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Something like this would have made sense to me:



The drawing is a little off, I did it on my phone.

hobbestheprince wrote:I think that's my best bet. I was going to cheat and print the cp but crop the head. Then, I can figure out where the edge is going to form the hat part. Just saying the math doesn't help me at all. Or, I can buy a protractor, but I'm broke for a while

Print the CP, lay it over your sheet and just mark the creases by copying the CP on the printed sheet with a ballpen.

Don't worry gachepapier, you didn't come across as rude or anything. By the way, I've seen your models before ... very cool. There is one that starts with a C that is a woman with tentacles ... I love that one. Oh, and the soldier mask.

Thanks - the Cecaelia , shame her face's so ugly - but I do like the soldier mask a lot

gachepapier: I think her face suits the character When I had first seen it, I got creeped out. Reminds me of something from a movie.

And yes, the soldier is really neat.

JumPurge and gachepapier, I think I cracked it! After a sleepless night of reading angles and looking at JumPurge's instructions, I made the folds. Crude, yes, but I traced them for better clarity:



Here's what I ended up with. Now, to get the lines inside the hat, I was basically pinching the paper while meeting the creases ... is that normal practice? And here's one crease I was hoping to find a reference for:



The only way is to just meet up the points, correct? Here's where it goes when folded ...



It does meet a certain point, but I would never know the angle. Perhaps I'm just better off pinching and getting to where I need to be for certain parts. I'm just trying to avoid overworking the paper.

Hm, my phone hates rotating pictures apparently :$

Like I said, that's basically just a crane base Not really much for reference if you can fold a crane from half a right angle triangle... cut diagonally.

JumPurge: I've folded a crane the regular way, but not split for something like this. I can see what you mean though, just by imagining the first few folds.

Hm, never mind. Better off to pinch those two lines I guess. Too hard to try to fold half a crane base with all the extra paper. My brain can't figure it out.

its alot easier just to pinch those 2 folds then to try to figure out how to make a (just random) 82.69 degree angle

orislater: Yeah, you're right. The only tricky thing is to not overwork the paper.

haha yeah im always right just kidding lol but its also more practical to pinch those creases

Hey, whats the recommended size for this?

To be honest, for the whole model I am not sure. I'm pretty sure Joisel used fairly large paper though ...

Reason why im asking because i think, i THINK, i can so this cp. But im still working on the rectangles

Are you doing the whole mermaid or the bust? Sounds like you're doing the whole mermaid.

Sounds like a challenge to me