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black forest cuckoo clock
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:36 pm
by Kelly
I was wondering if printer paper would be a good paper for this model:
http://www.langorigami.com/art/gallery/ ... ?name=bfcc
If not, please don't tell me to use anything fancy!
Thanks!
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:56 pm
by origami_8
No printer paper definitely isn't a good choice. For your first try I'd recommend a strip of 16cm x 160cm of foilpaper. You can get rolls of foilpaper in Nicolas Terry's shop, just ask him about it:
http://origami-shop.com
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 10:22 pm
by mike352
You could try wrapping paper. It will fold it, but it won't hold it's shape in the end without some help. I used wrapping paper for Lang's Cuckoo Clock in The Complete Book of Origami, but I needed to use some glue (sacrilegious, I know!) to have it keep it's shape in the end.
The benefits of wrapping paper is that it's cheap and very long. Finding long paper is a problem - a good artist would find better paper and tape/glue pieces of that paper together to make a larger rectangle to start.