645: (95/365) Peacock

A model I had mastered as a child was the only Peacock I had seen folded until fairly recently:

This is Edwin Corrie’s Peacock, a magic little model that makes a tight efficient little body out of one corner of the square leaving lots of paper for the fan-shaped tail. Continue reading

644: (94/365) Picnic at Hanging Rock

While in regional Victoria, in the vicinity of the Macedon Ranges, it seemed wrong to leave Hanging Rock off our agenda. Back in the 70’s, there was an important Australian movie made called “Picnic at Hanging Rock”:

A fiction/mystery, it involved the mysterious disappearance of some school girls at the rock, after they had a picnic. We visited, climbed and were not lost, thankfully, but by sheer coincidence we visited on the 50th anniversary of the book, and also by good chance they were filming a mini-serialisation of the same story in the woods we walked through.

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643: (93/365) Square Bear

Australia do not really have bears, well, nothing that is actually a bear but this charming model needed to be folded so folded it I did:

This is Edwin Corrie’s Square Bear, a charming model that is relatively simple but demonstrative of form. Continue reading

639: (89/365) Baby TRex

I am sure dinosaurs were not cute – not even baby ones as they were snappy wild beasts:

The little purple beauty is designed by Issei Yoshino and is a lovely exercise in colour management. Continue reading