Love, love, LOVE your tails, Fifi!
Love, love, LOVE your tails, Fifi!
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Originally Posted by Mermaid Galene
Omg Sin I LOVE your tails! Those are all very amazing.
Thank you!
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Aquarianne, that's SO COOL you were a finalist for the show! It was a lot of fun to watch, I'm sure you would have been an awesome contestant. Also, I totally love your ideas.....
What I was thinking was fabric with modifications and shaping underneath. You could use quick-drying foam on the inside of the tail (such as Dacron foam) that you could use to hide the bumps of your knees and the bumps of your heels....along with keeping the fabric from showing any leg-shapes in the front or back. It wouldn't be a lot of foam, just enough to retain flexibility and alter shape. You could use a marine adhesive (3M 2500) to fuse the two. Fursuits use a ton of shape padding, I feel like it would be even easier on a mermaid tail!
I think your ideas for painting latex on for scale patterning is spot-on too. You could build up some really nice scaling with a little time and effort so long as the spandex is stretched out a little first.
Nicely done! I can't wait to see it swim!
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New Mermaid here! I'm working on a spandex tail to get started. I got the fabric on the red tag rack at JoAnns and tested several painting techniques on it. I can't wait to get this thing started. I'm waiting on my monofin. I tried to make one myself and failed several times. Bit the bullet and bought one on Amazon.
My fabric tail came in the mail today! I can't wait to go swimming in it.
Did you get pics? Would love to see it!
I'm currently working on mine. I'm getting really excited for it. Hey, any tips on how to add little hip fins into the fabric?
All that glitters is not gold,
Not all who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not touched by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be broken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
The tail I ordered had them just sighed right on top. When I make my own, I plan on cutting a line into the tail where I want the fin, then inserting it in a bit so I can sew it on the inside. Does that make sense?
Yeah, that was what I was thinking before. But if I do that, would it not make a ruffle/bulge on the end of the cut?
All that glitters is not gold,
Not all who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not touched by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be broken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
Thats basically what I did. I pulled the seam where the fin went and sewed it back, and it worked just fine! If you mean for pectoral fins and such, just sew about a 1/4" bigger on both sides parallel to the fins to account for the new seam
also
my fabric tail at a fair I was booked at!
I got some pics with my tablet but things keeping screwing up when I go to post them on here. I'll figure something out though lol.
It might, I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how to have it lay flat.
Yeah. I'm sure as long as you keep the stitch close enough to the edge, it would look alright. I'm just scared I'll sew to far away and it'll look weird! Be careful though, depending on what fabric you use, it might start to fray if you sew it too close.
All that glitters is not gold,
Not all who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not touched by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be broken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
Here's my collection of all my fabric tails all made by me apart from two tail revamps. GO THE FABRIC!!!
omg!!! Fifi Ilove your tail on the bottom left. the others are awesome too but I do love thee pattern in that one!!!!
Here's my collection of all my fabric tails all made by me apart from two tail revamps. GO THE FABRIC!!!
I'm still working on my silicone tail, but I'm really in love with my new fabric one. I especially like the way it shines ** I just can't wait to start mermaiding with it! <3
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