Deer Articulation Work In Progress 3

When I got it into college, I began articulation almost immediately. I began with the spine, first, as it is the structure that everything holds onto. I used a long, thick wire going through the gaps in the bones and through the actual bones themselves to hold it together, so it is very sturdy.

Then I got to adding the neck. I used a much thicker wire/tube combination for the neck as it was thicker and required the head to be sat atop of it, which is very heavy.

When I'd gotten the neck attached, I then decided to attach the head. I drilled two wires through the skull and the atlasbone and after a lot of gluing eventually got the two to stick together firmly.

Once I was done with the entire head/spine, I decided to work on the front limb. Deer have very strange front limbs but this was all I managed to get done in the session. Here you see the Scapula (also known as the shoulder blade.) the Humurus and the Radius. I had still to connect the Ulna.