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My other papercraft Star Trek ships and many of my other models as well were made by hand, though. Basically, you start with the blueprints/examples of whatever it is you want to paperfy, and then break it down into separate 3D shapes in your head.
Then you imagine how those 3D shapes will unfold into 2D templates, and then you simply draw them using a ruler and a pencil.
To be sure that you got it right, you test build them; I usually simply use tape for that ([link] [link] [link]) rather than glueing tabs, because it's faster and easier to make changes.
Once you've made the changes and you're happy with it, you can colour your pencil drawings with markers, aquarel, crayons or whatever you want, scan them (or colour them using the computer after scanning) and print and build them! ;o)
My Advance Wars units are also done by hand, on my works in progress block you can often see the hand drawn steps and test builds: [link]
It sounds a bit difficult and time consuming maybe, but I often find it a lot more fun to do a paper model by hand.
After all, the fun about papercraft is that you're building stuff with paper, not that you get to stare at a computer screen all the time when using Pepakura Designer! ;o)
Yamaha has a very good, basic papercraft technique tutorial: [link]
And of course, be patient and have fun building! ;o)