on a V-22 Osprey to go with it too!

Download + build your own free papercraft MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopter (and lots more, by Heppoko Paper Model Studio):

• MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopter: https://papermodel.jp/mh60_350.html
• CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and other pieces: https://papermodel.jp/cvn78-index.html

Perfect Dark Joanna Dark papercraft WIP 2 : The Trouble with Textures

So obviously, the Busy Days are far from over, so work on Joanna Dark is progressing very slowly, but it is progressing a little bit! 😀

I'm finding myself having to spend a lot of time on the texturing though, because pretty much every texture on the extracted 3D model seems to have issues: the thing is though, that I can't really remember if that's just from the extraction process (link), having to use an emulation plugin, or whether is was like that on the Nintendo 64 console itself too...?

The textures themselves are quite small, but I'm used to that from games of this era of course. But take Joanna's belt for example: it doesn't show in the extracted game model at all, while the textures for it were extracted just fine!? 

Like I said,I don't really remember if the belt was there in the game when playing it on the actual N64 console, but since the textures were extracted ,I'm just trying to put the extracted textures in what I think should be the right place.

But then another problem was that one half was colored like I expected it to be, while the other half was almost unrecognizably dark!? And they also seem to be very strangely aligned?

Pretty much every texturee has issues like this, so I'm basically using my best judgement to get a papercraft of a (properly) fully textured Joanna!

It's a lot of extra work while I already have little spare time for the foreseeable future unfortunately, but I think I'll be happier with the final papercraft with all the textures in (what I think is) the right place so I'll just persevere! 😉

Stay tuned!

free short wheel-based papercraft cars series

Jjokomi made a whole series of easy-to-make short wheel-based papercraft cars for you to enjoy.

Download + build your own free short wheel-based papercraft cars series (by Jjokomi Paper Car):\

https://jjokkomi-papercraft.tistory.com/

free cute papercraft color-yourself train station

Laetitia runs a blog with the cute name Vert Cerice 💚 with lots of fun and creative activities for parents to do with their kids.

One example is this cute papercraft train station 🚆 that she made for the Mômes site that has lots more fun creative activities too!

(and as you can see it's a color-yourself train station, so maybe you can color it cherry green...? 😉)

Download + build your own free cute papercraft color-yourself train station (by Vert Cerise):

https://vertcerise.com/2017/03/08/printable-gare-papier-petits-trains-bois/

free Morisaki 2024 Year of the Dragon papercraft

Morisaki is a company for waterjet cutting, laser cutting and AeroDieCut processes and things like that so I think that's why most of the sample data you can download (here) is just in black-and-white outlines.

This time though, they posted acute colored papercraft for the 2024 Year of the Dragon! 🐉

Now you could request it as a free sample of their AeroDieCut process, but maybe that's only for people that live in Japan themselves? Luckily anyone can also just download their samples from their website (here).

Download + build your own free 2024 Year of the Dragon papercraft toy (by Morisaki):

https://morisaki-dm.co.jp/download/2024_01_05_6505.html

free papercraft SD Gundam mobile suits, Kamen Rider and motorbikes

There used to be lots more free papercraft SD (super deformed) Gundam mobile suits on Keikei's site but many of them are not available anymore. I did find some of Keikei's work that you can still download dor free from his site! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft Gundam mobile suits, Kamen Rider and motorbikes (by KK Factory):

• Kamen Rider Double CycloneJoker and RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type mobile suit: http://kk-factory.seesaa.net/category/1462493-1.html
• GAT-X105 Strike Gundam mobile suit: http://kk-factory.seesaa.net/article/256266382.html
• Suzuki V-Strom 250 motorbikes: http://kk-factory.seesaa.net/category/27422230-1.html

free papercraft Christmas tree, soccer ball, crystal and diamond +more

On Forest Lantern's website, you can download a free papercraft Christmas tree 🎄, soccer ball⚽ and truncated icosahedron, and if you browse tgrough their blog, you'll find a free papercraft cake🎂, crystal and diamond as well!

Download + build your own free papercraft Christmas tree, soccer ball, crystal and diamond (by Forest Lantern):

https://forestlantern.ehoh.net/en/paper_craft/

• Christmas tree, soccer ball and truncated icosahedron: https://forestlantern.ehoh.net/en/paper_craft/
• cake: https://shinrin.blog.shinobi.jp/handmade/paper_cake
• crystal: https://shinrin.blog.shinobi.jp/handmade/paper_crystal
• diamond: https://shinrin.blog.shinobi.jp/handmade/paper_diamond

Forest Lantern made some fun and free #papercrafts to share!

Visit my blog to find the free download on Forest Lantern's website and blog :

#ペーパークラフト #pepakura #printable #bouwplaat #bastelbogen #recortable #armable

free airplane maquettes en papier by Criquet

You didn't really think that somebody like Criquet who's has just as big a Passion for Maquettes en Papier as Paskal wouldn't have his a website with papercrafts of his own, did you? 😉

Paskal's friend Criquet called his own papercraft site Nos belles "Plumes" du temps passé - une formidable adventure because he likes papercrafts of beautiful airplanes of days gone by! 🛫

And just like Paska's site, you can explore Criquet's site to find free papercrafts that he made himself. Many of his creations are on the website of another friend of his: Maquettes en Carton from Pierre (and some that are not free are on his ecardmodels.com shop).

Download + build your own free papercraft airplanes of days gone by (by Criquet):

http://www.criquetaero.fr/1-66-mes-creations-p2985257

How To Model Using Soda Cans OCIPMS presentation by Bob Penikas

In 2012, Bob Penikas sent me some pictures of an aluminium can Batman that he made using the papercraft templates from my website.

That sounds easy enough ("I'll just flatten out an aluminium can and then I can just cut out and glue the parts together just like a sheet of paper!") but of course it does require a bit more forethought than that. 😉

The first day of this year, Bob sent me an email that he did a small presentation on How To Model Using Soda Cans last year for the OCIPMS (the Orange County chapter of the International Plastic Modeler’s Society) about his process, tools that he likes to use and other things!

The presentation was filmed and Bob put it on his YouTube channel, so if you're thinking about making paper models out of aluminium cans too, you know where to get started! 😀

watch Bob Penikas' How To Model Using Soda Cans presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFub-dNZiUM&list=PL9o2xkcI5ICJjSojVr7uj-4Nvd0sfDaeA

(playlist on Bob Penika's own YouTube channel)

https://ipmsoc.org/2023/11/23/how-to-model-using-soda-cans-presentation-by-bob-penikas/

(through links on the OCIPMS website)

free papercraft 1/350 scale E-2D Hawkeye AWACS plane for Heppoko's aircraft carrier!

Remember Heppoko's 1/350 scale papercraft CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier that they shared? last year

Well, I told in my last news update about it last February that they released the 23rd and final part, but that was really only for the aircraft carrier itself; they actually also made several airplanes and other things for the carrier model, and they were still making the an E-2D Hawkeye AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System) plane. 🛫

Well, that was ready a little while ago too! 😄

Download + build your own free papercraft 1/350 scale E-2D Hawkeye AWACS plane (and lots more, by Heppoko Paper Model Studio):

• E-2D Hawkeye AWACS plane: https://papermodel.jp/e2d_350.html
• CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and other pieces: https://papermodel.jp/cvn78-index.html

free Wild West, World War II Star Wars transport speeder+more Maquettes en Papier!

Papercraft is a hobby enjoyed by people from all over the world! 🌍

Paskal from France for would call it a Passion for Maquettes en Papier! He and his friend Criquet even made a whole French Forum en Papier where enthusiasts share build threads of papercrafts that they built (which I always love to see! 😀) and their own creations that people can download and build themselves too!

Paskal and Criquet even created the French PMP magazine about paper modeling!

Paskal also has his a Maquettes en Papier website where you can find his Wild West and World War II buildings and some other papercrafts, including some banana palm trees 🌴 and a Star Wars transport speeder! (and don't worry, you don't have to speak fluent French to enjoy these Maquettes en Papier too! 😊)

Download + build your own free Wild West and Wold War II buildings + more (by Maquettes en Papier):

https://www.maquettes-en-papier.fr/

(Note: not all the models are available as free download so just keep exploring Paskal's site! 🙂)