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For papercraft, you will need all-purpose white glue, printer-friendly paper, and scissors. It is also recommended that you have a knife blade that can cut out really small parts. If you want a more durable papercraft that can take a little more handling, then use card stock. It's thicker than regular printer paper. Regular printer paper tends to have a weight around 24 lb. weight or 80 gsm. Paper used for papercrafting is around 65-110 lb. weight or 160-220 gsm. I've heard that matte photo paper works nicely as well, but it is more expensive, so it's usually not used. Glossy photo paper should not be used because glue does not adhere quickly to it.
Papercrafts usually call for cutting on solid lines and folding on dotted lines. Sometimes multiple templates are released for the same papercraft so anyone who doesn't want folding lines on their finished craft can print a lineless version while looking at the fold lines on a lined version. If there are two types of dotted lines, then it might be signifying the mountain and valley folds used in origami.
Parts that go together are usually arranged by the creator of the template to be found close to one another. A template might have the head on one page, the limbs on another, and the torso on yet another, or something to that extent. There are also papercraft templates that are not ordered very well. If this is the case, the creator usually releases a .pdo file to go with the template. A .pdo file is a file that can be viewed with Pepakura Viewer, a piece of software from Tamasoft. It is available online for free at their website, but it only works on Windows. Some creators, seeing this problem, will release a photo or two of the finished product to help others build the papercraft.
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