Bananya (Bananya) FREE papercraft

Bananya (Bananya) built papercraft

Wanted to share one of my older papercrafts with you, that is already available for FREE download in my gallery for a long time, and actually take the time to build it. It is a design from 2016 I made, but since nobody shares actual build papercraft pictures (or very, very few), I decided to make it myself, since it's quite fast to make, so here it is.

 

The papercraft has only 3 pages to print, since it’s quite small and easy. I made the cat body first, starting with the ears and all around the head, then making the small paws one by one and attaching them to the body. After that, I made the 5 banana peels one by one, attaching them to the body, and lastly closing the banana end with the stem. The Bananya papercraft is build, so all that was left is the stand (that is optional), since it doesn’t stand on its own and I didn’t want to hang the guy on a string.

The stand is quite easy as well really. I started to build it from the hole outwards, since it’s the easiest, and then you just close it at the bottom. If you do it all correctly, and you don’t even need to be that accurate with this one since the angle will do the trick itself, you have yourself a stand, where the stem of the banana end fits inside and holds the cat in place. Nice and easy. And you don’t need to reinforce it at all, since again the angle is just enough to make it stand perfectly without tipping over even if you don’t have weights in the stand part.

I think it took me about 4 hours to make it, including cutting out all the pieces, so it should be a very fast built for those who are used to the tricks of gluing paper together- BUT the 5 banana peels can be quite frustrating to put together, since they are so thin, so take your time when gluing them together, and when in doubt just pre-fold the peel parts to be sure where to glue it together to fit perfectly.

I have made the basic main white Bananya character, but I have made all 7 of the main Bananya anime characters, which are basically build and look the same as this one. You can download all of the 7 different designs here:

https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts

Hope you make them, enjoy them, share the pictures of them, and most of all, happy crafting~

***This is a FREE papercraft that you can download for free on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts.

If you assemble any of them, please share the finished papercraft pictures in a post, a shared link, a tag to my page, or send pictures to me, so I can post them on my page. I am always happy to see anybody assembling my art :)***

Teacup Kitty (Simple version) built papercraft

Teacup Kitty (Simple version) built papercraft

Built my Teacup Kitty papercraft, since I had some time and wanted to show you how cute it looks up-close and all, so I hope you like it ;)

Since it's a “Super simple papercraft” it took me about 3 hours to make it (including cutting out all the pieces), and is overall pretty easy to make. As you can see it consists of many parts that you assemble together separately and then glue together, so I decided to make the teacup first. 

You make the cup like you would any simple open craft really, except that I started making it at the top, since you need to glue the “coffee” part on the top and that can be fiddly if you leave it for the end. So, I suggest you make it like me, and start to assemble it at the top, making the edge around the coffee and then the rest of the cup. After that I made the handle and glued it to the cup and you have the cup part ready.

Next, I made the saucers. Those are simple 2D pieces that you glue together, and at the end you put the upper and under part together and glue it, so you get a simple saucer you can put the cut on. Same goes with the spoon, glue upper and under part together, and you have a simple, yet 3D looking, shiny spoon.

And at the end you need to put together the cat. I started by making each of the paws, since they only have 1 piece to assemble together. Next, I made the tail, which has 4 parts you glue, and at the end you have the head. I started the head at both ears and made my way gluing it together till the bottom, since on the bottom part you only have 1 flat piece to close it, so that’s the simplest way to go here. And you can add the 2D whiskers just glued on around his mouth as a finishing touch.

And as simple and fast as that, you have yourself a teacup kitty! The pieces of the cat can be just put in the coffee mug as that, since they will stand on their own and you can move them around. I only suggest to glue the tail on, since it’s rounded and it won’t stand by itself, but other pieces you can move around as you wish. Or you can put weight in the tail, that way you don’t need to glue it on so it stands, but that’s more advanced papercrafting then. Or, you simply glue them on the way you want it to be and you have it like that. In any case, it’s a fun papercraft starter piece for anybody wanting to put a cute cat together and have just fun with it.

You can find the template and infos on how to get it here: 

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Teacup-Kitty-Simple-version-papercraft-845662049

I hope you like it and happy crafting~

   
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