Spinosaurus-Shuki Kato

I've wanted to try this one for years (probably since I first saw the diagrams some years ago), and only now have realized this dream.

This is the Spinosaurus, designed by Shuki Kato. Almost a decade ago (wow) the staff of Origami Weekly produced hand-drawn diagrams for it:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/origamiweekly/4079269103
The download no longer works, but I had a printed copy floating around my house which I used.

Starting with an 18 inch square, some waterbomb like folds yield a structure that little resembles a dinosaur

I have to admit that when I originally got to this part I had also noticed that my paper was not a square, and considered giving up, worried that my references would be too far off the mark for me to be able to complete the fold. Luckily, I persevered.

That picture on the bottom right is me folding during lunch, not at home.

And at last, after some hours worth of total folding, the finished product!
I like the detailed toes and fingers, but I do kind of feel like the forelegs are too short. But otherwise this is definitely a cool design. It also stands on its own!

 Here's a quick comparison with the Carnotaurus from last week:

A poorly taken outside picture,

And of course, battle time!

Carnotaurus-Satoshi Kamiya

Over the past two years I've become more and more busy, and my new schedule makes it more difficult for me to make polished and practiced final folds for my Flickr Gallery. Nowadays after folding a test fold from test paper, I usually move on to the next design I've happened upon. But these test folds don't seem like they really belong on my Flickr gallery, so I've decided to create this blog for me to post all the little things I work on or fold in little updates (although most likely nobody except me will bother reading it).  At any rate, it will certainly be something interesting to look back on in a couple years.

So I recently found some time to attempt the Carnotaurus diagrammed in Works of Satoshi Kamiya (Vol. 1). I have attempted it once before, out of 6-inch tant (not ideal, I know), but the result wasn't exactly pretty. This time around I chose a much more suitable paper:  an 18 inch square of Masking Paper. This paper is a really good all  round test paper, and I'll probably write about it later.

This attempt started off much more promising than the last. I was careful to  make each crease as accurate as possible.

I forgot to take more in between pictures though (oops, I'll probably get to that next time) until I got to an almost completed base:

There was a little hiccup in the arms; I could not figure out how the arms were being swiveled into position, but I just applied a technique from shaping to get it done a different way with similar (I hope results)

This point was really exciting. The fold was coming along really cleanly despite the significant number of steps involving folding through layers that adds onto paper creep inaccuracy.
Maybe 30 minutes later, I was (mostly) finished:

This is the product I obtained without any embellishments or glue. I was pretty pleased with the result and impressed that Kamiya had designed it to stand up without supports. Things like that require very careful management of layers/paper usage and are a testament to his skill.

But the paper was still thin, and there was a crease going through the upper thigh  that was causing the legs to splay and fall so I decided to  add a little glue for display longevity

The final product is now sitting on my desk and I will update this page when I photograph it.

Edit (10/10/18)
Here's a photo (a little poorly lit :(  )