Cardboard head
I made a 1:10 sized card maquette from the technical drawings that I had done of a horses head and began placing pipe cleaners and other objects onto it so that I could visualize what the finished head would look like with plating on it. There is still something not quite right about the design of this though, so I need to go back to the horse images again and look more closely at the head to get the attitude that I am trying to achieve.