October is here! And so is the first papercraft jack-o'-lantern (-tea pot ;o)

It seems Sasatoku isn't really waiting anymore for the first of each month, because I think I their October papercraft was available already before today, but to make it official: here's Sasatoku's October papercraft! 📆

And since it is October, it is traditionally a Halloween theme as you can see! 🎃


Download + build your own free papercraft Halloween Jack-o'-lantern tea pot and tea cup (+lots more, by Sasatoku):
https://www.sasatoku.co.jp/html/papercraft/

Papercraft Puppet Zelda final build done!

I think fully accessorized, Paper Puppet Zelda looks really nice! 👸

Compared to the test build, the edge colouring (and just taking some extra care glueing everything together of course 😉) it's a world of difference. There were still one or two small things that I decided to change, but all in all, the final build went together quite smooth. 😊

I took over a hundred pictures while putting her together, and although they won't all make it into the instructions, it will take me some time to put those together. While I work on those, here are some more pictures of my final build. Stay tuned!

Have a papercraft toy corgi! ;o)

If "cor-gi" means "dwarf dog", then are these paper toy dogs "papur-gi"? 🐕

Download + build your own free papercraft toy corgi dogs (by CorgiDeka Sakura):
http://www.dekainu.com/download/download-index.html

Paper Puppet Zelda final build WIP

I just wanted to show you that as opposed to the test build, the final Paper Puppet Zelda will indeed have two hands of course. 😉

You can see the final build is coming alone nicely. I like how a simple technique like edge-colouring makes such a big difference on the finished paper model! Now I "only" have to build Zelda's rapier and add the accessories, like the tiara, shoulder armor, etc. Oh, and I have to make the instructions of course. Stay tuned!

Granbelm anime series: magical high school girls and mechas - and free papercraft

Granbelm is a Japanese anime series.

This means it has high school girls in cute skirts, and big robots. Because people nowadays also like witches because those are portrayed as smexy nowadays instead of as ugly old crones with pointed noses and warts all over their body, the girls are also magical, and the robots are mechas that they pilot to fight because cute girls operating big, cold machines and fighting is usually a contradiction and contradictions are exciting. The robots also have cool quasi-latin sounding terminology like Armanox and they have surprisingly fragile sounding names for the mechas, like White Lily. 👧🤖

And on your website you have free papercraft because people love free stuff.

It's all a bit on the nose, but it's all so true. 😉

Download + build your own free official papercraft Granbelm White Lily Armanox mecha (by Project Granbelm):
https://granbelm.com/news/606/

(download instructions: click the "DLページ" link on the Project Granbelm website to go to the download page)

This papercraft mascot has houses on his mind - and as a head

Even if you don't know any Japanese and can't read the text on the website, you can probably guess that Nagaken-kun is a mascot for some company to do with housing - because he has a house for a head. 👨🏡

Download + build your own free papercraft Nagaken-kun mascot (by Tochiie Life Eiken Real Estate):
https://eiken5115.exblog.jp/26169532/

The end is nigh! (for the making of my papercraft Puppet Zelda)

If you’ve built one of my papercrafts before, you’ll probably know pictures like this.

It's usually the first picture in the instructions I make, showing you which tools I find useful for assembling the papercraft model, with the parts printed on thicker paper (I always use 200 gsm paper, but 120 gsm or 160 gsm works fine for most people too).

I always number the parts in the order I think makes the papercraft easier to build (but if you find using a different order works better for you, don’t hesitate to do so of course! 😇) I usually start with the legs (so that I can work on the balance of the papercraft early on to make sure it will stand on its own when it’s done) but I thought it would be nice to have the head on the first sheet of the templates, so part 1 is actually on the second sheet. 😉

If you look closely at the picture, you might just make out that the part numbers for the head and hair go all the way up to 93. That might seem like a lot, but there are a lot more parts even: 123 in total. To put that in perspective though, 30 of them alone are for the fingers, and the last 28 parts are just for Puppet Zelda's rapier and accessories (girls love to accessorize 👑).

So like I said, I’ll be making the final build now, and then the instructions using the pictures I’ll be taking. And once everything is done, I’ll upload the free templates on my papercraft webpage. Stay tuned!