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Small Boat
| Author | Traditional |
| Category | conveyance |
| Difficulty | ** |
| Format | square |
| Base | others |
| Text | *This traditional boat requires a little attention to succeed.
1. Take a square sheet of paper. Hold it in a vertical position. 2. Bring the upper edge to the lower edge using a valley fold from top to bottom. Mark the fold. We now have a rectangle of double thickness, bordered at the top by a hinge side and by three other free sides. 3. Bring the lower edge of the front flap onto the upper hinge fold using a valley fold from bottom to top. Mark the fold. 4. Bring the lower edge of the rear flap to the upper hinge fold using a mountain fold. Mark the fold. We now have a rectangular shape of quadruple thickness, forming a kind of accordion. There is a front free flap and a rear free flap, each connected to a single interior flap. The two middle flaps are connected to two flaps, one inside and one outside. 5. Open the rectangle flat on the middle fold. We obtain a double-thickness rectangular shape, consisting of a large rear flap to which are attached, by two upper and lower hinge folds, two free flaps which meet in the middle. 6. Continue to fold the shape on its central fold, so that the half flaps are on the inside. In practice, we simply reversed the middle fold of step 4. 7. Bring the upper edge to the lower edge using a mountain fold, without marking the fold. Pinch the new fold at both ends. We obtain a three-dimensional shape of which we are only interested in the two pinched ends. 8. Bring the lower right front corner to the pinch fold using a valley fold (45¡ fold). 9. Do the same for the lower left front corner. Unfold the faint crease. We find the flat rectangle of step 6, except that the two lower corners have been replaced by triangular flaps folded into the valley. There are now 45¡ edges which will form the bow and stern. 10. Fold the upper front edge of the rectangle horizontally into a valley so that the edge that is folded down slightly covers the upper edges of the two corner triangles. This will block them during final formatting. 11. Fold the upper rear edge horizontally so that the new fold is the same height as the previous upper fold. We thus have a shape made up of two flaps attached by a fold-hinge at the bottom (the bottom of the boat) and by the triangular corners. The two upper folds hide an opening. 12. It remains to shape by passing your thumb inside the opening, so as to gently spread the edges of the boat. The two ends must be held in place so that they maintain a pointed shape. We flatten the bottom slightly, and all that remains is to place the boat on it. We can consider variations of shape, by playing on the height of the triangles (more or less large, identical or not), the angle of withdrawal (other than 45¡) and the height of the rails. |
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| Small Boat - PDF file | ML-Convey03Ang.pdf |