What have you folded lately?

thedeadsmellbad · Post by **thedeadsmellbad** » July 14th, 2006, 11:31 am

Jedi Master Yoda - Fumiaki Kawahata
This was refolded for about 6 hours from a flattened yoda I found at a friends.

Fox - John Montroll

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » July 14th, 2006, 1:09 pm

Aznman wrote:Well, it doesn't matter how old you are, but how good you are (that really does not matter either, unless you are asking for help on some rediculously hard model.... )

How good are you do not only mean how hard model you can fold but also HOW you can fold any model. Refold your presented model and send their pictures when they will be clear and smooth.

Someone told me here, that I never comment or advice about improvement of folded models. So now I advice: refold your models again and again. If age does not matter you can fold it in better way.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » July 14th, 2006, 6:13 pm

Okay, okay, I get the point... practice makes perfect, no matter what age you are... now lets get back on topic, or at least move this conversation about age to a new topic under the Kitchen Sink category...

Today I folded my second Abstract Origami, I call it the flower-table, and you'll see why in a second:

[img]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/ ... actOri.jpg[/img]

If you still can't figure out how it got it's name, I'll tell you now: from the side, it looks like a table, but from the top it looks like a flower

Aznman · Post by **Aznman** » July 15th, 2006, 1:41 am

Thedeadsmellbad, how big was the paper you started with? Was it foil? It looks really cool (because it's big).

phil · Post by **phil** » July 15th, 2006, 5:57 am

I folded another Ancient Dragon by Satoshi Kamiya.

This one was Wet-folded from 100 GSM "Indian Batik Solid" paper.

Tjips · Post by **Tjips** » July 15th, 2006, 6:35 pm

thedeadsmellbad - That Yoda is one of the best looking ones I've seen, well done.

Here is one of my latest designs. It still needs a name, soany sugestions are welcome.

One fit for display:

And one with twice as many folds

P.S. Check out my brand spankin new Flickr account! http://www.flickr.com/photos/82113409@N00/

kaerusan · Post by **kaerusan** » July 16th, 2006, 6:17 am

it's the first time that i buy lokta paper and fold something with this paper,unfortunatly where i buy it they only have fairly high "grammage" but i hope i can find a store where i live who sell 40g/m2 lokta paper

Hippocampus of Roman Diaz 40cm(100g/m2) square slightly treated with MC

[img]http://kaerusan.neufblog.com/DSC01067.JPG[/img]

[img]http://kaerusan.neufblog.com/DSC01075.JPG[/img]

[img]http://kaerusan.neufblog.com/DSC01072.JPG[/img]

Masks of Tomoko Fuse 25cm(130g/m2) square wet-folded

[img]http://kaerusan.neufblog.com/DSC01084.JPG[/img]

[img]http://kaerusan.neufblog.com/DSC01060.JPG[/img]

[img]http://kaerusan.neufblog.com/DSC01057.JPG[/img]

thedeadsmellbad · Post by **thedeadsmellbad** » July 16th, 2006, 8:50 am

Aznman wrote:Thedeadsmellbad, how big was the paper you started with? Was it foil? It looks really cool (because it's big).

Thank you, the square was 45x45cm tissue foil.
Here is a link to the original model before it was squashed to a pulp. I think its an improvement, who knew something good could come out of having your model stepped on?

Tjips wrote:thedeadsmellbad - That Yoda is one of the best looking ones I've seen, well done.

I'm honored you think so, thank you kindly.

artur biernacki · Post by **artur biernacki** » July 16th, 2006, 6:58 pm

I folded last time Cyclommatus metalifer 2.0 of Kamiya Satoshi.

Best regards Artur Biernacki

http://www.origami.art.pl

Aznman · Post by **Aznman** » July 16th, 2006, 9:19 pm

Looks good Artur! where did you get the CP?

Earwig Designed by me.
It obviously needs work, but I'm proud of it becasue it is the first model that came out the way I wanted it too.

I think the attenna are a little too big. But I have seen earwigs with the attenna almost as long as their body.

rokonacdc · Post by **rokonacdc** » July 16th, 2006, 11:41 pm

diagrams or cp for it?(earwig)

Aznman · Post by **Aznman** » July 17th, 2006, 1:11 am

Sure.

I would higly recomend tissue foil for this model because it gets rather thick and needs to be shaped quite a bit.
Have fun....

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » July 17th, 2006, 3:19 am

Praying Mantis from Rober Lang's Origami Insects II

My first attempt!

I used a 14"x14" sheet of ricepaper/foil/ricepaper.

The book mentioned that I needed to use the thinnest paper possible to effectively fold those legs.... I thought the ricepaper+foil+ricepaper combo would do well. I was dead wrong. As I reached the part where I had to thin out the hind legs, the paper got so stiff it felt like I was trying to fold plate armor. At first, I had to use a pair of tweezers. After a couple of folds and an additional layer. The tweezers gave up. I had to use a flathead screw driver to make the indentation and to flatten the fold.

Hehehe... after all that, my fingertips were sore...but happy.

rokonacdc · Post by **rokonacdc** » July 17th, 2006, 4:34 am

Aznman wrote:Sure.

I would higly recomend tissue foil for this model because it gets rather thick and needs to be shaped quite a bit.
Have fun....

i have no tissue foil or tissue or spray adhesive

eric_son wrote:Hehehe... after all that, my fingertips were sore...but happy.

your fingertips look it[/quote]

Aznman · Post by **Aznman** » July 17th, 2006, 5:37 am

rokonacdc wrote: i have no tissue foil or tissue or spray adhesive

You don't have to use tissue foil, the model will look much better using it though. if you can treat paper with MC, I'm sure that would work too (altough I have not tried). It's just when in the final stages of shaping that the foil comes in handy.