Monthly folding challenge: May 2013

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Monthly folding challenge: May 2013

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the subject for this month is : "in the garden"
fold anything you can find in a garden : trees, vegetables, grass, table, gardener, scarecrow, garden tools, ... and many other

the rules:
-one piece of paper or more but
- no cut
- no glue (MC allowed for shaping)

you can post as many models as you want

spiritofcat is the judge

and just for fun, a transition between the two months:
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This one's for you sebl :

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mes p'tits plis (now also in English)
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:D thanks a lot ! it's really good !
and thanks to open this challenge ! :wink:
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My entry - Mango and Leaf:
http://s714.photobucket.com/user/bigm_is_cool/media/2013-05-08114025.jpg.html

The mangoes are small and green this time of year, we have a mango tree in our garden. :D
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here is mine

COB CANNON from plant vs zombie 's garden

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Nice model! :)
I love that game.
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Are non-paper models allowed, like cloth?
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why not :wink:
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Would this:
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quallify?

I have seen quite a lot of these in my garden... :mrgreen:
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I'd say that would qualify, Pete.

Looks like another slow month for entries, but the quality is very high on all of them.
Just a couple more days and then I'll have to put my judging hat on!
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spiritofcat wrote:I'd say that would qualify, Pete.

Looks like another slow month for entries, but the quality is very high on all of them.
Just a couple more days and then I'll have to put my judging hat on!
All right! Looks like I must hurry! I just got an idea for an indubitably garden-themed model!
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This is my entry: Garden Scissors!
Folded from a rectangle.

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Garden Scissors di Marco Pasini, su Flickr

Hope you like it!
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Here is my second submission.

A boxpleated hoe and spade, and rake

25.5 cm squares of lokta on foil. :mrgreen:
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The month is over so it's time for me to get judging!

Let me see...

Honourable Mentions:

moonlight's Mango and Leaf.
Beautiful shaping on the leaf section. The mango itself looks good too, but the visible white part of paper and the obvious flaps where the leaf meets the fruit keep it from looking as great as perhaps it could.

snowblue's Cob Cannon.
A very cute design. Quite the feat of technical design with the colour change and everything, but when I do a google image search for Cob Cannon I get the impression that the corn cob section should be much more of a rounded 3D shape, and while the cute little eyes that are so characteristic of all the Plants VS Zombie characters are perhaps suggested by some of the folds and layers at the edges, I'd have liked to see them made much more noticable.

marco paso's Garden Scissors.
Honestly, there's nothing wrong with this model. It's a fairly faithful re-creation of a very common garden tool. Very simple and not hindered by excess fiddly bits of detail. It's a very solid entry, but it just didn't impress me as much as some of the others did.

And so, without further ado, the winners!

3rd: origamipete Green Tree Frog
Lovely design. Very nice shaping. Not much to say here really. It looks like a frog.

2nd: origamipete Garden Tools.
Now these really impressed me. The choice of paper combined with the colour change to give those worn looking wooden handles and shiny metal heads, that's beautiful! The detail and precision of design, especially on the hoe/spade. Magnificent!

1st: gachepapier Caterpillar on Leaf.
I've always found multiple subjects from a single sheet very impressive.
The depth of detail in this model, plus the subtle colour change really make it stand out to me.
It's a beautiful design concept and excellently folded.

Congratulation gachepapier, you are the winner!
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congratulation all ! but especially for Gachepapier :wink:
some great models this month :)
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