free papercraft trains and trams

If you want to play with paper, why not make one of the many free papercraft trains and trams on the Playing with Paper website? 🙂

Download + build your own free papercraft trains and trams (by Playing with Paper):

https://playthepaper.wp.xdomain.jp/category/papercraft/

free papercraft giant monster kaiju Gamera and King Joe

Even if I don't release my papercrafts that I make with Pepakura Designer as *.pdo files, there are many people that do, and a lot of them upload their papercraft works on the official Pepakura Gallery! 🐲

On the Japanese version of the Pepakura Gallery, Chiplun uploaded two versions of both the kaiju (giant monster) Gamera 🐢 and King Joe 🤖 (a giant robot from the Ultraman series) recently!

Download + build your own free papercraft giant monster kaiju Gamera and King Joe (+lots more, by Chiplun):

• King Joe white version: https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura/gallery/gallerydetails.php?id=1694
• King Joe gold version: https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura/gallery/gallerydetails.php?id=1695
• Version 1: https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura/gallery/gallerydetails.php?id=1696
• Version 2: https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura/gallery/gallerydetails.php?id=1700

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

free Tanabata Star Festival papercraft

Today, the seventh day of the seventh month is Tanabata in Japan, starting a festival when people write their wishes for good fortune on strips of paper and hang them on bamboo so they may come true. 🎋

It's also called "Star Festival" 🌟🌟, after the bright twin stars Altair and Vega representing the low cowherd Hikoboshi and Orihime, the daughter of the great Sky King of the Universe. Hikoboshi and Orihime are always separated on either side of the Celestial River (a brightlit band in the sky of our Milky Way) but according to folklore, on the seventh day of the seventh month, they can meet again and fall in love again each year.

So besides the wish for good fortune, Tanabata is also a very romantic festival. 💑

Download + build your own free Tanabata Star Festival papercraft (by Kenbunsya):

https://www.kenbunsya.jp/doc/showcase/papercraft

(Note: Kenbunsya also has papercrafts for the March 3 Hina Matsuri Girl's Day and and Children's (Boy's) day 🙂)

free cute Animal Matsu papercrafts

Gumroad is a platform where  people can sell all kinds of things and often they let you decide what you want to pay to support them.

In the case of these cute Red Panda Osomatsu and Tiger Karamatsu papercrafts though, pck is telling you to just put in $0 as the price you want to pay, because they want you to enjoy them for free! 😀

(and tpck also has a cute taxi that they designated as free download too: https://kgrr.gumroad.com/! 😉)

Download + build your own free cute Animal Matsu papercrafts (by pck):

https://kgrr.gumroad.com/l/animalmatsu12

Yasu Tanaka papercraft Honda Motocompo scooter and Lamborghini Countach LP400 freebies

You can find lots of commercial papercrafts to buy on the Kami Mokei website, but if you know where to look you can also find these cute Honda Motocompo scooter and Lamborghini Countach LP400 freebies by Yasu Tanaka. 🚘

Download + build your own papercraft Honda Motocompo scooter and Lamborghini Countach LP400 freebies (by Yasu Tanaka on Kami Mokei):

• Lamborghini Countach LP400: https://www.kami-mokei.com/html/tanaka.html
• Honda Motocompo: https://www.kami-mokei.com/html/tanaka02.html

free Sasatoku papercraft lighthouse piggybank (+lots more!)

The Sasatoku Printing company already made lots of papercrafts that you can download from their website, but they hadn't made a lighthouse yet! (and it's also a piggy bank 😀)

Download + build your own free papercraft lighthouse (+lots more, by Sasatoku):

https://www.sasatoku.co.jp/html/papercraft/index.php

(download instructions: choose the papercraft you want to download on Sasatoku's site, then click the yellow "型紙ダウンロード" button; if you want you can let Sasatoku know whether you're an individual (個人) or a company (法人) and why you want to download the papercraft; or just click the grey "送信・ダウンロード" button to actually download the parts)

free papercraft camouflaged World War II Dutch shelter bunker

Like I showed before, Lex Tempelman makes papercrafts of historical Dutch military fortresses and casemates.

In 2021 he made some bunkers of the Dutch World War II Grebbe Line for the 55th anniversary of the Mars et Historia magazine, and on their website you can download a free papercraft of a shelter bunker camouflaged in Netherlands Fractal Pattern camouflage patterns developed for the Dutch Armed forces.

Download + build your own free papercraft camouflaged shelter bunker (by Lex Tempelman for Mars et Historia):

https://marsethistoria.nl/1182-kazemat-modellen-camouflage-en-jubileumthema