#kaxen and the inadvisable extremely large bjd prop

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Test patterning the shabrack. The curb bit is done.

....it is fuckin' wild to be on the home stretch as I have been on-and-off attempting to make a 70cm scale BJD horse for three years.

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Now with shabrack and breast collar on.

The historically accurate heart collar is very important to me. Real men put hearts, stars, and moons on their kit. Lol

[kaxenart]

Got the bridles like 1 and 1/2 done. The snaffle bridle is done, but the curb one is not. There are so many buckles. So. Many. Buckles. Also I rather dislike working with leather. It is all the annoying parts of hand-sewing… PLUS A HAMMER TO SMASH MY THUMB WITH.

Sewed down the head. There is a certain unavoidable amount of wrinkling as long as I want the neck to pose, but I tried to reduce it and the bridle covers some of it.

Did the eyelids. That was scary to glue down. x_x

[kaxenart]

I bought so much leather (like an entire cow by square footage) and somehow I feel like I don't have enough leather.

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still need to needlesculpt the neck more, but it feels like I am finally on the home stretch for this extremely long project x_x

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saddle frame… unexpectedly troublesome!

Haven't glued everything down yet.

Need to use filler to cover up how I lost at Filament Chicken so the last top layers didn't get printed on one piece and smooth out a little of the filament texture.

Then I need to drill holes for leather lacing the seat.

[kaxenart]

Used some rub n buff on the bridle hardware. Not sure why the gold does not want to stick very much. It worked fine on a different thing.

Need to reprint the moon tho. Got a bad chip from being too aggressive on the supports and I over sprayed primer so it has both too much and too little texture

I probably could have gone a bit more high relief on the little horses, but I might just emphasize it with a paint wash later.

The snaffle bit is from https://mmf.io/o/133310