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B.C. metal sculptor’s business soars on wings of 15,000-pound fire-breathing dragon

Kevin Stone and wife Michelle pose for a photo with their 15,000-pound, fire-breathing steel dragon named ‘Drogon’ on Dec. 15, 2022 which took more than two years to complete. Drogon is from the hit HBO TV show Game of Thrones. Stone’s popular sculpture has been seen by people around the world via photos and videos they posted to social media of Drogon in the making. Dimples are hammered into a sheet of metal for Kevin Stone’s Dragon on April 23, 2021.

Kevin Stone helps move his 8,000-pound unfinished steel dragon from Stone’s Speed Shop to a new location near Yarrow on April 29, 2021 Brandon O’Shea and Josh Guretzki chat while working on the legs of Kevin Stone’s dragon on Dec. 1, 2022. Josh Guretzki and Michelle Stone clean up around the dragon on Dec. 15, 2022. Kevin Stone works on his dragon on March 26, 2021. Kevin Stone’s dragon is seen in his former workshop on March 26, 2021. Drogon is ready to land at his new home.steel dragon made by a Chilliwack artist is finally ready to be shipped to Utah.

“I said ‘You know, I could build anything. It doesn’t have to be an eagle,’ and he said ‘What about awas when he said that, I just heard ‘dragon.’”Stone and his wife Michelle then binge-watched the series in about a week.Stone and Focht agreed on a price tag of $110,000 USD… before Stone knew anything about Drogon.

Then earlier in 2022, he stopped working on it for at least six months when he realized the dragon didn’t have a home.

 

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