Eyes installed, tail in gear

I just finished gluing in the eyes.  I made the eyes out of some plastic ball ornaments that came as two halves at a  craft store.  I used a soldering iron to melt out four circles, then I used some wire cutters and a file to clean up the edges.  Then I painted the convex side of two of them like eyes (with glow in the dark paint,) as per this handy tutorial..  Then I Krazy Glued one clear eye part and one painted eye part together, and ta da, follow me eyes.  I hot glued them onto the head, and followed up with suede leather eyelids that I cut out of stuff I had sitting around.  The effect is pretty awesome, but needs a new paint job pretty bad.

The top picture is yellow because of no flash, lower is reflective because there is.  I cannot win.  The neck is pretty much finished, may need some foam under the chin to connect it to the lower jaw like I did with the top.  The plastic canvas is a little bent so the neck doesn't look extremely sexy in this pic, but it doesn't look bad when positioned properly.

In other news, I finally went and got new pvc pipe and rebuilt the tail harness.  Hooray.

My to-do list includes making clawed gloves, attaching the head to my head, making the jaw operate with my jaw, puffing out the body with more plastic canvas and foam, making a skin, painting the skin, and then adding feathers.  And then, you know, wearing it around town to scare the chillins.

On the downside, my desktop computer hasn't worked properly for almost a month, and my car is also on strike.   This would not be such a big problem if I could get groceries decently on my bike.  I should get one of those rear wheel racks.