Compact Dragon
By Perry Bailey Copyright 1999 (Barely)
With thanks to the work of Samuel Randlett
1. Fold a water bomb base with
the white side facing up.
2. Fold one flap over so there are three flaps on
one side and only one on the other.
3. Valley fold up the top layer of paper only, this
will leave you with a flap sticking up.
4. Take that flap that is sticking up and fold it over
to the edge of the model and then flatten the model.
5. You should have something that looks like this.
If you do repeat 3 through 4 on the other side.
6. Which should have given you some
thing like this, with one flap one side
and 2 flaps on the other, and 2 above.
Turn the model 90 degrees to the right.
7. Arguably this diagram isn’t a true 90 degrees to the right but
I doubt yours was perfect either! ( you there with compass
bad, bad person, sit in the corner and make this into a flapping
bird instead!) Fold the top flap all the way over.
8. Now if all you want was a trekkie
pin you can quit now, for the rest of
you prepare to be confused.
As you can see this appears to be
a squash, and it is sort of, if you
don’t mind messy.
9. OK now as you can see I have blown a page or two on this
in an effort to make some sort of sense out of it. You have
to start this at the top of the model and to do that you may
have to reach in behind to start it. Note it will not go all of
the way to the bottom of the model in a normal manner, as
there are too many layers of paper so when you reach the
bottom of the squash stop and go to the next page.
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10. If you stopped when it started to get strange
then you should have something sort of like
this.
11. In close up you see the model can
not fold flat, but we don’t need it to
if you pinch the center of it together
then you can proceed.
12 . To fold it back together again back to step 7
or a near equivalent which should be flat. If