Jun Maekawa Wolf - help i'm stuck

treezrppl2 · Post by **treezrppl2** » January 26th, 2011, 8:45 am

i have a copy of 「ビバ！おりがみ」 (aka Viva! Origami) by Jun Maekawa and i'm attempting to fold the wolf (きつね) on page 88, but have gotten completely stuck on step 23.

i think there's an english translation of the book, though i don't own it, nor do i know whether the wolf pattern is in it.

if the mods are okay with it i could post a snippit of the specific steps i'm stuck on so maybe i could get a better explanation. but i don't want to hurt any copywriters or anything.

anyway, help would be greatly appreciated, but please be gentle. i'm a complete novice at this, and have only taken up the hobby for this one pattern.

erfael · Post by **erfael** » January 26th, 2011, 6:26 pm

It's been a few months since I folded that, but I'll see if I can remember. I do recall that sequence being a little baffling. I think it's an issue of that being a 3D picture without really letting you know that.

What you're looking at there is an intermediate step between 22 and 24. Imagine the star on diagram 22 pointing straight up off of the page into the air on diagram 23. So you're starting a petal fold on 22. On 23 you're halfway through it. As you're making that petal fold, bisect the angles at the bottom of diagram 23. Those edges become the vertical sides of diagram 24. By the end of 23, the little star is the very top of the model.

Let me know if that helps. If it just doesn't I'll try to fold it in the next day or two and take pictures, though I've not done that before and don't know how nice a job I'll do.

EDIT: I cannot imagine doing that as a first model...I'd been folding for months and there were some things in there that took a little while to understand (mainly due to diagramming style and issues). I imagine the diagrams would be even harder to decipher for someone with very little experience doing so.

treezrppl2 · Post by **treezrppl2** » January 27th, 2011, 2:51 am

Sorry to be a bother erfael.
I'm having a ton of trouble figure our where exactly to fold my model to get it to resemble step 23. I have my paper folded to look exactly like step 22, but the creases at this dtage confuse me. If you could clarify that (either with words or photos) I'd be golden.

Thank you so much.

ahudson · Post by **ahudson** » January 27th, 2011, 3:11 am

I should mention that in step 23 the model is NOT flat.

treezrppl2, you should try a model with an easier petal fold to get the technique down before you try it here. The Flapping Bird is a common one, diagrams are all over the internet; also, Dennis Walker's Snowflake has several petal folds in it.

treezrppl2 · Post by **treezrppl2** » January 29th, 2011, 11:15 pm

i'm sorry erfael, it still doesn't make any sense to me. i keep looking at the model i have in front of me and in diagram 22, but i can't seem to figure out which step (of many) i do first for diagram 22.

there are a lot of arrows jutting from the model in diagram 22, and the order of them is probably what's confusing me... could you possibly help clarify that?

EDIT: I've figured it out, being that this is my first model, there were a couple things i didn't understand, specifically the difference between valley and mountain folds and the ambiguity of hand drawn images.