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. Nothing really important here, but just to inform you that in the five social buttons above the top menu, the Flickr button redirects to your Blogger blog.

    Keep up the great work!

    GP

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    1. Yeah I know; I use WordPress.com because it is very easy for me, but it’s not as freely customizable as WordPress.org

      The blog theme I’m using only has buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, not for Blogspot, but because I don’t have a Flickr account (my pictures are on Blogspot’s Picasa which got integrated into Google+ some time ago) I used that button to link to my Blogspot weblog. ;o)

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      1. Ah, alright! I thought you had bought the customization feature… I had never seen those buttons so I thought you had made them…

        As another subject, I see you have ads on your Blogger blog but not on this WordPress blog. Have you ever considered WordAds?

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        1. I like the Google Ads because they’re not really very annoying I think (as long as you don’t put them *everywhere* or right in between the text like some people do… :o(

          But WordPress.com doesn’t allow Google Ads, and for WordAds, I think you need to get a domain name somewhere first, and then you have to upgrade your account to be able to use that domain name with WordPress.com before you can use WordAds if I understand correctly; but papercraft is just a hobby of mine, so I’m trying to use only free options. ;o)

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          1. Ah, you’re right! Although ninjatoes.nl would be a cool domain ;¬)

            And I perfectly understand for the “GoogleAds all the things!” mentality some webmasters have… The most annoying moment is when you want to download a file and you have to find out which one of the “Download” ads is the real one… meh.

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    2. I’m a big Final Fantasy fan, so I’d love to make a papercraft Sephiroth in the future, but I have so many ideas and only so much spare time (papercraft is just a hobby of mine! ;o), so I can’t promise you that I will get around to it (and I definitely can’t promise you when…)

      But there are many other papercrafting Final Fantasy fans, and Sephiroth is a very popular character of course, so there are already a few that you might like:

      Dissidia version from Ace Crafts: http://thelastinlineagain.blogspot.com/2013/02/dissidia-012-final-fantasy-sephiroth-kh.html

      And Ace Crafts also has a “chibi” version from Itadaki Street:
      http://thelastinlineagain.blogspot.com/2012/08/itadaki-street-sephiroth.html

      Another Dissidia version from Pepabysmal:
      http://pepabysmal.blogspot.com/2010/07/sephiroth-dissidia-final-fantasy.html

      Classic FF7 Overworld versions from Kaizo Papercraft: http://kaizopapercraft.blogspot.com/2008/12/sephipalooza.html

      Sane Person also made a classic FF7 Overworld Sephiroth:
      http://www.freewebs.com/saneperson/models.htm

      And you can probably find some more if you look around on different papercraft or Final Fantasy fansites! ;o)

      Of course I can’t control wht file format other papercrafters use, but normally you only need a small tool to open them: sometimes the files are in RAR format, but that is just like a ZIP file, you only need to find a tool that can open both RAR and ZIP files (like WinRAR itself, but that is a shareware/trial program with advertisements if you keep using it after certain time without buying a registration key; 7-Zip for instance is free and can open many different, often used ZIP-like files, and you can find many other free tools like that if you look around a bit).

      Because many people use Pepakura Designer to make their paper models nowadays, they often keep the model in the Pepakura PDO file format; you can get the free Pepakura Viewer to open those, but it only works on Windows computers…

      Sometimes there are also PDF files for people that don’t have a Windows computer, but not always; but maybe if you can’t open the files, you can ask a friend to try it on their computer, or maybe you can try at school/work (ask first if it’s okay to download files like this okay! ;o)

      I’m sorry I can’t really help you better than this right now, but I hope you will be able to build a nice papercraft Sephiroth that you’ll like!

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  4. Hey NinjaToes, I love your job and I wanted to ask you a favor;
    I’m starting to make some cosplays and I wanted to make a Solid Snake one, but I needed this mask: http://letourbillonenchant.deviantart.com/art/Metal-Gear-Solid-Snake-Mask-LTE-T-Papercraft-344043570 Sadly the guy that created this content have the computer crashed and lost all of his files. If you have this papercraft file and could reupload it, I would be very thankful. Thanks for the attention and keep the awesome job!

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    1. Hi there! I’m very happy you like my papercraft works! ;o)

      I do remember seeing the Solid Snake mask, but unfortunately, I never downloaded it myself…

      It does look like you could download it at some point, but unfortunately, you can see an archived version of the page, but the download itself wasn’t archived it seems: https://web.archive.org/web/20130322221435/http://letourbillonenchant.deviantart.com/art/Metal-Gear-Solid-Snake-Mask-LTE-T-Papercraft-344043570 ….:o(

      So I’m afraid I can’t help you with getting that file, although other people might have downloaded and still have it of course, so maybe you could still find it on other websites…?

      You could also try looking for other, small scale Solid Snake paper models and scale up just the head, like this one that’s on Nintendo Papercraft: http://nintendo-papercraft.com/snake/

      It has an unlocked Pepakura “PDO” file, so if you’re on a Windows computer, you can download the Pepakura Designer tool: http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/download/designer.html and then open the “PDO” file and then you can very easily change the scale in the 2D Menu -> Change Scale (if the parts get too big for a regular sheet of paper, don’t worry about it, because you can glue them back together after printing of course ;o)

      You do need the Pepakura Designer though (with the free version, you can’t save your work, but you can scale and print the model without problems) because the Pepakura Viewer doesn’t have that option!

      Of course you can do the same with PDF of JPG files if you can find a papercraft Solid Snake that you like better that doesn’t have a PDO file, it’s just a matter of changing the scale while printing (or opening the file in an image editing program and scale the parts you need up before printing.

      I’m sorry I can’t help you better than this, I hope you can find the mask you want on a different site or that you can find another one you like…!

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  5. Hi, Ninjatoes! Well, I know how to extract files from n64 games now. (Majora’s Mask and Ocarina of Time).

    But I can’t seem to find a good way to put the file into Pepakura without using 3DS Max. (Wayyy too much $$$) Have any ideas?

    Thanks!

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    1. I’m guessing you are talking about “changing” (converting) VRML *.wrl files to another, more common 3D file format (like Wavefront *.obj)?

      To be honest, I don’t really like telling people what kind of software they should use, because there are so many different ones, and I don’t want people to get mad because they don’t like the one I suggest because it’s difficult or annoying to use for them, or worse, if things go wrong and it messes up their files or even their computer…! :o(

      But I do know many people from the Nintendo Papercraft forums like to use Blender: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/ because it is free and you can find lots of help on how to use it if you need to! ;o)

      And I think since a few versions ago, importing VRML got officially supported in Blender (before that, you had to download and install a separate plugin to be able to import VRML files). So if you want to try out Blender, get the latest version from the official Blender.org website and then look under the “File -> Import -> X3D Extensible (.x3d/.wrl)” menu buttons.

      There are alternatives of course, but I can’t really find many free alternatives for converting VRML files right now, sorry (usually smart whizkids often make small tools like that ;o)

      On the old Nintendo Papercraft forums, Navi is talking about AccuTrans3D which supports many different file formats, including VRML *.wrl: http://www.zapotlanejo.info/Nintendopapercraftforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=665 (it’s a shareware software, so it’s not *completely* free!)

      But there are many more options that you can find if you look around online of course, and only you should decide which ones you want to use…! ;o)

      On The Nintendo Papercraft forums (old and new) you can find lots of information from people that have hit the same bumps as you while trying to make their own papercraft models, so you can often find the answer already if you search around there.

      And the same goes for specific software you are using: many people use the same software of course, and often you can find lots of help on support forums reading through the old posts of people that have had the same issues as yourself already. ;o)

      I hope this helps, have fun!

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    1. The glue I always use is the regular TESA All-purpose glue in a bottle, because here in the Netherlands, it is actually one of the most common brands of glue.

      Here in the Netherlands, you can buy it at almost any store, like office supply stores, department stores, craft stores, often even toy shops in their crafts department, etc…

      On their website, you can see their TESA glue and other products are available in many different countries: link but I really wouldn’t know in which stores exactly or anything, sorry… :o(

      But in other countries, other brands of glue might be much more common and readily available: I know in the USA for example, people often choose “Elmer’s” glue or “Aleene’s Tacky Glue”, which I think if I’m correct are white PVA glues. In Germany and other countries, many people seem to like “Uhu” as a brand, and there are many others of course!

      Many people even like to use simple carpenter’s wood glue, which seems to work very well!

      So the best tip I can give you I think, is not to worry if you can’t find the exact same brand that I use, but look for a different brand that you can easily find where you live. You can try asking around a bit to see what kind of glue other people where you live like to use, and buy a bottle to see if you like it too (and because it’s just paper of course, many glues will do the job just fine! ;o)

      I hope you can find a good glue to use (and I’m sure you will!), have fun!

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        1. Haha that’s a bit exaggerated, you just need to find a good place to buy some good glue near where you live, I’m sure you will find one! ;o)

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    1. I’m a big Zelda fan, so I will definitely make more Legend of Zelda papercraft models in the future, but I can’t promise anybody to make specific models, sorry…! (I never know which models I’ll end up making myself until I actually start making them ;o)

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  8. What is up guys? We would like to make an anouncement!

    PaperSpiral Papercraft is a website for fans of Wizard101 and Pirate101 to have access to the templates and PDO files for their favorite spells/characters/whatever they like!

    So far we have Variants of the Shark and Bat spells, and also 3 different colors of ghosts!

    And trust us, we love Ninjatoes and everything that he does so this is not really intended for him to lose popularity. So yeah!

    Here is the link to our page. Happy Crafting!

    http://paperspiralpapercraft.blogspot.com/?m=0

    -Lightcard (Designer) and Gruffynutters1656 (Test Builder)

    Or contact us at

    PaperSpiralMail@gmail.com

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    1. Hi there! I think I featured some of your paper models on my weblog before: http://ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2013/03/papercraft-wizard101-monsters-staff.html ?

      It’s great to see you’re enjoying making paper models so much that you made your own website now! I hope lots of papercrafters and Wizard101 and Pirate101 fans will find their way to your website, I’ll add the link to the links section on my papercraft weblog along with your DeviantArt page, have fun papercrafting! ;o)

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  9. Hey Ninjatoes! You have a large knowledge of other papercrafter’s creations, so I need your help. My dad wants me to make him a Mazinger Z. However I search everywhere and no matter which one I find I need to print it in colored cardstock or I need Pepakura Viewer for the instructions or sometimes even both. I ask him if instead he wants a Saint Seya papercraft helmet or something of the sort and he insists on Mazinger! I show him a different Mazinger (Like Great Mazinger or Mazinkaiser) and he insists on the Mazinger from PaperInvaders. I showed him a few chibi Mazinger papercrafts and because they are easy they also mean less of a headache on me. Anyway thank you for taking the time to read this!

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    1. I’m not sure what it is you wanted to ask me, really…? ;o)

      If you want to build a paper model that has to be printed on coloured paper, the answer is easy of course: try to find some coloured paper in the appropriate colours! ;o)

      Alternatively, having a quick look at Paperinvader’s model, you can also open the PDF file in a program like Photoshop or Gimp, and because it looks like the parts are only outlines (not solid white parts), you could make a new “layer” in the file on which you create appropriately coloured blocks underneath the lines from the parts. That way you basically create coloured parts to print (make sure you don’t accidentally scale the parts or pages or anything.

      I’m not really at home in the Mazinger Z series so I don’t know all the different versions and robots, but sometimes I do come across paper models like a chibi-SD version here:

      pictures: http://shirokumatawagoto.web.fc2.com/mazinger_z.html
      parts: http://shirokumatawagoto.web.fc2.com/t_mazinger_z.html

      Or very simple paper toys like this “hako” version: http://cutandglue.dlcsistemas.com/

      Or even simpler from http://tjaizue.blogspot.com/2012/08/mazinger-z.html or http://minipapercraft.blogspot.com/2012/04/mazinger-z.html

      There are also commercial kits of course, they can usually be found on Japanese sites of course. You could also try searching with Japanese search terms: マジンガーZ ペーパークラフト (that’s “Mazinger Z papercraft” in Japanese).

      If you use Google’s image search, you can copy+paste the text, and see in the pictures if it is what you’re looking for. You won’t always find a download link, and it can be difficult to navigate the websites you find, but sometimes you can find some really neat models that way!

      I’m afraid I can’t really help you better than this I think, but maybe you can use one of the Mazinger Z models you already found and give them some colour yourself, or maybe you’ll come across a good, new one yet!

      Have fun!

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      1. Much thanks! I didn’t know that Gimp could be used for that, I use it to design papercrafts on Pixel Papercraft but didn’t know I could recolor PDF files. I will try that. I found a good place to print in card-stock and it’s about $1 a page in colored card-stock. So that’s great if I need it. Either way you helped me!

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