Friday, July 13, 2007

Chuka Ryu (Chinese Dragon)

Created by Hoang Trung Thanh, this model is one of the most complex dragon models i know. Took me 5 hours to fold. Made with 5 sheets (1 large sheet for head to tail and the other 4 are for it's legs). I should've used plain white paper, and I didn't fold the body right. But, atleast it looks like a dragon (or so I think). When my mom saw my Chuka Ryu, she asked me "what is that? a lizard?". Okay.. maybe it looks a bit like a lizard.
In order to get it's scaly look, I made large pleats on it's body when I should have made small pleats. With small pleats I could have made it's body longer. Oh well.. maybe I should try to fix it.
You can find the diagram here.


And the picture below is the real Chuka Ryu made by the creator:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I cant tell from the original diagrams what the size of the paper is, could you e—mail it to me? [davidwells1017@yahoo.com]