The New Hotness

With some lessons learned from the first pass, the bottom layer of the Apollo Eagle gets a reversed card for the white tail feathers:

Which looks like this just after cutting the outline:

Gently removing the scrap from the edges reveals the eagle:

The top two layers also come from a reversed card, with those shapes arranged to put the holes in attractive places:

The five layers in between as a slide show:

It took a while to get over cutting up all those nice cards.

Some deft glue stick work produces a layered eagle:

I managed to get a dark bottom in the nostril, which turned out weird:

All in all, though:

• Fewer layers are better
• The head came out OK-ish
• The bottom layer card arrangement is too fussy
• The olive branches still look weird
• The claws are still ugly
• The tail needs more contrast, perhaps two layers
• Having horizontal card splices aligned on successive layers is bad

More study is definitely in order …