Origami Model Airplanes: Create Amazingly Detailed Model Airplanes Using Basic Origami Techniques!: Origami Book with 23 Designs & Plane Histories Hardcover – October 15, 2008

This book is about folding origami airplane models.

I have over 30 Origami books, with varying authors like Montroll, Brill, Lang, Yang. I've made many "purist" models (1 square, no cuts, no glue). This book is not a typical *purist* Origami book. There will be many sheets of paper, cutting, and gluing.That being said, it's by far my favorite book (hardcover too!) for aircraft models, (and I have many of those too). All the aircraft in this book are models of REAL planes, no hokey fictional aircraft like Firewalker, Blue Raven or some other silly name the author decided to pull out of a hat, no, these are planes like the F-18, F-35, F-23, SU-27, F-14, Saab Viggen, F-15, E-2C, C-5 (really!) C-130, A-10, and even a P-47 Thunderbolt. When using a 8.5" x 11" paper, the models end up slightly larger than a 1/72 scale for the fighters, and about 1/100 for the cargo planes.The models are extremely well detailed, albeit comically with the large canopies and enlarged nosecones. There's instructions for accessories like missiles, bombs, trailing edges, winglets, intakes and exhausts. The bombs and missiles alone will take about 60% of the work, as the pieces are very small and need to be glued together. You could of course, leave them out, but what's an F-16 without the wingtip missiles? Realism is what we're trying to achieve here.All the plane parts are created with squares of scale size (1, 1/4, 1/16) that are folded from a variation of one fold (he calls them "kites") while making the models you'll have about 20-30 kites, all of varying sizes and slight differences to be glued together into a final product.Keep in mind, its a "modeling" book and not a paper airplane book. None of them fly.I kept looking for instructions to make a stand for the models he has illustrated but he doesn't seem to have one.I would like to see a Volume II, as more aircraft would definitely be welcome. Planes like F-4, F-5, A-4 Skyhawk, A-7, A-6 Intruder, a few more centurion series like the F-100, and maybe even a WWII Volume. I'd definitely buy more of this type of book.

This book was great. Mr. Wang uses very clear photo diagrams. He amazingly developed a system of basic components. Which all the models uses the same nose. the models are not very hard to make if you are experienced with origami. Having the right tools is also very critical it will affect how your model will come out later. So I say this is a great book to have and time flies by while you are making it. So I would recommend this book if you are someone with a lot of patience.

Great book.

Exactly what I wanted. Love the step by step visual instructions.

models were a challenge but they flew great

GOOD

An origami purist might object that these models are not true to the art form, because they are made up of multiple sheets of paper, and you will occasionally make cuts and use adhesive.Purists can be tiresome, though. I salute the creativity on display in this book. Mr. Wang uses very clear diagrams and beautiful photographs to show how to build these neat models. Each one is made up of modules of one or more sheets of square paper. The sizes of each sheet are not set in stone, but the various modules require sheets of a standardized geometric progression. You have your "unit" sized sheets, then 1/4, 1/16, and 1/64 sized sheets, which are made by taking whatever your unit size sheet is, and progressively cutting into quarters. This is very convenient and easy to remember, and requires no measurement more involved than halving a dimension. You do end up using some non-standard sized sheets for smaller components like missle bodies, and cardboard is specified for prop blades, missile fins, etc. Mr. Wang shows how to make a number of standardized modules that are re-used in multple projects elswhere in the book. The models are, for the most part, very recognizable "caricatures" of the full sized plane.This is a very charming and beautifully illustrated work. These would be really good projects to make for kids, or, if they're old enough to be trusted with an X-acto knife, great rainy day craft projects for them to take on.