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After much hunting, I was finally able to find plasti-dip at a hardware store (Our Homedepots don't seem to have it, huh.) I have one teensy problem though... It's yellow.
I was looking for black, but since this stuff is used for color coding, they only carry it in obnoxious colors and when they yellow cans run out they'll probably have it in red or blue.

Can you paint plast-dip once it's dry with acrylics and seal it with some sort of varnish or gloss coat so it doesn't chip as easily?

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Current Mood: curious

So I'm slowly moving onto my next big real thing; a fursuit of my personal character, my fursona. I think I am experienced enough now.
SO! I've been looking at other fursuits for inspiration, ideas and such. The problem is my fursona's legs. They are/will be digitigrade, but she is a raccoon like hybrid, and she has a special design for those. Here's a quick sketch of how I'm expecting the fursuit to come out.


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I've been looking around if anyone has sort of like digitigrades as I imagine her to have, and I DID found ones. The Northamous Kess Star fursuit by SokiTwoPaw. Oh my GOD that fursuit is woderful. Those digilegs are exactly what I'm aiming for; http://www.furaffinity.net/full/2853264/

I would simply love it if anyone could like... Give me a sketch of how they think the padding looks like on those legs? Or make a seperate sketch for those legs. You can include feetpaws if you wish.
Thank you so much!

PS.: ALMOST FORGOT. Originaly, her eyes aren't shown since hair covers it.  But I was thinking of doing them like, half closed. That glamourious/sleepy expression lol. And I could make it work, I would probably make something like... The eyes would close. Not sure ho yet, but animatronics aren't really my thing... But I would love any other suggestions!

Current Mood: refreshed

Okay, i'm sorry if this is a noob question
and I can't seem to find anything about it.

I'm thinking of getting a jawset from VanDykes
and also some taxi eyes ^^

How would I go about putting on the jawset and eyes the proper way?
Are the hinged ones better? If so, how do I manipulate it
so it opens smoothly? 

Thank you!

How do you make a neck more form-fitting? So far I've just been making mine by sewing a bib-like panel to the front and another to the back, then using velcro to keep them shut. However, they tend to bunch up or come out of the top of my shirt collar. Also, the velcro is difficult to keep shut with all that fur in the way, even when I trim it down (it's DF fur, so it's thick).

I've seen some suits with necks so nicely fitted that they don't need to be tucked in and never seem to budge. They look very natural with partial fursuits. It'd be awesome if someone could make a tutorial/pattern in Photoshop to illustrate the best way to go about making the necks.

I was also wondering if wearing a dog collar would be effective in keeping the neck flaps shut and prevent them from bunching. My suit is a snow leopard and a dog collar is kinda weird on a big cat, but it would be something she'd wear. I figure if anyone else has had success using a collar for this issue, then I'd be willing to buy one to wear in-suit.

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Hey, I was wondering how people make those tails that have spines (i'm pretty sure made out of sculpy) coming out of them, like on Pandemic's suit http://www.furaffinity.net/full/2744710   I was thinking maybe put some holes in the base of the spines before baking them and then sewing them in?

any one remember this piece of crap? with NO FREAKEN NECK made of low quality stuff? i made it so i can call it crap, i started not liking it before it was even sent so i did not charge full price (and thankfully my prices were lower back then) well the head was sent back and murderd (MUA HA HA!) so i could use the same helmet, neck peice and eyes and i made a new one at a discounted cost since i hated the first head.
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 Hey all.  I'm getting ready to make my first full suit.  I've received a few samples from CR's Crafts, and I'm having trouble deciding on a color.  Right now, I'm leaning toward the #90052 Koala teddy bear fur, or the 90050 Brown Heather.  I also have some samples coming from DF.

oh hey you guys!
ive done the toes on 1 of my footpaws basically by getting blocks of foam and carving them into somewhat of a toe-like shape then gluing them to the front of an old pair of all stars
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How do you guys feel about scotchgarding fur?!

Ever tested it?

How'd it work?

Did it mess the fur up?!

Or do you swear by the stuff?!

Just pondering, a customer asked me to scotchgard his tail for him. I understand the concern considering his tail is 5ft long. Figured I'd ask here before I go buy a can and test it out myself.

 

Thanks in advance!