Peace on Earth...

I don't really know how I stumbled on this angel, but I remember I was just trying a preliminary base with inside reverse folds on each flap. Then I made the head with a sink and a squash, and it all went from there. The CP below includes the head and wings, but it doesn't show how the arms are made. Thats for you to figure out.


As you can see, its fairly simple. It actually ends up quite a bit like the Frog Man that I folded from a frog base quite a while ago.

Reindeer

For me, its quite a challenge to fold something thats somewhat complex yet not boxpleated. However, I'm still trying my best to not use boxpleating, and I believe that I am learning something from it. It certainly makes the models look a lot nicer. Now if only I could figure out how to design from CPs this way...
Anyways, I did end up folding something that looks like a reindeer. The only problem is that the head is huge compared to the body. I guess that it must be a bit cartoonish...


That up there is the CP for the reindeer, as you probably guessed. The right and left sections, around the middle, are a bit strange. I drew them on how it looked, but it still doesn't seem quite right.

Happy Holidays

Seeing as the holidays are fast approaching, I had to do my part by folding that Christmas tree that I wanted to fold. I didn't quite get as many decorations on it as I would have liked, but it came out incredible cleanly folded. In fact, this is one of my first times with tissue foil that I didn't really mess any of it up with wrinkles. The model also came out incredibly simple, but thats okay.


The little things in the corners can be however big you want them to be. They are the little ornaments. It is possible to make it with more ornaments, but I really like how this ended up.



And this year, as a late Christmas gift, here are the Diagrams.

Squirrel

Yesterday, I decided that it was time to design something. I'm halfway through the month, and I've only already folded two things. I started folding, trying to fold a christmas tree with decorations, but I just couldn't get it. After about a hours worth of folding and getting absolutely nothing, I gave up. Then, after calming down, I tried folding something else. Something rather random. I ended up with a squirrel. I just thought of Komatsu's squirrel, and decided to try something like it. Starting with the tail, I folded my way up the the head and voila. I had a squirrel.
The CP is a bit hard to understand. The inner line by the middle diagonal is 1/8th from the middle. The line just after that is 1/4 away from the middle.


As you can see, the top right corner and the bottom corner are paper not used. You can just fold them under the model (in case you didn't already know that).



Oh, and for those of you who are wondering: I'm still going to try and fold that christmas tree. I don't know if I'll be able, but I'll try my best.

The anger of the skies

I've always though of a thunder and lightning storm to be the anger of the sky. It just starts shooting down streaks of energy and making loud sounds because of the heat. Even if you don't think that its anger, it certainly isn't happiness. Anyway, this month's challenge is emotion, on the english origami forum. The idea is to be able to express emotion through art, like some painters do. Personally, I think it may be a bit hard in some ways. But I won't get into details.
The CP is a bit random, but you should understand it after a while


The top part is the cloud. You just have to fold it down and crinkle it until it looks like a cloud. The bolts need a bit of thinning and shaping done afterwards.

Soaring high in the sky

A long, long time ago, I told a person from the BZFlag forums, by the name of eagle, that I would try and fold an eagle. I was in luck this month, because I didn't have any ideas for the french forum's challenge, to fold a model with color changes. Well, I could probably have very easily folded something, but I wanted a nice model. Then, once I saw eagle on the forums once again, I knew what I could fold.
After a very short time folding, I made a base that worked well:

The red lines are the reference points, at 1/4 from the center to the corner. The other line just bottom right of the red line is 3/8 from the center to the corner.

This base required quite a bit of shaping, but after some time you should get a model that looks something like this:

Spaceship

Once again, I all of the sudden felt like folding something. I didn't know what at the moment, but I got to folding anyway. It didn't take me long to come up with a base somewhat like the others that I've been folding recently, by which I mean the combination of four traditional bases. However, unlike most of the others, I used three fish bases and a bird base this time. This is the CP that I ended up with:


So then the question was what to do with it. I started off by sinking and squashing the top. At first I thought it looked rather like a clock, but it had too many flaps for that. Then I ended up folding out the wings, and it went from there. Eventually, I ended up with a spaceship. On my second try, I found that the whole model had no color changes, so I color changed the cockpit.

Long Nosed Butterflyfish

After folding the goldfish, I didn't really feel to satisfied for the challenge. This month's challenge on the english origami forum, as mentioned before, is "Something Fishy". I decided to try fooling around with a blintz frog base. So, I started with a blintz preliminary base, and then I folded a blintz frog and bird base combined on one of the flaps. It did look rather like a fin, so I did this again on the other side. The other part I just folded like a regular frog base- not blintzed. This gave me the following CP:


The CP folds a bit strangely, but with any luck you should get the right base. The model should end up something like this:

The Snack that Smiles Back

"... the wholesome snack that smiles back until you bite their heads off
did you know they're made with real cheese
even though they look like fishies
the snack that smiles back
GOLDFISH!"

The well known cheesy snack just had to be folded. This month's challenge on the english forum is "Something Fishy". As soon as I saw the title, without even reading the description, I grabbed a piece of paper and folded a kite base fish. It sat by the computer for a week or two, and I found it again and turned it into something looking like the goldfish snack. I'm not giving a CP because the kite base is just too simple for that. I'll just leave you to guess how its folded.

Bracelet

This month's challenge for the french forum is modulars. I don't often fold modulars, and I don't think that I've ever "designed" one before. I decided to try making some traditional waterbombs and connecting them using a very simple... unit. All the paper is the same size, so it works out quite well.
I can't exactly give a CP, seeing as it wouldn't make that much sense, and waterbombs are well known already. However, I'll try my best to describe how to fold the unit: precrease the horizontal halves. Then fold two of the sides into the middle. You should get a rectangle. Then fold the other two that you didn't fold last time into the conter. Now you have a smaller square. Repeat this once more (on just two of the sides) and then fold it in half so that it once again makes a smaller square. Fold the two flaps down to the halfway point, and the inside reverse fold the corners of the inside part (two folds). Now try inserting one of the flaps into the two pockets on the side of a waterbomb.
They don't really stay together that well, but you should eventually end up with something like this:

Some Assembly Required

I don't usually make multi-piece models, mainly because I'm a purist in that sense. However, this month's challenge on the french forum is multi-piece models or modulars, or at least I thought is was. It turns out to be only modulars...
I just can't resist a good challenge, so I tried my best to see what I could get. I didn't want something with the same unit over and over again, so I went with a simple four piece man. I even made the three CPs!
I decided to name it Action Figure because it ended up with a V on the front. This kind of reminded me of some sort of super hero or whatever.

Torso.


Arm (you need to fold two of these). Use 1/4 the size of paper of the torso.


Legs. Use 1/2 the size the size of paper compared to the torso.


The arms slide in to the side, at the shoulders, and the legs slide in at the bottom of the torso. Good luck!

Warroirs of the Water

I recently had the idea to try folding something using Charles Esseltine's Dragon head (from the Dragon in Flight). At first the idea was to fold a crane with the head, just for fun:


...but I ended up making a Viking Dragon Ship. The only problem is that there is no sail or oarsmen. I might try the oarsmen later, but they will be separate pieces.
The top horizontal line is at 1/8 from the top. From there, you should be able to figure out how the rest was made (or at least get the creases in)


All you need to do now is thin the tail and curve up the head. And voila! You have your very own viking ship.

Ant

This was one of my more random models. Unlike most of my other insects, this one is not boxpleated. I had the idea in my head to fold something using three bird bases and a frog, and it eventually ended up as pretty much all bird bases so that it would collapse properly. The CP certainly doesn't show that much of the model, seeing as there are a few valley folds and sinks for the legs.


As you can see, its fairly simple for a CP. But, as mentioned above, theres a lot of other things to fold before the finished model. Here is an example of what the model should end up like:

Mermaid

I have little idea how I came up with this design. I was trying a simple harpoon using boxpleating, and it didn't really work out. Through a bit of doodling with the base (from the harpoon, all I added were the fingers)and I somehow ended up with something that has two arm, and then two other long flaps. These long flaps became hair, a body and a tail. I had folded a mermaid!
The only problem is that color changes don't work well with this model. I guess it's best to fold it all from green or blue paper.
The base is somewhat based on a 16:16 grid (on the sides).


The model needs quite a bit of shaping. Using this base, you get a bit of a tail, two arms and a long stretch of paper. Good luck!

Gone Whaling

Because I have been reading the book "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville recently, I decided that it might be fun to try and design a whale. I knew that I probably wouldn't be able to get anything good out of boxpleating, seeing as whales are not very detailed. I ended up using the good old kite base to fold my whale, seeing as its fairly whale shaped.
I haven't made a CP for the model, but a diagram may pop up somewhere in the near future. This model seems to be my best model to diagram so far, and I need to write diagrams eventually.
Anyways, the model ended up like this. I can't exactly say that you should end up with something like this.

Soccer Player

To make this soccer player, I just flipped over the guy doing the bicycle kick. It worked quite well, and I didn't have to spend a lot of time making a new CP. In general, its pretty much the same CP. However, the soccer player in now standing up instead of in the air. It's from the same grid as the last one, so please look it up if you can't remember.


It should take about the same amount of time to fold this as it does the Bicycle Kick. This model will certainly stand up better than the other, seeing as its a lot more balanced.

Something Else to Cover Your Face With

Seeing as I wanted to make a mask with plain old shaping, I decided to try again without boxpleating. I can't really say that this one turned out better, because that wouldn't be true, but I am still happy with the result. I decided to go with a blintz base, and I just doodled from there. Heres what I ended up with for a CP (However, I didn't design it using the CP)


Its quite simple, and I'm pretty sure that the base is all pureland. Only the shaping isn't. The main thing is to get the ears small enough, because they start out really big once you start shaping.


not a self portrait this time. I didn't have any more brown paper.