Armature Design For Una

I have been reading Susannah Shaw's Stop Motion: Craft Skills For Animation book, which details how to build your own puppet, capable of lasting out a short film. It also looks at the processes used to create a puppet like the ones found in films, but this is more complex and expensive, not really practical for a student budget.

Here is my armature design for Una, with aluminium wire for the joints, 3 lots of 1.5mm wire twisted for the spine, 2 lots of 1.5mm wire twisted for the arms, legs and feet, then 2 lots of 1mm twisted for the wrists and fingers. The bones are K&S brass tubing with steel plates attached to the hips and breastplate, as well as in the feet so magnets can be used to hold the feet in place. The hands, feet and head are removable as smaller brass tubing is placed inside the tubing at the wrists, ankles and neck and tightened with a grub screw to hold it in place. So if the hands, for example, break they can be removed and replaced.