Well, one pain in the neck fixed

[kproche]

I trimmed down the upper part of the neck assembly tonight, and did a test assembly with leis as the neck rings. The struts still need to be finished, but I have time for that tomorrow night.

TDK with top of neck cylinder redone and lei neck rings in place This is a test assembly; the interior struts for the neck are not fitted yet (and hence the weight of the eyestalk has caused the front of the dome to sink slightly) The bottom ring of flowers is resting on the shoulders, the middle ring is tacked just below the top edge of the lower cyclinder of cane, and the top ring is temporarily clipped right below the dome. When I get the struts fixed I may be able to lower the pink lei just slightly.

Another view of the updated neck/lei assembly You'll notice he's now carrying his Tiki cocktail cup

Slight closeup of updated neck/lei ring assembly

Comments

[lferion]

The leis are nicely effective :-) Love the cocktail cup!

I have a frock-coat all cut out & will hopefully get it assembled this week.

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

Have you tried the raising and lowering function yet?

[kproche.livejournal.com]

That's what the missing struts are about.

Either I get the pneumatics in tonight, or I scrap that idea and just put in rigid struts.