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: