You may have noticed on adverts for iPhones .etc. while proclaiming how easy everything is the words 'Sequence Shortened. Steps Removed' are emblazoned on the bottom of the screen because in order to make the task seem simple they've had to remove 75% of the required steps.
Well this Origami book seems to suffer the same 'Steps Removed' problem. On two separate models I've spent a good 30 minutes reaching the last couple of folds but suddenly I get to a point where it says 'Hold the front wing and fold at a slight angle against the upper fold', and I'm going 'WHAT?', which one is the front wing? Until this point you've never mentioned any wings. After 20 minutes of trying every possibility I've just got a crumpled piece of paper and no model.
So I try another model, it's going well, fold this point onto that point, then fold the model in half. But the picture of you folding the model in half seems to be without performing the previous step, so do I unfold the previous step? Then it says holding the lower right body fold the neck up, again no previous mention of the neck, but the fold shown in the picture isn't possible with what I have in front of me so have I done something wrong or is there a step missing? Again after 20 minutes of rotating, folding, unfolding and twisting I've made no more progress and instead of a swan I've just got a triangle.
If the whole purpose of the book is to teach me Origami then bloody well make sure a complete amateur can follow the steps and if you want me to unfold the fold you've just made me fold tell me explicitly to do that, don't just assume I'll work it out from the picture which because you've used black paper is almost impossible to comprehend anyway.
So in closing, I really like the present, but I want to murder the individual that wrote the book.
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