Oct
2009
The manta ray is a fairly simple design, it doesn’t need particularly big or thin paper so you shouldn’t have too much trouble folding it.
May
2009
The mosquito is definitely the most complex model I’ve designed so far. I’d say it falls under the category of complex, perhaps even super-complex, so requires a reasonable amount of experience with open-sink folds, box pleating and so on.
The diagrams were terribly hard to draw 
I drew the mosquito’s crease pattern before I folded it, so it was basically designed to be a crease pattern. I’ve done my best with the steps though, and I hope you can follow them. By the way, we’re now using Lightbox, so please click a step image to view an enlarged image – you’ll probably need it 
Update: We’re now using prettyPhoto (via the wp-prettyPhoto plugin for Wordpress) to support the new video steps. Many thanks to Stéphane Caron for the prettyPhoto jQuery plugin, and also Pier-Luc Petticlerc for the WP wrapper!
J
Apr
2009
Some tips for folding the Mosquito crease pattern.
- Fold using a 32 by 32 grid, box pleated.
- Fore and hind legs are made from the corners of the paper,
- middle legs from the sides,
- antennae, proboscis and abdomen from the top and bottom
- and the wings are thick layers from the middle.
Good luck!
Feb
2009
This model, like the spider, begins with a 24×24 square. If anyone can find some good paper with a peacock pattern, please let me know!
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