Much thanks again to doug for all his support and advice. I can actually make the model! Not real well yet -- it requires a degree of precision that I'm practicing to get up to but I have made a quite presentable model.
to add to Doug's great advice, I have one thing to add about the 'collapse'. If you look at the folds of the collapse the outermost part [which is dominated by the mountain folds in the hexagon and to the points] go _clockwise_ around the hex, but the _inner_ hexagon [which is made up of the valey folds one hex smaller] goes _counter_clockwise_. I found that getting the mostly hidden inside valley folds clean and accurate was hard for me, so I do the collapse counter clocwise. I start at one point, do the mountain tne valley next to it and the clean up the two mountain-fold triangles [one to the valley fold and one to the next point]. Then I go _inside_ and sharpen up the valley folds that start there and go to the next point counter-clockwise. Then I repeat, but with the inside valley folds coming into the point, you can cleanly *completely* fold that point into the collapse, and then you sharpen its valley folds to the next point around and repeat. When you're all the way around, you'll just have to clean up the last interior run of valley folds into the partially-folded point you started at. and you're done. the rest of the snowflake takes careful folding but is pretty easy. And it is a *beautiful* model. Thanks!! /bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[email protected] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--
