Woo!
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I think they look great! But if you don't love them and don't know what to do with them I have a few ideas! If you have enough you can make a scale cuff, groups of scale patches that can be glued onto the body for a "growing scales" look, make a mini tail for a doll, glue the scales onto a cover of a notebook, If you are up for making more scales, you could make a lovely topOriginally Posted by MerQueen Nerissa
Are those shell shock molds? If so, are you pouring or brushing?
I really like these!
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Awesome work!
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Ooh a notebook cover sounds awesome! I'm working on a "mermaid handbook" in the perspective of my charter in the book I wrote with a friend, and scales as the cover would be perfect!I think they look great! But if you don't love them and don't know what to do with them I have a few ideas! If you have enough you can make a scale cuff, groups of scale patches that can be glued onto the body for a "growing scales" look, make a mini tail for a doll, glue the scales onto a cover of a notebook, If you are up for making more scales, you could make a lovely top
No, I'm using the "amazing" casting resin you can get at hobby lobby and Michaels. I'm not sure if this applies to shell shock, but I'm pouring and it captures every detail just fine.
Thanks!Awesome work!
I'm out of silicone (I was just using leftovers from the first tail), so I'll ordering a couple trial kits monday. I also bought a bunch of glitter today, because I freaking love sparkles and I want this tail to be magical!
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I had just enough silicone left to do some tests with the glitter! I think I'm going to get some that matches the dark purple better, but what I have right now will look great on the lighter colors of my tail.
The second picture is obviously out of focus, but it shows the sparkle!
This one is just clear with sparkles, which is what I'm planning on doing for a blended waist.
I have a couple other scales curing, but after that I won't have any new progress until my new silicone gets here (hopefully by the end of the week)
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Oh my gosh that clear sparkly one!!!!
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I am so glad I decided to change my scales because I am SO in love with these!
I also bought some new glitter that'll go well with my dark purple/violet.
I'm also planning on getting my powermesh/making my leg dummy by the end of the week!
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Okay wow it's been a while since I've posted any progress on this. I have about 80 scales now (once I clean out my new mold I'll be able to make 15 at a time so it'll go faster), but no other progress. My plan WAS to buy a leaderfin monofin and then start working on sculpting the fluke, but now I'm questioning what monofin I really want. At first I thought I really wanted a big monofin so I could have a big fluke and swim really fast, but now that I've swam in my first silicone tail (which has a pretty big monofin), I'm thinking that I like my softer, smaller monofins better.
So now I guess I need to figure out which smaller, softer monofin I want to get. I really love my foil but it's a pain to deal with rubber and silicone. I can fit my feet into
both the wave and the rapid, but they both have those bulky strap things on the side. Then there is the hydra, but that also has the bulky strap things, plus it looks like it really separates your legs, the foil and rapid do this as well but in some pictures the hydra looks like it does it even more.
So I guess I'll continue working on scales until I figure out what the flip I want to do for the monofin
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I haven't done much with this lately because I've been working on tails for friends, and my little brother! I did however buy my monofin! I decided to go with the finis foil after looking through some threads and watching some youtube videos. I know you can't go very fast in them, but I'm a sucker for flowy, floppy flukes!
Hi, a little bit of help here for you re painting etc.
If you paint the tail after the cure time (48 to 72 hours max) then the silicone paint will not stick too well (it will peel off here and there)
It all has to be done so fast that you have to be very very organised and often involves 15 hour days!
Again, adding scales etc once that vital cure time has passed is nigh on impossible, for a good bond, unless you use something called silpoxy (from Smooth on)
When you design your next tail make sure the contour between fluke and leg part flows smoothly, allowing for the extra space required to locate the fin, both on the fluke and leg part (make sure they are the same too)
Hope that helps
I don't have any actual tail progress, mostly because of college and anime conventions, but I did finally figure out a design that I love!
I'm pretty sure the fluke is going to end up being pretty big, which brings me back to deciding on a monofin. But I'm going really slow with this so I have time to figure it out!
Winter break is coming up so hopefully I'll have time then to actually work on the tail!
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Very pretty design! And looking back through the thread I have to say I love those clear sparkly scales too
Mermaids - not so graceful on land...
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Beautiful design!I don't have any actual tail progress, mostly because of college and anime conventions, but I did finally figure out a design that I love!
I'm pretty sure the fluke is going to end up being pretty big, which brings me back to deciding on a monofin. But I'm going really slow with this so I have time to figure it out!
Winter break is coming up so hopefully I'll have time then to actually work on the tail!
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Thanks everyone for the kind words!! I'm still going slow and steady with this, but I've got at least enough scales to cover half of the front of a tail. I've also ordered a lighter purple/violet pigment so I don't have to mix that color every time I make scales, and it'll also be more consistent that way. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to work on it for the remainder of winter break, as I need to make a tail for the winner of my raffle.
Wow, it is looking beautiful so far! Can't wait to see more progress, good luck! :-)
Here are the scales I've got so far!
(My phone seems to hate purple, none of the pictures I take ever show what it really looks like)
I laid it on top of my partial tail for scale. They reach a few rows above the knees, and the final tail will probably be shorter than the partial one, so I'm farther along than it looks.
I've got powermesh now, and I'll be ordering another trial kit of silicone to tide me over until I save up enough for the gallon kit and monofin.
I'm hoping to get my butt in gear and try to finish this thing before summer!
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