#Plastic Toy

[thylacines-toybox]

A thylacine figure being sold in a local toy shop, that's a first! Oh and some other animals.

These are the Fossil Isle pack of Adopt Me figures. Obviously got the pack just for the thyla, but the rest of them are really cute too! I especially like the neon glyptodon. The sabre toothed cat was the surprise figure (a cat from an egg?? Hmm...)

[fablepaint]

I painted a horsie

[bikatsu]

Saw these pikachus with some fucked up necks, and the red ones look like they have been gored

[polymorphiczooid]

Smaugust Day 22: Misshapen

Nothing says misshapen like vintage dinosaur toys.

[scottahemi]

This day's prompt was Toys and the RNG gods gave me Jen from my first webcomic series Dan's Voyage! she's using a spring loaded shooter underwater which doesn't work cause it's plastic.

[manysketchbook]

Green Dragon | Imperial, 1983

Bro was #starving for so long he ate his own hand off. I have rescued him.

His wings are bendable! They’re made of a plastic that I��m unsure about the longevity of…honestly would not be surprised if there’s some poisonous potential in this toys materials. It feels like that sort of cheap plastic.

[ronycore]

RABBIT SEVEN BY MEGASCULPTURE

[ms-understand]

I’ll be your plastic toy.

[axiliern]

some various timkons 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

ft me playing with them like toys

[thylacines-toybox]

I had an extra Bingo figure so I spent today turning it into a thylacine! I painstakingly scraped off all the old painted markings, whittled down the ears, and carved a new tail (that can still rotate!) from a piece of another figure. Not perfect but I like it!

[xitsensunmoon]

My first ever comic con! And first cosplay too. Of course it's gonna be my boy :] Ramblings about the process are under the cut(Let me know if?? You would want me to elaborate with process images for any of the steps?)

The costume took me forever to make, as I've never done any machine sewing, sculpting, fabric dying or spray painting before but learning all of these was so fucking fun!! I never realised just how many different skills go into making a cosplay but it was so worth it!!!

Almost all of the clothes(except the hat) were purchased first as bases, but all of the detailing was added by me. All of the fabric used was originally just scraps that I was given for free so I needed to learn how to dye and dye all of the stars, they were originally white.

The sewing machine was its own beast that brought me tons of frustration from the lack of skill and knowledge (it was devastating to find out that 95% of fuck ups were my fault and not the machine's lmao). But as a result, a hat sewn from scratch, all of the fur trims, embroidery on the corset, stars and the collar(which is very hard to see on the pictures unfortunately) was all added manually. The stars and the stripes(on the back of the cape) were attached using heat-and-bond adhesive (I WISH I knew about such thing just when I started working on this. It would save me so much time and nerves.)

Then I found out about polymorph(mouldable plastic) and it has become the next thing I wanted to learn, to sculpt the claws and the fangs(yes, they're handmade jfksjs). The claws I then primed and painted in trillion coats because I wasn't satisfied with the colour of the spray paint. The fangs I moulded to my own teeth and then stained with tea to match the colour of my teeth :)c

As for makeup, I used Mehron Paradise water activated paints. At first I wanted to try to save money and bought myself Snazaroo instead, which unfortunately turned out to be a waste. Snazaroo didn't hold on my face for longer than 2 hours, cracking and peeling awfully. Mehron on the other hand survived 11 hours of me smiling, talking, emoting and such and didn't even crease at the smile lines(I'm actually shocked about that). It obviously works like any other makeup which means your skin texture and wrinkles won't go anywhere but Mehron's elasticity pleasantly surprised me. It did obviously smear from sweat and saliva(if you're eating and licking your lips) but if you don't touch the skin it just dries again, self setting. But if it's dry it's fully smear-proof. Highly recommend!

And last but not least, I've decided against painting my hands as it was very risky that I will stain everything I touch at the smallest hint of sweat. So instead I got myself gloves-tights(? Not sure how they're called but it's made from the same fabric as tights) and painted them with normal acrylic paint(did you know you could dye fabric with acrylic paint? I personally didn't), then heat set with an iron and voilà, they're reusable, my hands are not stained after an exhausting day and I don't stain everything I touch. It worked wonderfully which honestly was a surprise as I was really sceptical that acrylic paint will somehow stay in place.

I think this whole thing took me minimum of 6 months with big-big breaks for my school and life in general. But I'm really proud! This project taught me so many new skills and I couldn't have been happier about learning new knowledge, even if it sucked to fail in the meantime.

Everyone at the con was really nice and gave me a large confidence boost even tho it was my first time and I had no idea what I was doing. Taking photos with other people was really awkward/new for me as I hate cameras so I really had no idea how to pose/behave in front of one. But that's okay I think. This whole experience definitely made me want to do this again, so I think that will come with experience. Thank you for reading this far, hope you enjoyed this little summary :)

[huayiinc]

You really need a low cost promotional toy to advertise your new business with large scale, then our customized imprinted aero props toy will help for you!

[falsekurt]

[clutterthings]

Tiny Resin Ducks

[offbeathearts]

Artificial love

[egophiliac]

heeey guess what, I'm obsessed with this idiot flamingo now