Fiddler Crab, opus 446 Robert Lang

[phillipcurl]

No need to be rude, Ben. He just made a simple mistake.

[Benlewisorigami]

Sorry bro. My mom got in a really bad car crash so i'm a bit nervey this week. Sorry for snapping at you Sr123ification

[Benlewisorigami]

Okay Mir Numaan, I think I see why you're having a bit of trouble. This model has a few middle points on the CP (which can be a pain to collapse) pretty much, unless photodiagrams, the only way to get it flat (if you've done all the correct sinks and such) is to fiddle around with the layer placement until it's flattened. That's the pain with middle flaps, there's usually no "way" to do it. You kinda gotta play around with the layer placement. Petr Stuchly (origamipete on flickr) is a master at those..... just check out his flickr

[Mir Numaan]

ok thanks Ben!.Just one more thing,can you mark the body of the crab on the cp? Thanks,that would really help.And i will make it! I believe in myself

[Swapnil Das]

Sorry bro. My mom got in a really bad car crash so i'm a bit nervey this week. Sorry for snapping at you Sr123ification

No! that's okay! is your mom alright?

[Mir Numaan]

o i forgot ! Ben is your mom ok ?

[origamipete]

this is one model that has always been confusing to me, and it's no better years later. I usually have no problem seeing how the legs and stuff are arranged in a CP, but here the only part I can see clearly is the big claw.

no indication where the small claw comes from and there seem to be more flaps than necessary. just great. XD

And the fact that it's based on a 26 by 26 grid doesn't help...

Oh well, looks I'm gonna try it anyway...

[Mir Numaan]

good luck!

[Froy]

Very fun model to fold indeed. I had a lot of problems to shape it too the first time I did it.

[Mir Numaan]

i still hope that Pete comes up with something to help me

[origamipete]

Hi again...

Help... well... it's not much honnestly... XD



The base comes nice and flat naturally though, I don't know how could you have problems there.

the real problem is deciphering which flaps go where, and I don't think Andrey shaped it correctly, he probably used the flaps differently than Lang did on the original, the body looks different and the short claw appears to be longer than on Lang's version as well, which leaves me puzzled.