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. hey Ninjatoes. do you know where I could find a toon link that is accurately scaled to your king of red lions? I am currently working on King and I really dont have a toon link yet to go with it.

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    1. Josh Darrah once edited an existing Wind Waker model from Chokipeta-KOBO to fit my King of Red Lions model.

      You can ask him to send you the files if you want, his e-mail is in the PDF file for the King of Red Lions stand that he also made: link

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  2. Hello Ninjatoes. I am experienced in papercraft, having recently finishing building a full scale suit of halo armor amongst many other paper projects. I am looking to get into building my own papercraft, but have little experience with design, although my few attempts so far have gone well they are not on the same design scale as yours. I was wondering how you go about making your designs. Do you create a 3-d model and then use pepakura, and edit it from there? -An extremely impressed fan.

    P.S., I have made a necklace by doing a small scale version of your majora’s mask, sprayed internally and externally with polyurethane and then injected via needle with fiberglass resin.

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    1. Ouch, that sounds extremely painful, no wonder Majora’s Mask is so cranky all the time…!

      Some of my models were made by hand by drawing the parts on a piece of paper and colouring them with magic markers or water colours and then scanning them, but for the models I make using the computer, I use Pepakura Designer, yes.

      Because Pepakura Designer can only unfold what you give it, it’s important to make sure you prepare the 3D model so you can unfold it the way you want it and not the other way around. ;o)

      I always test build my models, because there will always be things you missed staring at your 2D computer screen, and the only way to tell if your paper model will come together the way you imagined it, is to try it out and actually build it. ;o)

      After the test build, I usually have lots of things to change on the 3D model, before I can unfold the final version with Pepakura Designer again, and then as an extra step, I take the parts into Photoshop.

      That way, I can fix anything that’s just easier to fix in Photoshop than in the 3D model or in Pepakura Designer, and I can fool around with the layout a bit (that’s just for fun ;o)

      I post my “works in progress” on my papercraft weblog (link) where you can find more on why I do things the way I do. ;o)

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      1. Seems like a whole new world to get into. The last papercraft I designed was hylian crest necklace, I spray painted the result of that and injected with resin, I wanted to try something different this time and print the color. For the crest I made a 2-d image, then made all of the tiny connector flaps to make it 3-d on graph paper. Would have been easy, but I was not just doing a triforce, and the whole thing was only 2 inches high and about 1 1/2 inches tall as to not be gaudy. Unluckily resin can soak into paper, not warping, but discoloring thus the polyurethane. So far so good. Made a test model and moving on to the real one soon. What would you recommend for getting to understand how pepakura unfolding works. I’m familiar with the basic use of the program, scaling etc., but admittedly my understanding of unfolding isl imited to I hit unfold and it doesn’t seem to work on most models ;) (which is a rather sad understanding).

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        1. That’s basically how I make my hand drawn models too, just by drawing out the parts and then work out how big and which shape the connecting parts need to be, and then drawing that one out too. ;o)

          The auto-unfold feature in Pepakura Designer keeps all the parts together as much as possible, which works for very simple models, but on anything else, the parts will be much more complex than need be I think.

          After unfolding in Pepakura Designer, you can right-click on the unfolded parts to get some extra options, so you can switch the glueing tab placement, join or disjoin parts and so on.

          With those tools, you can tweak the unfold so you can make it more logical and more fun to build. But of course there’s no “right way” or “wrong way” to make a paper model, though, and most choices are just personal preference.

          The best way to learn is simply by doing: by building lots of paper models, and making your own, you will quickly get a feeling for things that do work, and things that you think could have been done differently. ;o)

          Have fun!

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    1. From the bottom of his feet to the highest point of his hat, he stands about 18 cm tall, and the scabbard on his back is about 9 cm (including the sword’s hilt sticking out of it).

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  5. This is awesome. I just made a Advance Wars Tank. Its awesome!! One Question. Do you spend your own time making the templates?

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    1. I hope you had fun building him! ;o)

      Bart is definately on my to do-list, but with all the other ideas I have as well, I can’t promise you when I will finally get around to it, sorry…

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    1. I started work on a big, paper version of a LEGO Pirates minifigure just recently, “Kapitein Knoest” (captain Roger / Redbeard in English speaking countries) so I’m still in the 3D stage on that one.

      I keep my “Works In Progress” seperately on my papercraft weblog (link) so that’s where you can keep up to date on Knoest and future models. ;o)

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