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Anyway, if you're looking for a base to design a model ask here, and hopefully other people will suggest bases of their own creation or otherwise that you could use. If that doesn't work, then we can just build up a database of bases. This will probably only be useful to people without treemake, but people with treemake will probably be able to help effectively. Also, feel free to share pictures of your finished models with the base used so people can see how a base can work.

List of Bases:( add more to the list)
1. Fish Base
2. Kite Base
3.Waterbomb Base
4. Square Base
5. Bird Base
6. Blintz Base
7. Stretched Bird Base
8.
9.

Blintzed Bird
Blintzed Frog
Double-Blintzed Bird
Double-Blintzed Frog
Windmill base
Frog Base

Also, there are thousands of custom-designed bases.

List of Bases:( add more to the list)
1. Fish Base
2. Kite Base
3.Waterbomb Base
4. Square Base
5. Bird Base
6. Blintz Base
7. Stretched Bird Base
8. Blintzed Bird
9. Blintzed Frog
10. Double-Blintzed Bird
11. Double-Blintzed Frog
12. Windmill base
13. Frog Base

14.stretched frog base

Preliminary base is a much better name than square base.

Exactly what is a stretched frog base? I've never heard of it.

And, as Robert Lang pointed out in ODS, it's really a Preliminary FOLD, not a base.

15. Pig Base

Pig base? What's that?

Harpseal wrote:Pig base? What's that?

sometimes also called boat base

Origami pig base [Public domain], by Ftiercel, from Wikimedia Commons

Baltorigamist wrote:Exactly what is a stretched frog base? I've never heard of it.

there are diagrams right here

Oh, so that's a pig base. I didn't know what a stretched frog base was either.

GWB origami wrote:

Baltorigamist wrote:Exactly what is a stretched frog base? I've never heard of it.

there are diagrams right here

I wouldn't call that an independent base, though--it has the same flap arrangement as that of a bird base.

Baltorigamist wrote:Exactly what is a stretched frog base? I've never heard of it.

If you take a frog base and pull each one of its flaps so that the little triangle in each one of them stretches and flattens, you get a stretched frog base.

Baltorigamist wrote:And, as Robert Lang pointed out in ODS, it's really a Preliminary FOLD, not a base.

Fold or base, whatever, but still preliminary instead of square.

It could differ because the ways of making it differ.
There's the way wher you just collapse all the corners together, and the one where you fold the paper in half diagonally and press-fold the identical corners.
The first one i mentioned will probably be described as a fold, and the second one a base.