Aḗras & Pŷr in the making - version 2

Pivoting for the 2024 BCC rules required revisting the scale of the design in its entirety. The pegasus went from traditional to classic scale and I hit a local swap meet hard to acquire a herd of Stablemate bodies! I also had to figure out how to get all of it into the new dimensions of 18 x 30 x 24, and I did it! I repositioned them to both fly around the sides of the pillar, instead of having the juxtaposition of the dragon leaping off the top, but I think it worked out okay. Any guesses on what the dragon started out as? You can probably guess with the little bit of the Breyer you can see in the picture above. 

The wings were also an exploratory process. Here's a photo dump. Not shown, the umpteen bandaids used after working with all this wire and mesh!

 

 

  

  

  

The dragon was a fun challenge to make. Totally out of my comfort zone. I had a general idea of what I was going for, but much of it I figured out along the way (problem-solving again, anyone?). 

 

Did you guess she started out as a Wixom?

More fun facts - this project used: 

40-50 tubes of super glue

10 different power tools (see the last post)

25 different Breyer bodies (16? in the final piece)

7-10 pounds of epoxy, who's keeping track anyway? 

3 square feet of sculpting mesh

countless band aids

400-ish hours

and it took over a big part of the family room during all this time (my poor family!)

That desk doubles as my work desk on work-from-home days, which is always
a challenge having to move things back and forth. 

Stay tuned for more in progress pictures!