Spiked Rhombicosidodecahedron and lesser stellated dodecahedron
Designed independently by Meenakshi Mukerji and Jeannine Mosely
Spiked rhombicosidodecahedron
120 units
5 cm square papers
Lesser stellated dodecahedron
30 units
7.5 cm square papers
For the 30 unit making and assembly is available at Ezorigami by Evan Zodl
I first folded stellated dodecahedron. It's very easy to make single units. When it comes to assembly, i started without glue. But as i went on building, the model became unstable. The units would come apart. I had tough time keeping everything together. I tried a lot to achieve assembly without glue for quite sometime. Then i gave up. I used glue.
I then took up, 120 units polyhedron. I folded few units and tried assembly as a trial fold. It seemed stabler than 30 units. But when i actually started, this assembly also became a challenge. I almost lost my patience and threw the incomplete model in bin. After sometime i regained my cool 😎 and took the half completed model from bin(which had dry waste, so model was intact and not dirty). I already had folded quite a lot of units, so I wanted to finish it somehow. So i went for glue and completed.
I personally dislike using glue, because it sticks to my hands and paper gets kind of wet, loses its crisp. It's a hassle to assemble. But when i have no other go, i use it.
That's the story behind these two models. Until next time , happy folding, Sayonara 🙋🙋🙋🙋😁
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