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Showing posts with label Ninjatoes. Show all posts

Friday, October 31, 2025

Happy Halloween 2025 from The legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Pamela & her dad!


Download + build your own free papercraft The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Moon Pamela & dad:

Not a lot of new papercrafts this year from me of course, but I just wanted to make one (or two 😉) for Halloween 🎃! Don't worry about Pamela btw, the mummy (or "Gibdo") behind her is actually her dad! (Just play the game if you want to find out their story - and to learn how you can try help them! 👼)

I think the hands are definitely the trickiest parts (especially dad's right hand! ✋), so take your time on those!  And also make sure dad can stand on his own because he's so hunched over as a mummy...!


...that's not your daddy, Pamela! 🎃




Have fun building and Happy Halloween 2025 🎃!

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!

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, February 26, 2025

free papercraft Perfect Dark Joanna Dark release!


Joanna Dark is a tricky papercraft (seeing how I tried to finish her in 2023...) so I decided to finally finish her. 😃 The large timegap in between made for some tricky parts I think!

Download + build your own free papercraft Joanna Dark from Perfect Dark on the N64:





Have fun building! (next time I hope making a regular papercraft won't take this long) 😉



Saturday, February 22, 2025

Joanna Dark 64 papercraft WIP 5: release coming soon


Originally I had hoped I would have been able to finish Joanna Dark in 2023, and 2025 didn't... start off as intended I guess either... 😟 (2024 I don't seem to want to talk about either...)

It doesn't mean I stopped working on Joanna Dark though! Here's the last test build of this (tricky!) papercraft; the release will be very soon!

  


Stay tuned!

Thursday, October 31, 2024

free Halloween 2024 papercraft: Warcraft III Abomination!


I didn't release any new papercrafts this year (I still have to finish Joanna Dark from Perfect Dark 64!) but I hád to make one for Halloween of course! 😉

Download + build your own free mindless papercraft creature (Abomination):


 

 


(and don't worry too much how it looks: it's supposed to be an Abomination!)


Happy Halloween 2024 and have fun building! 🎃

Sunday, April 14, 2024

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! 👍

Sunday, February 11, 2024

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!

Sunday, January 28, 2024

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! 😀

Saturday, January 13, 2024

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!

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! 😀

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

free Halloween 2023 papercraft: Warcraft III The Faceless One!


I released a new papercraft less than two weeks ago, but I always like to release one for Halloween too, so as promised: here is my Halloween 2023 papercraft: the Faceless One, from the Warcraft III expansion pack The Frozen Throne! 🦑

Get the parts and instructions to build your own free papercraft Warcraft III Faceless One (and lots more!) from my papercraft webpage:








Happy Halloween and have fun building! 🎃