Finally got the wing mechanism working smoothly. One of the problems I was having was getting them to work  when pulled by a 7 year old girl, who isn't quite as strong as I am. Apparently. Arranging the leavers to give the right mechnaical advantange to overcome the elastic needed to return the wings to the folded position did take a number of trial builds.

Next is making the wing shaped peiices and then making lots of nice big feathers. the end is in sight!

New project! Articulated angel wings.

Well its school play time of year again, This year I gave the children only one request, make sure they were given a part that required wings.

Seth was assigned the part of narrator, (As were all his year) so no wings there. Molly on the other hand is...drum roll please...THE ANGEL GABRIEL! only the most kick ass of all the angels and well deserving of a magnificent pair of wings.

By the next morning we had version one in card ready to test, it was OK but could be better so morning two saw an improved version.

 

 



 So there we go, transfer the shapes to foamex for the next version (after adjusting the pivots to allow the wings to move with less input from Molly)

Next version should be up on Monday :-)