How to preserve King Cobra

[kevin89]

fernandoperezrojas: what exactly do you need help with? Can you give a specific step?

I also need help with the head. I have it all folded, but I can't get the head to stand upright. It's been sitting in my living room for about a year now. I got it to stand up using some metal strips I got at a hardware store and inserted that between the two long vertical pleats on the back and up and under the head. It kind of worked, because I had to have several strings tied to it like it was a tent. But after being carried around a bit it has fallen off and I can't get it to stand up again. I also don't want to move it too much more because it has been moved around a lot and the creases/corners are getting thin and that fuzz around them.

How did everyone else do it and what did you use? Does anyone have any suggestions?

Because I know someone will want to know, the head stands about a foot and a half tall (about 45 centimeters), and the body is about 12 feet long. It's made out of paper that I got from a teacher supply store and is like printer paper.

[fernandoperezrojas]

i need help with the tail..... .and in the diagram ronald koh tells you something a bout that or why don' you ask him.. but loook aldso to the diagram he say something about how to get the head to stand upright. aaand please can you help me with the tail i need help since the step you begin folding the part of the tail

[kevin89]

So you need help from step 95?

95: you make two creases at 45 degree angles from where the horizontal crease meets the edge. Where those two creases meet the edges you make a horizontal crease. You keep on repeating this until you get top the end of the tail. Which is A LOT.

96: You make a crease that is exactly halfway between the 45 degree creases you made in step 95. You do this by taking one crease and lining it up with the the crease next to it. Keep soing this until you get to the end of the paper. Which is A LOT

97:Repeat step 96 until the distance between each pleat is a sixteenth (1/16) of the side of each square. This is also achieved by doing step 96 four times. Which is super, incredibly, unrealistically time consuming. and mundane.
98: You take the top-left-most crease and you fold it so that it is on top of the next crease, essentially folding it into 1/32's.

99:You do the same thing with the top-right-most pleat that you did in step 98.

100: Continue pleating the rest of the body, doing the same thing you did in step 98 and 98, alternating between left and right so each pleat locks the previous pleat, creating the scales.

Does that help? If you still need help I can help you.. But the rest of the body is basically the same thing except you fold in the bottom corners so that the tail is pointed.

And yes, I did find where he tells you about how to keep the head erect and I probably read it 20 times, but the wire kept on not staying straight and in the pleats, it was constantly bending and exposing itself. And I think I did ask him, but it was so long ago that my email deleted the message (or perhaps I did), so I no longer have his response. I may just re-email him..

Lephantome92: were the guitar strings strong enought to hold up the head?