Carved the body from wood which didn't look too bad in the first instance,
wound up about 8 or so inches long even though i didn't set out with a certain size in mind, it just worked out that way.
The legs ended up being aluminium tube, 3 lengths of which made up both the long parts and short ends from the body to the hinge points i s'pose you could call 'em.
The hinge points were carved from three nuggets of perspex.