The second Version of the Scaled Wyvern is my last design in 2024. However, folding took several months, I finished it in 2025.
It started with the scales. After folding the Crocodile´s tail and looking at Kei Watanabe´s Aged dragon, I wondered, wether it was possible to implement more efficient scales in one of my designs. And I just had to choose the hardest option…
As a start, I put the new scaled units into the old crease pattern. That left many open spaces, so I changed as follows:
Sholders
Probably the part I thought about the longest. Looking at the amount of paper I had at my disposal, I wanted to connect the wings to the whole back. Therefore the scales on the body needed tob e seperate from the back. Because the scales on the wings and the body are one big array on the crease pattern, it took some time to come up with a working layer arrangement.
Head
comes now from the center. I added some horns and made the horns smaller. Last version had a plain head, the new one can be shaped into a detailed face. I decided against making teeth and focused on the horns and the eyes.
Wings
feature the biggest pythagorean stretch I have ever put into a crease pattern. They are much bigger than in the previous version.
Tail, legs and body:
remain mostly unchanged in their appearance (not their inner structure).
Folding this model was as expected difficult and time consuming (ca.800 scales…). Still, the collapse was one of my most satisfying folds.
The shaping was a challenge itself: Bending the body without ruining the scales, deciding on an organic position …I admit, it was the part i was most nervous and excited about. I´m extremely happy with the way it urned out.
The crease pattern of this scaled wyvern is based on a 72×72 grid, with partial 144ths and partial 288ths for the scales. It´s available in my Ko-fi shop. It´s my hardest design up to date, but also one of my best, I think.
