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What was the first model you ever folded Mine was a Pajarita. Also take a pic and post it if you can.

I can't really tell, but the traditional crane and waterbomb are definitely amont the first ones I folded. I also very likely did some paperplanes prior to that. And I also very vaguely remember folding a parrot in a kid's group long ago but I can't tell what parrot that was.

my models were the traditional ones: jumping frog, flapping bird, crane. i remember that i started with these models some 20 years ago.

franz

Mine was the "traditional" boat, the one from a rectangle

Are you asking about the first model I ever folded, or about the model that brought me into Origami?
The first models I folded where in kindergarten, I don´t exactly remember them all. I know there was the salt and pepper and the related steamboat (?) and picture frame, the traditional hat and boat a very nice purse some paperplanes, and some other models that I don´t remember at the moment.
But the model that brought me into Origami was another one. It was an old japanese man who showed me how to fold it, that´s about 18 or 19 years ago. The model itself is some kind of kusudama, you make six parts and glue (!) them together to get a ball. I think I only made the glue thingy once, but used the units as nice little tables and folded cats out of them (my first own model). Long time I tried to create a locking mechanism for the modules that works without glue, but ran into the problem that on the parts I needed it onto, where too less paper to get a good working one.
I don´t think that I still have the original model, but maybe if I find the time I will make some modules and take a pic.

I believe it was a boat that was part of a childrens story, as the story progressed you modified the boat so it became a catamaran, a raft, a sailed boat and finally a boat with a box in the middle for treasure.

At the very least this is the first model I really remember, Im sure I will have folded airplanes and hats too but I was 5-6 at the time and that was about 25 years ago so Im sure you will all forgive my memory.


The next model I remember was when I was about 12 and book of pre-printed origami paper that included a fairly complex dragonfly... the crease patterns and instructions were on the paper with lots of numbers indicating the order of steps (wish Id kept a copy).

oh yes i definitaly forgive you

by the way airplanes and things like that do not really count i mean more like the thing(s) that really got you hooked