Your worst mistake when folding?

[Paul676]

after folding nearly all of lang's tarantula out of some 35cm kami, I tried to wet-fold the finishing touches since it was getting too thick to dry-fold (and I'd not tried wet-folding anything before, but I'd heard about it, so figured I may as well have a go). Big error - whatever I tried to wet-fold just ripped, and in the end the tarantula was just fit for the recycling pile.

[Baltorigamist]

Good topic! The worst I have done happened when I was foldig my cyclommatus metallifer design. I precreased the entire model, grid of 52, only for some of the precreasing to not line up. I spent ages trying to figure out what went wrong when I relised that the cp I drew was not square, it was a grid of 54 by 52! Well I quickly changed the cp and everything worked out well in the end

You're not the only one! I do that all the time.

[cowburger13]

Good topic! The worst I have done happened when I was foldig my cyclommatus metallifer design. I precreased the entire model, grid of 52, only for some of the precreasing to not line up. I spent ages trying to figure out what went wrong when I relised that the cp I drew was not square, it was a grid of 54 by 52! Well I quickly changed the cp and everything worked out well in the end

You're not the only one! I do that all the time.

same...

[Langko]

Good topic! The worst I have done happened when I was foldig my cyclommatus metallifer design. I precreased the entire model, grid of 52, only for some of the precreasing to not line up. I spent ages trying to figure out what went wrong when I relised that the cp I drew was not square, it was a grid of 54 by 52! Well I quickly changed the cp and everything worked out well in the end

You're not the only one! I do that all the time.

same...

Really? That makes me feel so much better

[Multislash]

Fold Robert Lang's From and it dropped to my MC tub
I lose some of my MC and now the model looks like a stone

[roodborst]

Things that happened to me the most are these:
Step 150 of a 160 step model (friedman hawk), I tear the entire back of the model.
- Spending two hours precreasing something, then not being able to collapse the model
- Spending two hours precreasing something, collapsing the model, next step, an elias stretch.... a what?
Diagrams were not clear, couldn't find any help threw it away (kyohei owl)
- Boxpleating any model, and not being able to shape it properly (ant, actually any boxpleating thingy except for an owl model.
- After 15 folds designing your own model using tissue foil, thinking 'this would look great with the elephant hide I just bought', only to find out that it is impossible to do because it get to thick and starts to rip.
- Thinking, what I got here is not what it looks like on the next steps of the diagram. What on earth do you want me to do
- Designing a new base, only to find out that you end up with almost the same layer layout for the head part as you previous base.
- Finding out that you used a wrong reference point in step 10, so now it does not align in step 70 (roman diaz's pronghorn)


I guess the satisfaction of actually completing or designing a model is what keeps me doing origami

[GWB origami]

i can help you with the owl.

[polistes]

starting.

[origamibeast]

messing up the double rabbit ear on jun meakawas eastern dragon

[cowburger13]

starting.

What he said.

[Baltorigamist]

LOL Polistes.

A couple more that I've done:

When doing a BP model, start the central pleats off-center (how I did that, IHNC).
Start a model with the grain going the wrong way. Again, this mainly affects BP models.

[Dj origami]

I made lots of ryujin 3,5 part test folds and i didnt finish few of them completely.Since all of my test folds and origami tools are in box I left open mc jar and mc went all over my folds... But luckily my world super complex origamis book wasnt damaged

[cowburger13]

I have spilled MC glue all over my carpet accidentally... it was awful.

[Trakthor]

Starting with the wrong choice of paper. Happened to me several times. Last one was Spread Hexagon tessellation by Eric Gjerde.

I precreased 70x70 cm Spectral foil (little experiment) from Zanders company (same company making Elephant hide paper) by 64 pleat divisions. Those who already folded it knows that it's triangular grid. Everything went OK till I started folding actual hexagons and then the foil started ripping in every fold.

[Razzmatazz]

Worst thing I ever did was deceive myself into thinking I was a terrible folder because of the paper I was using.

Saw all these people using fancy papers and all I had was 15cm kami and printer paper. I think that my perseverance with these papers and learning how to use them will make my folds in the future with more expensive paper much cleaner than a lot of people's folds with the same paper.

Hopefully I can afford that paper in the future.