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. Can you try to make a Twilight Princess and/or Ocarina of Time Tektite?

    I can’t find any anywhere! So i’m assuming no one has made one yet. *sigh*

    And maybe a normal OoT Keese too. (There’s only a Fire Keese.)

    And i’m not trying to be one of those little request hogs since i’m a papercraft designer for Pixel Papercraft, but I don’t have the files to make one even.

    But keep up the work! I love all of your models!

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    1. Yeah, there are a lot of people making papercraft Zelda models, but there also *so many* characters and enemies in the Zelda series, that there are still lots and lots of characters and enemies that aren’t “paperfied” yet…

      I don’t remember seeing a papercraft Tektite or regular OoT Keese yet either to be honest, and since you already looked, I guess you’re right and nobody made it yet… :o(

      And I totally understand people asking me to make their favourite model of course, but although I’m a big fan of the Zelda series too, I really don’t know which models I’ll make in the future, so I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep…

      But like I said, there are a lot of papercrafters that are a big fan of the Zelda series too, so maybe the Tektite and regular Keese will be made sometime! ;o) (but I can’t promise you that I will definitely make them anytime soon, sorry!)

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    2. I do have suggestion for you, if you make papercrafts for pixel papercrafts like do, I would suggest editing a spider model on a Minecraft texture pack website or texture pack application, you can edit the spider and make it look like a Tektite. So do not feel discouraged if nobody has made a Tektite, you can be the first!

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      1. All i’m having trouble with doing is finding a way to rip the files for Ocarina of Time. (It’s much simpler with Minecraft) Most ROMs don’t have .zip or .rar files, so if anybody could give me a link (hehe) to a OoT or MM ROM or 3d model ripping application that is compatible with pepakura or paint,
        it would be greatly appreciated.

        I plan to be the first one to create a OoT/MM Tektite and Keese! (And most possibly more after that.)

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        1. Cool, I am the first one to make all the tunics that Link uses in Ocarina of time into a papercraft on Pixel Papercraft. I also made the Link fom Four Swords and Dark Link, however I do not know of any ripping programs, I would recommend GIMP if you want to make the Tektite or Keese into a papercraft on Pixel Papercraft, so if you are going to do that, get the spider and bat file from your minecraft.jar then use a skin editing website or program to edit the spider and bat. After that email the files to yourself for safekeeping then watch the GIMP tutorial on Pixel Papercraft, the GIMP tutorial will show how you can turn the bat and spider into a papercraft. Unfortunately I can’t help you if you want the original OoT or TP Tektite or Keese textures, however to save you the skin editing you can search for an OoT mod or TP for your Mnecraft game or simply just a Legend of Zelda mod most of the LoZ mods would have an edited version of the bat or spider to have a Keese and Tektite.

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        2. ROM images are actually intended as a back-up for your own video games in case they break down: with modern video games that are on CD-ROMs or DVDs, it’s easy to make a back-up yourself of course, but for older games that came on cartridges, you need a special back-up devices like “Doctor V64” or “Mr. Backup Z64”, that let you plug in the cartridge so you can copy the data.

          So although many people have put other people’s ROM images online nowadays, I’m afraid I can’t give you any links to download them, sorry… :o(

          The program that many people use to extract the 3D models from Nintendo 64 video games is a fan-made emulator called “Nemu64”: it has a special graphics plugin that lets the emulator save the complete 3D scene that’s on the game screen in VRML 3D file format, that you can open and convert with some 3D programs to a more common 3D file format.

          After that, you can edit/rebuild the 3D model you want in a 3D program like Blender, SketchUp, Metasequoia (or any other really ;o) that can save it in a 3D file format you can unfold it in Pepakura Designer.

          So although the 3D graphics from the Nintendo 64 are considered “old” and “easy” nowadays of course, it still onvolves a lot of steps to make them into a good 3D model, and you do need some special programs other than just Pepakura and Paint (if you have the time, you can learn everything you need just by playing around a bit with the programs though: you don’t have to become a 3D animation wizzkid just to make a 3D model for papercraft! ;o)

          There are a lot of other people talking about extracting 3D models and papercraft on emulation forums, papercraft forums and on video game fan forums, so you can find a lot of information online nowadays! ;o)

          It takes a lot of time to read through all the forums and all the posts, and sometimes it can be frustrating if it doesn’t sem to work on your computer how they describe it, but once you understand the different steps and and get the right tools working, it’s not difficult anymore! ;o)

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          1. Ok! Thanks! But are you able to extract files from an SD card if you saved your Ocarina of Time data on Wii from Virtual Console? (Which I do)

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            1. The models I use are from the Nintendo 64 version, I don’t know about extracting the game data and/or 3D models from a Virtual Console SD card to be honest, sorry…

              But like I said, there are always many papercrafters and other game fans trying to extract game data from their favourite video game, so it’s worth a shot looking at fan and papercraft forums. The Nintendo Papercraft site for instance has a forum section too: link where people often ask questions like that, but I don’t know if they have any experience with it either…?

              I hope you can find an answer to your question (maybe on Nintendo Papercraft or maybe on another forum of course!), good luck and have fun!

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            2. Actually you can’t extract that from the SD card, the Virtual Console data is just the game data, not any of the texture files. Although I think it may have the texture files because I may be contradicting myself but, who knows… You can try because I haven’t tried myself.

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    1. I don’t remember if anybody might have made a papercraft Assassin Cross armor already from the top of my head, and I’m afraid I can’t promise you I will make it myself, but if somebody does remember seeing it already, I hope they can give you a link…!

      I’m sorry I can’t help you myself, I hope you can find what you’re looking for!

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  3. Ninjatoes, I love all of your papercrafts and I am working on Young Link right now. There are some parts on him that are hard and that makes sense because this is my first model that is not minecraft! There is one model I have been looking for, and it is Mario from Super Mario 64. But when ever I find one, I can’t make the model because it needs a downloader and I am using my moms computer.

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    1. You remind me od myself a lot, I’m 11 and I have a big pile of Minecraft papercrafts on my table and Ninjatoes’ Adult Link is my first model. Good luck on Young Link!

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      1. Thanks! His body, part of his right arm, head (Cap and hair not connected but assembled), and the tip of the sword are done.

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    2. I also use my mother’s computer, my mother’s computer is an iMac, if yours is too, I do recommend going to the App Store and downloading The Unarchiver, you can view most files with this application so I do recommend using it.

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    3. Hi there, I’m happy to hear you’re enjoying papercraft so much! ;o)

      Most papercraft models have some easy, but also more tricky parts, so take your time figuring out how to fold them, and if you think you got it but aren’t sure, you can try it without glue first, so you can always still change it (check the fold lines and fold it another way) if you need to.

      If you haven’t found it already, there’s a very nice video tutorial on the Yamaha website that explains the basic papercraft techniques, I’m sure you already know most or all of them already, but here’s the link anyway: http://global.yamaha-motor.com/yamahastyle/entertainment/papercraft/howto/0002.html

      I’m afraid I don’t know much about MAC computers because I have a Windows computer myself, but just like Zeldafan#64 there are many other MAC users that also enjoy papercraft so with a bit of searching I’m sure you can also find MAC specific papercraft help online if you need to! ;o)

      It can be troublesome if you can’t use download hosts, because many papercrafters use them because they don’t have (enough) webspace on their own website…

      If your mom is willing, maybe she can have a look at the file you want to download and verify that the filehost that they use is not a malicious/bad site (still, *always* have a good, up to date anti-virus software on your computer and always have it check any file you download with it!!) and she can download it for you?

      Some filehosts like 4Shared require you to make a free account first which is annoying, but with others, it’s just like downloading from a regular site.

      Nowadays thoguh, a lot of papercrafters also release their paper models directly in the Pepakura PDO file format (Pepakura Designer is a tool to create papercraft models) and they can only be opened with the Pepakura Viewer that you can download and use for free, but that program will only work on Windows computers I’m afraid, not on MACs… :o(

      Sometimes if you can find an e-mail adress on the webpage or if you can leave a comment, you can try contacting the creator explaining your situation and sometimes they can convert the Pepakura PDO file to a PDF file for you and send it to you directly, so you can still get and print the files (like for this paper model that I’m sure you already found: http://paperlegendpapercrafts.blogspot.com/2012/11/super-mario-64-mario.html)

      Or maybe you can ask a friend that has a Windows computer to download and convert the files for you if needed; with a “virtual PDF printer” like CutePDF or PrimoPDF (there are many different free ones) you can “print” PDO files to PDF files with the free Pepakura Viewer! ;o)

      (or maybe you can ask a teacher at school if you could use a school computer to download the files and ask them if they can install Pepakura Viewer and a “virtual PDF printer” to convert the files if the files are in PDO format?)

      (a lot of papercraft models in PDO file format don’t have separate instructions though, so if you can’t use the PDO file, you have to look at the finished pictures that you can find, and try to figure it out by looking at the fold lines yourself…!)

      Of course the easiest way if you can just download a PDF file yourself! ;o) There are many different papercraft Mario models of course (he’s very popular! ;o) but I’m afraid I don’t know all the ones that have PDF files instead of PDO files, or which sites use file hosts and which ones not of course…

      I do know on Nintendo Papercraft, some files are hosted on their own webspace so you should be able to download them like the Mario 64 head: http://www.nintendopapercraft.com/2009/05/super-mario-64-head.html but depending who made the model, they also link to the creator’s website instead…

      I did make a papercraft Mario myself some time ago, and DrakerDG also made one that you can download in PDF format, and there’s another old one that I remember, and although they are not specifically from Mario 64, you can download them directly and they have the same classic look so maybe you will like them anyway:
      https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/paper-mario-3d/
      http://paperbotz.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/super-mario-model/
      http://nintendopapercraft.blogspot.com/2006/12/mario-papercrafts.html

      I’m sorry I can’t really help you better than this, but I hope you will be able to find a real papercraft Mario 64 that you can download and build without problems, or that you can ask a friend to download/print it for you…!

      Have fun!

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    1. To download one of my models, you can click one of the buttons above, or in the “Papercraft categories” list on the right side of my papercraft webpage (depending on whether you want to make a papercraft Advance Wars unit, a Zelda character, a Star Trek spaceship, or whatever ;o)

      After you’ve chosen one of the different categories, you’ll see a list of models with pictures and the download links for the parts and instructions that you can download.

      Most of my models are in PDF format, so you will need a PDF reader to open them (many computers often already have the free Adobe PDF Reader installed, but you can choose a different one if you like of course.

      Some models come as a ZIP file, to open those you will need an “unzipping” tool; again most computers already have one, but if you don’t already, you can download a free one like 7-Zip, or another one that you like better.

      Hopefully this explains things a bit so you can download the paper model you want, have fun building! ;o)

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    1. I’m a big sci-fi and Star Wars fan, so I might make a papercraft stormtrooper some time, but I can’t promise you when or if it will be anytime soon, sorry… :o(

      But I’m not the only papercrafting Star Wars fan of course, and some people have already made papercraft stormtroopers! ;o)

      There are very simple ones, like this one from Cubeecraft:
      http://www.cubeecraft.com/cubee/stormtrooper

      or this one based on the video game Minecraft:
      http://pixelpapercraft.com/papercraft/4ffe4cbb0891f98f0e0000db/storm-trooper-star-wars

      or this “super deformed” one:
      http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/deforme/trooper.html

      or just a very small one:
      http://tcfgaming.com/index.php/figurines/paper-protagonist/stormtrooper/

      And there are many more like that, you can even find a papercraft LEGO stormtrooper version:
      http://piromodel.fc2web.com/lego/storm/storm.html !

      But there are also more complex ones, a good site to browse through is Noturno Sukhoi, they make many different Star Wars papercraft models, including several different stormtroopers already, like this one:
      http://noturnosukhoi.blogspot.com/2012/04/star-wars-stormtrooper-papercraft.html

      Some very neat paper models I think are also this cute little stormtrooper helmet:
      http://paperkraft.blogspot.com/2008/09/star-wars-stormtrooper-papercraft.html

      or these big ones, that you can even wear yourself:
      http://www.phobby.com/en/m-models-en/d-unsorted-en/m-sth-en.html
      or http://paper-replika.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=7472
      or http://my.opera.com/spacecowboy1/blog/2010/09/08/symmetrical-anh-trooper-3d-model-for-use-in-pepakura

      So you can see, you can already find many Star Wars and stormtrooper related papercraft models already, I hope you can find one you like! ;o)

      Have fun building!

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  8. i wonder why don’t you post mario’s enemies like goombas, koopas, and bowser?
    anyway, i really like your work and look forward for your new models

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    1. That’s really just a matter of lack of time; papercraft is just a hobby of mine, and I have so many ideas for paper models, and so little time to do them… ;o)

      I did already make Mario: link and I’d love to make some more Mario characters and enemies in the future, but I can’t promise you when or which ones exactly, sorry…!

      Nowadays, there are lots of people that like to make paper models of their favourite video games though, and you can already find a lot of Mario ones, including enemies! ;o) A good place to start is Nintendo Papercraft: link but if you look around a bit on other papercraft and video game website, you can find *lots* more papercraft models from the Mario series to keep you busy!

      Have fun!

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  9. Thank you! Now to end the interview, I need your permission to upload some of your papercrafts to my website. Can I have permission to upload the following papercrafts: Feirce Deity Link, Young Link, and Majora’s Mask?

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    1. It was my pleasure answering your questions. ;o)

      I would rather not have that you uploaded the actual PDF files for my models to your own website though, because if I give you permission for that, I’m afraid everybody would start doing it… :o(

      But you don’t have to link to my homepage if you want to talk about specific papercraft models on your weblog, you can link directly to the download posts: if you click on the title of the models on my papercraft webpage, you can copy+paste the URL for that specific post from your browser’s adress bar so you can give people a more direct link.

      For the models you mention, the post links are:

      https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/the-legend-of-zelda-fierce-deity-link/

      https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/the-legend-of-zelda-young-link/

      https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/2006/07/11/the-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask/

      Some people don’t bother asking, so I’m happy you did! ;o) If you want to use any of the pictures though, that’s okay, you can use those if you want to. I put them in my Picasa webalbums, here are the links for those:

      http://plus.google.com/photos/103438941589510922593/albums/5796194768260853761 (Fierce Deity Link pictures)

      http://plus.google.com/photos/103438941589510922593/albums/5796184493867218865 (young Link pictures)

      http://plus.google.com/photos/103438941589510922593/albums/5796183867951035777 (Majora’s Mask pictures)

      I’m sorry I can’t give you permission to put the PDF files themselves on your own weblog, but I hope many people will find your weblog and read your interviews! ;o)

      Have fun!

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  10. Hello! I love your models especially the fact that you make them PDF’s. It makes it so easier to print and download especially because I use an iMac. I am going to try to print out your OOT Adult Link and your Young Link along with Young Zelda and Ganondorf (not to mention Oni Link).

    So thank you for everything. For entertaining me for hours making the papaercrafts. I need to ask you some questions for my blog though. Feel free to answer them I really want an interview with “One of the best papercrafters ever” on my blog.
    1. How long have you had this website?
    2. What do you feel would be the hardest papercraft to build or even design?
    3. What is your favorite videogame?
    4. What would you say is your favorite papercraft out of all the website?
    5. What got you interested or inspired you to make the blog or start designing papaercrafts?
    6. Would you consider yourself a papercraft addict?
    That’s it thank you! Also, I need help finding papercraft websites (especially Zelda ones) that use PDF’s and only PDF’s. Because using them is so much easier for time’s sake. Once again thank you for ringing entertainment to me and others alike.

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    1. Thank you for all the compliments! ;o) I always have a lot of fun making my papercraft models, and it’s nice to hear other people enjoy them too of course.

      A lot of people that make papercraft models from video games like the Zelda series use Pepakura Designer as a tool to make them, but often they will also include a PDF version for people that can’t use Pepakura Viewer. Although you can’t always tell beforehand whether it includes a PDF file when you download a ZIP-file or another file package, but even if you can only find a PDO file, sometimes the designer is kind enough to convert it to a PDF file if you leave them a message about it, or maybe you can ask a friend that has a Windows computer to convert the file for you by using a “PDF printer”.

      I’ll try to answer your questions, but I have a habit of getting too excited and talking a lot when it comes to papercraft, so feel free to shorten the answers if they’re too long. ;o)

      1: I’ve been papercrafting ever since I was old enough to handle scissors I guess, but the first paper model I made for other people to download and build too was the Samurai Pizza Cats pizza parlour HQ, which was on August 24, 2002: link

      My parents got me a flatbed scanner for school, so I scanned all the parts I drew by hand, and made my very first website on Lycos (you can still see an archived version of it here: link)

      2: Making a paper model really is the same every time, whether it is a very simple model or a very detailed model, only with a very detailed or complex model, the parts are often smaller and there are a lot more of them of course. But the process is basically the same each time, only more complex models with lots of small parts take more time to create and are normally more difficult to build because really small parts are harder to handle. I think the most challenging model I ever myself so far is Melee Link, because it has *a lot* of *very* small parts…!

      3: I have a lot of favourite video games actually, of course I really like the Zelda series, and Final Fantasy; but if you really want me to choose, I think today I would say I like Tomb Raider 2 the best! (but maybe tomorrow I would give you a different, it’s a really difficult choice! ;o)

      4: Another difficult question, because there are so many paper models out there nowadays! My own personal favourite is still my own young Link from Majora’s Mask, because when I made it, there weren’t a lot of papercraft Zelda models like it yet (can you believe that now?? ;o) and a lot of people told me how much they liked how it looked like he jumped straight from the video game screen into the real world! ;o)

      5: I think the thing that really inspired me was just a piece of paper and the desire to make things from my favourite TV-shows and video games! But once we got connected to the internet, I found lots of papercraft sites with spaceships from movies and series like Star Wars and Star Trek, so I think that (and the scanner I just got ;o) was what put the idea into my head that I could make a website for my own paper models too! ;o)

      6: I think you could call me a papercraft addict, yes: I don’t have as much spare time as I used too of course, but I still absolutely love papercraft, and try to do it as often as I can! ;o)

      I hope you can find more papercraft Zelda models in PDF format! There are a lot of them but like I said, often people pack them together in a ZIP-file so you have to download it first before you can see if there’s a PDF version included, but I’m sure you can find lots more Zelda models in PDF format! ;o)

      Have fun building and with your blog!

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      1. Thank you very much! The answers are not very long considering how long other papercrafters answered. Due to the length of some of them I couldn’t even upload it due to the amount of characters. I don’t know too much about the techy things about downloading files and that on a computer. If you need help on downloading a game or knowing if its safe to play I’m your man, but because I’m 11 I still have much to learn. Thank you for everything.

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