Ronald Koh's Cobra trouble

OrigamiDan · Post by **OrigamiDan** » October 20th, 2005, 7:58 pm

I am having difficulties with steps 80 and 81. In the diagrams themselves it says here comes the tricky part, he wasnt kidding

Its after you make the crimp folds and then you have to collapse it. My paper just isn't doing what its supposed to do. Any help would be appreciated

OrigamiDan · Post by **OrigamiDan** » October 26th, 2005, 7:08 pm

Does anyone have some tips. Here is the area I am having a problem with.

Has anyone else tried to fold this beast

I think hunprat has.

Any tips would be great.

kevin89 · Post by **kevin89** » July 14th, 2010, 1:20 am

First, I actually used a long ruler to score where the long valley folds in step 81 are, rather than trying to fold a straight line with all the pleats.

Then I precreased everything, (which I assume you have done).

But what is basically happening, is (viewed from the stomach) you are creating a point, (where the two large mountain folds meet, that becomes the point), and then folding that point underneath. The zig-zag folds immeadiatly above the point are the result of the point being folded under, (the tip basically becomes the top of a water bomb base), which has been attempted to be shown in step 82.

Now that I'm looking at it, (I folded it a couple of years ago), I didn't directly follow the directions, I only folded the horizontal mountain and valley folds in the middle "column", and I just now realized that in step 81, step 80 has been partially folded, which explains the shrunken zig-zags (because you are looking at them from an angle).

As for compensating for the extra paper on the side from the long vertical valley folds, I did what was shown, just not to that extreme.

I also found it helpful to fold the vertical folds to keep the pleats from unfolding during the collapsing.

Anyway I hope this helps and its not too late! If you're still stuck, I can upload the photos of my head, in hopes of clarification.

Do you think you'll ever fold the whole thing? I did after folding the head twice(to make sure I knew how to fold it), and the paper stretched down my entire hallway!! O.O

kevin89 · Post by **kevin89** » July 14th, 2010, 1:22 am

How did you get the diagrams? I accidently got them illegally off a russian? website...

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » July 14th, 2010, 9:58 am

Accidently?

endreon · Post by **endreon** » July 14th, 2010, 1:24 pm

If you put in Ronald Koh Cobra on google the first thing that pops up is a diagram for it.

JumPurge · Post by **JumPurge** » July 14th, 2010, 1:50 pm

Origamist388 wrote:Accidently?

Well a magnet in a childrens toy shop can accidentally cling to your zipper or button, and set off the alarms on you.

Making you accidentally steal something.

kevin89 · Post by **kevin89** » July 16th, 2010, 5:13 am

I got them off a site that had them illegally posted (without his permission).

And the question mark was because I didn't know if it was russian or one of the similar languages from the countries around Russia.