Possible solution for dragons with open wings

That is a way to make wings stronger. It is much less trouble to keep the wings tucked in as much as possible though. Shipping is easier, casting is much easier and breakage is reduced. No matter what you reinforce wings with they will still be sticking out in space where they are vulnerable to knocks and bumps. The only safe thing to make them out of is metal or plastic that can’t chip.

Sharing thoughts and ideas is what the forum is all about!!! 😉

Don’t you think it would be really cool to have a large metal dragon sculpture (with open wings) in front of the new factory/Windstone museum someday? That would be so neat! There is a bronze dragon taller than me in my favorte park in Colorado, and the kids (well, everyone!) adore him 🙂

I’d like to see a dragon with open wings someday too, but I think perhaps the solution I’d like best is a open winged dragon cast in bronze. I think the glass eyes of different colors would be neat to play with. Dichroic eyes with a bronze finish dragon…sigh… Is is possible to color tint bronze? like to give blue accents, perhaps by painting or some other finish? I dunno..just thinking out loud.

Lol…me too. However, casting bronze is of course much more dangerous…and may have to be hired out for someone else to do…unless Melody wants to tackle that hurdle. They’d weigh a bunch too. But personally, I think a few limited editions would be worth it. 😀

Bronze would be really cool, but I don’t foresee having that kind of money to buy one.

Would it work to design an open winged sculpture where the wings and body were separated for shipping? The wings could be packed in molded foam (or something) to help prevent breakage. Customers would then assemble the sculpture by inserting the wings into the body, hopefully w/o having to glue them in.

I hope to do bronze sculpture once I am financially stable, myself. I love to sculpt but I cannot find a medium I like, since I love to do things like open wings and little pokey details that break off of every other medium.

The question is… who is willing to pay $2,000, or more, for a bronze they like? That’s a big chunk of change.
The answer to that question is mostly businesses, some collectors, and the occasional wealthy individual but they usually want to commission the piece. If you sculpted them so the could spout out water and be part of a fountain there is a big market for that sort of thing. My roommate’s dad does do bronze scuplts for a living. You can cut prices by overseeing the casting yourself and doing them in larger lots. If the foundry does the mold it will cut costs as well and then the foundries will usually guarantee the finished product.