free (and paid) anime/manga and video game and VTuber papercrafts

Kedama_craft made several free anime/manga and video game and VTuber papercrafts for you that you can try out first so you can find out whether you want to buy their paid papercrafts too? 🙂

Download + build your own free (and paid) anime/manga and video game and VTuber papercrafts (by Kedama_craft):

https://ko-fi.com/kedama_craft/shop/free

free papercraft Touhou Project Cirno

t-frog made the ice fairy Cirno 🧊🧚‍♀️ from the Touhou Project in chibi form earlier, but if you like, you can make her in the same style as ChimeraLens made their earlier papercraft characters in now too! 😊

Download + build your own free papercraft Touhou Project Cirno (by ChimeraLens):

https://pepakura-designer.com/community/cirno/

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

free Christmas Tree papercraft toy by Leonora Camusso

Some years ago already the Italian illustrator Leonora Camusso made these fun Christmas papercraft toys (along with some very cute papercraft animals earlier too! 🌱🐈🐒🐖🐣)

But what if you didn't have a Christmas tree🎄 to put them in? Well, Leonora helped you out last year with this free Christmas tree papercraft toy! 😀

Download + build your own free Christmas Tree papercraft toy (+ lots more, by Leonora Camusso):

https://leonoracamusso.it/paper-toy-albero-di-natale/

free Father Frost papercraft toy

Right before Halloween I told you about a ghostly 👻 papercraft toy that you can fittingly download among all the other ones on the Made in Paperland website. For Christmas 🎄, there's one that's just as fiting I think: Father Frost! 🎅

Download + build your own free Father Frost papercraft toy (+ lots more, by Made in Paperland):

https://madeinpaperland.ru/toys.html?name=dedmoroz

free papercraft Gregory Horror Show Hell's Chef Christmas Edition

Iwata Naomi made a military version of Hell's Chef for their Gregory Horror Show, but last year they  also made a Christmas version 🎄! (and of course you can make "regular" papercraft versions for all the other characters as well! 😉)

Download + build your own free papercraft own Gregory Horror Show Christmas Hell's Chef Christmas version (+lots more, by Iwata Naomi):

https://x.com/iwatanaomi/status/1871569921915957592

free papercraft polar bear

During the Christmas season, Coca Cola has Christmas commercials with their famous Coca Cola Christmas truck and their polar bears, in the Low Countries too. 🎅

In this Kartonbau.de forum post the papercraft creator talks about Coca Cola having a promotional tour with the Coca Cola Christmas truck where they would give you a free papercraft of it if you came to their stands in 2009! 😀

In 2012 you could also read about Robert Nava's papercraft Coca Cola polar bears that you could download from a Dollar General (gone now unfortunately 🙁) campaign during 2012 on Paperkraft.net! 😃

I think you can't get these ones officially anymore of course after all these years, but lots of people made these iconic trucks and polar bears into papercraft themselves too! You might still find those or maybe you'd like to make this free general papercraft polar bear from Peramodel into a Coca Cola one yourself too? 👍

Download + build your own free papercraft polar bear (by Peramodel):

https://x.com/i_kpd/status/1961852050960273820

free papercraft 2024 Slite windmill en 2025 Fårö ferries as Christmas gifts from Bildrum

I know that Gunnar from Bildrum likes to shared a fun free papercraft Christmas gift 🎄 on their hobby site for years already now!

I actually usually tell you about it if I don't forget, but last year I did forget I guess...  Which is a real shame for my Dutch heart, because last year they shared a free papercraft windmill!  (even though it isn't exactly from the Netherlands but from the island of Gotland in Sweden and it is of a Dutch type as he explained on the download page 😉)

And so that I won't forget again, for 2025 I'll tell you now too: Gunnar made the old motorized Fårö ferry from 1920 and the new one that's in operation since 1995! 🚢

old motorized ferry around 1920

new one used since 1995

Download + build your own free papercraft Slite windmill and Fårö ferries (and lots more, by Bildrum):

• 2025 Fårö ferry: https://www.bildrum.se/faro.htm
• 2024 Slite windmill: https://www.bildrum.se/kvarn.htm

free papercraft "EVERYTHING a Christmas workshop needs!"

It's the age-old question: what can you give someone for Christmas 🎄 when you've made so many free papercrafts before already like Kallboys has...?

Well, they felt they can make "EVERYTHING a Christmas workshop needs" like free papercraft Christmas ornaments, actual toys and cards and stamps to deliver them! 🎅

Download + build your own free papercraft "everyting a Christmas workshop needs" (+lots more, buy Kall boys):

https://www.kallboys.de/mondorfer-bastelboegen

free papercraft Christmas reindeer

You don't really have to make papercrafts in Pepakura or a special papercraft software or anything, you can make them by hand, or just with Excel, like Wired Mouse shows with this free papercraft Christmas reindeer!

Download + build your own free papercraft Christmas reindeer (by Wired Mouse):

https://gakudoubeya.com/paper-craft/

(download instructions: click the green "トナカイのペーパクラフト　Excel文書" buton at the bottom of the article on Wired Mouse's website)

free papercraft Pokémon Simisage and Simisear

Javierini and their testbuilders released these before, but (for some inexplicable reason?) I really wanted to make this a free papercraft Pokémon Sunday again like before! So here they are: Pokémon #512 Simisage and #514 Simisear! 🐒

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

• Pokémon #512 Simisage: https://jav-papercraft.blogspot.com/2025/12/simisage.html
• Pokémon #514 Simisear: https://jav-papercraft.blogspot.com/2025/12/simisear.html

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

Disney papercrafts gathered by official Disney Kids Japan

If you go to the  third ("クラフト・カード") button on the Disney Kids Japan website, you can find lots of official free Disney papercrafts of their princesses 👸 and various characters from Pixar 🐠 and since 2009 from Marvel 🦸 movies and since 2012 from Star Wars 🚀 movies (two franchises that will never stop being weird to me to see on Disney!? 😉) that you might have found on other sites over the years but that they gathered in one place for you!

Download + build your own free official Disney papercrafts (by Disney Kids Japan):

https://kids.disney.co.jp/download

(download instructions: click the third "クラフト・カード" button at top on Disney Japan's site and keep clicking the blue "もっと見る" button at te bottom to find all of them)

free cute papercraft Santa Clause

I bet all you guys are eagerly awaiting what you're gonna get for Christmas 🎄 this year (since you've all been very good this whole year of course right? 😇)

Well, thanks to Tanaka Masahiko you can already have a good time making a cute free papercraft Santa Clause now! 🎅

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

https://note.com/tanaka_masahiko/n/n7ed92ffec4a5

The power of Google Translate (also on papercraft images!)

Some time ago I showed you how to look for papercrafts that have "gone dead" over the years yourself (in this post).

I think it's important to learn that of course because it's gonna happen more and more the older you get and harsh but true, the only one that's going to spend time to help you with that is yourself (that's really not sad 😞 or anything I think, but other people just won't have the time in their lives to help you with things that most people don't care a lot for, and let's be honest: a papercraft that you like really isn't thát interesting to most other people... 😐).

That's why earlier I started doing my "How to 3D extract" series to show you how to do that using free tools too (because I can't spend a lot of time and money myself either and luckily there are already a lot of smart people that do want to help others for whatever reason 😊!) And thanks to the internet you (and I at some point during my papercrafting hobby happily enough 😉) could find them too!)

Long story short for now, I decided that maybe I can help you talk about how I deal with Japanese (or other languages that you don't understand) papercrafts with free tools in case you don't know yet!

1) Google Translate for searching more (https://translate.google.com/)

This helps a lot if (like me) you can't read Japanese (or most of the World's languages fluently to be honest...). On the Google Translate website, you can copy+paste any text in the translate box, set the language the text to translate is in (or if you don't recognize the language, you can ask Google Translate to try and recognize it itself) and then set up our native language as the resulting language!

But what's more, instead of a piece of text, you can also input a website URL and then it gives you a URL that you can click to visit a translation of the website (or you can go the special "Websites" tab for the same thing 😉)! It won't be perfect of course, but usually it's enough to help you understand what you're on the website for so it can help you find papercrafts! 🙂

(you can always switch between the tranlation and the original language!)

2) Translate JPG Images (sometimes first converting PDF files to JPG images!)

Since papercraft are usually images, you can't just copy+paste into Google Translate. If they do come with text like instructions, you can use Google Translate Image or Documents tabs to translate the text in them.

Once the translation is done, you can Copy the translated text or Save the whole translated image for your convenience (I think it will be best to build the original PDF file though!)

You might need to convert the PDF parts files to JPG images with a tool like Zamzar (or another free "PDF to JPG conversion" tool that you know) like in this case too (an old super deformed old F-15 fighter plane that somebody asked me about causing me to tell you about it 😊).

(I actually got curious and found out that it also works for my own instructions after converting the PDF files back to JPG images! The Legend of Zelda Pamela and her dad can attest to that, so maybe I should stop making the instructions into PDF files in the future?)

I hope you found Google Translate as useful as I did and I'll think about that question for my next new papercraft (which you'll find here on my blog and on my own download site: Ninjatoes' papercraft webpage of course 😀)

Have fun and Merry Christmas everybody!🎄

free papercraft top hat and Halloween witch hat

In 2023 I showed you the uniform hats from Sumikkogurashi, but you can also download this top hat 🎩 and this Halloween 🎃 witch hat!

Download + build your own free papercraft top hat and Halloween witch hat (by Sumikkogurashi): 

• top hat: https://sumikkogurashi-movie.com/2023/news/446
• Halloween witch hat: https://sumikkogurashi-movie.com/2021/news/154
• uniform hats: https://sumikkogurashi-movie.com/2023/news/88

free papercraft Taco characters

On the site of Onborotto Koubou you can see some of the fun illustrations they made over the years and you'll see they also made some Zodiac animal papercrafts over the years too: link! You could never really download them though, but on their Twitter account they shared some free papercraft Taco characters they made in collaboration with a Taco shop that you can download now! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft Taco characters (by Onborotto Koubou):

https://x.com/onborotto/status/1998226053328965831

free PATIRABI papercraft cat (and other) boxes and squishy dolls and toys

With the free templates on PATIRABI.com you can make free simple papercraft boxes for treats, or you can download free papercraft cat boxes 🐈! (and more of course)

Download + build your own free papercraft cat (and other) boxes and squishy dolls and toys (by PATIRABI):

• (cat) boxes: https://patirabi.com/1365-2/
• Squishies papercraft doll: https://patirabi.com/category/%e7%b4%99%e5%b7%a5%e4%bd%9c/

free papercraft tiger face or red devil SD M4A3E8 Sherman tank by zeodtr

Of course it doesn't really matter what your tank looks like (it's a tank after all 😉), but you can make this free papercraft SD M4A3E8 Sherman tank in tiger face 🐯 or red devil version 👿!

Download + build your own free papercraft tiger face or red devil SD M4A3E8 Sherman tank (by zeodtr):

• Tiger face: https://pepakura-designer.com/community/sd-m4a3e8-sherman-tank-tiger-face-version/
• Red devil: https://pepakura-designer.com/community/sd-m4a3e8-sherman-tank-rices-red-devils-version/

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