Tuesday, September 30, 2025
free papercraft treehouse playset
A long time ago, I showed you a fun papercraft pop-up dollhouse book playset where each set of pages of the book is a different room that you could download (and you still can using the archived link method! 😉) to play with!
This papercraft treehouse playset 🌳 isn't really a pop-up doll house like that, but it's another fun playset where each level of the tree is a different room too to play with!
Download + build your own free papercraft treehouse playset (by Brother Creative Center):
Friday, September 26, 2025
Papertoys Clemper free papercraft Mini space mechanic (+lots more!)
Mario Clemente seems to work as an illustrator and graphic designer nowadays, but before that he made paper toys. In 2020 he added this new free mini space mechanic 🔧 to the older ones on his Papertoys blog!
Download + build your own free papercraft Mini space mechanic (+more, by Papertoys Clemper):
(download instructions: click the "mini space mechanic - file" link in Papertoys Clemper's blogpost)
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
free papercraft Yamaha cube and box Nyaiken and Tracity tree-wheeled scooter-cats
In 2022, I showed you these two weird papercraft three-wheeled Nyaiken en Tracity scooter-cats from Yamaha based on the MWT-9 and the Tricity 125 scooters! 🛵😼
They were nice and curved, but there are also two simpler cube and box ones now as well. Download and build them all!
Download + build your own free papercraft cube and box Nyaiken and Tracity tree-wheeled scooter-cats (by Yamaha):
Monday, September 22, 2025
free kids.cloudpapercraft vehicles and papercraft toy
Download + build your own free papercraft vehicles and papercraft toy (by kids.cloud):
Saturday, September 20, 2025
free papercraft Seibu Railway trains
On the Seibu Railway kids' site, you can download this 2000 series train but several more too! 🚆
Download + build your own free papercraft Seibu Railway trains (by Seibu Railway):
Friday, September 19, 2025
free official Turminha do Caramelo papercraft toys
Do you enjoy the Portuegese Turminha do Caramelo cartoon? Have fun building your free official Caramelo 🐶, Sofia 🐱, Zezé 🐸 and Tico 🦆 papercraft toys from the cartoon!
Download + build your own free official Turminha do Caramelo papercraft toys (by Turminha do Caramelo):
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
free papercraft 2021 Kawasaki Frontale championship bus
To be honest, I don't know who won this year's Japanese football championship , but I think in 2021 the club Kawasaki Frontale won! (I know that because Brother Print Terrace had this fun little papercraft bus to build! 😉)
Download + build your own 2021 free papercraft Kawasaki Frontale championship bus (by Brother Print Terrace):
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
free Hokkaido papercraft Chuuchu Kanri-kun centralized drainage hole
As a papercraft, this Chuuchu Kanri-kun is really just a cube, but what it does as a "Centralized Management Hole" to make it easier to wash sediment from the rural drainage pipe system from rice paddies to prevent them from getting blocked is really smart!
Download + build your own free papercraft Chuuchu Kanri-kun centralized drainage hole (from Hokkaido Rural Development Bureau):
(download instructions: click the two "(PDF ...KB)" links just below the papercraft picture near the bottom on Hokkaido Rural Development Bureau's website)
Monday, September 15, 2025
free Chikuhoku Village papercraft Chikunyan mascot cat hat
You can make the hat that Chikunyan 🐱 wears as the mascot of Chikuhoku Village!
Download + buile your own free papercraft Chikunyan mascot cat hat (by Chikuhoku Village):
Sunday, September 14, 2025
free Brother Print Terrace animals papercraft toys
You can download lots more papercrafts from Brother's Print Terrace than just cars, like these fun animals! 🐑🐕🐏🐇🐍
Download + build your own free animals papercraft toys (+lots more, by Brother Print Terrace):
Friday, September 12, 2025
free papercraft Flow the little firetruck
Flo is a little talking firetruck that helps kids with advice from the Bible in his stories! 🚒
Download + build your own free papercraft Flow the little firetruck (by SCM-Shop.de):
(download instructions: click the "Flo-Bastelanleitung" papercraft picture of Flo on the bottom of the SCM-Shop.de webpage)
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Canal Capital eureka host Chema Cubeecraft papercraft toy
eureka is the children's channel of Canal Capital in Bogota! Its host is Chema, and to see what he looks like you can make this Cubeecraft template papercraft toy (which you can still download at the bottom here after all these years! 😀)
Download + build your own eureka host Chema Cubeecraft papercraft toy (bij Canal Capital eureka):
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
free Kyoto ports papercraft boats, gantry cranes and buildings
Check this site to make papercraft boats, harbor cranes and buildings and even a tunnel from Kyoto Prefecture! 🚢
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
free 2025 (and older! :o) papercraft Japanese holiday dioramas
Tsukuba City has had a page with a lot of fun holiday papercraft dioramas 🎑 by Craft P-Box that kids and parents can do together for a long time!
It has been updated in 2025 and there wil be new ones later in the year, so be sure to check back when they'll be released too (see the datums on the Tsukuba City website).
Download + build your own for free 2025 papercraft Japanese holiday dioramas (by Craft P-Box for Tsukuba City):
Monday, September 8, 2025
free PinoArt papercraft 2026 Zodiac horse already
If you like making papercraft Zodiac signs you can use the dedicated search box (or the site search method I told you about here - be sure to try the Wayback Machine too if the download links don't work anymore! 😉) to find lots of them already, because the Zodiac is cyclical in nature every 12 years and well, I've been sharing papercrafts from other creaters longer than that (and actually many of them started a papercraft Zodiac set earlier than that and kept it alive too! 😀)
The Chinese Zodiac New Year is actually usually in late January or early February and I usually wait a bit when it's around time for it, but earlier this year on January 4th 2025 I suffered a bad stroke 😭 and I didn't remember about showing you the 2025 Snake 🐍 one from PinoArt around that time...
In fact, the last one I showed you was the year earlier in the 2024 Year of the Dragon but as you can see, the PinoArt creator usually posts it nice on time on, so you can download and make their 2026 Horse one already right now! 🐎
Sunday, September 7, 2025
free papercraft HondaJet
Downwload + build your own free papercraft HondaJet (by Akira Otani for Honda magazine):
Saturday, September 6, 2025
free papercraft KiKANiNCHEN Fireman Sam's Jupiter fire truck
I don't know if can still find the simple papercraft bus on the KiKANiNCHEN site, but right now you can find a papercraft Fireman Sam Jupitor fire truck! 🚒
Download + build your own free papercraft Fireman Sam's Jupiter fire truck (by KiKANiNCHEN):
Friday, September 5, 2025
free papercraft Limbus Company Limbox papercraft toys
In the post I just made I shared that you could download your own blank Gensin Impact Kitty Crates from HoYoLAB to make your own, and justshroomdoom on Reddit did just that - to make into Limboxes for the Limbus Company game that they like! 🐱
Download + build your own free papercraft Limbus Company Limbox papercraft toys (by justshroomdoom based on HoYoLAB's Kitty Crates)
- Ishmael (Boxmael): https://www.reddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1foh2br/paper_craft_ishmael/
- Outis (Boxtis), Sinclair (Boxlair) and Ryoshu (Boxshu/shuBo): https://www.reddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1fwo0zd/more_limboxes_incoming/
free papercraft HoYoLAB Genshin Impact Kitty Crates and Mechanical Teyvat robots papercraft toys
If you look through Favonius Messenger's tweets, you can find not just lots of free fanmade HoYoLAB Genshin Impact Kitty Crates 🐱, but also lots of free fanmade Mechanical Teyvat Robot 🤖 papercraft toys!
Download+build your own free papercraft HoYoLAB Genshin Impact Kitty Crates and Mechanical Teyvat robots papercraft toys (by Favonius Messenger):
- Blank Kitty Crate to make your own: https://x.com/MessengerF85205/status/1772546945015583121
- Blank Mechanical Teyvat robot one to make your own: https://x.com/MessengerF85205/status/1950077960834121850
- Lots of already fanmade ones throughout Favonius Messenger Twitter account: https://x.com/MessengerF85205
Thursday, September 4, 2025
free Prince of Persia Cubeecraft papercraft toys
The first Prince of Persia game came out in 1989, which was 35 years ago already in 2024! It spawned lots of sequels over the years, so Ubisoft made a 35th Anniversary site for it where you can download a Fan kit with several foldable princes as Cubee papercraft toys! 💎
Download + build your own free Prince of Persia Cubeecraft papercraft toys (by Prince of Persia 35th Anniversary):
(download instructions: scroll down to click the "DOWNLOAD" button to download the "Fan kit" on Ubisoft's Prince of Persia 35th Anniversary website)
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
free VOCALOID, Splatoon, female student and Umamusume: Pretty Derby papercraft toys by jui
jiu made lots of fun free papercraft toys like from the VOCALOIDS Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka 🎤, from the video games Splatoon 🐙and Umamusume: Pretty Derby 🐴 and you can find them in different levels of movement:
- [V1] no movement
- [V2] legs, arms and neck movable
- [V3] elbows and knees movable as well
So you can choose which levels of detail you to build them in! 👍
Download + build your own cute free VOCALOID, Splatoon, female student and Umamusume: Pretty Derby papercraft toys (by note jiu):
- VOCALOID, Splatoon and female student: https://note.com/jiu103/n/nf37dbd514064
- Umamusume: Pretty Derby: https://note.com/jiu103/n/nc05cdfdba7ad (copy+paste the Google Drive link at the bottom on jiu's blognote post)
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
free papercraft Lindner Traktoren
Don't worry if you have no metal working skills: you can download and make these Lindner Tractoren 🚜 out of paper!
Download + build your own free papercraft Lindner tractors (by Lindner Traktoren):
Monday, September 1, 2025
free Le Petit Prince Cubeecraft papercraft toy
Most people have the Trivial Pursuit knowledge that The Bible is the number 1 most translated and read book in the world. 😇
But did you know that the second most translated and read book is Le Petit Prince 👱 by Antoine de Saint Exupéry! (and to be completely honest, I have it both in French and in English, even though I'm Dutch, so that accounts for at least two translations... 😉)
Brighten up your day with the creation of a Little Prince Paper Toy! Cut out, fold, and assemble to bring this iconic character to life.🌟
✂️ Follow the tutorial here: https://t.co/rcisC8Z8RH🖨️ Template available here: https://t.co/mqU3wGJGRq pic.twitter.com/ST4fRCfMA2— Le Petit Prince Officiel (@Le_PetitPrince) April 17, 2024
Download + build your own free Le Petit Prince Cubeecraft papercraft toy (by kebun pisang selamany for Le Petit Prince):
https://www.lepetitprince.com/en/events-around-the-world/create-your-own-little-prince-in-paper-toy/
(download instructions: click the "I print my Paper Toy!" link in "Step 1: Print the template" of the article or the PaperToy button here on Le Petit Prince's website)
Sunday, August 31, 2025
free official papercraft Sky: Children of the Light Manatee
Have you been wanting to build your own free papercraft Manatee from Sky: Children of the Light Game too? Well, now you can! 😀
In English and five different Asian languages in fact, so if you speak one of them you don't really have a reason not to share your creation with the hashtag #SkyCreatorAcademy on Twitter anymore!
(the papercraft is not so difficult anyway that you need to understand the few instructions! 😉)
Make a Manatee friend of your own! ❤️ Give this paper craft a try and show us your creation using #SkyCreatorAcademy.
— Sky: Children of the Light (@thatskygame) August 29, 2025
Download the instructions here: https://t.co/Oe68dKIwn0 pic.twitter.com/l2ZaMdMkR8
Download + build your own free official papercraft Sky: Children of the Light Manatee (by Sky: Children of the Light):
(download instructions: click the "bit.ly/..." link to go Sky: Children of the Light's Google Drive; also here: https://x.com/thatskygameJP/status/1961928187727728687)
Friday, August 29, 2025
free papercraft Akagi GariGarikun ice pop
A GariGarikun soda-flavored ice pop with crunchy, soda-flavored shaved ice from Akagi might sound good right now, but this one is just papercraft so it won't really keep you extra cool of course... 😋
Download + build your own free papercraft ice pop (by Akagi):
(download instructions: scroll down to the "ペーパーガリガリ君ソーダ" papercraft ice pop picture at the bottom of Akagi's website)
Thursday, August 28, 2025
free official Dragon Quest papercraft Mimic monster (with optional growing tongue!)
You could already make official blocks on the Dragon Quest site but you can now also make an official Mimic monster with an enlarging tongue!
Those mechanisms are apparantly called "piro piro" flutes in Japanese and you can make them out of papercraft by making a tube that's closed on one end and blowing through the other end 😜!
Have a look at the instructions on this official Dragon Quest one on Twitter! 👅
(watch the video in this tweet to see how to make the optional unrolling tongue with an extra part and a straw!)
夏休みの終わり…何か忘れているような…ハッ😱‼️
— ドラゴンクエスト宣伝担当 (@DQ_PR) August 27, 2025
ということで、スクエニ公式 @squareenix_jp と合同で工作にチャレンジしてみました👊
簡単な材料で #ミミックのぴろぴろ笛 が作れましたよ🥳
みなさんもぜひやってみてください✨
※もしもう夏休みが終わってしまっていたらすみません…🙇 pic.twitter.com/YdoSIAdhQJ
Download + build your own free official papercraft Dragon Quest Mimic monster with optional unrolling tongue (by Dragon Quest PR):
(same as here: https://x.com/squareenix_jp/status/1960628665517269181)
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
free papercraft simple black-and-white/color-yourself church
Did the LEGO people give this papercraft black-and-white/color yourself church these nice colored glass windows?? ⛪
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
free papercraft Koffeecup Studio Hoomanz! Shoo
Koffeecup Studio made a papercraft Shoo (the mythical guardian 🐿️ of Planet Erf) contest for their Hoomanz! game that will be released in the 4th quartile of 2025!
I missed the contest though so I couldn't tell you about it beforehand (ezme_the_wonder_cat🐈 won the Xbox Hoomanz! controller already! 🏆👏) but you can still build your own papercraft Shoo for fun of course!
Download + build your own free papercraft Hoomanz! Shoo (by Koffeecup Studio):
Monday, August 25, 2025
free papercraft Tokyo Fire Department fire extinguisher papercraft mascot
A long time ago I showed you the papercraft fire trucks and ambulance and evenm a fire helicopter on the site of the Tokyo Fire Department. I saw that you can download kids versions here too, but you can also download a papercraft fire extinguisher mascot 🧯 on their site!
Download + build your own free fire extinguisher papercraft mascot (by Tokyo Fire Department)
(download instructions: click the "ペーパークラフト(PDF:292KB)" link just below the papercraft picture on the Tokyo Fire Department site)
Sunday, August 24, 2025
free papercraft Chuo Suki E353 and E233 trains
It's still warm outside but on the JR Chuo Suki site you can download a couple of papercraft trains 🚆 as two palm-sized Christmas ornaments 🎄 (even though it will be a few months before you'll need them I guess... 😉) next to a "normal" sized one!
https://chuosuki.jp/tag/%e3%83%9a%e3%83%bc%e3%83%91%e3%83%bc%e3%82%af%e3%83%a9%e3%83%95%e3%83%88/
(download instructions: choose the papercraft posts on the JR Chuo Suki site)
Saturday, August 23, 2025
free papercraft classic Star Trek USS Enterprise NCC-1701 by Mike Hungerford (Chthulhu)
Mike Hungerford used the name Chthulhu 🐙 (not the real cosmic horror entity of course - but interestingly enough though he did use the Cosmic Latté ☕ background color between the hex values #FFF8E6 and #FFF8E7 on his web site back then, so think of that what you want...! 😨😉) when his papercraft webpage with lots of cult models was active!
There were a lot of fun models like the Easter Island Moai statue (that I showed you back in 2013) but some like Galaxy Quest's space shuttle or Snoopy's World War I Flying Ace (which was really just Snoopy cosplaying as the famous Red Baron on top of his doghouse) or Doctor Who's TARDIS time machine were pretty famous subjects! 😀
So when he reworked his site to a blog format last year near the end of 2024 (read the news about it on Paper Modelers forums here) a lot of papercrafters were very happy of course! 👍
You can download all of his paper models in one ZIP-file here but you can also just look through his new blog to find them all with a neat picture for each of them on separate blogposts, like the "big E": the classic papercraft Star Trek USS Enterprise NCC-1701 which Mike reworked with permission from the original creator Ron Caudillo to increase the ease of the build and to change the overall color! 😀
Download + build your own free papercraft classic Star Trek USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (by Mike Hungerford's Paper Models Chthulhu):
Friday, August 22, 2025
free papercraft Lamborghini Huracan or 1934 Deusenberg SJ Cabriolet PaperCars
If you watched "The Great Gatsby" movie with Leonardo DiCaprio (instead of reading the book like you really should for school!) you might recognize the 1934 Deusenberg SJ Cabriolet. 🚘 I don't know if the Lamborghini Huracan is from a movie too, but it sure looks expensive too!
(you can also find Tesla Y or Tesla Cybertruck templates if you just download them as images)
Download + build your own free papercraft Lamborghini Huracan or 1934 Deusenberg SJ Cabriolet (by Papercars):
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Erick's Back Baby! with free papercraft Homeworld papercrafts & Pepakura design tutorial
More than 10 years ago I showed you the papercrafts on Erick's Models but to be honest I think I didn't specifically told you he had a design tutorial too! 😨
I had already been looking into making and sharing my own papercrafts to give back to people like me that enjoyed the hobby. In 2002 I started (and still love to do sometimes) makig papercrafts by scanning pencil and paper templates, but I always wanted to make my favorite heroes from my favorite video games out of paper too but It seemed to difficult... 😕
I think for me it was Erick's Models just before 2005 that took the time to explain step by step the tools needed to extract videogame models (from Homeworld in this case) and then how to clean them up with Metasequoia and unfold them in Pepakura Designer to make papercraft models on the computer!
Erick (a.k.a. fructose1) has been busy with other things and unfortunately the site slowly went away, but in 2025 Erick (and the site) is Back, Baby! (read fructose1's forum post on the Paper Modelers forum! 😀)
Download + build your own free original and Homeworld models & learn how to design papercrafts yourself (by Erick's Models):
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Ways to look for old papercrafts with "dead links" on my weblog here?
Let's face it, the papercrafts that I found and shared with you all over the years since 2008 may have been deleted long tim ago by now... (of course the papercrafts that I made and shared myself since 2001 are all still available on my main website at www.ninjatoes.com 😊)
For the ones that you find in my blogposts here or that I shared in one of the link lists here though, you can still try to look whether they still exist? You can do that in various ways:
1) Use the dedicated search box
Maybe the creator just rearranged their website and just moved the webpages around? Most websites have a dedicated search box where you can look for the papercraft if you know the name (try what you find here on my blogposts here) or look for a more general search term (who knows what else you might find? 😀).
2) Do a site: search using Google
If the website doesn't have a dedicated search box, you can still do a site: search in Google. Go back to the URL of the website (including the http:// or https:// part), delete anything but the domain name (usually it ends with .com or something so that you know you're looking in the entire site) and then the search term that you're looking for, a space and then site: (including the colon) just in front of the domain name. You can write out the "code" for a site: search like so:
Then when you press enter, Google will search for your term in the entire site (depending whether you started on the main domain name, or a parent page if you wanted to 😀)
3 Use the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/)
Sometimes the whole website will (understandably) be gone though after some years... you can go to the Web Archive and see whether it has saved (crawled) the old site with the papercrafts you're looking for?
- Type the URL or the papercraft download webpage (that's why I never delete old links in blogposts) in the Wayback Machine.
- Then press "enter" and hopefully it will find a number of times when it "crawled" the site, indicated by a blue circle (green circles are redirects).
- Choose a date close to the blogpost (or a newer date to see which newer papercrafts it had since I posted it and before the site went away?)
- Then choose one of the times to see what it used to look like at that time and hopefully you can still download the papercrafts!
Sometimes you get lucky and you can still download the old papercraft, but sometimes the Internet Archive didn't actually save the actual papercraft file downloads (that's usually the case with filesharing sites like RapidShare (remember that? 😉), Megaupload or one of the many others) and then I can't really help you either...
Sometimes like on bigger sites that saved the downloads on its own webspace though, and the Internet Archive has crawled it at some point (there's luckily a lot of papercraft sites like that though), so you can still find it if you find the right date!
(4 Look around on other sites)
If the methods1-3 didn't help you, you may still find it if somebody else saved it before you on some other website (usually fun, popular papercrafts 👍)! Needless to say, if you find a papercraft that you like (even if you won't build it right away) just save it! 😀
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
free papercraft ace_Akira_ Tsutenkaku tower
Some time ago I told you that you can download official Osaka Tsutenkaku tower papercraft from the official site, but if you look at ace_Akira_'s Twitter account you can download an unoffical but quite funny papercraft I think! 😀
Download + build your own free papercraft Tsutenkaku tower (by ace_Akira_):
Monday, August 18, 2025
JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology papercrafts
On the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) park site you can find some papercraft deep-sea creatures 🦀of course but also some research vessels 🚢 and even a super computer!
Download + build your own free research vessels, deep sea creatures and more papercrafts (by JAMSTEC):
(dowload instructions: on the left side of the JAMSTEC Park site, reload the site if you don't see the papercrafts; deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu and Shinkai 6500 three-person manned submersible also here)
Sunday, August 17, 2025
free Akita Prefectural Police papercrafts
On the Akita Prefectural Police site you can download some free papercraft police cars, but also a police helicopter, a police bike and even the famous free follow-me eyes police dog and two simple police mascots! 👮🚔
Download + build your own free papercraft police cars and more (by Akita Prefectural Police):
Saturday, August 16, 2025
free Yamaha papercrafts
In 2019, just before the Covid-19 pandemic, Yamaha took a lot of great papercrafts from their site... During the pandemic though, they put some of the papercrafts back on the site together with other handicrafts and exercises so that people could occupy themselves while they had to follow the official rules to Stay At Home and protect others!
The pandemic is over now though, and it looks like Yamaha is keeping some of the seasonal 🎅, animal 🐒 and realistic motorbikes 🏍 on their site! 😀
Download + build your own free Yamaha papercrafts (by Yamaha Papercrafts):
Thursday, August 14, 2025
free papercraft Kyono MK Oil gas station girl Graphic toy
I'll say it again: EVERYTHING IN JAPAN NEEDS A CUTE LITTLE MASCOT! Even gas stations. 😉
This cute little Emu gas station girl for the Kyono MK Oil station in the Yamasina Ward in Kyoto is so popular that they're actually running out of cute Graphic papercraft toys! Luckily, they decided to share it online too so anybody can print and build it themselves! 😀
Graphic Download + build your own free papercraft Graphic toy (by Twitter Kyono MK Oil):
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
free papercraft Ishikawa Prefectural Police patrol car
The Ishikawa Prefectural Police hands out papercraft Mobile Police Station vehicles, but you can also download a fun papercraft patrol car yourself that you can also use to store your pens and pencils! 🚔
Download + build your own free papercraft Ishikawa Prefectural Police patrol car (by Ishikawa Prefectural Police):
(download instructions: click the two PDF links just below the papercraft image on the Ishikawa Prefectural Police site)
Monday, August 11, 2025
free papercraft rubber duck by woziro
Playing with a rubber duck 🦆 in your bath tub is fun (isn't it?), but it wont be I think if it's actually a papercraft duck...
Download + build your own free papercraft rubber duck (by woziro):
(you'll need to use the free Pepakura Viewer or PaperMaker website to open *.pdo files!)
93 free Mondorfer Bastelbögen papercrafts by Kallboys!
The Kallboys made a lot of amazing free papercrafts already related to Mondorf in Germany along the famous river the Rhine (93 so far!) and in 2025 it looks like they'll just keep doing it, with the Coffee Roastery Schmitz-Mertens, an early steam locomotive of the Sharp Brothers & Co. Bonn-Cologne Railway Company locomotive and the Rochus chapel!
Download + build your own 93 free Mondorfer Bastelbögen papercrafts (by Kallboys):
Sunday, August 10, 2025
free papercraft easy and advanced Cassini space craft by Fiddlers Greens Carmodelers Academy
Normally, at the Fiddlers Green Cardmodelers Academy site you can download a fun free repainted airplane!
This time though, I'll show you Cassini, a robotic orbiter/space craft by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian space agency (ASI). As one of the longest and most ambitious planetary exploration efforts of Saturn and its icy moons it was very succesful! 🪐😀
It was launched in October 15 1997 and entered orbit around Saturn on June 30 2004. On September 15 2017 the mission was ended by sending the spacecraft to vaporize in Saturn's atmosphere (19 years and 335 days later!). That way it wouldn't collide with one of the many (sometimes relatively small!) moons at the end of its long-lasting joint mission!
So you could have built this papercraft long ago to be honest, but why not build it now? You can even choose between an easier to build version or an advanced one!
Download + build your own free papercraft easy and Advanced Cassini space craft (by Fiddlers Green's Cardmodelers Academy):
- easier version: http://www.cardmodelers.net/academy/NASA/images/cassini.html
- advanced version: http://www.cardmodelers.net/academy/NASA/cassini2/cassini02.html
Friday, August 8, 2025
free papercraft Peramodels realistic animals from Keiji Kawaguchi on Twitter now! :o)
I think this will bring a lot of smiles to a lot of papercrafters! 😃
I didn't realize it earlier, but it looks like Kawaguchi Keji from the old Peramodel site is sharing *a lot* of the realistic animal papercrafts from Peramodel (that you needed the free password for earlier, read this post about it here) and even some local crafts that I don't think I saw before on Twitter!
It's a lot easier now for you because the models are just images in the Tweets instead of password protected PDF files. So as he explains, "if you don't have a printer yourself, bring your smartphone to a convenience store or electronics retailer and tell the staffin the store "I want to print this image in color on A4 paper, landscape." Then you can cut, fold and glue the templates to make your own realistic animal!"
I don't know if he'll share all of the Peramodel animals on Twitter, but there are a lot of them there now already!
Download + print your own free papercraft Peramodels realistic animals (by Keiji Kawaguchi):
Thursday, August 7, 2025
free papercraft Chiiwaka character Hachiware and sushi package
Hachiware 🐱 is one of the main characters in the Chiikawa manga and anime series (be sure to watch also the instructional video of Hachiware and the package of sushi they dropped!)
Download + build your own free papercraft Chiiwaka character Hachiware and sushi package (by Paperman Returns):
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