April 18 - Eric's Flamingo

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
~ Lewis Carroll

This flamingo is the next bird in Eric's Live Animals #6 PDF.  I am really loving these PDFs, and I've been restraining myself from looking too far ahead in them all.  This flamingo looks great - the body is very similar to Eric's duck, the new bit of sexiness in this is definitely the beak.

After doing the first beak and experimenting a good number of times, I was pretty confident this would be no problem.  This beak.  ...  let me take a moment.   This beak.   ..    I tried and failed so many times to get it to lock into position but it would just roll up the entire length.  I tried positioning it different ways, I need to practice this before I do this again ... there is some secret to the technique that eludes me.

In the end I using some cosmoplast while I held it in it's pivotal position.  I feel like a dirty cheat.  It's why I only built one ...

My nose is funny?  YOUR nose is funny!

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Other posts with Eric's designs:

• October 19 - Eric's Pumpkin
• October 3 - Eric's Alligators
• October 2 - Eric's Trolls
• August 30 - Eric's Mario
• May 28 - Cupid
• April 30 - Mordecai
• April 29 - Ostrich
• April 28 - Peacock
• April 27 - Sneetches
• April 26 - Sweet Cheeks Pig
• April 25 - Sweet Big Cats
• April 22 - Skunk
• April 21 - Ursula (Sweet Chicks #2)
• April 20 - Sweet Cheeks Fish
• April 19 - Sweet Cheeks Fox
• April 18 - Sweet Cheeks Hermit Crab
• April 17 - Sweet Cheek Husky
• December 29 - Celebrity Faces
• December 28 - Baseball Face
• December 27 - Redneck Face
• December 26 - Jack's Face
• September 27 - Sweet Beaver
• September 24 - Sweet Lion
• September 22 - Sweet Bunny
• September 15 - Sweet Angry Bird

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