A Dragon’s Tail

Yay, my Mech Dragon has his tail! And looks much more dragon-like for it, compared to the more iguana-y appearance before I reached this point.

First step for bag 3 however was assembling the back legs, which were pretty much the same as the front ones, albeit smaller. Same deal with the claws on the golden toe elements and then the rick-rack joint and the ball joint.. very satisfying to construct they were:

So both legs added to make it a proper quadruped and then the three segments  comprising the long and wiggly tail, using new-to-me hinge sections and another long pin holding the tail section onto the main body. And when I say long tail I do mean it, it feels like there are many more segments than three:

This method of construction means the joints are very flexible, it reminds me of the plastic toy snakes you can get that are made up of sections, and gives a very sinuous effect as the tail weaves back and forth at random any time the model is picked up. I especially like the elaborate gold end piece there, with matching golden swords on either side, and of course more spines continuing the ones on the main body. The dragon is really taking shape now, with only one more bag to go!

This bag also had the final two minifigures in it, Master Wu with his clever paper wrap making the bottom of his robes, and Garmadon with two upper body sections one atop t’other for his four arms. There’s also a laser weapon thing which can be put on the figure’s shoulder but is rather unwieldy.