Dragonworks

I'm starting off the new year trying to finish the dragon I started back in September. He's a stuffed fabric dragon from a pattern by Melinda Small Patterson. All the body parts are sewn and stuffed..

Next comes a bit of soft-sculpture, and some painting....

I plan on building up the face details with Apoxie Sculpt, so right now it just has 
minimal soft-sculpturing, and beads sewn in for the basic eye shape. He still
needs his basic stuffed antlers and horns, and then I can start sculpting...

I'm not convinced that the button-jointed wings with claws are going to work for me.  

What I want is a poseable dragon that looks much like the ones my sister Marianne
used to sculpt.  A dragon like this, but poseable, and one that isn't nearly so delicate,
​so it's easier to transport around for photos.....

A dragon like if Marianne's and Smallworks' dragons had a baby, with the best attributes of both; not too heavy, soft stuffed fabric, that's not going to break easily, but with the details of a sculpted dragon. And fully poseable. Not asking much, am I?  

So I'm continuing with the body and legs, and once those are together, I will take a serious look at the Smallworks arm/wing design to see if it will fit my needs. If not, which I suspect will be the case, then it's starting over with those and designing separate wired arms and wired wings, and figuring out how to best attach those.