A very loooooooooong tale

This is Manasa.

009_1493 by ofbutterflies, on Flickr

I made her for a local BJD costume competition.
The rules were that I had to keep the project secret, so no WIP thread for this one.

My first try at casting. I only did the tail, the rest is Luts & DOD. But it was a good trial project.
I'm sticking to plaster for now. I want to get better at making molds and using them, before I go for resin.

She has 87 segments, of which 82 were cast from the mold I made. I cast about 120 segments but many broke. That's plaster for yah. The mold tore in the end (don't they always?) so I had to stop at 217cm of tail

More views:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46749764@N03/sets/72157625270619121/

 

Not too surprising; I only put it up yesterday.

The mold was silicone, the tail is plaster except for the end 5 links, those are DAS clay (=local available craft clay)

Glad you liked it!

 

no, I did not win.
but that is not too surprising; homemade BJD is an acquired taste and this was a normal BJD competition. Something more mainstream won.

People who have never even thought about how a BJD is produced won't understand what it takes to make a homemade BJD.

I got 3rd place.
1st was an MSD dresses as a pixy with beautiful wings etc on a rock on a turntable.
I never did find out who got 2nd.
The level of entries was very high.
But no-one does homemade BJD there so I was the odd one out.

 

She does, doesn't she?
That wig is 60cm long too! On a MSD sized doll!!!

 

I'm going to have to think about what I'm going to do with her.
At the moment she 'wearing' the torso & arms of another doll, who is wanting her body parts back.... Can't really blame her.
Also she's a little big to display in my house. At the moment she lives in a suitcase. Make taking pix a little hard.
....
The future is a little unclear here....

 

Thanks!
These things are (when not judged by a knowledgeable jury) entirely a matter of taste. So I'm not too upset.

I'm working on the next entry now. It's now going to be a fancy molding like this though.

 

Biofreak659, sorry for the late reply.
The plaster is not holding up, but I never expected it to.

I'm hoping to redesign her in 3D some time...

 

.... And I just saw I missed Joankagami's question.

There are 80 cast segments and 5 sculpted segemts.
I had to cast about 120 to get 80 undamaged segments.