Month: May 2016

Scaled Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2 08-10

Origami, Scaled Works of Satoshi Kamiya

There are 3 models this week from Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2 (with squares of 27.9 cm a side), as two of these models are pretty similar.

WOSK_208 - TURBAN SHELL (1) WOSK_208 - TURBAN SHELL (3)

Turban Shell, the eighth model of the book, is based on the horned turban gastropod. That’s why there’s a swirly inside the shell; that’s the little animal that built the shell. Apparently, they can become demons according to Japanese mythology (sazae-oni), but I don’t really know about them.

WOSK_208 - TURBAN SHELL (2) WOSK_208 - TURBAN SHELL (4)

After they die, hermit crabs can use the shell for protection. I can’t think of any other animals that do that, but there must be some.

WOSK_208B - HERMIT CHOCOBO (1) WOSK_208B - HERMIT CHOCOBO (3)

I initially made the Hermit Crab from the thicker paper (not a great idea), so some of the details were lost. Since I was going to have to make it again, I decided to use larger, medium-thick paper to get all the details right. I guess that kind of goes against the theme of this whole series, but I don’t really want to make it again again at the moment.

WOSK_209 - HERMIT CRAB (103) WOSK_209 - HERMIT CRAB (106) WOSK_209 - HERMIT CRAB (105) WOSK_209 - HERMIT CRAB (104) WOSK_209 - HERMIT CRAB (110) WOSK_209 - HERMIT CRAB (109)

All the images with the crab alone are not to scale (above), but the two pictures with the chocobo have the thicker, 27.9 cm paper and show the size of the hermit crab with the consistent scale (below).

WOSK_209 - HERMIT CRAB (101) WOSK_209 - HERMIT CRAB (102)

Model 10 is a Tree Frog and does not share similarities to other models in the book like the previous two models. (That is, unless some frogs use gastropod shells like hermit crabs. But that seems unlikely, as it would hinder their legs. A frog could wear a tiny shell as a hat, though, to be fashionable. It could happen. What was I talking about?)

WOSK_210 - TREE FROG (2) WOSK_210 - TREE FROG (3)

This model also uses 3D more extensively. It also has great toes on all four feet. The nose looks different from the original because I changed it a little to fold something in there as a lock. This also makes the eyes look a little odd, but I think he still looks ok.

WOSK_210 - TREE FROG (5) WOSK_210 - TREE FROG (7)

WOSK_210 - TREE FROG (8)

WOSK_210 - TREE FROG (9)

Puchi Fighter

Origami, Original Designs

Another Puchi Dragon Quest monster is the Puchi Fighter. He is the warrior class leaf dude.

WKO_006 - PUCHI FIGHTER(101) WKO_006 - PUCHI FIGHTER(102) WKO_006 - PUCHI FIGHTER(103)

His yellow versions are the プチファイター (Puchi Fighter), FoFightr, and Conkerer in the DS version of Dragon Quest V. The blue/grey ones are コロファイター (Koro Fighter), PodFightr, and Battle Pip. I really don’t get why they decided to rename the Koro Hero to Pip Fighter and the Koro Fighter to Battle Pip. I guess it doesn’t make much difference when the yellow/green ones are all Conk-puns, but I still don’t get the name shell game. Is “Battle Pip” a thing? Like an expression or brand of cola?

WKO_006 - PUCHI FIGHTER(105) WKO_006 - PUCHI FIGHTER(106)

I actually made this one last (after the Puchi Mage). I couldn’t get the hat colour changed, but I’d really need 3 colours to do it justice anyway. I do like how the hat and colour change turned out. Also, an axe is extremely hard to make out of paper.

WKO_006 - PUCHI FIGHTER(107)

 

Scaled Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2 06-07

Origami, Scaled Works of Satoshi Kamiya

I’ve been wondering if there’s a more consistent way to open these. Like a form letter. Or at least the same paragraph at the front. Oh well. These models are from Satoshi Kamiya’s second “Works” book, are all made from squares with 29.7 cm long edges, and are shown by The Yellow Bird model from his first “Works” book at the same scale to compare model size.

WOSK_206 - LITTLE BIRD (1) WOSK_206 - LITTLE BIRD (3) WOSK_206 - LITTLE BIRD (5) WOSK_206 - LITTLE BIRD (6)

WOSK_206 - LITTLE BIRD (8)

“Little Bird” is the sixth model in the book. While many of his models become 3D near the end, the 3D in this one is much more important to the model and comes up a bit earlier. A lot of the details must be developed while the model is already 3D, particularly the legs, so it’s a pretty interesting model to fold.

WOSK_207 - LYREBIRD (1) WOSK_207 - LYREBIRD (2) WOSK_207 - LYREBIRD (3) WOSK_207 - LYREBIRD (4)

WOSK_207 - LYREBIRD (5)

A Lyrebird is the following model. I mixed the blue-grey too dark, so, sorry if the details are hard to make out. It has the fancy tail, the two large side tail feathers, an open beak, wings that are a bit open, and tiny little feet. Mine appears to be doing the splits. Yeah, well, he has spirit, I suppose.

Rhamphorhynchus

Origami, Original Designs

It’s a mouthful, huh? A rhamphorhynchus is a type of pterosaur, like a pteranodon, with a long tail and fairly long neck. If you think of a typical flying dinosaur, the rhamphorhynchus’s neck is about twice or three times as long as that one’s. So, it’s not like a flying giraffe, flailing through the air.

Calling it a dinosaur is incorrect (as is the term “flying dinosaur” above), but a lot of people group pterosaurs in a general, non-sciency term of dinosaurs. Hopefully, I’m not getting on anyone’s nerves when I do that. On the other hand, who puts that many silent h’s in a word?

WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (101) WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (102)

WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (103) WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (104)

I’m not the most consistent person (just look at my posts’ dates). Whenever I fold this, I tend to do something a bit different. The two above are earlier versions, and the green and black ones each have very different heads. I also thought the neck was a bit long and the body was small and/or undefined.

WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (112) WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (111)

WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (108) WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (106)

WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (107) WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (109)

WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (115) WKO_002 - RHAMPHORHYNCHUS (113)

These three are more recent. Instead of making them uniform, I played up the individuality in the heads and made the wings unique also. It’s hard to see, but the new black model has swirl eyes similar to the previous black one. The lines in his wings also kind of cascade. The yellow one has eyes like the green one but a head like the black one. It also has more well-defined wings. The red one has peacockish wings and what turned out to be a muppet-like face. They all have shorter necks, which I used to define the separation between neck and body.