January 4th 2025 I had a big stroke…
I lived, but have to go through a long recovery
to see what I can still do in the future…

Hopefully it will be a lot…! 👍 Always keep having fun papercrafting!

Which papercraft model would you like to build?

 

“What’s papercraft?” you ask?

Well, that’s when (in this case ;o)  you download and print a page of 2D parts (preferably on some thicker paper) cut them out and fold them, and then glue them together to make your very own 3D paper model of your favourite game/anime/movie character/whatever you like!

There are a lot of websites where you can find free templates to download and build, including my own one of course which you’re visiting right now. ;o)

Currently, I have two-hundred-and-thirty-seven (237!) free papercraft models in stock for you! :o) Select one of the Download categories above or in the Site map to the right to find the model you wish to download (if it’s not in one of the obvious categories, try the miscellaneous section).

If you want to contact me, or send me a picture of your finished paper model for the hall of fame, you can send me an e-mail at ninjatoes@home.nl and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Have fun building!

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    1. I’m afraid my reading French is better than speaking it, so I hope you don’t mind my replying in English… ;o)

      I understand you’re having trouble opening/downloading the instructions? All the links should be working.

      For the PDF files, you need to have a PDF reader installed on your computer, like Adobe Reader After you installed it and you click on one of the PDF links for the models, the PDf should open in your browser (then you can save it to your hard disk, or you can do that by right-clicking instead of opening the PDF).

      The other files on my websites are ZIP-files. After downloading them, you need to un-ZIP them, using a free tool like 7-ZIP.

      After you unzipped them, you can open the Jpeg image files in basically any image program.

      I hope this helps, but if you’re still having troubles, please contact me at ninjatoes@home.nl with some more details about the problem and I’ll try to help you some more.

      Good luck and have fun!

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  3. sorry, I ment how do you get a pdo onto pepakura viewer. I know how to use the viewer, but getting it on there is what has me troubled. Thanks

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    1. Sorry, I misunderstood then, a lot of times people mix up the Designer with the Viewer, which have different features of course.
      Sometimes people also mix up *.pdo files with *.pdf files (which you can open with Adobe reader for instance). There are no *.pdo files of my own models on my website, only *.pdf (or *.jpg) files!

      Downloading a file from the internet is usually as simple as clicking the download link (sometimes you have to input a code or wait a while before the download starts) and then a window will pop up asking you where to save the file.

      Pepakura Viewer works just like any Windows program (it won’t run on a Mac computer…). In the “File”-menu you choose “Open…” and a screen pops up asking you for the location of the *.pdo file you want to open.

      Browse to location on your computer where you saved the *.pdo file, select it, and then click “Open”. And that’s that. ;o)

      I hope I got it right this time? ;o)

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  4. How do you download something to pepakura viewer. I have absolutely no idea because theirs no where that tells me how to do it. I made your Fierce Diety link, young link, and King of red lions. Their awesome.

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    1. As the name implies, Pepakura *Viewer* will let you view (open and print) paper models that have been made with Pepakura *Designer*. Those files will have the file extension *.pdo and can be downloaded from all kinds of websites.

      The Pepakura website also has a gallery where people can post their paper models (click here) but not all of them are in *.pdo format. You can only open those in *.pdo format in the Pepakura Viewer.

      With Pepakura *Designer* you can open a 3D model you made and unfold it. Not every 3D file format is supported, on the website you can see which ones are: click here.

      You can download a shareware version of Pepakura Designer, which lets you print anything you make, but you can’t save your work unless you buy a password.

      The website explains a little how it works (over here) but it’s probably easier to figure out just by playing around with it a bit. ;o)

      I hope I answered your question!

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  6. Just wanted to pop by and say how much I appreciate you making papercraft models! I’ve been following the website since 2006 and have been making some of the paper models slowly but surely. thanks again and i can’t wait for more models to come!

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  7. Thanks i have e-mailed the maker as the finished picture dosent show any clues as to how to make the leg but when i Finally DO finish ti i will be making a Link one from here!

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    1. I haven’t made it myself yet, and like you say yourself, it would be a lot of work to make instructions for it and I’m already short on time as it is I’m afraid…

      But what you could do, is search for finished pictures of it on the internet and use those as reference to try and figure out how to assemble it. Pre-shape all the parts the way you think they should be folded, and try without glue first. Then when you are sure you got it right, apply some glue. I recognize the model from Imperishable Knight’s blog(s), but all three blogs (that I know of) seem dead… But there’s an e-mail adress on the 3rd page of the template, did you try e-mailing the maker describing which part exactly you’re stuck on?

      I hope you’ll be able to figure it out, good luck!

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  9. Thanks, Ninjatoes, for the advice. One more question…I’m on the last step of the Auron model, glueing legs to body, but it is really hard–there is no way for me to put pressure to the joints because there is no access. What would you recommend?

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    1. Because the paper is basically a ring-shape, it will have some “outwards tension” in it (even if you pre-shaped it) and it will want to “unroll”, especially if you use some thicker paper/cardstock.

      All you really need to do, is apply some glue to the glue tabs (on parts like these, I usually use more glue than regularly) and gently shove the legs inside the torso. ;o)

      It should be a tight fit, helping even more with the glue tabs on the legs pressing themselves against the inside of the torso. You could gently “wrap your fingers around the waist” right where the glue tabs are inside of the torso and squeeze gently. Not too hard of course.

      The biggest secret really is the glue tabs pressing *themselves* against the inside of the torso. If the fit isn’t tight enough, maybe you could try thickening up the glue tabs by glueing pieces of scrap paper on top of them? And bending them outwards (I wouldn’t score them), but not too much (else you won’t be able to shove it inside the torso ;o)

      Let me know if you got it to work! ;o)

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  10. I’m building Wolf Link by the way. I’m up to Part 5 and it looks terrible compared to yours because of all the white. :P The Part 4 strip really threw me off because I can’t see where the fold lines are, on both my printout and the PDF file. It proved to be a challenge to assemble, and I know I didn’t put it on correctly.

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    1. Wolf Link is quite a dark model on most parts, so it’s no surprise you can’t really see the fold lines on the print out. ;o)

      they should be visible on the PDF version though: try adjusting the brightness/contrast of your monitor until you can see them.

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