Geek on a Glowforge - Flying Dragon Mobile

In my continued Dragon for Halloween series, today I am going to show you how to make a flying dragon Mobile using your Glowforge Laser.

Some of the photos I used are 'test' images, since the mobile isn't going 'up' till closer to Halloween.

12" x 20" Baltic Birch wood

Black krylon spray

Red krylon spray

Nylon thread (fishing line seems best)

This is probably one of the best videos I have found on how to make a flying mobile, I included it in my Instructable as a reference.

It is not mine!

I wanted something with more texture, and detail then just two 'wings' so I found a picture of rubber wings on the internet, and then used them as my base. taking each wing as a separate side, to make the mobile a wing span of 3'.

It was a bit tricky aligning the wood to be exact on both sides in the Glowforge, luckily after it was spray painted the 'whoopsies' are not noticeable.

Some pics of the details, I know its up high and no one really see's the details, BUT I KNOW ITS THERE.

(cough) OCD (cough)

I sprayed several light coats of high gloss black Krylon on the wings to give it that dark leathery feel to them.

If you watched the video, how to make a mobile (What, you didn't? Get back there and do it!) the weight of the body needs to be heavier than the wings to get it properly balanced.

I combined several dragons as my final version, deciding my first version was too 'cute' and needed to be more 'dragony'.

Threading the nylon to get it to hang properly was the most difficult part of this project.

That instructional video I attached really did help a lot with the threading part.

You reached here?

Wanna make your own!?

Here are the files!! (.svg)