Dragon pet ball

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The third (and possibly final) critter in my bjd pet ball series. It's not done yet here, I have more stuff to add, and the horns should be attached, but this gives the general idea of what it's going to be like.

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He's nearly done! Mostly I just have to work on the joints, which I am not so great at. I tried him out with the plain acrylic half-dome eyes I've been using as the default for all of these, but I also put in some 16mm eyes that I had lying around.

[zirconmermaid]

I like him with the 16mm eyes, he has a great expression with them!

[takahirokumiko]

He's awesome.

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Thanks you guys!

I did a little mold making and got a couple of test casts today, so I can do a prototype. Alas I think I'll have to try again, because these are pretty bad even for me. This shows why I send these off to get cast when they're done, rather than trying to cast them myself.

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A black resin test cast. :3 Working with black resin is even more of a pain than the white stuff. But I really wanted to see this guy in black. So I did a black test cast, and though it’s still not perfect, it’s pretty darn awesome!

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Finally, a pic of the whole doll! Still very much a test cast, it's a bit of a mess still and there's lots of work to do, but all the pieces are together at least.

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Here's the black and white test casts, all finished. They're also showing off the two different kind of eyes, solid flat-backed acrylics and realistic glass.

I am SO frigging excited for these. I want to start the kickstarter now! But I really should finish the unicorns first, and I need to test out some colors on these guys, I have a shiny new set of pastels to try.

(These do also show why I'm having them cast by somebody else. The black dragon in particular has a lot of problems, but the white isn't perfect either.)

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Thank you!

I just finished painting the test casts. They came out AWESOME! I'm really excited to get to the kickstarter campaign to get these cast, though I still have lots to do before I can launch it.

Here's some pics of the painted test casts, including one with the fennec that was my first pet ball, which shows that these are a little bit larger.

[OkamiKodomo]

Those are fantastic~ What did you use on the copper one to get the metallic sheen? Is that pearl ex?