Sipho Mabona - Swallow (CP)

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Sipho Mabona - Swallow (CP)

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Hi im trying to do this diagram but it's so hard to me, so if you have pictures or something to folding this beauty swallow please show me or teach me to fold

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Oh here is the cp
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2634/393 ... e8f3bc.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2689/410 ... c91096.jpg :D
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Well just to tell you... Someone will surely have helped you by tomorrow. You cant just wait a few hours. Things take time, maybe someone is making a photo diagram right now! But if you are a little more patient more people will respect you.


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Yeah sorry you're rigth, maybe are the desire to do that model but i can wait...

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however... I may be able to help you a little bit. What are you having trouble on?
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I cant do the back part is dificult to fold, i just make the wings...

Thanks and again sorry for my bad english im trying to be understandable
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i'm working on a unspectacular photo-diagram and do hope i'll be able to post it later this day. there'll be probably just pictures - i'm in lack of time these days - but if there are questions on a special step, i'll try to explain the way to fold ...
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Thanks grizzly for the photodiagrams, but bad news, I have some problems in the photo number 12 I do not understand how to fold that corners :oops:
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after having done all the squashfolds - to be seen in pic11 - you have to pull all loose tips from above downwards. pic 12 is the result and with a special arrangement of the flaps you'll get the back of the growing bird with pic13 and the belly with pic 14. i hope, this will help ...

for those who're interested in the pictures, too - i'll try to post them in chapters within the next days.
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Post by akugami »

let's start posting the swallow-pictures! it'll probably take some time until all of the 50 pictures will appear in here and again for adding some explaining comments. please, if you'll get the bird ready, post a picture to the forum and do not forget the authorship - it's a model by sipho mabona. sipho taught this old version - the new one has a closed belly - at the german convention 2009 . i took the chance to join his workshop and with refolding it from time to time i managed it to remember the way to fold that swallow.

i'd recommend a size not smaller than 20x20 cm. i did it with different paper qualities - copy, kraft, tant - but cannot say what's best. just try to find your own favourites ...

1 fold the diagonals and - on the other side - the middle creases
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2 collapse the paper to a triangle
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3 fold the long edge of each flap to the middle crease
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4 squash fold each flap
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5 and make ...
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6 a petal fold - 4 times
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7 fold one of the lower triangle flaps ...
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8 ... inside
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9 fold the short edges of the remaining flaps to the middle crease
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10 open again and squash fold ...
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11 ... to get something like this
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12 pull the free tips downwards ...
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13 to reach this level - the future backside
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14 and the front or belly side
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15 pull out the wings
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16 if you do it right, the lower part will misteriously catch
the parting edge inside
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18 fold the tip of the wings to the opposite crossing point of neck and shoulderline
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19 and back outside-down
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20 do you recognize the reference points to fold both of these little flaps?
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21 open up the wings slightly and make two pockets
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22 form the lower wing parts ...
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23 ... like this
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24 and tuck the rearranged upper flaps ...
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25 into the pocket below
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do you remember creating these small pockets in step 21? now you have to fold the lower layer over the edge of the pockets and tuck the little flaps inside.
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that's it ...
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Thanks for the photodiagram and for your help when i finish the model I posted here thanks
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you're welcome, gogleash. i wish a successful folding session!
to the moderation-team - is it o.k., when i'm going to post all of the 50 pictures to this thread? every single pic is smaller than the 640-pixel-border anna wrote about some days ago and at least it's my webspace i'm wasting with it ...
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Post by origami_8 »

Theoretically you can post as many pictures as you want on this Forum as long as they are on topic and not too big. But since this is a model by Sipho Mabona, you should ask him for permission to post them.
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i did ask for permission and sipho did agree. he just wanted me to make clear that it is an old version and to give a link to his website - here it is:

http://www.mabonaorigami.com

we did not discuss a publication at this origami forum but i'm going to send a link to sipho.
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You have a Watch-Tan.
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detected! please don't tell anybody else, what incredible secret is hidden under my watch ...
but -anyway- thanks for teaching me a new phraze. i've never heard about a watch-tan before.
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