Who wants to test-fold some of my designs?

merman · Post by **merman** » February 29th, 2008, 6:33 pm

I am relatively new to this forum and recently picked up origami. I did it a lot in my teen-years. Recently I found some of my old designs back, fully diagrammed by computer. I was wondering of there are people here who would like to test-fold some of my designs.

They include:
- some insects
- some birds
- a wildebeest

Just PM or e-mail me so we can work things out... I am very curious what you people think of my designs...

Edited by Moderator because of copyright infringements and brake of Forum Rules.

pierre · Post by **pierre** » February 29th, 2008, 8:02 pm

me I wantto test it =)

mrsriggins · Post by **mrsriggins** » February 29th, 2008, 8:48 pm

I'm up for some testing

chesslo · Post by **chesslo** » February 29th, 2008, 8:49 pm

same here

AquaDragon · Post by **AquaDragon** » February 29th, 2008, 8:53 pm

I'll give it a try.

Oruhito · Post by **Oruhito** » February 29th, 2008, 10:45 pm

I would love to test fold some models.

merman · Post by **merman** » February 29th, 2008, 10:49 pm

Wow, I am overwhelmed by the responses. I found these diagrams the other week and I thought they were lost. I only have them printed, some on very crappy lined paper. I will scan the diagrams this weekend. The diagrams I found so far are of:

- a leafhopper
- a weevil (I did in fact once sent to Robert Lang) - last page seems to be missing but no huge problem
- a complex snail
- a simple tree
- a chinese crane
- a chicken
- a toucan
- a polyp
- a simple duck
- a simple decorative snail
- a simple decorative house
- a crane (simple but quite elegant
- a rather nice boxpleated frog. Diagrams by pen and ruler, without any text
- a wildebeest

now, all I ask is to respect the copyright by not spreading these around. I would be rather thrilled however to see these designs discussed here or to see some photographs of the final results. I designed some of these more than ten years ago and would handle certain things different these days. Also, these designs were never folded by anyone else but me.

merman · Post by **merman** » March 1st, 2008, 12:18 am

oh, I forgot to say: if you want these diagrams, please send me a PM with your e-mail address. Your account should be able to receive big files.

Trekker_1983 · Post by **Trekker_1983** » March 2nd, 2008, 6:36 am

I'd love to test fold your models! Sent you PM..

merman · Post by **merman** » March 2nd, 2008, 11:25 am

working on the scans.

in the meantime here's a design I also found back but just sketches, no diagrams. Folded it yesterday...

[img]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee23 ... 020307.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee23 ... 020308.jpg[/img]

Trekker_1983 · Post by **Trekker_1983** » March 2nd, 2008, 1:56 pm

Really nice!

I love the rear legs and the pose! The fromt legs could use a little shaping though.

merman · Post by **merman** » March 2nd, 2008, 2:51 pm

it's so funny: a friend of mine has the EXACT same picture hanging in his house! the neck may be a bit too long though...

Trekker_1983 · Post by **Trekker_1983** » March 2nd, 2008, 10:52 pm

Finally.. I finished your bug..
It's not a great rendition, but I'm pretty satisfied with the result although I could've done better.
And it's my first complex bug from diagram.

here goes:

Leafhopper, designed by Ryan Welsh
folded from Tissue foil 30x30 cm

EDIT : I lowered the wings.

merman · Post by **merman** » March 2nd, 2008, 10:59 pm

well for your first insect it looks pretty impressive. Just make sure you drop the wings down just a little bit more over the abdomen. Congrats!

Trekker_1983 · Post by **Trekker_1983** » March 3rd, 2008, 12:09 am

Thanks! I dropped the wings on the picture edit.

merman wrote:it's so funny: a friend of mine has the EXACT same picture hanging in his house! the neck may be a bit too long though...

heh? what a coincidence...