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Questions:
- If I buy pheasant wings, will they retain their full range of motion/articulation, or will they be very stiff and not fully move as naturally as when the bird was alive?
- Will they have an odor to them (even if they are completely & properly preserved?)

Plan:
I plan on creating 2 sets of cosplay wings (Kayle from League of Legends for myself, and Morgana from League of Legends for my friend) for next year’s Anime Boson.

Goal:
To make articulating wings that can fold and fully extend (To be able to make 3 key poses: a guardian pose, a heart-shaped pose, and a “closed-put away-folded wing pose”, and to smoothly transition between them.)

I plan on making the articulation as natural-looking as I can. I have already gathered a lot of online references (images, pdfs, videos), but I’m more of a hands-on learner. However, before I can do that, I was actually thinking about buying a real bird wing to figure out/study how it works, and to see the range of motion of the joints, since they don’t just fold on one plane, but they also twist around. I’m not sure if studying a real bird wing would work though because I don’t know if the wing would be stiff, or remain fully moveable)

Thank you.