A plateful of cookies

First things first. I made this bag right at the beginning of the year.
( I use it every day now, pretty much. )

Did you notice the buttons? No? Well, I got a whole bunch of neat ones. That I will show you.
( I hope you don't have koumpounophobia. )


I promised photos of Tanpopo's cage progress. It's gotten a bit further than this, but it's pretty much permanently stalled at the moment...
( I have not witty cut text for this. Really. )

And now for something completely different.
I have a DS lite. It was getting scratched up in my handbag (as seen above) so I made a case for it.
( This is vaguely a step-by-step... )


The next project I did was because the bags we get given (for free) at course are ugly and everyone knows what type of course you're doing because they have the school emblazoned on the front.
( Cut, because they really are ugly. As is the carpet. )

Cake. Sponge. Cream. Jam. Pink Lemonade. I haven't really taken any more pictures of things I've made. (That are on my laptop.)
( Those photos are a lie, but not this cake! )

Well, it’s been quite the epic making this fishy. Constant re-evaluations of technique and plenty of thoughts of ‘What I would do next time’, though I hope there won’t be. (But way up on the top of that list would be to do the painting with an airbrush. Blending acrylics on a non-flat surface KILLED me.)

So, this first batch of pictures was taken in October last year. Several areas are simply blocked in for blending and some were completed.
( When you see a cut, there is photos. Lots and lots of them )

These next ones were taken a couple of days later… I’d finished the blending on both sides of all the fins and was completing the last side’s blending.

( Another cut... )

Then a couple month’s break and I’ve finished the blending and eyes and just left it there for a while.
After having a text conversation with shadowsinfire, I then changed my plan of painting scales on to just painting in Fishy’s stripes and adding the fin detail.

That’s what I completed two weeks ago. The below pictures are just copies of the ones I showed everyone, but this is an archive post…

( A bit more numerous )

And then we have these photos, which are the fully completed and sealed ones of Fishy. They aren’t on a proper background and are only a few select photos, but still…
There’s nothing else for me to with it, aside from set up its display properly.

( I TOOK A LOT OF PHOTOS. (And sorry about the glare, fignerprints and dust on Fishy.) )

So I’m going to ask you lot whether I should stop at this point.

Sorry I don’t have better, non-glary pictures but YOU CANS SEE FISHY NAO?

( FISHY! aka Borghal Rantipole )

That last one? That was so you could kind of see the interference paint I used for the blue bits. Trying to decide too if I want to do more sparkles like that and whether I can cheap it with gold!sparkles from watered down gold paint or if I should go get some gold/yellow interference paint.

This is pure archival picture posting of my progress on Borgy/Fishy.
( Borgy, otherwise know as Borghal Rantipol, AKA 'Fishy' at final stages of polymerization )

( Priming, ready to fire )

( First stages of colouring )

( Bonus Mokona shots )

( Workspace shots )

This photo post gets a special entry.

( Mokona abound! )

Today was the last day of winter term. Two wonderous weeks to get around to doing stuff or just lazing around. (I vote for the latter)
There will be a to-do list somewhere in here, hidden amongst the photos of Aizen-cookies and Zombie maths.

( Warning: lots of piccys )