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Blue-Paper — Scaled Wyvern
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The result of many hours of work.Designed and folded by me from one uncut square of paper.
Yes. One uncut square of paper. Don't ask me to prove it...please.
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WOW. Utterly fantastic! The scales and horns and... GWUH. Pretty.
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Wow. I've tried origami and the most complex thing I designed was a sloth... and that was accidental.
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XD its tough, but i would most likely fail anyway.. lol...
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Wow, this is awesome! I especially love the gold underpaper for the wings and such 
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The gold is just the other side of the paper XD and I generally don't like using foil for finished models (as it doesn't photograph well) but I made an exception for this one because of the designs complexity....and because I didn't haveany larger paper ._. I actually folded a more recent version of the model, as well :/
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Very cool 
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Whoa, way too cool. I'd like to fold it! I guess it'll be a dream.
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To prove, you could make a few pictures from the start of a work =3 Its really gorgeous what you do with Paper! I love the wyvern =3 And the guinea pig army is just too cute ^.^
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I do have a picture of an earlier version before I folded it [link] if that works 
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Hell, what a bunch of work O o
I mean -I- believe you, but cause you meant "Dont ask me to prove it" =3
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wow. that is so amazing. how long did it take you to do this..?
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This one took me about 8 hours (not all at once, I spread it out over about 3 days)
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Wow. How long have you been doing origami?
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uhhhhh...... many years. Since kindergarten. So about 10 or 11 years.
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Wow.. Thats a long time. well keep up the awesome work! :
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Very, very well done. The proportions are excellent, and you made superb use of pattern grafting. Absolutely elegant. One of my favorite models so far.
Haha you're the next Satoshi Kamiya.
Diagrams would be a pain in the ass, but don't you at least have some notes or such? I'd would be helpful to see the designing process as I'm trying to learn myself.
And, what size square did you use for this?
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Here is the crease pattern [link]
And here is a picture showing what everything forms [link]
As for the designing process, the concept of how I would integrate the scales into the design actually came from a failed attempt at a turtle. This is actually a second, upgraded version of the design, the first one didn't have scales on the tail.
This one is folded from a 26 inch square of foil.
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Thank you for that. It's exactly what I wanted. Good job with everything btw. Intense CP.
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Well, I used this type of paper in my cat, but with tissue paper glued on the golden side of the foil.
Finally I varnished it.
Do you have diagrams of this thing????
It is just impressive!!!!
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prove it! HAHA GOTCHA Xd
Found ya. nice model (allthough i consider wyverns to be no limbed) maybe diagramm (perhaps you wanna drop by #PAPERFOLDERS its my chat)
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Well if wyverns had no limbs, then thay wouldn't have wings or legs 
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oh well who cares. thats just a techincality, You made something cool from a peice of paper! daigramms?
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.........really? you're kidding right? A diagram for this model would take me an incredibly long time for me to make and would also be incredibly long and difficult...... that and it doesn't really have a definate folding sequence 
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CP at least? (i havent found it yet) i forget tha diagramss can take a long time if they are 100+steps
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Here's a link to the CP [link]
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gah!!! overload!! could you put some lables for what forms what?
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Sure, but there really isn't much to it (what everything forms, I mean), The head is in the top left corner, the tail is the bottom right, legs are in the middle, and the wings are formed from the lower left and upper right corners. If you're still unsure, I have another picture that is labeled [link]
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thats freaking amazing- how'd you get all the scales done?
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Quite nice. Have you ever seen the Wyverns by Jake Crowley? Its a pity hes dropped off the face of the earth, I think there are some photos of his multi-piece scaled ones on Joseph Wu's site. Anyway, keep up the good work.
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Yeah ,I've seen the pictures of his stuff. They are pretty good, but as you said, they are from multiple peices. Mine is from just one square of paper.
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Indeed, I can tell it is one piece. You applied Kamiya-esque scales, talons, and head nicely to the model. The only part I dislike is the back of the neck. You've made wonderful use of it being open-backed with the tail and wings, the neck just seems out of place.
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When you say "the back part of the neck" what do you mean? Do you mean the outside reverse fold at the top, where the top of the neck meets the wings, or the fact that it has an open back? Either way, this isn't the final version, I'll probably fold another one for OUSA next year, with some paper that isn't foil and a lot of MC
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The neck flap itself. It appears to be a 3-D rabbit ear, so the spine side of the neck is actually a valley and appears hollow. It may just be the angle though. It breaks the wondeful "heft" aspect that the belly, tail, and underside of the neck captures.
It "seems" easily fixed, I'd have to fold the model to see, but you could probably use the opening flaps in the back of the neck to make it fully 3-D.
I'll probably see you there if my wallet holds out. I'm usually sitting with the designers, just look for the guy in a club/hawaiian shirt 
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It might just be the angle of the picture, I think you're talking about near where the head meets the neck, I have more pictures of this model on my flickr page. The neck is partially scaled as well (though its not all that noticable where the neck body ends and the neck begins in this picture).
But anyway, thats probably something I'll fix when I make it again.
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Detailed down to the scales, it's brilliant. How big is this dragon?
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The dragon is about 12 inches from head to tail.
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