Blue Crab / Rock Crab by tare Kirschenbaum (NY) wrges Use a large foiLbackes square AN \ \ / | ¢ A ~ \ | ‘ ZNAN Sef “type mye 4 v ~ 4. Wns gia up: Form a waterbomb-base 5, Moulin told through 1 Vane fold toe top etg@ 10 the inforsacton of creases botiaen sce. (alley fold rst and corivent 8 mountain toi 4 Unfais, Repeat steps 3-4 tekdng Wo the onpasmy side 7 Unfoiatne pleat 8, Unto sides. 32, Come tolas trom Sip 11 ‘ato mountain Folss, ats then open up macet ertrely,15, Swing gown thap whi | 14. Sin along grease trom squashing comers. Repeat a Sep behind and then ten over 18, Preceease where indicated. Retum tothe vatertom jase postion, being sureto kop the precreasas rom Step 2 in trot os ~~] ot a Io 16, Swing Hap up; do not repeat 17. Suing tap over 18. Swing lap over white behind. Turn over, reverse folding on existing . creases. Repeat Steps 17. 1B on the other side, 18. Move! enlarges: Fabbit ear large flap along existing creases, Tha two single layers in his fap wil separate asa result 20, Swing the large tlap ever 2}. Wrap ths layer around The while Beinging ts Bae ap willhave jo be unfolded layered sides together. This ioe i essonlally a rapt eat25. Pull section out ane 10 the 22. Swing down lap; mods! will surface. This is essentially ot id a lncoing & clbsad sink anc then tlatlening 24, Step 23 carole Sena 25 Sui lap ares. Ere tap backup haten mod irate ayers ap say ugeter AN ai < y ~~ ’ losed reverse fold the tl 26. Closed reverse fold ine flap 27, Squash fold the flap. 28, Mountain fold we excess 29, Mountain fold the top single paper. Fiepeal Sleps 18-28 layers nto the mece!.De not onthe ether side ‘gp Ins step # you want to make the Bie Grab.30, Swing a tap down trem each sige 32, Same as previous step, but an a thicker flap. This time «0 not emit the mounts folds. ZN 34 Valley fold 19p. down as lightly as possible 36, Pull single layer to the ‘surtace (similar toa close¢ sirk). Do not flaten. 31. Detail of logs: Swing flaps back up again. reverse lolging up and then down, For Blue Grab, do not reverse fold down, “oP 33, Precrease using the existing fold as a guide, The ‘mountain fl should not ‘extend 10 the top. Turn over, fe 35. Valley fold fap up so that & intersects with the creases shownta os LR EA wa 37, Simukaneously fold the sides in on existing creases while folding dean tne edge created in Step 36.38 tar down as f will go {4 will ob 38 Turn model over 29, Pullout paperat the top ot 440 Reverse fold sides, the made! Al the same time ‘swing the tags down while collapsing the paper ‘sonnecting ther 41, Tum over, IN 42 rng sons othe sutace 49, Spread out sida ane pul {ssn to undoing aco800 sir). ‘ot be Fat 44, Comapse as shown, Please ‘oul single layer, model will rote thal nol allo he folds fare shown: they are either ppaniallyFormad or will form naturally. Also, avoid gerting tha logs tangied in between the layers.47, Fo1m naif ofa petal old by ‘valy toi lap up 48 Enlargod view ol tap for swinging the smal center ayee flap over. ‘Squash fold one side of the Iniangle folded up in the previous step. 48, Pullout single layer of paper ‘and flatien cut WY Fae” A Fitba 50, Foi sides in while tucking in ‘he resuting petal fold ‘undemeath. Mace! should be opened up sig 1.0 51. Pull single layer of paper overtop hall at eye ‘assembly, This is essentially a closed sink,52, Sirk sides. Do not tlaten. ‘Note tnat in the nest Giagram the claws move away irom gach ether, and the ra edges on the claws (0 not meet the center of the model 54, Flaten mocel. Keep in min that the raw edges of claws do nat meet center of mocel and the foldad eages of claws should meet the tolded edges of the Grimpe forrned inthe previous stap. 53, Make the concave sidas tlat 55, bby forming the tiny erimps ‘whare indicated. To ‘accomplish 1h. you wil fist have to putf out the eoncay single layer trom underneatn Closed sink where indicates Note that nodal does rat lie entely fat due to tensions created by the reterwnce paints Ichosea | 57 view em St0n.565 SN Collapse claw using folds odcated, 56. Open out side along indeated mountain fold ‘Model wll note fa 58, Compete Fletuin to Step 57. 59, Insert additional folds as indicated, Completed fold will sil rasemrbie Step 58. Repeat Steps 6-59 on the coher sige. Turn ever, 60, Valley lid comers to the nearest e099,AT ale 61. Untold. Turn model aver 82 Si cae wie puting65. Closed sink tne next layer Gown so that it ines up with ag noightorng layars, Flatten model te position ot ‘Step 63. fA 57. View from Step 68: Unsink paper Irom the claw. ul out paper trom the sides of claw unt is sides are straight. Ths wil cause the claw fot downwards. 5, Spread squash the caw ge 68. Only claw is shawn: 69. Flatten the claw and is arm by folding the claw in hait Mountain fold See tne next step for th postioning of the claw70. Repeat Steps 66-69 on the other claw. Spread apart the web’ between the legs 71. View trom Step 70: inser the ora valley fl Detwogn te eur es and ap erp te lop Te way woe ‘aUearetonradts ot rrpotart opel is with otha? leg and then turn the ‘model over 772, Swivel the bottom layer ot the leg ever the bottom Inieknesscot tne legs. The valley folds along the claws should lie against he ‘thickness cf pleats Below them, Forthe Rock Grab, use a reverse fold instead, that is, use amounlain 1okd along the lengin of the legs instead of a valley fold 73. Valley told the entire tea assembly in hall whils speeading the legs apart “The bottom single layer on the front leg should stay place. Fold in the tap layer for each o! Ine claws arms74, Squash the conter lap Upwards while wrapping the single layers from the legs behind, For the Blue Crab wrap the single layers forward 76, Squash he eyes up as ingicated, The horizontal mountain told shoutd be ‘made as lightly as possible, The bottom single layar of the eves simply gets raverse folded outwards, win the {eid extending down to the farms of the claws, 75. Completed step. Spread out legs farther putting a slight Corimp in them where they meet the boxy. Turn aver 77. Fold back down the front ef the shell, Pull out ine eyes slightly while doing this to ‘add to their length. Shape ‘the arms of tha claws. by ‘mountain folding them wher incicated as far as possible78. Reverse foil the claws in 79, Pull out paper from the back and out 3 timas with each ‘of the shell, Pull out less for reverse fold being half the the Blue Crab, Rabbit ear ‘width of the previous. Pull the back legs outwards ‘aut paper trom the sides of Pinch and told the eyes up ‘he shell. Far the Blue Crab, ‘See the appropriate final pull out as much as diagram for the appropriate possible final shaping ‘80. Completed Rack Crab 81, Completed Blue Crab This mode! was inspired by Rlabert Lang’s Freshwater Crab a5 sean in the 1988 Genwentian Program