Fabric, silicone, latex, or other materials. I don't care! I have a couple tail designs in mind, but always get stuck at the fluke. If my fellow mers would oblige me with photos/drawings of your flukes (and perhaps the company and name of the fluke if you can?) I would be eternally grateful! Please inspire me!
Currently deciding on a color/design and saving up for my first tail!
Mine's a Mahina Merfin covered by scuba knit and painted with Lumiere fabric paint.
Mermaid Lanai's silicone fluke is in the background
Sent from my LG-D851 using Tapatalk
Ooo, very nice!Originally Posted by Mermaid Aria
Mine's a Mahina Merfin covered by scuba knit and painted with Lumiere fabric paint.
Sent from my LG-D851 using Tapatalk
Sent from my Shellphone using Tapatalk for Android
Currently deciding on a color/design and saving up for my first tail!
Mines the bottom green one, its a modified wave/spandex/paint
I don't hve a fluke to show, but I'm subscribing to the thread! I'm a sucker for flukes. 0-0
Very pretty shape, did you modify the fluke yourself?
Mines the bottom green one, its a modified wave/spandex/paint
Hey! When I was searching to make sure a topic like this hadn't been done before, I came across your tail. You did a great job!
Sent from my Shellphone using Tapatalk for Android
Currently deciding on a color/design and saving up for my first tail!
Me too, welcome to my little thread
Sent from my Shellphone using Tapatalk for Android
Currently deciding on a color/design and saving up for my first tail!
hehe I love my fluke, but I love the scales on Aria's tail
Finned friends for the win
Last edited by New York Mermaid; 03-10-2017 at 06:39 AM.
I normally shape my flukes to the monofin that I'll be using. For example, my Finis Foil tails, have a smaller fluke size with flowing fin tips. In my merfin and mirage tails, I just made the fluke according to the shape of the monofin, with some flowing bits not not too over the top, as I know how much fabric I am able to swim in.
Formerly known as ireneho
Yes indeed! May I ask, where in New York are you from? My bf and I are from Rochester, but we lived in Ithaca for a few years before moving to the west coast.Finned friends for the win
Sent from my Shellphone using Tapatalk for Android
Currently deciding on a color/design and saving up for my first tail!
Ah, that makes sense! I'm considering a FinFun monofin, the new improved one with the blue parts on it, since it'll be my first. Would it be unwise to add trailing tips since I've never worn a tail and am not yet a very strong swimmer...?
Sent from my Shellphone using Tapatalk for Android
Currently deciding on a color/design and saving up for my first tail!
Im from New York City actually, Born and raised in Spanish Harlem. I actually know a mermaid up in Rochester, Katfish Mer I believe her username is.
I did! Its a really..... sketchy.... extension. Its made entirely out of zip ties and gorilla tape :>
Cool, maybe we will run into each other at some point once bf and I go home
Wow, that's some ingenuity right there!
Sent from my Shellphone using Tapatalk for Android
Currently deciding on a color/design and saving up for my first tail!
I haven't thought of naming the tail. This is my fluke made by Mazus Mermaid Emporium.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
When you make the impossible become possible, that when the magic happens!
Survivor of cyberbullies
Lovely color and shapeI haven't thought of naming the tail. This is my fluke made by Mazus Mermaid Emporium.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI didn't mean name it yourself, what I meant was like how some companies name their flukes. Like how FinFolk has flukes like the Loreena, Lotus, and others.
Sent from my Shellphone using Tapatalk for Android
Currently deciding on a color/design and saving up for my first tail!
I found out for myself through trial and error. I slowly added fins and extra flowing bits per tail.
For example, for Tail 3, I added a loose fitted fluke of the monofin. Took it for a few swims. Decided it was ok, then extended it. For the next tail, first added dorsal fin + the flowing fluke. Then next one, dorsal fin running all the way down on tail and on swimsuit, and longer fluke. And next one, all of the latter + pectoral fins. And so on and on...
Doing it this way, you can decide for yourself, exactly how much fabric you can swim in. The stronger you get, the more things you can add on. Well that's the way I figured it.
Last edited by Mermaid Jaffa; 03-11-2017 at 10:13 AM.
Formerly known as ireneho
Just going to post a pic of my future tail because it shows the fluke and fins. However, it IS kinda seethrough and I plan on making it without a monofin, but if you didn't want the membrane parts seethrough I think you'd be good to go.
As always, if someone uses my art or design without my permission, I'll be unhappy. XD
Misty that looks great but why not have the power and push of a monofin? I'm really curious about this.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks