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Hello, this is my first post in this forum and I am also quite new to Origami in general. I've only started in January and stick to intermediate models for now.


I have found this great model of a fox by Peterpaul Forcher:
http://www.origamiseiten.de/forcher/fuchs96.pdf

I like it a lot and it is very easy to do after a few tries.

There is a different way to fold it that makes it stand out a lot more:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephwuor ... 442662922/
http://crazycat1130.pixnet.net/album/photo/95024060

I tried to do a few things to make mine look like this but, I end up ripping the paper often. I only have one successful try and I cannot replicate it.

Has anyone tried to do it that way?
I'd like a few pointers on how to proceed because I can't keep seem to figure out the proper way to go. Joseph Wu said something about step 27 being where he made changes but, it seems like it goes beyond a simple crimp.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

So far, I found that the paper I originally used if VERY prone to ripping and it doesn't help my case.

I've made a few acceptable versions, nothing like Wu's great looking one but, still not bad.

The only way I've had anything decent is to fold everything up until that step 27 and then unfolded parts of it to reverse the two little flaps on the tail and put it back together. (It's that step that risks ripping the paper)

It only wants to go back by actually making the inside reverse fold for the tail but, I fold it back up and the tails turns up the right color again.

There is paper on the side that folds down to finish the "fox color scheme" effect but, I am still not really getting any clean lines and the tail is somehow 'off'

I wish I had a camera to show what I have, it would. make things a lot easier to explain.