Phil,
As far as drying the wings. You just need to get as much of the meat off the bones as possible. You can cut open the underside of the wing to get the "shoulder" area cleaned as you wont see it once mounted. Rub the bone down with Borax and stuff as much as you can in there. Spread the wing the way you want it and pin it on a piece of cardboard to dry. I've got a BS in Biology and when we were taught to prepare museum specimens we didn't even clean the wings further than we could push inside out. There's just not a lot of meat in there. What I did with the cape was pin the beard at the bottom of the cape so it hung down. Looked cool. Its in the cabin so I can't take a pic of it to show you.