Amy's Dragon skin tail..nervous beginings!

So I now have nearly all the bits and pieces to start my Dragon skin tail, dragon skin ordered, scale board for sheet made, studio det up, pearl ex on it's way, tons of resin and glass matting purchased, mountains of foam, clay to pick up on the weekend, dozens of tests done with the materials I got in trial size, and I have dedicated a room in my house to the production of all things mermaid. Starting a thread to keep myself on track!

I'm going in with the attitude that the creative process always goes as follows:

1. This sucks!
2. I am terrible at this
3. hhhhm maybe This isn't so bad
4. actually I mught be ok at this
5. This is freeking awesome!

Wish me luck! Pics of progress to follow!

:)

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your progress!

good luck hun

It's an adventure!

lots of luck, Amy... very looking forward to watching the progress

Good luck Amy! I'll follow it :)

Just see the steps in your mind and you can do it.

Thanks everyone :)

So My Hydra finally arrived :) Yay! Was going to use my Mahina. But decided otherwise due to the rubber and thick sides I didn't care for in a silicone tail, here's my studio I have set up with some of my tail and accessory making gear I have accumulated over the past few months and some little scale tests I have been doing JAttachment 24632 Attachment 24633Attachment 24634Attachment 24635
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This is my new scale sheet method for those who have been painstakingly cutting out circles, try tracing your scale shape onto foam sheets and cutting around the lower half of the shape and then cut this into strips, saves heaps of time cutting and sticking and theres no risk of undercuts and little hole in the sheet as you can leave a bit of extra space between rows. I've tried tests with this in foam and with resin & dragon skin and it works a treat : ) I'm goind to have gradient scale small at bottom getting larger, cut a few rows at lunch today, using this method, you could knock a whole sheet over in an evening if you were keen Attachment 24636

Great to see an aussie Mermaid at work!
Can I ask if you are getting your silicon from the supplier in Adelaide or from somewhere else? It's very expensive here! Whoa
Can't wait to see the finished masterpiece! :)

Thanks Harpess I got my smooth on stuff sent from Adelaide http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Liquid-Si...-/291056462749 bought in trial kits, have 5 not sure how much I will need as yet, monster clay and a few other things I ordered from Barnes, they are very helpful and shipping is free wohoo! http://www.barnes.com.au/

Oh great :) Thanks Amy!

I could possibly attempt to make a shell bra to see if me and this moulding/silicone process are friends before getting too ambitious with an entire tail haha.

On your shelf you have little boxes with a yellow triangle on them.. What is that Amy? Is it a product?

That's the Smooth on Dragon Skin 10 Medium silicone :)

Ah gotchya :)

Postman has lost my Pearl Ex :( But in the meantime I have gor out my monster clay to play with, it's much easier to use than I had predicted made a cute little fin for practice in a couple of minute, wondering if anyone has used lino cutting tools (like tiny chissles with a chanel in the blade ) to carve the clay, to get rid of those little "chocolate curls" of clay? Also have drawn about a hundred different sketches for the fluke but I think ill use my basic outline and freehand the rest, it's hard to translate from a 2D drawing to a 3D sculture and have it look the same. getting excited!

Go Amy! This certainly is exciting! Looking forward to following the progress of your masterpiece :)

Attachment 24772 little fin practice :)

Thanks Harpress, feeling much more confident about the sculting now :)

Rough sketch of final fluke idea