Gallery of TJ Foo

JeossMayhem · Post by **JeossMayhem** » June 4th, 2008, 9:50 am

I thought tarantulas had much longer legs, and skinnier bodies. It's kind of tick-shaped as it is now.

The scorpion looks great though, but the tail should be a bit longer. Making that revision would also balance out the model better, since the claws make the front a little too heavy for rear end.

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » June 5th, 2008, 5:40 pm

Yes, it doesn't really look like a tarantula. I should just rename it "fat spider". About the scorpion, the claws aren't really the problem. When I crimp the tail upwards, it pulls up the hind legs too. But, you won't notice it until you look at it from the side. I should lengthen the tail...if I knew how. Since it comes from the middle of the paper, there is a certain limit to how long the tail can be. Some origamists design their scorpions to have their tails come from the point to come up with a more realistic design, but that is way too complicated for me.

I've just came back from my trip to Taman Negara forest reserve. You can see some photos in my Flickr account. I've taken care not to include any pictures of me, to reduce my chances of getting killed. There was a photo of me standing behind the tallest tree in Asia. Too bad you can't see it. It was humongous! If I cut out a hole in it, I turn it into a little room for playing poker. Also, there were leaches everywhere! The way they move is really freaky. Like Jackie Chan doing somersaults over and over again without legs or arms. And you have too step on them several times just to kill them.

Today I folded some of Michael Laffose's models as a wet folding exercise. All of them were wet folded from one uncut square of construction paper.
Frog
Author: Michael G. Laffose
Folder: TJ Foo

Goldfish
Author: Michael G. Laffose
Folder: TJ Foo

Horseshoe crab
Author: Michael G. Laffose
Folder: TJ Foo

InsomniacFolder · Post by **InsomniacFolder** » June 6th, 2008, 11:07 am

Nice work with the LaFosse selection

zxop9 · Post by **zxop9** » June 8th, 2008, 3:32 am

i think your bahmumut looks amazing! very well done!
as for your other models, you develop amazing, accurate bases with the right amount of flaps and the right length, very well done. however, i think you need to take a little more time working out an accurate folding method on your finishing details like you did for bahumut which looks to me, to be very clean and well done!

great work!

origami street racer · Post by **origami street racer** » June 9th, 2008, 8:01 pm

angrydemon are you going to make a cp for your bahamut?

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » June 12th, 2008, 3:13 pm

Tyrannosaurus Rex
Author: TJ Foo
Folder: TJ Foo

origami street racer wrote:angrydemon are you going to make a cp for your bahamut?

HAHAHAHAHA!!! No. Go fold Kamiya's one instead. It's much better than mine. The cp for 2.1 is on Artur Biernacki's flickr gallery.

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » June 19th, 2008, 3:54 pm

Flying Mantis
Author: TJ Foo
Folder: TJ Foo

Yesterday I had 3 free periods in school so I decided to fold origami. I designed and folded the first draft in school and refolded it with foil paper today. It uses a waterbomb tree figure. In case you're not familiar with the term I just made up, it means that the crease pattern is viewed as a square instead of a diamond. It is 100% traditional and contains NO box-pleating.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE post your comments! I had to watch this thread go lower and lower the list everyday, and it didn't help when Lephantome92 pointed out that he ignores all the threads on the bottom half of the list.

Post by **origami_8** » June 19th, 2008, 4:36 pm

Don't worry Angrydemon, we won't forget about you

The Flying Mantis is nice, yet I think you should refold it with other paper that has the same colour on both sides is thin and good shapeable, in other words double layer mc paper. I know it's a bit of work to make but it is worth the result, and your model will probably look fantastic.

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » June 19th, 2008, 5:07 pm

Yes, I'm planning to try making double tissue tomorrow, but I still don't know how you do it because tissue tears very easily when it's wet. I'm thinking about laying the tissue over a thick layer of MC, wait for the glue to soak trough, and then lay another sheet of tissue. How the heck do you apply mc over the tissue? The brush will stick because of the glue and just drag along the paper!

Post by **origami_8** » June 19th, 2008, 5:31 pm

Take both layers of tissue paper at once, place them flat on your plate over each other, then take a soft brush and begin with a long stroke on the top to fix them. Now make long strokes with the brush always beginning from the middle to the sides working your way through from the top to the bottom. Maybe I will make a video some time in the future, but at the moment I'm lying in bed with a high fever and am really disappointed because I will miss my final exams tomorrow and can only catch up in September, and I was so glad that everything would be over tomorrow

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » June 19th, 2008, 5:40 pm

That must be a REAALLLYYY soft brush...

Post by **origami_8** » June 19th, 2008, 5:45 pm

It isn't really that soft, but you don't have to pinch it though the paper but make long strokes in one direction with the bristles looking in the opposite direction.

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » June 21st, 2008, 3:58 pm

I finally found out what the problem was. A few months ago when I first tried to make double tissue, I used didn't use a tiny paintbrush. I used one of those gigantic brushes normally meant for painting walls, to save time. Obviously that was a stupid idea. The tissue was no match for the hard, industrial strength bristles which tore it to shreds. Since then, I was under the impression that it was impossible to make double tissue this way.

Then, I read your post. I was wondering why you're using a puny paintbrush when you could use an enormous one instead. So, yesterday I tried making double tissue to fold my mantis, this time using a normal paintbrush. it worked surprisingly well and the paper didn't tear at all. For my mantis, I tried making duo paper, to create color-changed wings. When it dried, the white layer lost some of it's color and became transparent, revealing the paper underneath (but not all). So, being the moron I was, I glued another sheet of white tissue to fix this problem. I thought "It's just one sheet. How much thicker will it make the paper?" Well, it worked, but I ended up with a sheet of paper that was as thick as tissue foil, except without the malleability. I ended up with a piece of crap, but it was a learning experience...sort off.

So after that I tried making another sheet of double tissue, this time ignoring the color changes and instead follow what Brian Chan did with his flying katydid, by making the wings one-layer and semi-transparent.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chosetec/2 ... et-571146/
Now that I know how to size tissue, I was thinking "Why use two layers? Why can't I just use one?" Luckily this time it was a good idea. So here's what I came up with:

Mantis
Author: TJ Foo
Folder: TJ Foo

This is probably one of my most satisfying folds

The paper was very hard to precrease since it was so thin, but it was well worth the effort.

Post by **origami_8** » June 21st, 2008, 4:15 pm

Far better! I really like the head.

Does your paper have structure or does it just look like it has? My tissue paper is completely smooth.

angrydemon · Post by **angrydemon** » June 21st, 2008, 4:46 pm

Sorry, what do you mean?