A Monogram Draco DragonHeart kit. This is a vinyl kit and is kind of difficult to do. The pain part is the wings. They are two piece, and just gluing them together would never work.

At the suggestion of another modeler's wife, I used coat hanger pieces inside the wings to add strength, and this worked very well. Though the seam was never filled to my satisfaction.

I did not finish the kit, and sold it as is to someone. The kit also included a metal figure of the Bowen knight from the movie. It is quite a large kit. The base I filled with real concrete, and with that added weight, even with the dragon perched on it, it stood up without wobbling.

If this kit was re released I would buy another, because with my experience on the first one, I think I could do this kit quite well. It's worth another chance.

Dragonheart - It's about the last of the great dragon slayers, Bowen (Dennis Quaid), who teams up with the last of the great dragons, Draco (and voiced by Sean Connery), after they realize that killing each other would put them both out of business! So they devise a bogus dragon-slaying act that's a huge hit as they tour from village to village. Later, they must rouse the peasantry against the loutish Prince Einon (David Thewlis), whose life was once saved by Draco, but who now violates the "Old Code" of honor with a ruthless reign of terror.

Dragonslayer - Dragonslayer was gradually recognized as one of the finest fantasies to emerge in special effects. It's still one of the best adventures of its kind, featuring one of the most fearsome fire-breathing serpents in movie history. Ominously named Vermithrax Pejorative, this ill-tempered monster terrorizes the peasantry of sixth-century England, feeding on maidens sacrificed by a duplicitous king until a sorcerer's apprentice named Galen is recruited as a reluctant hero. Aided by a tenacious beauty (Caitlin Clarke) and his resurrected mentor (Ralph Richardson), Galen confronts the soaring beast in a breathtaking climax. Employing a then-innovative technique called Go-Motion to animate the dragon, the special effects are still dazzling, and stunning locations in Scotland and Wales allow director Matthew Robbins to maintain a vivid atmosphere for the wealth of movie magic.

Rein of Fire - When workers in a London tunneling project awaken an unearthly fire-breathing beast from centuries of slumber, all hell breaks loose. Twelve-year-old Quinn (Bale) sees his mother, one of the workers, die trying to escape this new terror. Twenty years later as a "fire chief," he tries to keep a group of refugees alive with fierce dragons dominating the air, burning the land and feeding on the ash. Unexpectedly, Van Zan, a hotshot American militia leader, shows up with a ragtag group of slayers on a perilous crusade to hunt down and destroy the beasts. Tempers flare when there is a struggle for leadership -- until both men realize only one species is getting out of this alive. The reptilian fire-breathers are stupendously convincing.