I use an envelopener (purchasable from ) to split that crease, but a careful razor or sharp knife could also work. What I do is firstly make an assumption that the roll edges are true (straight) – I unroll a section and fold it back on itself, lining up the edges then creasing to get a true perpendicular. Large media is a pain to work with, you gotta be patient and gentle with initial construction folds. With some wire, a little MC and some patience, these legs and toes have HUGE modeling potential You can see he is now a set of legs and shoulders, knees and toes – the bundle of paper in the middle will be sheathed in lovely scales, no idea how yet but you get that So I sent my photos of proof to my Sensei and he asked if he had sent the MODIFIED versions featuring legs and toes…no said I – bugger.Īnother 12 hour fold, this is lesson 11 Version 2 complete This is attempt #3, it is not very tidy in places and I will probably attempt it again (just to prove to myself it was not a fluke) but fairly happy to have wrangled so much paper away: Lesson 11 – complete: What an intense fold – so much happening at once and a terrifying glimpse at what is ahead. Lesson 11 continues to perplex me – wondering why attempt 2 was so difficult, I try to collapse the feet after doing the shoulders only to realise I had done the shoulders UPSIDE DOWN, meaning all the pleats were running in the wrong direction … live and learn I suppose It is not all plain sailing – Lesson 11 is a bugger – a pair of legs and shoulder assembly that is (so far) beating me – First attempt at least found one of the feet on one side of the shoulder patches but I could not find the other foot among the plethora or crinkles – I think I will be more coordinated next attempt, and have learned a lot about careful persistence with this lesson (logic tells you all these folds can not co-exist, but they find a way): Lesson 10 – Spine Break (to make room for shoulders) I found out that I had been given an old version of lesson 8 – so got an updated one that included shaping of the toes, so re-folded to try it out: Lesson 3 – Scales and shaping – the model has 2000+ of these little blighters, better get good at them Lesson 2 – Transition units – that transform wide pleats into smaller ones Lesson1 – Blocks to fans, fans to blocks, blocks to summits and back again (4 different lessons in one)
Phoenix 3.5 satoshi kamiya diagram works of how to#
I hope I am skillful enough to learn how to fold it … we shall see. The Crease Pattern is terrifying (but if you look closely you can see head, body in 2 sections, claws and tail … well, I can):
It is a long and winding road towards folding the whole thing from one square of paper – that road consists of a myriad of skills, techniques and components all designed to tuck away 70%+ of the sheet revealing just the dragonny bits.
This blog post chronicles my progress so far. He sends me lessons, I must complete them neatly and photo-evidence back to him before he sends me the next lessons. I am honored to have been allowed to learn how to fold Satoshi Kamiya’s Ryujin 3.5 by an extraordinarily talented folder who goes under the name “MrOrigami”.