{"id":8757,"date":"2009-08-04T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:34:13","slug":"origami-x-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/origami-x-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"origami x-wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post was originally published on my old papercraft site, Folding Trees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/origami_x-wing.jpg\" alt=\"origami x-wing\"><\/p>\n<p>As a lifelong Star Wars fan, when I saw the instructions for an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.union.ic.ac.uk\/scc\/icsf\/history\/picocon\/picocon22\/xwing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X-wing origami model<\/a> [via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avgjanecrafter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@avgjanecrafter<\/a> on Twitter] yesterday, I just couldn&#8217;t resist trying one!<\/p>\n<p>Pictured above is my attempt, using a 6&#8243; square of silvery grey origami paper. It was all pretty easy\u00a0until the last step\u00a0&#8211; folding up the 4 wing tips (I can never get this part looking neat with origami cranes either &#8211; it&#8217;s just too thin!). Still, I think it looks pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on my old papercraft site, Folding Trees. As a lifelong Star Wars fan, when I saw the instructions for an\u00a0X-wing origami model [via @avgjanecrafter on Twitter] yesterday, I just couldn&#8217;t resist trying one! Pictured above is my attempt, using a 6&#8243; square of silvery grey origami paper. It was all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25131,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/25131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}