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Oooooo love the color scheme!
Gorgeous
Wow, your scales are so unique and your tail is so bold and colorful. Amazing tail!
I love to embellish things so I had to beautify my "Venus magictail" by adding fins and a long fluke.Attachment 38467
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Originally Posted by Lilyrose Fish
Wow! ❤️
How did you make the extra fins? From a spare tail skin?
They're actually hand-painted fabric bits, I believe! It's posted in another thread somewhere!
I just started a thread about how I made the fins and longer fluke. I sandwiched plastic between sheer fabric and then hand painted them with acrylic paint. Glad you like them!
Just received my sketch for my silicone tail I will getting soon from Najestic Ent :)
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Originally Posted by Delphin
Do you happen to have more pics / a tailmaking thread somwwhere by any chance? I love it!
That looks sooo pretty!!!!
Woah! Awesome! At first glance I thought it was a crochet tail!Quote:
Originally Posted by Delphin
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just keep swimming~ Just keep swimming~~
Funny thing is I didn't even make the connection. I just had a few scales and the side fins and my wife says "So you are making a Dory tail?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashton
Me - "Wait, what? . . . Oh . . . apparently yes."
I didn't really document the build. I saw MerQueen Nerissa's tail and did the same scale over powermesh thing (I'm not sure who to properly attribute the method to).Quote:
Originally Posted by moniee
I'm leaving on vacation today untill the 16th and I decided I wanted to take a tail. The problem being that we will be by the sea so I wanted something visible with a strong Monofin. Neither of my 3 tails had both of those qualities. Inevitably yesterday I went "eh, I've been planing this tail anyway and have everything I need" so...
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Her name is Opal. When I get back from vacation I will be making a matching top and figuring out how to get the spikes to not scrunch in on themselves. Strangely enough I have actually worked with spandex spikes before and COMPLETELY FORGOT that they did that. Oh well. To the sea!!
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It looks great!
Thank you :3 I'm not in love with the fluke but my little hip fins make me unbelievable happy XDQuote:
Originally Posted by Sabrina the Selkie
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Ooo! Love that rainbow spandex!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Mia
For spikes, I sew in a few stitches into the tips of them, so they stay and don't fold in on itself.
Whats funny is that the tips are fine. They are pulling in at the curve between spikes. And when i full extend one another one of them will shrink up. Ive had this problem with spandex before. I ended up sewing in boning on that one. I will try some stay stitching just at the curves when i am home. Hopefully that does enough. Thanks :3Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Jaffa
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Omg where did you get the fabric for that tail!?! It's stunning!!! 😍Quote:
Originally Posted by Lilyrose Fish
That fluke is beautiful!!! 💖Quote:
Originally Posted by KateyMermaid
The tail skin is from Magictail of Germany. They have other similar tails too in different colors. I added the fins and lengthened the fluke. I love their tail skin colors but their monofins don't give much propulsion. It is very hard to move forward doing a nice undulation. Instead with this tail, I find myself having to bend at the knees and give a very pronounced strong kick from the knees to move forward. It looks so beautiful in photos, but for video I am going to retrofit the magictail skin to fit my mahina.
I have my MagicTail for now...this was a pic I snapped of it last summer by the pool...I really need to take some good photo's in it, but I am about to start working on my silicone tail as soon as I experiment with my monofin idea and then order the rest of the supplies!
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I can't remember if I shared but here is my second attempt at a tail for my daughter it is spandex base with silicone caulk over it she is using a merfin inside the fluke Attachment 38750
And here is a short video https://vimeo.com/179651654
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I FINALLY GOT MY FIRST TAIL!!!! 😍💖
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Some photos from vacation :)
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I really have some work to do on this tail :/
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Niice!
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So tropical! You look like you're having a blast!
Oh thank you both :) the water was freezing (40 F and below) but worth it :3
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Beautiful tail Mia!
This is my tail from Mermaid Kat. Took this pic at Parlee Beach on vacation this summer.
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It's also my avatar, but still.. :P
Well its a fabulous picture. Worth showing offQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Summerlilly
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1.) MYLAR! Oh my God it's been ages and I could not for the life of me think of the term. HahaQuote:
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2.) I just now saw this reply. Lol Luckily I found a solution that has worked literal wonders since then. Hehe But thanks for the input anyway! <3
Wow. I thought I had updated my tail and the whole sequins issue. Haha Oops. Anyway, I used silicone as a coating and it's literally exactly what I was looking for. It's worked wonderfully and the only trouble spots are where I got the silicone too thin. Other than that its so amazing and I'm so in love with it. <3 ;) So here are a few of my favorite shots from my Myrtle Beach Photo shoot a the beginning of the month. :)
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And a few from my pool hehe:
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And of course my signature one too. :)
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It retained all of it's sparkle (plus the crap ton I added hehe) and feels so cool. I'm so happy with it. <3
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Originally Posted by Mermaid Mia
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I jist ordered my Mernation silicone tail and sent them my measurements! So this will be my tail in 6 or so weeks!
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Tidal Teal fin fun :) so happy right now <3
Looks Beautiful! I just got mine too. :)
I finally got to go swim in my fabric tail yesterday! I have a couple in the works bc my DIL is a costumer and is helping to make me some lovely tail covers. I have a Mahina, so I knew it may be hard to find fitted covers on the open market. I did decide to try a Mertailor Ecotail, leggings, and bra top. I thought they looked great together yesterday!
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I have never inserted a pic here, I am going to try one, and see if I figured it out before I try to post more! I want to show you how I altered the Ecotail to go over the mahina and the tail she made me out of velvet!!! She is SO talented! She is making me one more in a teal velvet to go over the Mahina too. I can't wait and hope this link thingy works!!