Bless my housemate for being excited to set up a roach colony tho
I’m glad it makes her happy bc roaches did not enthuse me but I was totes willing to do it for the gecko
But she loves it, and I think that’s wonderful
I get pets all for myself! And then I get to feed them to Kai’s pets! *rubs hands together*
things I never noticed until I was on the computer in the same room with someone: I make funny faces at my computer almost constantly, that or I stare intensely at it like it’s about to reveal the secrets of the universe.
Oh gosh thanks! I went pretty low-tech (it was my first try, it was meant to be a one-time thing, and I have no money for fancy moldmaking stuff). I made some molds out of wax and old TV dinner trays, and sort of squished the shapes into the warm wax. Like…inverted sculpting? I used an actual spoon to make the forehead shape. In retrospect, I should have used a smaller one, but it gets the job done.
When the wax had cooled completely, I filled the indentations with silicone putty. I used clear putty because that’s what I had, but black might have been better. Liquid latex might work, too? Once they had set, I pulled them and trimmed them, and filled in as many air holes as I could. They ended up being more like air gaps in some cases,and I couldn’t quite get it smooth. Paint hides a lot though.
After that, it just becomes a matter of gluing (spirit gum) and painting. I typically use a combination of Halloween face paint and eyeshadow to do the dramatic grey skin tone and shading. I draw/shade on the smaller scaly parts like the ends of the eye ridges and the nose ridge, as well as most of the forehead detail. It is possible that a person could use a bald cap to make their lives easier (instead of having a zillion separate parts, glue some pieces to the bald cap and make a mask out of it, and then wig over it or hair the cap) but I haven’t tried this.
I would highly recommend finding a way to cast it in as few pieces as possible. The eyebrow sections of mine are absolutely awful about staying in place!
Imagine them on pointy ears though, but built around the points so the points are part of the wings, or maybe the feathers come off the bottom of the ear points.
I THINK THIS IS IT, I WOULD TOTALLY WEAR IT
YEP that’s what I was imagining. I wonder if that would be a craftable thing…
Imagine them on pointy ears though, but built around the points so the points are part of the wings, or maybe the feathers come off the bottom of the ear points.