Admin Post: Check-in #7!

[kate]

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Last week's check-in we were only missing charybdis. I sent a PM; anyone know them and can give them a gentle prod?

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Here we go!

✓Team Podfic: ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓mergatrude, ✓nagasvoice, ✓omens
✓Team Hyperborean: ✓amethystina, ✓cleo69, ✓jujitsuelf, ✓kisahawklin, ✓nagasvoice, ✓spurious_sanity
✓Team Losers Tarot: ✓mific, ✓maharetr, ✓cleo69, ✓nagasvoice, ✓sperrywink
✓Team Lotsa Bunnies: ✓cleo69, ✓maharetr, ✓kisahawklin, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team Cosplay in Resin: ✓nagasvoice, ✓lady_krysis, ✓kisahawklin
✓Team Sniperknife!: ✓lunesque, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓lady_krysis, ✓nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad
✓Team Gym Rat: ✓scheherezhad, ✓lady_krysis, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓lunesque, ✓spurious_sanity, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team AU Movie: ✓charybdis, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team FULL ADORABLE: ✓omens, ✓maharetr, ✓nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad
✓Team Push-Café: ✓spurious_sanity, ✓azurian_defiant, ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓nagasvoice

Comments

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[nagasvoice]

Progress! Right this minute busy rough sanding the doll I wanted to get done for Aisha. I could stop now, but she'd look a bit odd. Major mods done. Just in time, too, it's turned hot and the drilling & dremling mods had to be done outside with dust flying. I'm extremely pleased so far with results of the mods, but have not yet strung her again to test some of the important ones. If you visualize the parts as beads strung on elastic, you'll have the general idea. Elastic is tighter and more useful in posing that the ribbons or strings or wire loops when it's strung in puppet style.
For sanding, I'm kind of doing dampish inside, with plastic shoebox of water and distinctly NOT wet-dry 120-grit sandpaper. Damp shredding paper has a milder effect than stiff dry sandpaper, which is useful in places. Trying for a kind of brushed-metal level of overall sanding, to go down further with finer grades. Still have a torso part and one arm yet to do, and then it's on to the next allover with a finer grade of sandpaper. This part of the job is to sand down gaps where I knocked down rough edges and spread out color changes where I smoothed out mold lines. Texture and sound on the parts comes out like sanding down mahogany that's aged with time to have a tougher outer coating, something I didn't know polyurethane might do.
Also received in the mail a black shirt for her and green fatigues for two other guys, and I'm jittering about ordering a good but inexpensive body for a head, one that I really want, but budget... ouch!

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[saekhwa]

Wooooo progress!

Cheering you on from another work trip.

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[nagasvoice]

Thank you--and hop you have a great easy trip, too.

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[kate]

Woooo! Man, the amount of progress you make on this every week is amazing!

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[nagasvoice]

Why, thank you! I did get the rest of the pieces rough-sanded, but I pushed it pretty hard and my hands are pretty tired today, a bit sore in odd places. I really want to drive on with it and get it done, but not when it hurts to hold onto things! The kind of sore that warns you to take it easy for a day or two.

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[mergatrude]

I am absolutely fascinated by the process and can't wait to see the results! \o/

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[nagasvoice]

Thank you! With luck, you'll get to see other aspects if I can fit in work on another different body and get that doll strung up likewise to use in the photoshoot. It's actually case in blue resin, was intended to get modded for use as an Avatar girl cat, but they lost steam and sold it to me instead. I may end up with a humanoid-bodied girl cat, just a slightly different one!

Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[omens]

This is so cool to follow along with! *\o/* I love hearing what goes into these kinds of crafts... and I can commiserate re: budgeting for crafts /o\ ...it adds up SO QUICKLY :( <-- pouting face