Ooo! Love that pink tail!
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Ooo! Love that pink tail!
Looks amazing! This is one of my favorites from you :)
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...97&oe=56B0B29A
Beautiful little tail for a girl in NSW Australia :)
Absolutely beautiful Tigg!
I love the colors! It looks very fantastical ~
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Every single tail is so gorgeous, and it's so cool to look through the thread and see how your style has developed and matured. I showed a couple of your tails to my mertender and he said that the scale and fluke textures make them look like living Van Gogh paintings.
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Originally Posted by MermaidRaegan
That's exactly what I thought! I vote for a Starry Night tail!
Wow, thank you for the big complement and I will have to do that one day! Will have to find the right mermaid for it :) xx
I love the fluke on that last one!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...4191d78794ec6f
Mermaid Nixies new tail based on a trigger fish :swoon:
Soooo beautiful!!! :thumbs-up:
I think that's my favorite fluke, and I love trigger fish!
I love the dainty little scales close to the fluke; small details like that add so much to a tail. I've been curious, do you leave drainage holes or do you seal your flukes? They don't seem to get much drag.
All my tails have drainage holes otherwise it would be dangerous.Quote:
Originally Posted by MermaidRaegan
Have you ever made a tail with a zipper?
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Yes, when I experimented with a used wetsuitQuote:
Originally Posted by Seraphina Suds
Oh, neat. Did it work out well?
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Zipper worked fine but I just need to figure out how to stop it unzipping! haha
Mermaid Enora found a way to keep the zipper put. I looked it up here is a quote from her sequin tailmaking topic:
The quote is from post # 67 pg. 4Quote:
I did make a key for the zipper. The zipper requires a kinda stop start zipping to get it closed. The fins also have a tendency to get in the way. Holding onto the 1in zipper pull behind my knees while pulling was really putting a strain on my hand so I tied a loop of ribbon onto a locking hook that can clip onto the hole in the endow the zipper pull and it works great. I also have a large hook and eye clasp at the very top of the zipper. I can't reach that to hook it on my own that requires help. My mom is really good at getting it hooked quickly. After the hook is fastened the zipper key can be unclipped and put away somewhere safe.
Link to topic: http://mernetwork.com/index/showthre...er-sequin-tail
Hopefully that helps. :)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...06489541_o.jpg
First Mermaid Maternity shoot in my old recycled wetsuit tail :D
Fifi may I ask where you find your neoprene? I've had trouble finding an Australian supplier.
Not sure where Fifi gets her from by I get mine from Linkron it's about $50 per sheet which is 1.2x x 2m in most cases ( I know it's 2m but I'm going from memory for the other dimension)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Leina
Yes, I buy from the same supplier 'Linkron" :D
I have to commend their posting though, so quick! Ordered one day and it was here the next, given it had to travel 800km but usually that takes 2-3 days >_<
Seriously? I can't even get in contact with them. I've sent them about four emails, not too mention I tried to contact them over a year ago with no reply then either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ilyena
Which email have you sent it to?
Any and all the places I could find on the website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ilyena
enquiries@linkron.com.au
Thats the one I send talk to them with. They were a little dodge a while back but since ordering my last lot in Feb, they've been pretty good.
Excellent. Thanks for your help. I finally got through on that email. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ilyena
Awesome!!
I feel like i need to sing some praises, so i will. (could have to do with all the coffee in my system but whatever)
TIGG.
TIIIIGGGG.
you like made up a new method, made beautiful art, made a company in a place where shipping is stupid expensive. Your tails are gorgeous beyond belief. so innovative. pioneer. clever. improving with each tail too. wow. keep being awesome. *applause*
i'd love to see some wear and tear pics though. every tail is gonna show wear and i think transparency on how that may happen will boost confidence with a new technique. I know i periodically question: is that gonna fall apart? (maybe next to pics of wear on other makers' tails so ppl can see that "yes all tails show wear" ?) anyways that's some unsolicited advice for you that you can totally ignore because i quit selling tails so fast and obviously am not the best at running a tailmaking business. oh wow. yes way too much coffee. finals week. beautiful tails. love. love.
*claps along while Wesley sings*
Haha your so awesome Mermaid Wesley :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Wesley
Ive made quite a few now and have had one problem with the silicone I use which is one split just at the waist will occur, not huge or anything but enough to be annoying. I've worked out a solution to it now which is the waist must be a stiffer fabric if going for a neoprene base. Otherwise the whole tail can be fabric base which is thinner, stronger and dries faster!
I will take some pictures of all my tails that are still being used regularly by very rough children every week and are still staying together even after a year of abuse ;)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...2416bd6ae0ec9dhttps://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...9ffd8fdc88490ahttps://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...e6f133c1e95777
The split which I just patched a few months back and its still holding :)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...efce3dc4fe1dc3
Paintwork is still great!
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...4b&oe=56E5323Ehttps://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...5b&oe=56DAD07B
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...bf&oe=56F511A2https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...31bd4f6d198502
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...0b&oe=56EA56AC
So as you can see the material tail is way stronger and this tail has been over rocks, rivers, ocean, pools and sand!
The waist has never split and the tail hasnt got one scratch :D
Color me impressed!
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Fifi, your work is always amazing!
Thank you mermaids xoxo
Ohh, me likes!
All your tails are amazing! Would love to get one some day....
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Which tail was the one you made with the Mirage Rubber Fin? I can't find it.
That's the Starry Night tail which is in the tail making thread :D
Here is a video of it in action
http://youtu.be/ZmRVgJPw6v4