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Hallo! This is my first post on the forum and my question maybe is stupit but i really whants to learn. I started to fold last week but i think i have a litte catch about the basics.

I would be very pleased if someone could help me to axplain a fold.
http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/monkey.pdf
I dont understand the fold on step 12-13
Best regards
John

Hi John welcome to the boards. next time please try to use a more descriptive title for your post such as "help with Glynn monkey" or something like that. That would make things clearer for everybody.

Regarding the step 12 it is just telling you to lift the paper at the height of the projection of the flaps that extend to both sides. Step 13 means turn the model over.

I think you should try something easier if you are a beginner... (no offence)

Brimstone wrote:Hi John welcome to the boards.

Thanx Brimstone!!

I will think about the postname if i doing another post.

Fanatic wrote:I think you should try something easier if you are a beginner... Shocked (no offence)

Thanx, i dont take it bad.

What i can do at the moment is just a butterfly and a t-rex. But they are so ugly. and i think if i try and try and try i will succed. But the monkey diagram is right?

What i dont understand is how its possible to fold that part up. Maybe i have something wrong i the previous steps. Do someone know another diagram on just that fold?
Thanx

bedofdread wrote:What i dont understand is how its possible to fold that part up. Maybe i have something wrong i the previous steps. Do someone know another diagram on just that fold?
Thanx

Are you sure you did a waterbomb base on step 6? Or you just folded the square in half? For if you did the water bomb, you would surely be able to lift that part.

Make sure you are doing steps 7-10 correctly.

I think that step ten is where you may be having trouble doing correctly if you cannot perform step 12.

Make sure you are crimping everything, and not just pleating it.

If you are still having trouble with these steps after making sure you are performing these steps correctly, I can take some pictures of these steps.

Also, you can always try some other models and get better (no offence, like Fanatic said)

as some of you said, this model is to advanced for my skills.
I have to do some more simple folds first!
Best regards
John

Hi...found this thread through google...hope it's not too much of a bump

I only need help with steps 29&30 on the Glynn monkey...there is something about separating the two inner layers and, particularly, "reversing the existing creases so that the flap is inside the model"...not quite sure what is meant here...

Would definitely appreciate any help.

Thank you!

Here's the model:
http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/monkey.pdf

It looks like you would pull on the layers in the diagram so that they become free, then you can flatten the layers together in step 29. In step 30 you are reversing some of the layers inside the model, so that the long flap is completely covering all the "inside stuff" The flap should look the same from the front and the back. I have not actually folded the model, but that is what it looks like from staring at the diagrams for a while. Hope that helps

tryingtofoldsumthing wrote:It looks like you would pull on the layers in the diagram so that they become free, then you can flatten the layers together in step 29. In step 30 you are reversing some of the layers inside the model, so that the long flap is completely covering all the "inside stuff" The flap should look the same from the front and the back. I have not actually folded the model, but that is what it looks like from staring at the diagrams for a while. Hope that helps

Hey! Thanks for the response...unfortunately it's still not clicking and I ruined a model trying everything I could imagine haha...the "long flap" doesn't seem to want to reverse without changing the direction of the arm negatively...if you look at the steps before and after 29&30 the arm should still be pointing in the same direction...I will post up some pictures.

I've folded this model previously and just skipped this step...honestly it doesn't seem to be very important but it is bugging me enough to seek help

Here, i created a video on how to do the steps, i hope you can see what i do, the video quality is not that great, but i think you can get the gist of what i do, let me know if you cant haha
http://youtu.be/Wiewp1W9vI8

tryingtofoldsumthing wrote:Here, i created a video on how to do the steps, i hope you can see what i do, the video quality is not that great, but i think you can get the gist of what i do, let me know if you cant haha
http://youtu.be/Wiewp1W9vI8

Thank you for making a video! Okay...I wouldn't have thought to do that because the instructions say to "reverse existing creases"? But it seems that you do have to create a new crease? Regardless, thank you! I've folded the model completely now

P.S. Have you had any trouble creating proper head size on this model? My head always seems to come out wideeeeeee with no neck

I found a picture of the model folded by the author...is this what you're getting for step 29?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rglynn/monkey.jpg