Not too shabby! Overall, the frame is pretty sturdy. In addition to wrapping wire around the joints to secure them, I coated each one in super-strength glue. This was both good and bad, as you'll see later.
The only trouble is deciding where/how to attach the skin.....
The wire spirals are a bit off-center around the triangular frame, but since they're only attached to one post in the front and one in the back, there's not much I can do to correct it.
So here is the trouble with the glue. On one hand, it works great; all the joints are now secure and the wires don't slide around on the frame anymore, which is AWESOME. The only trouble is, I didn't quite realize how the glue would foam up as it dried. Nor did I realize how long it would take to dry and how oozy it would be until it did. So, I ended up with long foamy globs of glue running down the length of all the rods and coating each joint in an ugly semi-transparent/yellow-tinged blob. By the time I discovered the mess, it had dried too much for anything to be done, so I let it harden completely. Thus I spent the better part of my afternoon taking a box-cutter and scraping away hardened glue. The joints are still a bit ugly, as you can see above (I did scrape a bit more after taking the pic), but not bad.
Now to figure out the skin....I've been experimenting with ribbon, paper towels, tissue paper, and normal fabric, but haven't been able to come up with anything satisfactory so far.
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