InBrightestDay

If yer going off actual biblical references all bets are off for the angels. Might as well look at Lovecraft.

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If I might reccomend a work? Check out the webcomic,  freefall.

I’m actually familiar with Freefall, even if I haven’t actually read it.  The website Atomic Rockets, which is a useful if sometimes hard to navigate resource for physics equations and potential spaceship designs, has referenced Freefall more than a few times, even using images from the comic as illustrations.

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Also, given support of skeletal structure and some readings of the Bible the wings are more likely to be mid-lower back or hips.

I have actually seen some pictures of angels with wings that are either attached lower down on the back or at the hips.  The latter is strangely popular in anime-inspired works, along with small demonic wings attached at the hip.

If we’re going to talk about skeletal structure, then mid-back makes some sense, since the wings would have their own scapulae rather than being mounted on the ones being used for the arms (removing conflicts over muscle attachments) and would put the wings closer to the center of mass of the human body.  Having said that, it does look a little strange to me, and it would likely conflict even worse with the sword, since now the scabbard would be knocking into the humerus of the left wing instead of passing underneath it, and the angle it would have to be at would be even more restricted than it would with shoulder-mounted wings.

I’m really not a fan of hip-mounted wings.  I feel like as soon as those things start flapping you’re going to end up with the torso hanging forward from the hips during flight, which is not the most majestic image.

Ultimately, though, I don’t know that realism matters that much here.  these are preternatural organisms, after all; they treat the laws of physics more like polite suggestions than anything else, so where the wings are mounted is, as far as I can tell, more a matter of personal preference.

Speaking of which, what did you mean about interpretations of the Bible?  I ask because the only times I recall angels actually being described are in Ezekial 1 (which describes Cherubim and mentions that they have four wings, but never mentions where the wings attach to the body) and Isaiah 6 (which describes Seraphim, but again doesn’t say anything about where the six wings are attached), and maybe Zechariah 5 (verse 9 describes women with wings like those of a crane or stork, who may or may not be angels; again, no word on how the wings are attached).

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I can link some tutorial examples

Feel free!  I’m always happy to learn about new stuff.

Also, this has nothing to do with anything, but while scanning Deviantart to find pictures of the various wing arrangements, I ran across this, which I am linking to because it’s just really cool and creepy.

I accidentally looked at Lovecraft rather than his fictional universe and created the world’s most racist angel, Klandalphon, responsible for all of the Aryan Jesus imagary, currently tasked with working as guardian to the POTUS.