Chamaecyparis lawsoniana elwoodii-Lawson cypress advice

[Fidur]

So in my phase "buy any conifer you see", almost a year ago, I bought this 3 chamaecyparis:



Repoted them (in a bit freaky way):



Six months later, the central tree died (my first dead tree, still wondering what happened), and today I have tried to style one of them:





As you can see, the chopped top is still unwired as I try to find out the way to develop it.
I know, as a good beginer, that there must be some mistakes in what I've done, and one of the trees remains unstyled. So please give me some feedback, on my mistakes, on the way this trees should be styled,.... any comments and tips welcome

 

[Fidur]

Forgot to say, this trees will be repoted individually next season, so the second tree can have any (possible) chosen design.

 

[Fidur]

Update:

 

[Fidur]

Update.
The most fragile tree I have worked with. You wire a branch, you risk to loose it (2 out of 5 in the styled one). I almost haven´t worked on the rigth one (in fact the three branches I worked a little are now heading to slow death) only have chopped the leader (twice). Very pesimistic about this species. Maybe in some months they will have dided.

 

[Fidur]

Update: Improving ( I guess)