well some of you may remember that last year I was working on a BnG Fizzy, tho it got shelfed halfway thru as I got distracted by other projects and kept backburnering her. well earlier this week I got tired of seeing a ponyhead on my customs shelf and decided it was time to stop stalling and just tail her already... so I busted out the hair and dug out my pinning vise (since at the time id been following a tutorial that instructed snapping off the head THEN repairing the mechanism... joy.) and went on an emergency run for superglue gel...
took a little tinkering and swearing but I got her back together after some head scratching... she is finally complete... aaand... SHE WORKS! *victory dance* shes the second BnG ive made and the first one to be functional. she still needs her mane washed so itll lie flat *she has shelf hair lol*and some cosmetic repairs need doing as I think I may have accidently scratched her with my nail when I was tailing her. the repairs are simple tho, just a chip on one of her floats and a few tiny areas in the FBR that the white primer is showing thru. prolly scratches shes picked up from my fifteen million moves this year. and she needs to be blushed still since when I painted her I didn't have that skillset yet and had skipped it.
so, without further ado...
FIZZEH!!!
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loginshe started out as a particularly mangey Bouquet that had definitely seen better times. she was a lovely shade of brown and had the most... interesting... texture to her hair...
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loginshe had a good scrub inside and out (after I broke her head off and gutted her, saving all the internal bits in a spare Dollyhair baggy) an acetone wipedown, then a few rounds with a can of white primer for an even basecoat. she was then sanded with 1,000 grit sandpaper to smooth her out, since I detest rough paintwork... and her eyes were carefully cut out and beveled with an exacto knife. (yay Criminal Minds marathon)
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loginshe was given an FBR and gently sanded again...
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loginthen came the mane... that was... a lot... I cannot express how very much a lot was... but suffice it to say... she holds a shockingly 'lot'ness of lot of hair. left it at quarter length and trimmed it even. then SOAKED the inside with glue. here she is in the typical "Eluluu balance" to keep the glue in the right spot as it dries. was interesting finding the right angle to let her hang at to keep the glue on the hair, without letting it pool close to the neckplug where the mechanism has to sit, but without letting her droop too far and drip out her eyes...
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loginafter giving her about a week on the pencils to make sure the glue in her head was completely dry (after a few almost mishaps where I thought she was dry enough and started tinkering with her only to find rings of glue on my desk where she was sitting I decided to play it safe and leave her be lol) I set and puttied the eyes in. after this point she got shelfed for the better part of a year for other projects and generally cause I was being a coward and putting the tail in was intimidating lol. and im a pro at stalling and finding reasons to NOT do something...
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loginbut that doesn't mean I didn't play with her from time to time... I tend to lose my mind a bit when im tinkering... especially when im spending day after day glittering...
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loginfinally got off my bum and started work on the tail... left at full hank length atm, might trim an inch or two off of it eventually but for now im leaning her as a SLH BnG. after getting the tail at the right thickness I twist tied the center at two places and tied off the center with thread, by repeatedly winding and knotting it... then the thread and the surrounding hair got glue smeared and massaged into it...
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loginthen it was fed into the tail mechanism and more glue applied to the knot area... then the tail carefully pulled thru the back slot...
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loginand twisttied to a couple pencils and suspended over a coffeecup for a day to dry...
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loginafter pinning the little nub back onto the neckshaft and superglueing the upper half of the mech back into her head it was time for the moment of truth as I bullied the tail into the body...
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loginthen clicked her head back in place and gave her a few test cranks... and the tail DOES feed into the body and releases when pulled. so shes just a few repairs and a ribbon away from being 100%
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loginthe first BnG, Moonstone (not functional) who lives with BerryMouse.
im thinking of making Galaxy or Rainribbon when I get another bait... tho not sure yet =]
*goes to get more coffee*
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