Spectre uses the
The Waterbomb Base Continued... waterbomb base.
Test out your new
skills on page 40.
7. Pull the top layer down and flatten the 8. Finished!
plane to look like the illustration in step 8.
The Squash Fold
A squash fold is used for flattening flaps composed of more than a single layer. One squash fold will look different from the next,
based on the shape of the flap, but they all follow the same basic principles. Though the flap you’re squash-folding may be
slightly different than the one depicted here, use these illustrations as a guide for completing the fold.
1. Stand the flap that you 2. Start pressing downward on the 3. Use your finger to open
want to squash fold vertically. crease that joins the layers of the flap. the layers and continue to
press down on the crease.
4. Make sure the layers open all the 5. Line up the crease you have been 6. Finished!
way to the point of the pocket and pushing with your reference (usually a
continue to press down on the crease. crease, edge, or corner) and flatten the flap.
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The Petal Fold
Petal folds can come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but they all follow the same basic idea of changing the shape of a pocket.
Use the illustrations below as a guide for completing your petal fold.
1. Grab the edge of the top flap with 2. As you open the flap, you should 3. Once the flap is standing
your thumbs as the hands show. notice two diagonal creases (highlighted vertically and is folding on both of
Swing open this top layer, using the in red). These will need to be reversed as the diagonal creases, in addition to
highlighted crease as a hinge. you continue to open the flap. the horizontal crease, begin to
swing the point of the flap towards
the top point of the plane.
4. As the point of the open flap meets 5. Flatten and crease the 6. Finished!
the point of the plane, push the raw pocket. Do both sides.
edges (highlighted in red) in to lie on
the center crease. Do one at a time.
Reversing A Crease mountain
The process of turning a mountain valley
fold into a valley fold (or a valley
fold into a mountain fold) is called
reversing a fold or reversing a
crease. In the first illustration
below, the left crease is a valley
and the right crease is a mountain. mountain
Think of the creases like hinges on
a door. If the door normally opens valley
inward, we want to open it
outward to reverse the direction
the hinges are bending. If it opens 1. To turn the left crease into a mountain 2. Finished! You’ve reversed
outward, we want to open the fold, bend the green section behind the both creases.
door inward. To reverse a crease, all rest of the paper. To turn the right crease
you have to do is bend the “doors” into a valley fold, bend the purple
around it in the opposite direction! section on top of the rest of the paper.
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