4 days to go...

After a quick trip back to the workshop, the spine support had been resolved. Panic attacks averted, it was now a matter of attaching the pods to the skin. After exploring every possible scenario and developing a love/hate relationship with the shop assistants at a certain large fabric chain that we won't mention we (eventually) made a decision to use the left over stocking gussets cut into tabs and hand sewn onto the skin. 

The polyps were then fashioned into clusters and tied to the tabs.

We could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Fingers crossed it wasn't a high speed train.