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!
Ninjatoes' papercraft webpage 
Just wanted to let you know I have really enjoyed your models over the past year and to keep up the great work!
Thank you, I’m glad you like my paper models! I find them fun to make, so yeah, I’ll keep making them next year too! ;o)
cool new site!!
Thanks! The site is really just the same though, I just switched the “theme”. Before, I always had a much lighter theme, so I decided to try a darker one this time. ;o)
When will you release the new Lara papercraft?
I finished the test build, and now I’m making the final templates. It’s not a very difficult model so building her won’t take too long, and then, after I’ve made the instructions, she will be released.
I think it will take me a week or two, so she’ll be done around Christmas time. ;o)
You recently posted a comment about your “Going Merry” papercraft in our webstore.
Thank you for your message. We are so sorry. We already deleted the item from our catalog. Luckily it was never sold.
Personally I like papercrafts and will keep following this website.
Thank you,
Erika
If you would make it available for free (of course you can’t sell One Piece things for money without permission from the people who created One Piece) and make sure people know it’s a repaint from my free “Going Merry” model, it would be okay with me. ;o)
Hi ninjatoes!
Firstoff, your models are great!
Secondly, I was wondering if( only if you have the time and/or want to) you could make a true form midna papercraft template?
Thank you!
-Joe
Scratch that– how do you make templates? I would love to know, as I would like to try making some of my ideas become real!
First of all, thank you for the compliments! ;o)
Second: I’m a big Zelda fan, so it’s quite possible that I’ll make a true form Midna in future, probably in the same scale and style of my Zora armour and Twilight Links.
Unfortunately, I can’t really promise you when I will get around to it, because I have so many other ideas too…
Most people nowadays that make papercraft models from video games, use a tool called Pepakura Designer to unfold a digital 3D model into 2D, papercraft parts you can print and build.
Although for many games it is possible to extract the actual 3D models from the game (the Nintendo Papercraft forums have a lot more information on this than I can tell you here in this small comment box ;o), if you try to unfold that into a paper model, it would have lots and lots of difficult and small parts, unless you make it very big… :o(
So I always “rebuild” the original 3D model to make it (I hope ;o) much more fun to build, using 3D program. I usually use Metasequoia, but you can really use any 3D program you’re familiar with for this step, and a lot of people use programs like SketchUp or Blender for example, which both have a lot of tutorials and helpful user forums.
Thank you!
Hi,
I am in the process of trying to scratch build your Delta Flyer Paper Model out of Scrap Plastic window blinds. In the plans, on page 7, it asks for part 76 to be glued to part 53…but nowhere can I find part 76. Is this a miss print or am I missing a page. I have a total of 10 pages right now.
Thanks for you help…and great job!
10 pages is correct, the “glue part 76 here” is a misprint like you already suspected: it should say “glue part 67 here”, like on part 52.
Parts 67 and 72 are glued on to create a bit of a layered effect, as you can see in the fifth picture here: link
Wow, I’ve never heard anybody making one of my papercraft models out of plastic window blinds; I’d love to see the results when you’re done! ;o)
Good luck and have fun building!
Thanks for the fast update….that is going to make things a lot easier. As you probably have guessed, doing it out of another material other than paper, will have its challenges and since this is my first attempt I may have to come back for some advice. If I am successful, I will be only to happy to share my results. I am planning on including your design in a diorama that I have built for my home theater….If your interested, I have include a link to some of the pictures. Once again, thanks so much for your help and creativity.
https://admin.unis.transcontinentalmedia.com/media/issues/flipbook/0000005068/
Wow, I can only imagine the work that went into that diorama! It looks like a small scale Star Trek movie set!
I hope you can make your ideas for the Delta Flyer work; it will be definitely be a challenge to get the plastic window blinds to follow all the curves of the paper model and get them to stay together, but seeing your experience with making small scale models, I am confident you can do it if you take your time! ;o)
Good luck and have fun!
I began work on this project this week-end….and it is going to take some time to complete. But I thought I would load a few pictures of what I have managed to get started and to give everyone a better idea of what you can do with ninjatoes creations.
http://www1.paherald.sk.ca/specialsections/PrinceAlbertHerald/102/pdfs/1787/
Wow, it’s amazing how well you can shape the plastic blinds to fit the shape of the paper parts!It’s looking great so far!
Thought I would send you a quick update of how its looking so far.
http://www1.paherald.sk.ca/specialsections/PrinceAlbertHerald/102/pdfs/1789/
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it really looks terrific, you can see a lot of work went into it. I can’t wait to see the finished result, have fun working on it!
thx for you models
Thank you! I enjoy making them, so I’m glad you like them too! ;o)
Hello
I have looked through much of your papercraft creations, they are astonishing! WOW! You have an amazing talent with paper. I would like to suggest you build Luigis Mansion, Hyrule Castle (both the castle and the gatehouse), and the Mario 64 version of Peaches Castle. These models should be a lot easier to build than characters because you won’t have all of those curves and sharp folds. The nintendo papercraft website has a Hyrule Castle but it is just the keep and it is not accurate to the Oot game. The drawbridge was always one of my most favorite parts of the game! I would love to see these buildings in paper form!
Thank you
Thank you for the compliments, I’m happy to hear you like my papercraft models!
It would be nice to create the Nintendo castles out of paper, but because I have so many other ideas as well, I can’t promise anything…! ;o)
Nintendo Papercraft has a simple Hyrule Castle as you already said, but also Peach’s Castle from Paper Mario.
There are many other papercrafters out there, a lot of which really like video games, so keep an eye out! ;o)
Hii. Ok so I have made the wolf link model and I’m up to the last bit where I just need to glue the back to the front. I’ve done the head and everything. Anyways I’m having alot of trouble gluing him together and it’s just not working. I’ve already destroyed one tab by gluing it and then it ripped off accidentally. Sooo.. I need some advice on what to do. I’ve spent nearly a month working on this and I don’t want to give up now. Oh yeah, I tried what you said in the instructions but that’s not working for me… Please help :(
Did you follow the same method I used? So now you have one piece with the head, the front legs and the front portion of his body and one piece with the hind legs and the tail?
It can be very difficult to glue the hind legs to the front of the body, because you can’t reach inside anymore! :o(
You can replace any glueing tabs that accidentally teared off by simply cutting a piece of scrap paper to the right size and glue it to the inside of the model where the glueing tab would be.
The trick with parts like this, is to try and let the tension in the paper do the work for you: if you fold the glueing tabs outwards a bit (instead of inwards what you would expect you have to do) and then put the parts together, they will press themselves against the inside of the opposite part.
The more tension there is in the paper (like with thicker paper), the better this will work, because the glueing tabs will press harder against the inside of the parts.
It is still very difficult, though! What I did on this step (after applying glue to the glueing tabs, bending them outwards and putting the parts together), was to *gently* press the body of wolf Link between my fingers. If you *gently* press on the top and bottom of the body, you will see that the sides will be pushed outwards, causing the glueing tabs there to be pressed against the parts even better. Once the sides are glued together properly, you can *gently* squeeze the body from the sides, to cause the glueing tabs on the top and bottom to be pressed against the insides of the parts.
Keep working around all sides of the body until all the glueing tabs are glued to the inside of the body properly. This method takes a lot of time and gentle handling, though! If the glue dries out before you get the glueing tabs to stick properly, take a scrap piece of paper, put an extra amount of glue on the tip of it, and carefully push it between the glueing tabs and the parts. That way you can carefully apply extra glue.
Alternatively, you can try *gently* taking off the tail again, so you have a small hole on the backside. Then, taking a thin, metal rod (like a nitting needle or really anthing that fits through the small hole) you can use it to push against the glueing tabs from the inside, while applying counter pressure with your hand from the outside. *Don’t* push as hard as you can of course, or you might slip and accidentally push your tool through wold Link’s belly…! :o(
The best thing is to apply glue to all glueing tabs and put the parts together the best you can, and then only work on one glueing tab at a time until it’s glued on properly, and then do the next one until you did them all. Then you can glue the tail back on, using an extra amount of glue.
If the small hole isn’t big enough, you can also try making a bigger hole by cutting out one of the “squares” on the parts, but that’s a very scary option of course…! If you do want to try it, make the cut as clean as you can, and put some scrap pieces of paper on the backside of the edges, sticking out underneath the hole kinda like glueing tabs so you have something to glue back on the piece you cut out.
Another method might be to try and create a stiff “reinforcement rib” inside wolf Link’s belly. Trace the outline of the open end(s) of the parts, and cut that shape out of a stiff, sturdy piece of cardboard. Keep trimming it until it fits perfectly (try if it fits *without * glue first!) and then glue it inside the open end of wolf Link and wait until the glue has dried.
This will help keep the body it shape, so you don’t have to worry about that anymore. Glue it a centimeter or so inside the body, and trim the glueing tabs to just under a centimeter long, so they won’t hit the reinforcement you made.
Maybe you would only have to do it on one side, but you can also try doing it on both sides; the openings should be exactly the same shape of course (since they should fit together) only mirrored! If you’re really careful, you can try glueing the reinforcement ribs right on the edges of the opening, and then glue the hind legs and front body together using those two flat surfaces, without glueing tabs. But *don’t* cut off all the glueing tabs before you are sure you want to use this method and know you can get it to work.
I’m afraid I’m not sure which method will work best for you of course… Maybe you can come up with a completely different and better method! I hope you can get it to work somehow, though; the best tip I can give you, is to still really take your time even if you already worked on it and tried to get it to work for so long, and carefully work around the edge where the two parts meet one by one until you got every glueing tab to stick to the inside of the part properly.
Good luck, and I hope you can finish the last step of wolf Link soon so you can give him a proud place in your room!
Thanks. I don’t know which method to use but the problem is that I use normal printing paper not the thicker type cause I can’t be stuffed to go buy some. I probably should though. I’ll do what you said with the missing tab and right now I’m thinking the best way to do it would be taking out the tail but how would I put the tail back on? Cause if I take it off there really wouldn’t be any way to put it back on. Or I might use the reinforcement technique.
I’ve only been doing papercraft for nearly 2 years and I must say wolf link is one of the hardest yet.
If you’re really careful, you can gently “pry” the tail off of wolf Link’s backside by putting a blunt knife or other tool between the tail and the body, and gently wriggling it until the glue lets go.
You have to be really careful of course, especially if you’re using thin paper, and depending how well you glued it on! If you try to do too much at once, you might damage more than you want to!
With the right colours, you can fix small damage if the ink accidentally cracks off, and you can print a new tail if you damage it too much, but I’m sure you want to avoid that, so be very patient and careful…!
There is a white part on wolf Link’s backside where you glued on the tail, if you want to make a hole there to stick a thin metal rod or nitting needle through as a tool, make the hole a little bit smaller than the white part.
You will have to work almost blind with this technique, because you won’t be able to see the tool you use inside wolf Link’s body of course!
Feel with your fingers on the outside where the tool is, and work with the tool to press against the inside of the glueing tabs, while providing counter pressure from the outside.
Don’t press too hard, and take your time on each glueing tab until you did them all. If the glue dries out before you did them all, put some glue on the edge of a scrap piece of paper, and push it between the glueing tabs and the parts to put on some new glue.
Then, when you glued on all the glueing tabs the best you can, you can glue the tail back on, and it will cover up the hole so you won’t see it anymore.
Wolf Link definately is one of the most challenging models I made, but you sound really determined so I hope you can finish yours! ;o)
Thanks. I hope it works, I’m sure it will though. Thanks for all the advice. I’m going to work on it this weekend. Also I’m wondering which model I should do next, I’ve made link and I’m looking for something challenging but maybe not as challenging as wolf link. ;) thanks! ^_^
I’m just happy you were able to understand my ramblings, I always find it very difficult to explain papercraft things in words, and I’m afraid I can’t always take pictures for people that are having trouble…
If you’re careful enough and take all the time you need, I’m sure you’ll be able to finish the last step on wolf Link! Wolf Link, Super Smash Bros. Melee Link, and the head of the King of Red Lions are probably the three most challenging models I made so far, most of the others are much easier.
There also a lot of other papercraft models on other sites of course;lots of Zelda models, but also a lot of others. On sites like Paperkraft.net, Papercraft Museum and Nintendo Papercraft you can find a large collection of papercraft models to choose from, but there are many more to be found online of course, so I’m sure you’ll be able to find something to your liking!
And with the experience you already have, I’m sure you will be able to tell whether it’s a very difficult model or not by looking at the templates!
Good luck on wolf Link and on your future projects, have fun building!
Yaay! I did it. :D it looks alright but there are a few gaps but you cant really notice. I just need to glue the tail back on and then I’m done! Thanks for all the help. :)
I’m so happy you were able to finish your wolf Link! And I think you can be really proud of it: it’s one of the hardest models I made so far, and if you wouldn’t have told me about the trouble you’ve had, I don’t think I would’ve noticed! ;o)
I received the pictures you sent me, and I’ve added them to the hall of fame: link
I hope you like it, have fun building!
Dude you are awesome! thx for sharing the models :)
Thank you! I had a lot of fun making them, so I’m glad you like them! ;o)