Jinx
08-13-2013, 02:59 AM
Anyone who read about making my extended tail last summer knows it was dead after our trip to Niagara last August. While swimming in a natural salt water pool at the camp site we were staying at where 2 ill behaved children (I say that as the most kind way to refer to those little demons) jumped on me and tried to dissect my tail while I was wearing it, I needed to do major Mergury to fix it.
As anyone with 4 kids like i have and many medical issues knows life can runaway without you getting to work on things you wish you could. So over the last few months i have finally been finishing the last steps of the emergency mergury that has been severly delayed.
I needed to first reconnect the foot plate/fluke to the tail. It took a lot of time. I had to actually use gorilla glue to get it together again. Which means i had to then seal the glue in silicone (as gorilla glue turns into foam that would be a big pain in the ass if it got saturated) and cover the seams. Since I needed to cover the seams I ended up cutting off the part of the tail that was the halter top. I hated doing it but to build up and create another duplicate "skin" would have been too time consuming and more trouble than it would have been worth. So now it is just a waist down tail.
I also decided to create a harness that was connected to the foot plate that would directly connect my body to the fluke so it didn't slide away from my body as I swam. I suspect that could have contributed to the ease the demons had in the slaughter of my tail. So now the fluke is a part of me and the rest of the tail is merely a covering(beautiful as it is) of the inner workings of my tail. With that I decided to add a zipper so I could have a double closing clip arrangement on the harness one around my knees and the other at my waist. So the zip is about 30 inches long and so I added more of the shelving vinyl in layers as a dorsal fin to hide the zipper.
Then i had to blend it all together with more alex plus and finally repaint. The paint/alexplus mixture I used last time had mostly solidified so I decided to change the color scheme as I don't have more of those colors to mix more and I also don't even remember which type of paint it was. So I wanted to do an homage to the fishtails tail and went with lime green and lavender. As the addition of all of this made the original scales I hand sculpted into the tail seem a little flatter I decided to do airbrushed shading to excentuate the shape of the scales. I have as of right now finished all the color and shading on all the green scales and half the purple. Tomorrow I will be finishing up the high lights and fine tuning on the last half of the lavender scales. Then I have glitter paint in the same colors to add on top of it as to make everything totally eye catching and out of this world dazzling. Then a top coat of alexplus, the clips on the harness and hopefully (FINS CROSSED BIGTIME PLEASE!!!) a swim on wednesday in the local pool who have all been dieing to see it. I am going to upload photos and video soon as many people have been dieing to see it swim.
One last thing I am officially opening my own tail making business. So till it is all up and running I need to keep a lot of secrets. But what I will tell everyone is ALL my tails are going to be extended tails of different sorts, and a few male tails, as well as the biggie a tail that is a version of a fish that has a week dedicated to it and it will blow everyone's minds. I will also have 5 different scale choices for people to choose from. I can't wait for everything to be up and running for you all and I think everyone is going to love it.
Here is the link to pics of the process
https://www.facebook.com/kimberlygbianco/media_set?set=a.10201798423786073.1073741825.13462 85505&type=3
Keep your fiins a flooping everymer!
Jynxie!
As anyone with 4 kids like i have and many medical issues knows life can runaway without you getting to work on things you wish you could. So over the last few months i have finally been finishing the last steps of the emergency mergury that has been severly delayed.
I needed to first reconnect the foot plate/fluke to the tail. It took a lot of time. I had to actually use gorilla glue to get it together again. Which means i had to then seal the glue in silicone (as gorilla glue turns into foam that would be a big pain in the ass if it got saturated) and cover the seams. Since I needed to cover the seams I ended up cutting off the part of the tail that was the halter top. I hated doing it but to build up and create another duplicate "skin" would have been too time consuming and more trouble than it would have been worth. So now it is just a waist down tail.
I also decided to create a harness that was connected to the foot plate that would directly connect my body to the fluke so it didn't slide away from my body as I swam. I suspect that could have contributed to the ease the demons had in the slaughter of my tail. So now the fluke is a part of me and the rest of the tail is merely a covering(beautiful as it is) of the inner workings of my tail. With that I decided to add a zipper so I could have a double closing clip arrangement on the harness one around my knees and the other at my waist. So the zip is about 30 inches long and so I added more of the shelving vinyl in layers as a dorsal fin to hide the zipper.
Then i had to blend it all together with more alex plus and finally repaint. The paint/alexplus mixture I used last time had mostly solidified so I decided to change the color scheme as I don't have more of those colors to mix more and I also don't even remember which type of paint it was. So I wanted to do an homage to the fishtails tail and went with lime green and lavender. As the addition of all of this made the original scales I hand sculpted into the tail seem a little flatter I decided to do airbrushed shading to excentuate the shape of the scales. I have as of right now finished all the color and shading on all the green scales and half the purple. Tomorrow I will be finishing up the high lights and fine tuning on the last half of the lavender scales. Then I have glitter paint in the same colors to add on top of it as to make everything totally eye catching and out of this world dazzling. Then a top coat of alexplus, the clips on the harness and hopefully (FINS CROSSED BIGTIME PLEASE!!!) a swim on wednesday in the local pool who have all been dieing to see it. I am going to upload photos and video soon as many people have been dieing to see it swim.
One last thing I am officially opening my own tail making business. So till it is all up and running I need to keep a lot of secrets. But what I will tell everyone is ALL my tails are going to be extended tails of different sorts, and a few male tails, as well as the biggie a tail that is a version of a fish that has a week dedicated to it and it will blow everyone's minds. I will also have 5 different scale choices for people to choose from. I can't wait for everything to be up and running for you all and I think everyone is going to love it.
Here is the link to pics of the process
https://www.facebook.com/kimberlygbianco/media_set?set=a.10201798423786073.1073741825.13462 85505&type=3
Keep your fiins a flooping everymer!
Jynxie!