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After hours and several docens of paper I have finally folded my first succesful complex CP, behold Robert Lang Water strider:



It may not be a clean folded model but it's my first CP now I can begin to design and fold other very interesting models.

Nice fold!

Thank you, even though your words are very generous.

from the picture,i knew u spent most of the time shaping the legs,because they look really neat! (u wetfold the legs? u used A4 paper?)

steyen wrote:from the picture,i knew u spent most of the time shaping the legs,because they look really neat! (u wetfold the legs? u used A4 paper?)

Well I actually spent more time folding the head, I did not used wet folding and it's made from a 21 cm square of tracing paper, I cheated because it's not an actual square, it's a hexagon (or is it an hexagon?) I trimed the corners, because if you see the CP the corners are folded at what is seems to be a 60 degree angle and they only add layers to the legs so off they go and the legs can be thinned a bit more easily.

Congrats!

Now, after seeing your picture, I feel like trying it too!