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Good afternoon, my name is Erica and I've been working on this hummingbird:

http://web.archive.org/web/201202220252 ... ummingbird

and I can't get past step 14 where it says to inside reverse fold /sink. I've made all the creases, I just can't figure out what to do with them.

Thanks so much for your help, I feel kind of silly posting this, all the other questions are about such complicated, beautiful models.

Thanks!

Erica

As far as I can tell, the top two crease lines are there to indicate the position of the bottom one, if that makes sense, so you're just sinking along the lowest crease line (closed or open sink is fine, just open the layers slightly and push the lower edge inside the model). This step is not very clear, but looking ahead to the next step usually helps in these situations. Hope this helps!

Okay, this is what I get now
https://flic.kr/p/uf9nZo

Is the tail supposed to be on the white side of the paper, because on the diagram it's on the colored side. I'm really getting confused. Is the color a mistake on the diagram?

What you have looks fine, it looks like a mistake in the colouring of the diagram.

I swear this is my last question. I'm stuck on step 16, I can't for the life of me figure out how to make an inside reverse fold without it looking messy. This is what my bird looks like now:

https://flic.kr/p/uwsxR1

Thank you