Camel Spider

This is the third design of mine that was inspired by a Discovery Channel show - Bear Grylls ate one of these arthropods (even though its called a camel "spider", it is not actually a spider) on Man vs. Wild. Even though I was pleased with this creation at the time, I ended up redesigning it - I was originally very proud of the base, which incorporates rivers that provide legs of correct proportional length joining the body with a staggered progression but, when I tried to re-fold it out of methyl-cellulose treated tissue paper, I realized that the flaps for the fangs were layered incorrectly - I had originally worked around this problem by "smooshing" the tissue foil into place, but I needed to be more precise with tissue paper. I have resolved that, and other issues, to create a much better version.

Design date: November, 2007

Paper used: A single un-cut square of tissue foil.