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Origami Inside-Out

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This book is noteable for the origami chess set, which includes instructions for all the pieces and also features a very clever design for a Chess board. The chessmen are very easy to make. The board is more challenging and before you even start it, there is the further challenge of finding a piece of paper big enough to be folded down to a fraction of its size and still be usable as a chessboard.

The animal designs all make use of paper that is coloured on one side and white (or a different colour) on the other. The results are generally good, however the detail given to producing the tiger's stripes means that sacrifices have been made elsewhere. The end result is a rather unrealistic model. It suffers greatly in comparison to Peter Engel's stripeless tiger.

There is a lovely elephant. Montroll seems to have a thing for elephants and the design in this book is my favourite. The Canada Goose is another well thought-out design, making good use of the dark and light sides of the paper. The penguin model is better than the one in Origami sculptures I've made about ten of them. I like penguins.

The book begins with three terrible creations - a ghost, a 'martian', and a snowman. The latter is guaranteed to terrify small children. There are also a few geometric shapes to fold - worthy but boring.

But the chess set - the chess set is amazing, and if you lose any of the pieces you can always fold some more.

This book is a little different from most of John Montroll's earlier books (and later books). Fans have been known to say that these models do not seem quite as realistic as many of his others. But they have missed the point.

As the title suggests, this is inside-out origami. In other words, both sides of the paper are visible in the final model. This allows for a different level of detail (such as an actual chessboard).

Like Montroll's other books, all models are made from a single sheet of square paper. However, these models really look best if the two sides of the paper are not the same color.

A fun and fascinating addition to any origami library.

I like the animal projects (including but not limited to: elephant, cow, raccoon, tiger, and of course, anteater) but the "guide to basic folds" included in the book could be better (more clear), and as an inexpirenced folder, I found most of the projects too hard to follow and complete. If you get this book and can do the anteater, I need your help. --Phil Stokoe

It is a challenge to make the model colorful, useing two sides of a standard origami paper. Montroll shows us many wonderful examples. A complete chess-set and an incredible chess board constitutes the most exciting part of the book, as well as some well-designed animals.But the pace of the whole book seems unbalanced, with too many boring models in the first half of it

I like the martian. I made one for the fourth of July and then blew him up with a firework tank and we used a piccolo pete for the scream.

My son who is 28 and a mechanical engineer was so thrilled to get this book again for Christmas. I say again because he had it when he was in High School and somehow we lost it. I searched on google and of course Amazon had several copies of it. My son had made the chess board but always wanted to finish it by making the chess pieces...now he can...thanks so much for the book and for how quickly it was received. Great doing business with you.

This is a very good book with models that have good color change. The racoon, cow, bluejay, and of course the chess set are excellent models. All models are from one square of paper and the diagrams are very clear just like all of John Montroll's books.