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My biggest origami model I have ever folded is this:


a life-sized replica/reconstruction of Diplocaulus, an extinct Devonian/Permian amphibian. 1 m square, 1 m long

and this is a close second:



a black mamba from a 300 x 17.5 cm rectangle, over 1 m long when finished - I made the scales in an inefficient way, i wasted a lot of the original length on them, i am planning to redo all the scales, which could potentially make the snake over 2 m long.

Acorn Man wrote:On the flip side, what's the smallest thing you've folded?

probably this "wolfgang flower" by Robin Scholz:



from 6.3 cm hexagon of tant paper, 2.5 cm in diameter when finished. I also made a tiny curler 24 unit kusudama at about the same final size, but I don't have any photos of it online.

as promised, this is the final version of my black mamba origami model

folded from 3m x 17.5 cm kraft paper, 1.76 m long when finished. (stretched out)

the longest model I have ever folded

The biggest thing I folded: (not sure if it counts as cheating)

It was last year. At school my friends and I made an origami tank. We started of with an 8.5X11 sheet of paper (A4/Letter Size) and made tanks 5.5cm by 5.5cm. Then we started taping sheets together. The largest tank we made was 100 sheets of A4 paper. 10 long and 10 wide. It ended up being 55cm by 55cm.

If that doesn't count because of taping sheets together, than I don't have any big things because my largest origami paper is 6.5 inches.


The smallest thing I folded was also a tank. I used 1/16 of a 8.5X11 sheet of paper. Took me 30 minutes but it completed. It ended up being 7mmX7mm.

great! of course it doesnt count as cheating. you used what you had!

Haha nice one!

Biggest was a 3m square for the OUSA convention giant folding challenge. Very nice experience to fold that huge of a paper, since you can go inside of it! I did it twice actually: first was a (yellow) submarine by Alexis Degrugillier and second was my own hairclip!

Sunburst wrote:Biggest was a 3m square for the OUSA convention giant folding challenge. Very nice experience to fold that huge of a paper, since you can go inside of it! I did it twice actually: first was a (yellow) submarine by Alexis Degrugillier and second was my own hairclip!

that's awesome!

We folded a large modular spiral kusudama by Tomoko Fuse. FUN!!

All the best!

Tom & Neva!

As naive as I was at the time, I never took a picture of it, but I once made the Kirschenbaum skeleton from an 8' square. It was really awesome when it was done, but shortly after my aunt put it out as a Halloween decoration on the porch, someone stole it :'(

Today I folded my Elastic Suit Wrestler from a 150 x 150 cm (59 1/16 x 59 1/16 in) square which I painted myself. I was invited to do so as part of an event. This is the biggest paper I've folded. I'll have to add wire, the model ended up being to heavy and it won't stand up by itself and besides that I'm incapable of shaping it due to also its weight. I'll show you guys latter.

Were do you guys get your big paper? I would love to know.

Here's a picture of the Elastic Suit Wrestler I folded.



I took the photo of the model behind a meter stick so you can get an idea of its final size.

I gotta confess you guys that I cheated with the model just like you're seeing it in the picture. It was impossible to shape the paper due to its weight. I ended up adding wire inside the model and I even glued some parts together . It's not the design's fault, you can easily shape it with common origami paper.