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I just wanna say: no matter what negative insults people outside of the furby community wanna throw at us, oddbodies/customized furbs are literal works of art and no one can tell me otherwise.

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Please Reblog if You Are a Furby Artist!

I’m always looking for artists (be it painting, drawing, jewelry, customs, 3D printing, any art medium at all!) who make furby-related art to support and buy from!

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Gromlin age! (featuring big-eyed tiny baby Gromling- also the Gromlins race page, for those who haven’t seen it)

Gromlins, as shown in the manual page about them, age sorta weird. They grow to adulthood really fast, and live for a really long time, unlike most races that either grow up fast but don’t live very long, or grow up slow but live really long. In their short short childhood (only about 14 years for them to get to roughly 18, but they grow up to 10 in 3) their fur (or as they call it, plumage) is a weird muddied greyish-greenish-brownish colour. As I like to say, their babies look like moldy kiwis.

As their aging starts to slow down after about 5, their teen years are from 5 to 15, and this is when their plumage starts to change. They shed a lot of fur, and their new colours start to grow in bright clumps.They finish at about 13 to 15, with of course a few late bloomers. It’s rare for a Gromlin to lose their baby plumage really late, and unheard of them never losing it. 

But yeah. I have some rules i like to follow when colouring them, just so that i can make sure they have a cohesive palette, but y’all don’t have to follow those if you make your pwn character. But, if you’re wondering, I usually colour the head hair and tail the same, eyebrows, outer ear, and nose-ridge-thing the same, the beak, feet scales, and outer edge of the inner ear the same, the inner most edge of the ear and the tongue the same, aaaand the eyes and forehead gem are the same. You can probably tell by the red boyo up there though, their colours are based off of a macaw. 

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So, I haven’t posted on here in a while, and I thought to finally explain my header picture. 

These are Gromlins, a D&D race me and my boyfriend made based off of Furbies! They’re bright, colourful fey creatures heralding from the super psychedelic parts of the fey wild. They LOVE being Absolutely Extra™ and are super energetic, with that classic fey mischief to boot.

If anyone wants to play using these dudes, I left the sheet my beau made up there too. It’s more suited to his old D&D setting, but you can always make up places and people instead- ‘course, who’d wanna replace their kingdom of Gromtopia? 

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So! I’ve researched, and this is the basic anatomy of a furby face- or at least, how I’d make a movable one without any machinery. How it would work, is, the back plate holds the eyes and mouth in it, and screws into the front face plate, With the fabric of the furby in between the two to hold it in place on the doll.

A one-piece mold would obviously be easier, but I think one of the most fun parts of a furby is that the face can move, so, I’ll be at least trying to make one that you can pose. We’ll see how it goes!

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Furby faces!

Made this blog to record my adventures on trying to make a proper resin furby face plate. The plan is to get a furby, and dissemble the real face to use as a base- most likely a 1999ish one. 

I want to make one that’s easier to put into cloth to make the making of odd bodies much more simple. My idea was to have the back plate clip or screw into the front plate (the one you actually see) so you don’t actually have to sew them to the fabric, just screw them together so they pinch the fabric and are stuck there.

The resin I have is easily coloured with acrylic paint, which I have just about every colour in, and hardens light and slightly flexible. I also have many colours of glitter, and can make them fully customized- including making them transparent! If anyone has any suggestions, tell me! I’d love to have any advice or help the community can give me!

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Made a new blog to post this stuff! Check it out!

Should I make furby faces??

I’m tempted. I love how horrifying and monstrous some people make their custom lovely bird-rats, and I’m getting into making dice out of resin, so, like, would people want someone that they can buy just the faces from??

I’d probably use the 1998-1999 model, ‘cause I like those the best and they seem to be the most popular, and either make some as replacement pieces, make some as stand-alone movable face pieces for odd bodies, or offer options for both. How to make 'em? Easy. Acquire a broken furby, crack 'em open, steal its face, and make a resin mold! All the individual pieces too, like the eyes an eyelids seperate, so they can be drilled and have a metal rod put through 'em. Might make some odd bois for myself, too. I love their horrid limbs, posable spines, and word-salad names.

What does the community think? Stick to my dice making, or branch out to furby faces? Is it worth while to make just the faces more accessible? (hopefully this actually gets a response 🤞🤞)