Kiki (Kikis Delivery Service) papercraft

Kiki (Kikis Delivery Service) papercraft

Everybody that knows my work for a long time now knows that I absolutely adore Studio Ghibli movies and the characters in each one. And because I had this one in my mind for a long time to make a project out of and I always have so much stuff to do, I am absolutely thrilled that the papercraft diorama is now FINALLY finished and I could make a really cute Kiki & Jiji papercraft! So, here you go (;

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The papercraft is unfolded to 26 cm and has 12 pages to print (3 of them being optional double-sided print pages for a colored inner side of her hair and dress.

It consists of a separate 3D Kiki model (with optional 2D or 3D hands), a separate Jiji the cat model, her broom with additional bristles to make it look like a real witches broom, a simple cage package from the movie that she has of a cat plush, and a separate 3D cloud that is basically her stand for the broom to make her look like she is flying in the sky.

The hair is made in 2D flat layers, so it really looks like wild wind in her hair when she is flying, and it is closed in the back with a 3D piece. Since she does have a dress, you assemble the upper torso with the dress first, and then make the legs separately to glue them together later on, so it’s easier to fix her on the broom and the broom on the cloud stand.

*NOTE: The papercraft is hard to make, since the stand, the broom and Kiki herself need to be additionally filled with weights and probably connected with either stronger glue, magnets or a system of wires to make her stand the way she is intended to. Additionally to this, the Jiji model is also very small and delicate, with really thin limbs. So, I only suggest this papercraft for really experienced papercrafters only.

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*** This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDFs and blank, locked PDO file for assembly. – You can buy and download the template here:

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I hope you like the diorama, I really spent ages making it just right, so it really has the feel of the anime itself. Do go watch the anime (again, if you watched it already, because you can watch it 1000 of times without getting bored). It is a cute and beautiful story of things we most cherish in life and what they should mean to us.

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Midoriya (MHA) moving papercraft

Midoriya (MHA) moving papercraft

So, everybody knows the anime “My Hero Academia” is currently running its final season. Man, what a good Shonen anime! Everybody is watching it and the heroes are giving it their last all-out guns-blazing let-us-save-the-world performance! And in honor of this great anime, I have decided to try myself in a somewhat guns-blazing-all-out papercraft as well. I made a moving papercraft!

That’s right. This Midoriya papercraft is made with each part of the limb being movable and posable, each part of the legs and arms bending 180° and rotating 360°! Because of this articulation of the limbs and body, Midoriya itself looks somewhat slimmer than in the actual anime/manga, because the limbs need space to move around. So, this version almost looks like a future Midoriya action figure (:I think it looks really cool, actually!

Now for those following me for a loooong time maybe remember that I already did a moving mannequin OC papercraft years ago as well. But the patent I used for it to move was only able to rotate the limbs and not actually bend them. With this system of joints, it can be fully moved to each angle!

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The papercraft is unfolded to 24 cm and has 7 pages to print out (the first page is an optional double-sided print for the backside of the hair, so it can be fully colored in the back as well).

The papercraft consists of a 3D model of Midoriya with separate movable parts. The separate parts that can move are: The head (with 3 optional facial expressions), the torso, the waist, the upper arm, the under arm with 3 optional hand poses for each side, the thigh, the calf, the feet/shoes and then you have the optional add-ons such as the cape, the mask around his neck and his belt with the simple pouches.

Because of the small joint parts and intersections to hold the joints inside the parts, this papercraft is VERY COMPLICATED. It is hard to do, the parts are fiddly and small, and it needs to be reinforced in the joints as well to hold together better. This is an experimental papercraft and because of the complicated assembly process, I can only recommend it to professional and experienced papercrafters only, ones that are absolutely confident and precise with their papercraft assemblies! This papercraft is a 11/10 to make, I joke not, and I want each of the potential interested papercraft builders to know this before you think of buying it.

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*** This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDFs and blank, locked PDO file for assembly. – You can buy and download the template here:

https://ko-fi.com/s/02f40668ea

You can view all of my available premium papercrafts that are for sale on my Ko-fi page:

ko-fi.com/antyyyspapercrafts ***

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I am still thinking on how to make this process easier to make for future moving papercraft projects I will make, so maybe I’ll make a few moving crafts that are easier and not so articulate as this one. The perfect system is still in the works, but for now this sophisticated scheme came out quite nice actually.

I hope you are enjoying the final MHA season and that we’ll see our guys win in the end!

Enjoy and happy crafting~