A more than 1,6 meters tall dragon fully made out of recycled material and entirely plated with bottle caps.

After hanging out with my waterpolo team, and seeing them discard so many beer bottle caps, I told them not to throw them in the trash but to keep them aside for me. The only downside of this was that I didn’t really know what to do with this pile of bottle caps that slowly kept building up.
After a year or so, I had collected about a shoe box full of beer bottle caps. I tried making a chameleon head out of it but the caps were too big to work as scales. Although it didn’t work on a small scale, the idea of scales did intrigue me. So I started working on a plan to create a huge scaled creature; a dragon.

I started to collect more and more bottle caps from friends, family and local bars and restaurants. Then I sorted all of them on color and checked which colors I had the most of and of which I had the least. I had an abundance of reds, so these would become the primary color. I asked a friend of mine who is able to smith to make a steel spiral, after surrounding this with chicken wire and paper maché, all that was left to do, was glue on the caps.