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 I can’t promise to make a specific papercraft model, sorry… :o(

      But there are many other papercrafters too, and I do remember seeing a papercraft Kirito (from Sword Art Online) on this papercraft weblog: http://gankutsu-o-taku.blogspot.com/2013/04/sword-art-online-infinity-moment-kirito.html

      And of course there might be more already, including simpler paper toys. ;o)

      I’m sorry I can’t help you better than this, but I hope you’ll find a cool papercraft Kirito to make! ;o)

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    1. Because papercraft is only a hobby of mine, I’m afraid I can never promise people to make the papercraft models they like, sorry… :o( There’s a chance that I’ll make a papercraft Mega Man, but like I said, I can’t promise to, and it might be a long time before I get around to it…

      People did make several different papercraft Mega Men before though; try looking on sites like http://paperkraft.blogspot.com/, http://nintendo-papercraft.com/, or http://www.papercraftmuseum.com/?s=mega+man similar ones to see if maybe you can find one you like. Sometimes the links won’t work anymore, but sometimes people will have uploaded it on other sites too, if you know the name you can look for it that way on other sites too.

      I’m sorry I can’t help you better than this, I hope you’ll find a cool paper Mega Man to make! ;o)

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  5. Hey ninjatoes do you know if there are any papercraft models from games on the Wii U? I’m curious in the polygon count and how complex and cool-looking a papercraft model of them would be.

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    1. If you mean papercraft models that use the actual 3D models from Wii U games as basis, I’m not sure to be honest; I can’t name any from the top of my head right now, but there are so many papercraft models being made nowadays that I don’t know all of them of course, so you should definitely keep looking out for it! ;o)

      But really, the game system doesn’t always say much about the polycount or just the overall complexity of the models; sometimes game developers deliberately keep their game and models very simple, even though the system is capable of much more. The iOS game Tengami will be available on the Wii U too, and its models and papercraft model is very simple: http://ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2014/04/tengami-papercraft-pop-up-gate-contest.html

      Some games on “old” systems also have a very high polycount already, maybe higher even than many Wii U games will have. ;o)

      And of course, not all papercraft models from video games are made using the actual 3D game models: often make an “interpretation” for a papercraft model of the video game characters which are usually very cool too, but the “polycount” of the video game models isn’t an issue then of course.

      And even if you have a very complex game model with a high polycount, then papercrafters will often tweak it because all those tiny little polygons won’t make for a very fun to build papercraft model… You can really make a papercraft model as simple or as complex as you want, regardless of what game (or movie or cartoon or whatever) it’s from! If you like very big and complex papercraft models, I think you can already find a lot of them, and then maybe in some time, there will start to be more papercraft models from Wii U games too! ;o)

      Have fun!

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    1. I made that paper model very quickly (in SketchUp, you can make a 3D text of the symbol, save it as a 3D model, and then unfold it with Pepakura Designer) as one-time thing, so I never put it on my website, sorry… :o(

      The person whose DeviantArt page it is made it from the files I sent him back then; it was a long time ago, but maybe he still has them…?

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  7. Hey there Ninjatoes! I am here to say that I have started a YouTube channel, where I will be doing videos on papercrafts! If you check out my channel, I have already done a video on your Adult Link! I also put a link to here for ya so that people could check out your work!

    I have to say, you have really inspired me. The past 2 years of my life would have been really lame if I didn’t have a passion for gaming papercrafts!

    So mainly, could you give me a shoutout for my channel? It would be so greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    GruffySquirrel64, your biggest fan!

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    2. Thank you for your compliments: I’m happy to hear of course that you like my papercraft works, and I checked out your videos, you did a great job building my Ocarina of Time Link! ;o)

      I’m more than happy to share your papercraft YouTube channel of course, I’ve added your adult Link build to the “hall of fame” on my website here (and on my weblog and other social networks), with a link to your YouTube channel: https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/menu-link-by-gruffysquirrel64/

      I hope other people will enjoy watching your papercraft videos too, have fun papercrafting! ;o)

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  8. Do you know if there are any papercrafts based off of Miis? I’ve always wanted to make one, but have never found a template.

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    1. I think more people were thinking about it when the Miis were new, but I don’t remember either if anybody ever really ended up making or releasing one, sorry… :o(

      Maybe you can look around on the Nintendo Papercraft Forums (http://nintendo-papercraft.com/forums/)? But they revamped their website and forums some time ago, so I don’t know if you can still find old posts that might have been talking about papercraft Miis…?

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    1. You could really make any LEGO minifig out of paper of course, but papercraft is only a hobby of mine, and I have many other ideas as well of course, so I can’t promise you that I will ever get around to making a paper Batman minifig, sorry…! :o(

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  10. Hello again ninjatoes! I seem to be having a little trouble with your papercraft mario. I dont want to mess up on gluing the cap to the head. Can you please give me some tips on how to do it effectively? Your help would be greatly appreiciated. Thank you.

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    1. The head has a big, white piece, that forms the top of the head and gives it its shape: the important thing is to make sure to shape the bottom of the cap to that same size and shape before trying to glue it on.

      In the instructions I glue the head to the body first before glueing on the cap, but maybe you can also glue the cap to head first; that way, you could try to reach reach the glueing tabs on the cap from the hole in the “neck”? (you can make the hole on the white piece on top of the head bigger, as long as you still have a rim wide around the edge of the head enough to glue the glueing tabs of the cap to).

      Apply glue to the glueing tabs on the bottom of the cap, and then carefully press it on top of the head. you probably won’t get all the glueing tabs right at once, so try to start at the front, make sure they are glued on properly (aligned with the edge of the head, maybe you can use the back end of a spoon to push between the cap and the head at the back so you can push down on the glueing tabs at the front of the cap).

      Then apply some glue to the glueing tabs next to the ones at the front, and then do the same for those; keep doing one or two glueing tabs at a time until you reach the last one; just take your time! ;o)

      I hope I you understand what I mean; it’s really difficult to explain how to assemble a paper model in just words, but I hope with the parts in front of you and the step-by-step pictures in the instructions you can figure it out!

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