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Hi,

A friend wants to fold an Elephant with me and he asked for a medium-complex Elephant/Mamut - what would you recommend?

It should be not too complex - I'm folding with him, but I think he doesn't likes models with 100+ steps.

thx in advance,

void

If you have the diagrams for it, I would suggest Satoshi Kamiya's Asiatic Elephant. It's a medium difficulty model with a really nice result.

How about David Brill's elephant, from his book Brilliant Origami?

thx for advices - i will take a look at them

I second the recommendation of Satoshi Kamiya's Asiatic Elephant. It is a perfect work of origami.

I anti-vote for Dave Brill's elephant. The lack of tusks, awkward head-folding, inability to fold from normal paper, etc. turn me off it.

Also, Montroll's got a few good elephants...

thx origamimasterjared for your recommendation

i will take a look at montrolls elephants, but satoshis asiatic elephant looks really great - i think i will choose it (or at least show all recommendations to my friend and let him choose)
i hope he gets not scared of those 100 steps :p

thx to all again

Kawahata's Elephant is good too.

thx metrodj - going to try it
but now i need a small break :p

here a picture what i got so far...

from left to right:
Hideo Komatsu´s Elephant
Satoshi Kamiya´s Asiatic Elephant and
John Montroll´s Elephant

Try the elephant of Akira Yoshizawa.

thx for the recommendation ondrej

i will take a look at it

but the elephant of my friend is finished already - we folded the asiatic elephant - it was a present for his mother for mothers day ;p