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The support for the neck is four layers of cardboard glue together. In the background you can see the back support being glued under heavy weights.
(It was mostly dry and glue-free; with messier things I always made sure to protect the books from the glue with a layer of aluminum foil)
It's the day of the party. Time to clean house!
(Too bad we had such a wretched vacuum. It's been laid off, and replaced with a newer, more suctiony one. Now we don't have parties, we just vacuum the house over and over because it's so much fun!)
It's called the Royal Oak and it was obviously a pub so I was a little confused about all the mythical beasties - then I realised it's now called "Royal Oak House" and it's the register office. Thatexplains all the demons then! (-:
Another view of the dragon's innards, with all wing parts in place. Notice that the wings are carved out a bit to allow them proper clearance around the front of the gearbox.
The sandwich construction of the wing arm is more clearly visible here.
You can see non-black spots on the gears where I had to do more filing to smooth out rough spots on the gears.
Everything's glued together except the front plate, which is held in place by a clamp. The rubber bands turn the gears, which move the actuator rods, which drive the wing arms, which pivot on the pivot bars and make the wings flap. (Not assembled: The distal parts of the wings and the rods that make them bend in and out. Once those were on, a lot more rubber bands were required)