Hii!!! MerMiah here :)

[Mermiah]

Hi! My name is Miah and I'm in the process of making a mermaid tail and top and some other things :3 I'm brand spanking new to the MerNetwork so be patient with me

umm my tail is inspired by a beta fish picture I found on Pinterest and my tail is being made with hand sewn on scales :3 (and yes I will be sharing my methods, every single one!) I don't bite and if you have questions or want to talk just go ahead and leave me a message love and good fishes, ~MerMiah

[Carolina Mermaid]

Welcome! I look forward to seeing your tail!

[Mermaid Dottie]

Hi MerMiah! Welcome!

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[Mermiah]

Thanks so much it should be done by the time we open our back yard pool (I think at least, I am usually optimistic about things)

[MermaidKatrina]

Welcome! Be sure to join a pod and connect with more mers near you!


•Just Keep Swimming•

[Mermiah]

Well here is the first part of my fluke if anyone wants to see it

[Mermiah]

Thank you I did just today the Great Lakes pod

[Mermiah]

Ok I have myself a signature and just want to see if it worked :3

[MermaidKatrina]

Keep updating pictures of your fluke and tail, ok?


•Just Keep Swimming•

[Mermiah]

Shure thing pretty soon I'll have a HUGE information dump, I just have to test some things and clean up my math a tad

[Mermiah]

Ok, well my tail is going to be a fabric tail with scales sewn on to it with a sculpted fluke

and then here's the fun part the fluke :3 I found a plastic putty you can make from styrofoam and acetone (but you must be VERY cautious) and I will be making a "skeleton" with us and then casting a "skin" over it with laytex (or silicone which is stronger?)

and it will be dyed/painted to look something like this

[MermaidMichelle]

Your design looks lovely, your sculpting and working from even the most-basic level is impressive, and I like how the inspirational fish for your tail is also your current avatar!

I would recommend DragonSkin silicone; it's the best!

[Mermiah]

Thank you :3 haha yeah I Gould that little guy and I have been putting him everywhere :3 he is a cutie :3
and thank you so much :3

dragon skin is probably what I will go with for my second one for sure :3 but I am slightly broke at the moment haha I'm still doing research on tear withstandance

[Lucinda]

Hi, Mermiah, and welcome! Judging by the description and the pictures of your design it sounds like you have plenty of original ideas.

[MermaidMichelle]

Yes, it can be painstaking having a cool design without the funds to further it to fruition. Latex may be cheaper, but silicone is better in pretty much every case. If you like your design on a less-expensive tail, perhaps you could use it when you can afford DragonSkin silicone; or maybe by then you'll have a new idea which you like even better!

[Mermiah]

Yeah :3 I think you actually have me convinced (that and another family just asked me to babysit ) so I guess dragon skin it is!!

For my second I want to make the skeleton glow in the dark and the silicone be clear like a translucent fish (but I'm getting WAY ahead of myself :3)

[Mermiah]

Why thank you :3 I think my brain just has this thing where it decides to never do something the cheap/easy/right way :3 (but in the long way I think this tail is pretty cheap :3)

[Mermiah]

Should I post a new thred on just the plastic scale technique or should i just put it here? I don't what to clutter the forums :/ but also I think that it would be very helpful to the mer cumunity it's SOO cheap and (pretty) easy so I guess I'm just wondering if people would be annoyed with me if I started a forum :3

[MermaidMichelle]

Starting a new thread for such a cool technique should be quite acceptable. Just post it in Tail Making or something to that effect.

[Mermiah]

Ok thanks :3