Ok boys, girls and small green aliens from alpha centauri, I present to you clues for this week’s WTF (What’s That Fold?) also model #434
I start with an enormous square (using a square cut from an a1 ish sheet of litho, no idea if it should be nice side up or down so I just guessed. Using the ourPAD as the repository of instructions and not yet known if I will need anything from my origami toolbox:
The square is collapsed into a sort of preliminary base like so:
After a squash, I then “petal” fold the top but like so:
After some twisting, squashing and swivelling, you get this:
After a little more wrangling, it looks like this:
Which, with some wrangling layers inside becomes this:
Folded in half it looks like this:
And with a little shaping, ends up looking like this:
Congratulations Libbie on successfully guessing it is in fact an Elephant, designed by Sipho Mabona – very elephantine indeed
Any guesses? The successful guesser gets the model (if they want it, and are willing to help with postage if necessary), and kudos for being fold-aware.
Put your thinking caps on and hop to it … will close this weekend!
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Hmm…. some kind of dog maybe.
I’m going with x wing
Chinese Lantern for Chinese New Year?
Nolentonk? Maybe?
Yay! Congratulations Libbie, it is a Nolentonk (Elephant)
good morning
I’m a little folder and I want to know if you have a tutorial or an elephant’s folding diagram sipho Mabona or not or can we buy it because I got a bend with PC but the model remains to small
it has been two years since I try to find the right folds I’m stuck with the front legs
if you can help me thank you in advance
and thank you for your answer
have a good day
mick
I only have the videos Sipho made from his website, they were from youtube
Hi Wonko !
Could you share the instruction video from sipho to made this wonderful elephant ?
Too huge for my server and I do not have copyright clearance to do so, sorry. Perhaps contact Sipho himself?