Satoshi Kamiya - Leafy Sea Dragon (CP)

[SK-37]

wow, brians is so detailed, more than kamiyas

looks so lifelike, so wanna fold it

[StarPartener]

I found a picture of a half shaped base, but I can't get mine to look the same... Does anyone have any pictures of their folding of the LSD or the base without folding the flaps into position? I have mine mostly figured out.
Here is the link to the base picture. http://www.flickr.com/photos/32947579@N07/4116307897/ Can someone please help me? It is hard to take pictures of my base because it is very messy

[Zoraz]

Your base looks right, and you have all the flaps in the correct positions too. Which parts do you need help shaping?

Edit: So many people have asked about the leaves, so I made photodiagrams for how I did them.



















This may or may not be the way Kamiya shaped it, I just came up with this method on my own, based on experience with other models that use similar structures.

[StarPartener]

Thanks for the photo-diagram! Also, that base picture isn't mine... I need help getting there...

[Zoraz]

Okay, well could you post a picture of what you have so far?

[StarPartener]

I figured it out! Thanks for all your help. Now I am trying to shape the leaves.

[JumPurge]

Necro-ing a thread.
I'm curious, how exactly am I to collapse the base?
I can't really see which parts will become what in the final model. And this really isn't helped with the large fish base in the middle sort of... shortened. A lot because of pleating. ._.;
If anybody has some small suggestions, thanks, and sorry for bringing up a near year/ two year old thread. Brought up from page 12 x-x;

[rwzheng1997]

How big should the paper be?

[rwzheng1997]

Also, for reference finder (by Robert Lang), how do you find the coordinates of your CP? I can't find the coordinates to plug into Reference Finder 4.0 ...

[Raptorex55]

Around 50cm (or larger) would do nicely. You shouldn't really need reference finder. Two or three people have posted their reference point in previous posts. (on the first page)