A parrot hatchling is fed by hand in Dimapur after being caught in a forest and offered for sale in Nagaland.
Taken from picture desk: live
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
No. No. No I can’t see how modern birds are actually dinosaurs at all…. Nekkid birds both give me the feelz and the heebiegeebies. Nekkid baby birds….
Sometimes tumblr radar you do good.
Nyreen painting layer by layer
Nyreen- most recent image first.
So a wash of black then a wash of marroon then pale grey…
Feeling very useless today, not sleepy but fatigued. Like walking zombie so I can’t actually do anything but I can’t sleep either.
So I’m enforcing a nap while surrounded by unfinished projects and a bit of a sense of hopelessness.
a useful bit of Foam for easy cosplaying and other cheap costume needs.
I Have Not attempted this yet, so I cannot give a realistic price (at a guess I’d say less then 10 bucks). Foam tends to be fragile when it comes to getting pulled on, so beware.
I Feel this would work rather well to add some accents to a Larp costume, for a Zelda cosplayer, or a general costumeness.Is ‘Heat n Bond’ a thing we get here in NZ?
Anyone got any thoughts about how doable this is- I’d appreciate some feedback before I run out and attempt it!
Yep, Spotlight stocks it. Two kinds, get the heavy duty stuff for anything. It seems to be stored all by itself, not with the interfacings anymore. It’s quite pricey here. But I used two layers plus satin plus rigid craft interfacing to make my Regina collar. Seriously good stuff.
This is probably fiddlier than other techniques but the fabric backing would make the foam a little more durable. STart with a low setting of course! And use the Heat n Bond paper backing as a heat sheild to begine with as well to prevent melting on to the iron.
I have some regirigid urethane to cast in silver for a headdress I made a mold of about 4 years ago. It’ll be a bit fiddly getting it to shape but very durable as there are no points of weakness. Other option is sculpt in plasticine, mold in plaster and cast in latex. It’s actually a lot easier 😉 Cost wise not a lot more either as you can reuse plasticine and plaster can be dead cheap. And you can make repeat casts 😉
Feeling very useless today, not sleepy but fatigued. Like walking zombie so I can’t actually do anything but I can’t sleep either.
So I’m enforcing a nap while surrounded by unfinished projects and a bit of a sense of hopelessness.
So you can see I have a lot of hair but it is mostly very short. Also pretty clear it is all new growth not cut to this length! I am totally rocking the brushed forward look of the early 19thC- a la Titus. Not sure I want to cut the remaining ponytail though… My hair is also curly now which just means it stick out everywhere when short. I look more like a fever victim of the time than an ultra hip woman of fashion c1800.
Might have to clip the few long hairs at the front though.
I’ve started transferring my Blood Dragon patterns to card and getting into a bit of a sticky wicket.
I knew I had some pronounced curves but I think there are too many to really be able to use my card templates as a pattern for leather. I’ll have to form the leather first and then cut it. Which is doable but less likely to produce very crisp results. So it may be fibreglassed after all. I know I got really in to the groove once I got my Shae armour nicely sorted and on a stable substrate (most of the issues I had from the start were to do with air moisture levels and how it buckled my paper and card). Foam would be great if I could get the same rigid:density proportions in half thickness but I can’t here.So I’m a little lost.
Leather is definitely the best for mimicking how the armour behaves, fibreglass better for how it is supposed to behave. Foam the best of both worlds but is too thick (the overlap of the thigh and bicep pieces are the main issue- but also where there are necessary layers that are ignored in the model).
And I wanted to test with the vinyl but I need supplies. Sigh. Today is not a total wite off but I have been extremely tired anyway. Some success with Shae though, so I should be happy about that.
So I wanted a nice crisp clean shape to my Shae Vizla chest piece to match the new thigh greave pieces. And yes, it has worked (now that Madame Foamy is .. well.. foamy…) but I didn’t like how I assembled the pieces before glassing. I love what I have managed now for the chest 🙂 It should be easy to get an initial soak of resin and then lay the tissue and cloth over the top.
It’s strong enough that I can leave the pieces until I can actually work on them and light enough that when I do work on them I can 😉
But since a publicity still on my Dash turned up from Madame Du Barry with all the gorgeous 30s startlet sheer ruffles and huge hat and arched brow… well I have all the Golden Age feelz and would looove to get working on a ridiculous 30s Rococco gown. Who wants to join me? Panniers and frills and hats and Looks?
But for right now I have to start organising and delegating tasks up ahead.
That hairloss I mentioned…
So you can see I have a lot of hair but it is mostly very short. Also pretty clear it is all new…
I’ve started transferring my Blood Dragon patterns to card and getting into a bit of a sticky wicket.
I knew I had some pronounced curves but I think there are too many to really be able to use my card templates as a pattern for leather. I’ll have to form…