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She worked out perfectly! The only thing to note and this is probably my printer is that the nose plug and eye stalk insert things come out too big so they have to be shaved down/off. She also doesn’t stand on her own but printing the legs with more infill may fix that.Ahh she's so cute! I hope she works out well!
It's been suggested to me that the hollow-ness could cause more issues with printing and will need to be sliced like that, please let me know if you all have some suggestions to make it easier! I could make another version with clearer instructions for people and sizing, too!
At some point I made a seapony and a giraffe variation on these guys I have to refine and post here, unfortunately blender is throwing a tantrum today...
Here is the finished pony:
I used a hot needle to make plugs for hair and then filled the inside with fabric glue after rooting. Some of the plugs got “lost” and didn't get glued down but rerooting them with glue directly on the hole fixed that.
Looks great! Love seaponies.I'm not sure how many others know about Mermay, since it's farther away from ponies, but I've actually been quite inspired by it so here's some of my recent progress w/ merpony takaras:
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Design concepts for the seaponies + merponies + variations with horn / "wings" (flying fish I guess?)
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Concepts for stands to help pose them
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I made a 3D model of a seapony awhile ago but I redid her to make her ball jointed. Maybe I'll make a variation (Like a "baby pony variant") thats all one piece but I thought it would be cool to preserve the flexibility. She can flap her little fins like a real seahorse! The tail joints may need some sort of locking mechanism to hold themselves in place, but I've seen creators make mermaid tails like this so hopefully it works out...
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I gave her a little coral chair to sit in! It also has a piece at the bottom that hopefully she could wrap her tail around.
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And here are a bunch of variants for the merpony/seapony: horn and fin-wings self explanatory, then the end of the tail is replaced with a mermaid fin tail
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And since the tail is ball-jointed, and the holes for the moveable fins are the same size as the standard arm holes, her arms can be replaced with the standard takara pony arms and the tail can be posed more like a traditional mermaid!
This has been a lot of fun to work on and I'm gonna see if I can get a merpony printed to make a video specifically for mermay. My takara video on yt went over really well so I figured it would be a nice celebration piece before I feel settled with the BJDtakara (Big sister takara? In my head I call the big BJD the big sister takara)
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Lastly, looking closely you might see a slight difference with the seapony's eye- it's actually more rounded than the original sculpt. It's something I realized bothered me about the design, so I'm updating it for the future iterations. I'm probably going to be uploading an additional version of the standard takara that is hopefully better for printing, once I get some advice on what to change when I get mine printed at the library maker's lab.
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