And now for my favourite monkey, the bagpipe player.
His yellow-painted bagpipe was cleaned to reveal a wonderful puce shade. First him in his 'repaired' state -
And now restored -
Both the original hands were missing and the bag-end, mouth-piece and pipes of his bagpipe.
His existing right arm stump was in a crazy twisted position which made for awkward piping. However, adding the forearm, cuff and hand still did not get that arm over to the pipe area.
I couldn't resist the look on his face and it seemed more logical to extend the hand to follow his gaze. The owner of the monkey consented to let me put a couple of gold coins in his hand. His look is totally appealing.
Heres an outtake of how the items are built.
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