Here be dragon.

[ldhenson]

After I successfully made my first plush animal (the bat), all the excitement went to my head and I plunged straight into my next project.

I wanted one of the amazing dragons from Reign of Fire. The shape and dimensions come from my doing a lot of sketching while staring at the movie's production photos. It's not exact, but close enough that I'm happy with it.






Here he is perched atop one of my decoupaged boxes. "What's going on back there?"








Neck and tail are wired and poseable, as are the wings from shoulder to wrist. Legs are movable at the hip joint.

Even though I'm not using any patterns from Carolyn Vosburg Hall's Sewing Tiny Toys this time, my dragon owes much to that book for construction principles.

ETA: Updated version of this dragon!


X-posted to craftgrrl (here), cute_plush (here), the_dragons (here), Craftster

Comments

[pandonkey.livejournal.com]

Yep, there are many varieties of dragons in the Temeraire books. The idea is that each nation has its own breeds of dragons bred for various purposes, and there are feral dragons as well. The series really is a lot of fun, with wonderful characters and a very interesting world that's steadily being revealed. I'm friending you, if that's all right, 'cause I love your toys and I think I'd really enjoy that fanfic.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

The books sound intriguing, and I'm a fan of slow reveals. Most of my current reading is on the non-fiction side but novel-wise I'm meant to be tackling the Master and Commander series, had I world enough and time...But I'd like to check these out sometime.

The fanfic (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2579524/1/The_Dusk_Descending) I'm working on takes the premise of Reign of Fire (hibernating dragons are unwittingly awakened and go on to practically wipe out the human race) and times the awakening to happen a hundred years earlier, where the characters of Newsies are forced to deal with the dragon invasion in New York, 1900. It's sparked a lot of period research on my part, some of which spilled over into a website. (Who says fandom isn't educational?) If you ever do read it, I'd love to know what you think.

Friended you back :-)