Monthly Folding Challenge - April 2010

Trekker_1983 · Post by **Trekker_1983** » April 10th, 2010, 9:10 am

RollerCoasterBug wrote:

It's not a direct link to your image. You need a direct link for each image.
Direct links to your images are provided on the bottom right corner of that page:
http://img406.imageshack.us/g/img1935zh.jpg/

Copy and paste them here and wrap each link with

You should resize them, though. And then re-upload the images. They're too big to display on here.

Post by **origami_8** » April 10th, 2010, 9:24 am

When uploading them to imageshack, choose resize to 640x480 pixels for Message Boards.

RollerCoasterBug · Post by **RollerCoasterBug** » April 10th, 2010, 7:24 pm

Vintage Beetle

Front

Side

Back

RollerCoasterBug · Post by **RollerCoasterBug** » April 10th, 2010, 7:38 pm

Locomotive

Front

Side

RollerCoasterBug · Post by **RollerCoasterBug** » April 10th, 2010, 7:44 pm

Helicopter

Side

Front

bethnor · Post by **bethnor** » April 14th, 2010, 5:49 pm

jared--pure genius. of course, by far, it is the most reliable mode, as well...

oswalakhil · Post by **oswalakhil** » April 16th, 2010, 1:23 pm

Great idea and awesome foot Jared!
Awesome vintage beetle RollerCoasterBug!

@RollerCoasterBug...I was trying something very similar...but my try didnt look too good! Im still working on it

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » April 16th, 2010, 8:52 pm

is it ok if i post a future vehicle?because i designed an *ugly* hoverboard

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » April 16th, 2010, 9:47 pm

Of course-it just needs to be a mode of transportation, which a hoverboard most certainly is.

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » April 17th, 2010, 4:36 am

Model T Ford

Folded from one very long rectangle - 50 inches by 6 inches - no cuts

Paraphrasing Henry Ford:

You can have this model in any "colour" you want - as long as it is black !

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » April 17th, 2010, 7:37 pm

My hoverboard,made from a single square sheet of paper of 12 x 12 cm
The second picture shows it in in use by Eric Joisel's dwarf

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » April 17th, 2010, 7:39 pm

Hell am I going to lose this competition

RollerCoasterBug · Post by **RollerCoasterBug** » April 17th, 2010, 10:02 pm

Don't say that!
Keep trying, my helicopter was bad too! try something simple, like a skate board

sorry, don't try the skate board.

[img][img]http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/8325/img1936f.th.jpg[/img][/img]
[img][img]http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/2670/img1937q.th.jpg[/img][/img]

creating a vehicle is hard, yes. But, I can help. If you take what ever you want to make and draw a net form, you have a structure for a base.

Like a cube, for example
there are 6 sides, or 6 faces to a cube. A net for the cube has four squares in a row, and one square on the left, and one square on the right. if you lightly sketch this onto a square, or rectange, you can see a cube. But the rest (between the corners) needs to be tucked in. This can be done with diagonal folds. then you have a cube. This has the same prinipal for a vehicle. My Vintage beetle, and the locamotive uses this very principle. I would use graph paper when you design your vehicle, it helps create a net.

YRMacedo · Post by **YRMacedo** » April 18th, 2010, 3:23 am

That is my Helicopter
It was made from an uncut square of foil-tissue. Waterbomb base

I've gotten eight flaps from the waterbomb.
four flaps were used to make the tail.
two for the main propeller and two for the feet.
With the center of the waterbomb I've done the cockpit