Little Orca's New Tail
As some of you remember from the other forum, I am making my third fabric tail. Soon, my heart, soon we will have better...
Anyfin, I am still working on my new tail. I brought over from the other forum some of the information and images I had posted on the other place to get this restarted and going. I won't post everything as a picture and some changes have been made.
Here is a preview video. In it, I am showing that I am indeed making a new tail, the fabric color, and I talk a little about my shrinking tail (weight loss). There is a cameo appearance by Selkie, my torti-point Siamese cat, and it is her bell you hear jingling through the first half of the video.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDrSZRm77aE
The fabric is a thick lycra that is dark blue. The outside (pretty side) has little black dots on it that are shiny and give it a semi-scaled look without there having to be large sequins. I was planning to paint scales (not sure now) and do a lot of embellishments and designs with paint and maybe some glitter, so that will all be revealed as time goes on.
The paint colors for the detail work on my tail may change. The main tail color is a dark blue (looks navy inside, but in sunlight it's not) and the accent colors I originally got were dark teal, berry, and lavender. The purple-ish colors were to be mostly on the fins.
The original design: http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...Progress-1.jpg
My plans went a little bit away from a butterfly koi and more towards what I called a parrot fish and now ... who knows. I really wanted a lyre-tail look but could not afford a new monofin just yet and felt I may as well just work with what I have; especially given how expensive my paints I need to get are (Yes, I think the purple paint plan is dead, more details later). The use of extra fins, as was present in my blue tail, is under debate. I had them completed and sewn into the tail before the two pieces came together last time, but this tail I did not include them before sewing. It will be simple to add them, but it all depends on how I get the rest of the tail looking. Mr. Orca said that he liked how the fins look in the water, but out of the water the fin-less look was better; at least in the cloth tails. Still unsure.
Construction Pictures!
And for the grand finale of this post, I do have an image of me sitting in the tail at my computer desk. It is unpainted so it looks quite plain. The extra fabric in the tail is bunching but once the paint comes on the weight of it tends to make it lay a little flatter. The dog is my mini dachshund Molly, a puppy mill rescue, and the other dog in the image is my sister's dachshund who I am babysitting. My sister's other dachshund is hidden in the warm blankets.
And for bubbles and giggles... this was me 85 pounds ago... Can you see the difference? *Giggle*
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I like that they are pearlescent and I want to try some on the purple tail I'm starting on!
Originally Posted by LindseyLu
I was born a fish! 
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