: A "nightmare of wrong-way-roundedness" that often requires improvisation or multiple attempts to get right.
Modern tutorials generally break the process into four distinct stages:
The pre-creasing phase is the most time-consuming part of the build, often taking dozens of hours.
A Ryujin looks like a wrinkled snake until you shape it. This requires patience and often a specialized tool (like a shaping stylus).
The 2025 approach to shaping is radically different. Old tutorials had you shape during collapse. The updated method uses .
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