Bad news - the chap I'm meeting is too busy re-organising his workshop to fit his new machinery into to come up this week.
Good news - the first half of the re-re-re-remodelled torso has cast perfectly on the first 'pull'!

I took it out early so the spines were still bendy and didn't snap. Let's hope the mould lasts a good long while before it needs replacing - normally one would apparently expect 30 casts from a single mould, although the slilicon I'm using boasts that it lasts 3 times as long, so here's hoping... (mind, that's probably meant for simpler shapes, not ones with a lot of undercuts like this piece)
I've been posting pics as I go along on Facebook and Twitter as it's a lot easier than uploading them to my server and renaming them and stuff, I just pic them on my ipod and send them with a tweet, but here's the latest for those not on FB etc


Second one is the second half of the torso in the mould, with the base of the tail now attached as in previous casting attempts last year I found it changed size for some reason and didn't make a good fit with the body. It's not a 'Dragon Glory Hole' as someone suggested on FB...