Monday, August 18, 2025

JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology papercrafts


Onj 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):

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):



Tuesday, August 5, 2025

free BUNSHI MESSE 2025 papercraft fire truck and ambulance and paper toys



The  BUNSHI MESSE 2025 from the Osaka Stationary Manufacturers Association is held from August 5th and 6th 
2025 and their website has some some fun coloring pages of the cute Abeno Disaster Prevention Center mascot Tasukeru-kun and a simple Osaka Fire Department papercraft fire truck and ambulance and paper toys! 🚒🚑

Download + build your own free papercraft fire truck and ambulance and paper toys (by BUNSHI MESSE 2025):

Sunday, August 3, 2025

free papercraft Italian Liner "Rex" by Siam Dock


Thanadol told me he created a new brand for his papercraft ships: Siam Dock. 🚢

This time he made a papercraft of the Italian luxury ocean liner "Rex" in 1/400 scale. The layout of the templates will show you that the new brand comes with a higher standard and experience in paper modeling I think! 😃👍

Download + build your own free papercraft Italian Liner "Rex" (by Siam Dock):

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Nankai Mobile Emergency Room ferry


Tokyo MER is an exciting show that's about the fictional Mobile Emergency Room organization that goes to dangerous accidents and disasters to help!


The Twitter account shares lots of news about it and what's more: also papercrafts✀ like this ferry⛴ with room for a mobile emergency room! (they also promise to create a "how to" instructional video for it soon!)

Download + build your own free papercraft Nankai MER ferry (by MER Planning Promotion Department): 

Friday, July 18, 2025

free papercraft Higashimurayama City's buses


Here are 4 simple different papercraft Green Kids buses 🚌 from Higashimurayama City that you build while doing the quiz to learn how to ride it! 😀


Download + build your own free papercraft Higashimurayama City's buses (by Higashimurayama City):

(download instructions: click the green "A4サイズ(PDF:xxxKB)" links just below the papercraft images on Higashimurayama City's website)

Sunday, July 13, 2025

free papercraft Takatsu Paper Craft Factory buses


Takatsu Paper Craft Factory created a public website to share their free papercraft buses with you! 🚌

Download + build your own free papercraft buses (by Takatsu Paper Craft Factory):

Saturday, July 12, 2025

free papercraft Takamaru-kun hawk castle mascot mask and helmet


Takamaru-kun is the mascot of the Hirosaki castle in Aomori Prefecture in Japan. The other name for Hirosaki castle is Takaoka, which sounds like "hawk" in Japanese, which explains why he was created as a cute hawk for the 400th anniversary of the castle. 🏯

Download + build your own free papercraft Takamaru-kun hawk mascot mask and helmet (by Hirosaki City):

(download instructions: click the blue "材料と説明書をダウンロードする(1518KB)" link near the bottom on Hirosaki City's website)

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

free papercraft Shimosato Hydrographic Observatory building


At the Shimosato Hydrographic Observatory you can find a lot of starry pictures used to obtain geodetic data for compiling nautical charts using a laser beam! 🌟🌊

Download + build your own free papercraft Shimosato Hydrographic Observatory building (at Shimosato Hydrographic Observatory):

(download instructions: click the blue "型紙ダウンロード" link just below the navigation at the top)

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Anjo City ANKURU buses papercrafts


You can download free papercrafs for all 11 color ANKURU buses from Anjo City in 1/200 scales! The clockwise and counterclockwise circulation line 0 will be 16 cm long, 4 cm wide and 5 cm high; the colored lines 1-9 will be 14 cm long and 4 cm wide and 6 cm high.

In addition, you can also color a 12th original bus! 🚍

Download + build your own free ANKURU buses papercrafts (by Anjo City):

(download instructions: click the 11 "...(PDF ; ...KB)" links under "ペーパークラフトデータ" at the bottom of Anjo City ANKURU buses)

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

free papercraft Berlin Tempodrom event hall


Mike Gross - Creations & Stuff showcases lots of fun creations and stuff that Mike created himself as hobbies, like this free papercraft Tempodrom event hall in Berlin! 😉


Download + build your own free papercraft Berlin Tempodrom event hall (by Mike Gross Creations & Stuff):
(download instructions: click the green "DOWNLOAD" button just below the PDF file at the bottom of Mike Gross Creations & Stuff 's site)

Sunday, May 18, 2025

free papercraft Osaka Tsutenkaku tower official guide


Years ago, you could download a simple 1956 Osaka Tsutenkaku tower from the official Hitachi website (because it was around the time that the neon advertisement lights of the tower were replaced with changeable LED colors to change it into different colors 💡).

I told you about the changing lights in november 2013 (you can still see a few different color papercrafts  using the Internet Wayback Machine; choose different dates and then times from the captures to find them! 😀), but you can also see a "new" papercraft in the Tsutenkaku official guide, and I think you can still try to find the colors each year! 👍

Download + build your own free papercraft Osaka Tsutenkaku tower (by Tsutenkaku Tower official site):

(download instructions: click the blue "ダウンロードはこちらから" button at the top of the Tsutenkaku Tower official guide page)

Friday, May 16, 2025

free papercraft Japan Fair Trade Commission mascot Dokkin


Wanna build this cute papercraft mascot made by Kamino? Just make sure that you download it for free from the official Japan Fair Trade Commission website that Kamino made it for and I'm sure everything wil be alright! 😉

Download + build your own free papercraft Japan Fair Trade Commission mascot Dokkin (by Kamino for Japan Fair Trade Commission):

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

papercraft Unko Sensei poo drill crafts


Look, from all these years finding Japanese papercrafts online I learned not to think too hard about ones  like these Unko Sensei characters that kinda look like poo drill papercrafts... 💩

(note: an anonymous commenter told me that they're characters from the manga/anime "Ohayo! Unko-sensei" and they're made by the infamous j_cube/June 😉)

Download + build your own free papercraft Unko Sensei poo drill crafts (by June for Poo Drill Craft Kit):

free picoCAD sample vehicles by Jun Mitani


Jun Mitani loves origami and papercraft and information science! He even used Pepakura Designer to create the sample data from picoCAD (Johan Peitz' fun little 3D modelling software to create lowpoly models) into fun papercraft models with their permission! 😀

Try them too on the new Pepakura Gallery, or use Pepakura Designer make your own original papercrafts too!

Download + build your own free picoCAD sample vehicles (by Jun Mitani):

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Tomb Raider II papercraft Abominable Snowman vignette release!


Not one but basically two new papercraft models with this new papercraft Tomb Raider 2 Abominable Snowman vignette! 😉





Download + build your own free new Tomb Raider 2 Abominable Snowman vignette:

Have fun building!

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

free simple Pico Park boxy cats


Try making the 2-8 colorful Pico Park boxy cats🐱 out of papercraft!

Download + build your own free simple boxy cats papercraft toys (by Pico Park):

(download instructions: choose one of the eight cat colors and then download the "Papercraft" template and "Manual" using the green buttons on Pico Park's website)

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Tomb Raider II papercraft WIP 2: testbuilds


Making the work in progress pictures took me A LOT longer than before, because it turns out my middle right finger  ✋ doesn't really work the way it used to work, which makes PC work bad for me 😕 (which sucks extra hard for me because that's basically what I did for my job...)

It really takes A LOT longer now, and I 'm just showing you the test build of the papercraft Tomb Raider II vignette build, which luckily took about the same time...



Stay tuned!

Monday, April 21, 2025

Tomb Raider II papercraft WIP: what do Bugs Bunny and Barbarella have to do with Lara's adventure??


Right after the epic underwater portions on the wreck of the Maria Doria in Tomb Raider 2, Lara makes her way back to the surface in the offshore rig where she steals Marcoli Bartoli's flying boat to the next destination, the Barkhang Monastery...

Lara finds a bomber jacket on board the flying boat. Just like the SOLA wetsuit, Lara's bomber jacket becomes another iconic wardrobe change in her adventures, and cosplayers try to get it matching as close as they can! 🙂 

Lara cosplayers just dress in her short shorts underneath, but for the bomber jacket itself it looks best if can use the real insignia on her shoulders of course. Luckily the left one is big enough to recognize it as the Eighth Army Air Force patch.


The patch on her right arm ended up quite small though, and I think it would have stayed indecipherable for me without the help of other people's! Luckily Tomb Raider fans had found it a long time ago already: link! It's the 324th Bomb Squadron! If you know what you're looking for, I think you can recognize it as Bugs Bunny holding a bomb in front of a cloud. 😀

  

I think from the first time I played Tomb Raider 2 I would probably already recognized it only if the game developers would have told it in interviews or something, because the small textures are just so small (and it would be 2024 for the Remakes before making them bigger of course 😉)


Interesting though, the flight patches seem to be switched in the renders where the Eight Air Force patch is on the right shoulder while Bugs Bunny is on the left (?):


Which way you end up wearing them though (according to the renders or like in the game) you can simply buy the flight patches to make your own Lara bomber jacket cosplay! 😀

(and if you're not yet satisfied for Tomb Raider II memorabilia, as a bonus you can even get the Barbarella pin-up that the creators made for the art on Marco Bartoli's flying boat! 😉)

  

Stay tuned and have fun building!

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

papercraft Promise Mascot Agency To-fu mascot


Some games are just... crazy? Promise Mascot Agency from Kaizen Game Works seems to be about  yakuza lieutenant who has been exiled to a town where you'll have make a bankrupt mascot agency with mascots like To-fu viable again...!

Download + build your own free papercraft To-fu mascot (by Cakes with Faces for Kaizen Game Works):


Sunday, April 13, 2025

free papercraft Donkey Kong by Paperman Returns


Paperman Returns ...returns with a papercraft of Donkey Kong! 🐒

And what's more, he created an instructional video for it on their  Youtube channel too this time! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft Donkey Kong (+lots more, by Paperman Returns):

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

free Saga University's papercraft Katchy-kun's mascots


You can download and build Saga University's mascot Katchy-kun in two different versions!

Download + build your own free papercraft Katchy-kun's mascots (by Saga University's):

(download instructions: click the green "カッチーくんペーパークラフト(2種)" link at the bottom of Saga University's website)

Thursday, April 3, 2025

free papercraft Fall Guys


Make your own papercraft Fall Guys in different colors!

Download + build your own free papercraft Fall Guys in different colors (by Penguin):

Saturday, March 29, 2025

free papercraft 2024 ARTA MUGEN CIVIC TYPE R-GT #8


Another race car from Epson Nakajima Racing: the 2024 ARTA MUGEN CIVIC TYPE R-GT #8!

Download + build your own free papercraft 2024 ARTA MUGEN CIVIC TYPE R-GT #8 (+LOTS more, by Epson Nakajima Racing):

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

free papercraft Tibetan Stupa by Stahlart



The Stahlart papercraft site turns 16 and the creator wants to give everybody this free papercraft Tibetan Stupa to celebrate!

Download + build your own free papercraft Tibetan Stupa (+lots more, by Stahlart):

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Transformer and other papercrafts


superibee made this papercraft blog a long time ago, but it looks like you can still download their creations! 😊

Download + build your own free Transformer and other papercrafts (by superibee):