Lol! No worries; it got you here, so it all works ;)
XD I don't know about mature, but I'll take clever. And I also have a bad history when it comes to resisting a challenge. Hint: I don't manage it very often.
Full disclosure: While I've been planning to try making Ships in Bottles for months at the very least, I'm only actually getting around to it now so I can enter a contest. (Three guesses which characters this'll feature, and the first two don't count 9_9a) I figure it has a decent chance of winning (because awesome pun), it means I'll finally be making one, and it'll get me lots of exposure for when I offer to make them custom at a later date ;) ...Plus I kinda ship it, so I won't be too terribly disappointed if it ends up hanging around my room for an undisclosed period of time :P
I've made a couple of things I put into bottles before, but my primary medium thus far has been crochet. That said, I'm a fair hand with pretty much any craft, and was planing to make Sculpy-or-equivalent figures of the two characters involved and slipping them in the bottle. The bottle involved is this, with a Sharpie for size reference; here's a better picture of the funnel in the wax. That's the only size I've been able to find them in reliably, though I did pick up this one at a thrift store a while back. I've got two more small ones I haven't touched yet, and they're relatively cheap besides, so I'm not too worried about it. I'll probably be going with the apoxie method to fill in the dent.
I had vague plans of making the characters in chunks and hot-glue-assembling the pieces together in the bottle, since that seems slightly more in keeping with traditional "things in a bottle" - it's one of the reasons I started with crochet, since that's relatively easily squishable and reshapable - but that just seems like asking for trouble. I haven't made the figures yet; I figured I'd get to that later. I've got a friend with experience painting Sculpy and was planning to ask her for tips in that area.
So yes! That is my entire plan up to this moment.
XD I certainly won't complain about the profit margin! *broke college student* Crochet doesn't sell as well as I'd like, I'm sad to say.
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Re: The Latest Things page totally rocks
Date: 2013-02-06 07:47 pm (UTC)XD I don't know about mature, but I'll take clever. And I also have a bad history when it comes to resisting a challenge. Hint: I don't manage it very often.
Full disclosure: While I've been planning to try making Ships in Bottles for months at the very least, I'm only actually getting around to it now so I can enter a contest. (Three guesses which characters this'll feature, and the first two don't count 9_9a) I figure it has a decent chance of winning (because awesome pun), it means I'll finally be making one, and it'll get me lots of exposure for when I offer to make them custom at a later date ;) ...Plus I kinda ship it, so I won't be too terribly disappointed if it ends up hanging around my room for an undisclosed period of time :P
I've made a couple of things I put into bottles before, but my primary medium thus far has been crochet. That said, I'm a fair hand with pretty much any craft, and was planing to make Sculpy-or-equivalent figures of the two characters involved and slipping them in the bottle. The bottle involved is this, with a Sharpie for size reference; here's a better picture of the funnel in the wax. That's the only size I've been able to find them in reliably, though I did pick up this one at a thrift store a while back. I've got two more small ones I haven't touched yet, and they're relatively cheap besides, so I'm not too worried about it. I'll probably be going with the apoxie method to fill in the dent.
I had vague plans of making the characters in chunks and hot-glue-assembling the pieces together in the bottle, since that seems slightly more in keeping with traditional "things in a bottle" - it's one of the reasons I started with crochet, since that's relatively easily squishable and reshapable - but that just seems like asking for trouble. I haven't made the figures yet; I figured I'd get to that later. I've got a friend with experience painting Sculpy and was planning to ask her for tips in that area.
So yes! That is my entire plan up to this moment.
XD I certainly won't complain about the profit margin! *broke college student* Crochet doesn't sell as well as I'd like, I'm sad to say.