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I need some help with the "Boy on a rocking horse" by Neal Elias, published in "Neal Elias: Selected Works". I don't know how to make the petal fold in step 5 .
Please help me!

step 5 is not self-explanatory, because you do not see one mountain-foldnecessary - it is hidden under the flap and: it is not indicated in any way in the diagram ... (do not be alarmed by some "wrong" creases in my pictures: they are the results of my experiments to get the result ; and it is of course two mountain folds, on both sides of the flap ...)



you see this mountain-fold in the picture above: it is bisecting the angle. preacrease this mountain-fold, then you do have the reference-points for the valley-fold shown in the diagram, and the reference-points for the mountain-folds shown in the diagram.



now push down at the point of the valley-fold. the right point will move upwards, and with the three mountain-folds (two of them are shown in the diagram, we have produced the third one) you create some kind of petal-fold - it is not a petal-fold in the "traditional way"

the result:

Thank you.
The pictures are clear and now I can go on with this model.

I just finished the model and it looks satisfying.

well: I think I will continue to fold this model - I stopped at step 5