I have a “2 fold” pile that stretches back years. One fold, from the book “VOG 2” finally bubbled to the top:

This is the wonderful Tortoise designed by Nguyen Hung Cuong, a fully 3D model that, although it has a simplified structure, has all the hallmarks of a Testudine (the family of Tortoises – generally slow-moving land-dwelling relations to turtles).

After test-folding the major structure of the model, I dug out a 50cm square of Satogami, from Origami-shop and began folding. The sequence is lovely, and rewards the folder for taking time and contemplating the angles of the many “to about here” folds inherent in the shaping phases.

Someone more talented than me could probably add more details to the head and shell, but i like the suggestion of detail and attention to proportion of this model. I wet-folded sections of it and, because it has such good locks, it is pretty stable by dry-folding alone.

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