Smaug the Magnificent

[purplecat]

We never have a crib as part of our christmas decorations, but when I spotted this Smaug crochet pattern, it occurred to me that he would make a good secular equivalent.




You can just about see the sparks (courtesy of some optical fibre) in his smoke here.


It must be said the pattern was a little frustrating and not entirely consistent (or even always accurate) in its counting of stitches and we struggled with the electronics a bit. In fact in the end I stopped faffing around with conductive thread and B. just soldered everything together. Next year we will probably invest in a slightly different set of electronics and remake the head.

We're calling him Smaug but he does not appear to have Smaug's temperament. The pile of gold coins had considerably reduced by yesterday evening with no apparent ill-effects to the culprits.

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[purplecat]

The colour scheme was fairly heavily dictated by my yarn supplies, it must be said. He has a multicoloured tummy that you can't see from here.

[daniel-saunders.livejournal.com]

I got to pick my colours as I have a reasonably selection of paints. Mine has a yellow tummy that's very visible, as the model is cleverly built to look like it's flying, with the tree trunk it's flying over anchoring it to the base.