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Hi All,

I designed an eagle, and it'd be great if some of you could test fold it and tell me what you think about the diagrams. You may, of course, also comment on the design itself.

The diagrams are at http://www.happyfolding.com/diagrams

-- Sara

I'm so excited you decided to do diagrams for your challenge entry! I love him. He does have a lot of the essence of Cuong's eagle and yet his clean lines and stylised form give him his own personality. As for the diagrams they were pretty straight forward. I personally would have like a few more landmarks so I knew where to put the crimps especially the ones by the head because I think I was too conservative and did do a large enough crimp for my bird in the end was still kind of flat and not more rounded in the back and wing like yours is. Otherwise great model, I will have to give it another try soon and see if I can get a better result

Here is a picture of the model on my first attempt, took about 10 minutes for me to fold.

I didn't fold the eagle but first thing I realized when looking at the diagram was this:

TheRealChris wrote:I didn't fold the eagle but first thing I realized when looking at the diagram was this:

Too much fussy indeed
it is a venial error! lol

Sara, i folded the eagle and it looks very nice.
Unfortunately my camera is broken at moment and i cannot post a photo.
Congratulations and best wishes for the contest!
Bye Mario

It is correct: She uses light gray for white, darker gray for colored.

Yes, but the little circle says that dark grey is on top although the first step is drawn fitting the text correctly with light grey on top. That's what Chris is trying to say.

Oh.
Sorry.

Hi all,

thanks for your feedback. I've updated the diagrams.

I'd thought that the paper colour symbol always showed the colour-side up. In any case, I've rotated it now.

I also decided to discard the attempt at squeezing everything into one page. The diagrams are now two pages, which allowed me to split step 1 into two steps and step 2 into three steps. I also increased the size of the pictures, which should help if you decide to print the diagrams.
I hope I also clarified some of the later steps, in particular the petal fold and the locking of the crimps.
Finally, I was made aware that the finished eagle missed the edge that separates the body from the neck, which is now also drawn in.

Have a look if you like the diagrams better now.

-- Sara

Sara wrote: split step 1 into two steps

In the first two steps of the new diagram the arrows are oriented in the bad way
ciao
Mario

Oops, fixed now.

Thanks,

-- Sara

that eagle is great

origamifinch wrote:Sara you know you make origami videos why don't you make one on how to make an origami biplane
instructions in : http://dev.origami.com/diagram.cfm page two
or maybe the similadon and /or the hercules beetle from : the works of satoshi kamiya

That's totally unrelated to this thread.

-- Sara

Sorry