The Spiderfold Chronicles, part 3

[larryhammer]

Thanks to a plurality's confirming my prejudices, I made the Orb Weaver. Before pictures, showing the paper's translucency and pattern:




The second picture shows the spiderweb pattern if you click through to the full size.

The folding itself took a couple days, with pauses for Life and to press the model flat every once in a while. The paper itself was interesting to work with, where by "interesting" I mean finicky. It takes creases almost too well, which means it doesn't like reversing folds -- not as bad as foil, but similar. Which meant all the closed wraps and unsinks were ... a challenge. The effect was like trying to fold extra-stiff onion-skin. Fortunately, all the places I ripped it are folded in out of sight.

As you can see:




Click through for the bigger picture. I'm pretty pleased with it myself. The photo doesn't really convey that the abdomen is translucent, with only one layer of paper there.

Now then -- I have one more marbled piece, similar to the griffin's, but more diagonally swirly and less pink. I think this calls for another poll.

[Poll #1094887]

---L.

Comments

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

I like the redundant evil-ness of a the translucent spider-body covered with little translucent spiders and spiderwebs. Extra evil with a dollop of evil whipped cream.

And I suppose all that evilness puts me in the mood for the scorpion. Though I don't have any real objections to meese.

[larryhammer]

Either scorpion or moose would be supremely challenging -- they're both the last (i.e., hardest) model in their respective books. (The scorpion is Lang's, like the spiders, and the moose Montroll's, like the griffin.) I've done each one before, but only once. Either way, I think I'll make a practice run in regular paper again.

This is fun. Thank you again for enabling me.

And yes, that's a very evil spider. It fills me with glee.

---L.

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

I think it is glee well-earned! And kind of catching.

[coyoty.livejournal.com]

You could try doing that 8-foot scorpion found in Germany. It should be easier to fold, but you'll need a lot more paper.

[larryhammer]

I don't have anything larger than 14x14" on hand.

Actually, folding on the scale of feet is daunting. The stuff's hard enough to manipulate when it's just a little larger than your spread hand.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

How much paper would an eight foot model need?

[larryhammer]

Of the scorpion? About 20 feet square -- call it 6x6 meters.

---L.

[harvestar.livejournal.com]

So very, very cool!

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

awesome

[incandragon.livejournal.com]

Way cool spider. I hope you're proud of it, because it's fabulous. Even without the supremo-cool paper (but extra points for the supremo cool, and apparently tricksy, paper)!

[larryhammer]

More gleeful than proud.

---L.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Elegant.

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

w-wait! I want to change my vote to "moose," now that I've seen the picture....

That spider is marvelous.

The paper looks like it is slippery--is it?

[larryhammer]

If you click on the Poll #1094887 link, then [ Fill Out Poll ], you can change your vote. (Works on any poll, actually.)

Not particularly slippery, no. At least, not on the more textured side, which is what I was working with, mostly.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks--changed :-D

(though a dragon would be cool too--just: the moose is even more so. Also, the moose makes me think of this picture of the forest spirit in Princess Mononoke)

[larryhammer]

It's less wild in the antler parts than that. And in nature.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

True enough--it was just train of thought and association :-)

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I am in awe that anyone I know can do this. I fiddled with origami for a time, but sort of just forgot about it. My imagination didn't go much beyone swans and paper hats.

[randimason.livejournal.com]

You should do a spider crab.
If there is such a pattern.

Darn it, now I will have to look for one. ^_^

[larryhammer]

Not a spider crab specifically, but in the Lang & Montroll Origami Sea Life there's a ye generic crab (as well as a hermit crab in its shell, which I've never successfully folded).

---L.

[larryhammer]

Actually, Origami Sea Life has three crabs: blue, fiddler, and hermit.

---L.