These pages display a selection of my work from various displays. Most are taken on a Fujifilm MX-1200 digital camera. To see the full picture, click on the thumbnail. I have tried to include the names of the designers for any model not created by myself. Unless indicated, I have not made copies of the diagrams below. Also, I do not own the copyright to the diagrams of models below not designed by me, so I cannot send any by E mail. Click above to see image Just for a change, here's another dragon. Carrying on from the last few designs, I've incorporated a series of strip grafts into a deformed blintz bird base to give extra horns and frills. The mouth and frills now come from the centre of the model, with the five horns and eyes from a corner. The next challenge is to work out how to give a dragon model teeth... Click above to see image Three more dragon models - guess which my favourite subject is! I've been experimenting with different heads, wings and tails, all formed from incorporating different numbers of pleats into the same basic from as the silver dragon. These models are starting to get quite bulky inside, so I'm going to have to design a different set of bases if I want to give all of them clawed feet. Click above to see image Another dragon design! For this model, I have tried to take a different approach from the Silver dragon. Although the head is similar, the body uses a different design. I have incorporated a series of pleats inside the model to allow for claws and feet. I had though to include these pleats along the entire body to give the dragon scales, but the model would have ended up way too bulky. Click above to see image This model and the griffon below are derived from a similar base. The mane and tail have been created by a turning a flap inside-out to show the coloured side of the square. These are then pleated to give the feathered effect. Click above to see image Now, this was a tricky model to fold! Essentially, I incorporated a long pleat along the diagonal of the model. At one end, this was folded into a frog base to form the head. The other end was box-pleated and crimped a few times to give the wavey tail. The mane is a bit of a cop-out and is a simple wrap with a few pinches to make it look round. Seems to work with foil-back crepe paper, though! Click above to see image This creature took ages to design. Ive been trying to come up with a decent griffon design for ages and eventually went back to using certain bases I'd previously sneered upon. This design is folded from a modified blintzed-frog base. A 'Y' shaped pleat in the model before the base is folded allows a series of layers to allow the front claws and the tail to be folded, as well as giving the tail feathers. The center point of the frog base also ends up with a central split, which forms the ears, and a few spare layers, which nicely form the breast feathers. Click above to see image This model again goes back to simple bases. The model is based on the traditional frog base eagle design. However, there is considerable pleating of the paper prior to forming the frog base; this allows the wings and the claws to be formed, and enables the tail feathers to develop. Click above to see image This Silver Dragon is a six-peice modular design with no cuts and just a little bit of glue. It was designed and folded one night while on call as a Junior house surgeon a while back, during a quiet night at the hospital. It was later assembled and added to the wooden plinth. Click above to see image This is a model of a Tatsu, a Dai-oni, or 'Terrible spirit'. Unlike the ferocious fire-breathing monsters of Western mythology, Eastern dragons are wise and magical spirits of the air, often with great magical powers. They are represented as having long snake-like bodies with no wings. This model is made from 14 bird bases, one frog base for the head, and one long strip of paper for the body. I designed it as a present for my mother, and it proundly sits on a stand in her lounge. Click above to see image I've been working on a few new bases for four legged animals. This comes from one of my more sucessful ones which involved dividing the 90 degree corner angle of a square into sixths. This results in a whole new set of angles to work with, rather than the usuall 90, 45, 22.5 etc. Click above to see images This model took ages! It is possibly the most difficult model that I have created and possibly my favourite. It is folded from a 1.5 meter square of home made foil-backed paper using aluminium foil and black tissue paper. It is essentially a long stretched bird base, with extra layers for the head. The scales were created with lots of crimps. I had intened to use a method similar to Eric Joisel's Pangolin, which he taught at the BOS conference, but the paper was too thick and the result looked good anyway. The thick layers of foil allowed the elegant posture of the neck and head. The overall model is about 30cm long.