Shuki Kato's book

[Harpseal]

This year? Maybe just in time for christmas! That would be convenient, as someone else might be kind enough to get it for me!

[cowburger13]

This is a little off topic, but I asked Shuki Kato, and he says he is taking a break from diagraming, but will get back to it soon

[Harpseal]

I don't blame him! He has been hard at work, lightning speed, so taking a break was a good idea!

[cowburger13]

I am so very excited for his insects I also love his dragons

[Harpseal]

I like all of them, but the dinosaurs best.

[GWB origami]

i'm folding his triceratops in the OUSA convention book. and i downloaded tadashimori's western dragon video.

[Harpseal]

The western dragon has a video? Oooooh! That sounds useful and fun and worth trying when i next get a very long moment with access to large paper!

[StefOmega]

I'm very happy to know that you are planning to do a book, Shuki! It's great! And, judjing by the pictures of final models, I think it will be a very great book! I can't wait to have it in my hands (or in my pc, if there is an ebook version)!

[Harpseal]

There's so much complication over ebooks these days. If you don't publish electronically, less people buy the book but you aren't pirated as much. If you do both, more people buy the book but you get more pirated.

[GWB origami]

The western dragon has a video? Oooooh! That sounds useful and fun and worth trying when i next get a very long moment with access to large paper!

tadashimori says it's the hardest model he's ever folded and this was after the creation of the darkness dragon! also the video is two hours long. i have a question just for you: what paper did you fold the iron man out of? how did you find the reference points? i found most of them but am finding it hard to divide the arms into tenths in an exact way.

[Harpseal]

I used home made tissue foil from red wrapping paper and yelllow tissue paper. It was 36cm square. Don't use what i did with sweaty fingers- the model goes like cloth.
When i made iron man, i didn't stick to the cp much. Just little enough to make anyone better than me wince and just enough to get an awesome (no modesty- i'm very proud of it) result.
When making iron man, work in from the sides and the bottom edge, with the yellow side up, so you're coverering most of it with red.

[StefOmega]

Shuki, did you make a list of contents for your book?

[phillipcurl]

Look back in the posts, i believe in one of the first pages of this topic he posted a list of the models he was going to diagram.

[GWB origami]

Wow, thanks all of you guys!

If I did make a book, all of my figures (with few exceptions) would be complex models and would certainly not be accessible to a beginning folder. Maybe that's okay and maybe it's not.

Either way I will be making diagrams, here's a list of the models I think make the grade:

Super-complex
Giganotosaurus
Flying Kabutomushi or Atlas Beetle (or both? their structures are similar enough that they would share a lot of steps)
Western Dragon v1, v2, or v3 (ditto)
Asuka (needs upgrade before final diagrams)
Zoanoid Dragon (maybe...)
Evangelion unit 1
Ohmu
Guyver III

Complex
Spinosaurus (if I can update it to rival Kamiya)
Triceratops
Dragonfly
Goldfish
Flying Stag Beetle
Flying Hercules Beetle

Intermediate
Diplodocus
Dragonfly
Brachiosaurus

here it is. hope it helped!

[Harpseal]

That's going to be one big book!