Giant tail take two

[bladespark]

Just finished this.

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[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

Oh my.
Now that is a what is a tail! o3o
I ike this purple one more than the red. Who's it for?

P.S.- I absolutely LOVE your shirt!

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Some guy, goes by Karadur.

And thanks!

[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

If I saw it dragging along at a convention, I'd be SO tempted to hop on for a ride! >:3

[rimspace.livejournal.com]

*blink* that looks awesome, but I don't really want to think how much it weighs...

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Not quite twenty pounds. (Or somewhere around ten kilos, if we're being metric.)

It is heavy, but it's not really the weight, it's the friction of it against the ground which makes it hard to wear. I tried wearing it for a bit, and ended up with it over my shoulder, which just sort of makes me vanish into the tail.

[ekmahal.livejournal.com]

Nifteh!

And I also like the top. It's lovely :)

[kainhighwind-dr.livejournal.com]

With a tail like that, who needs a mate to curl up with? ;D

I second (third? fourth?) the awesomeness of your top. Very flattering on you.

[silveradept]

Gigantic tail, mark two. Sounds fun, and hopefully it will be received just as well as the first one.

[viherminttu.livejournal.com]

sorry to pop in without being your LJ friend, but one of your friends linked me here after seeing my fursona's tail.

do you have any way to give.. armature to a tail like that? and are these tails as awkward as they look?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

It weighs about twenty pounds, and is too long for any armature to hold it up off the ground without requiring some VERY serious engineering. So no. They intended more as body pillows than actual wearing tails, and even worn should be carried over the shoulder rather than trailed behind. Or held up by a friend, or something.

Now I CAN do large tails with an armature, just not twelve feet worth of large. Principles of leverage. The pressure at the base of it increases the longer the tail gets, even if you don't increase the weight any.

[viherminttu.livejournal.com]

wow that was a quick response! :) my character sheet is here (http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Dimruthien/charactersheet.jpg) to give you an idea of what I'm looking for :) For some reason I think I should hire some midgets to walk along behind me holding up my tail ;)

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, that's shorter than twelve feet, it looks to be around seven or eight, judging by that sheet. Still very difficult to make standing up though, especially given the thickness. I could quite easily make a hanging tail like that, particularly if you're okay with white. (It looks like very pale gray in the reference, which I don't have any fabric for. But I have oodles of really nice fluffy white.)

I'd have to do some experimenting to see if I could get a working brace and harness arrangement to get it to stand up though. Not sure. It's bigger than any standing tail I've done thus far.

And I approve of tail carrying midgets. Small children also work, and are cheaper to hire, you can bribe them with candy. Just give it to them /after/ or they'll get the tail sticky. *grin*

[viherminttu.livejournal.com]

the tail is actually white yes :) i did the sheet on a monitor that wasnt colour calbrated so.. yeah =|

basically im willing to wear any suggestions youve got. I dont want it to look like a limp sack of grain stuck to my butt, which is my main concern.

What kind of price would we be looking at, also? I live in australia if you want to factor in shipping :)

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

well, it's a lot of sewing and a lot of fabric, probably we'd be talking in the range of $150 and possibly upwards.

Limp sack wise, the easiest sorts of spines curve down, and as I really should practice my tail bracings, I think I could do something that would at least improve the shape coming off your spine, so you get that downward arch, without any extra charge. I'm not so sure about holding it up completely, or getting the second upward curve in, that adds a lot of weight and thus a lot of trouble, but I can at least keep it from just hanging there!

Shipping to Australia sadly isn't cheap. I need to go look it up, but off the top of my head I'd say probably around $30 more for shipping it.

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

Random comment and thought: body harness, instead of just attachment to something at the waist and possibly a belt and things? Something that goes up over the shoulders and down the front maybe? Trying to remember my physics from backpacking equipment.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

The problem is that building such a thing becomes not a matter of costume, but of engineering, and I lack those skills.

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure where I came up with the idea, actually. 5:00am brain thinkings rarely make sense or else make too much sense the next day, you know? ;)

[viherminttu.livejournal.com]

its definately doable id say. id have to pay it off (im currently only on a disability pension that comes in fortnightly) but i could manage it, and the time it took for me to pay it off would give you ample time to fiddle around and experiment.

Id also be looking for a pair of large ears, in white, similar to the fennec ears you have on your site :) I already have a pair of ears and a small tail from Rose Quoll but Im not happy with the tail, as my fursona has such a large one :)

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me then! Ears are $20, and I'm happy to take a down payment and installments. If you want to start off now, my paypal is spark.costumes@gmail.com, you can send whatever sum suits you, really.

Sadly I really need to get to bed, it's 4 am here, but I'm nearly always on line and you can e-mail me at that address if you want to talk more, too.

[viherminttu.livejournal.com]

i probably wont be able to do my first down payment until the beginning of october :( im going to save your email address and set myself a reminder notice i think. also ill add you to my LJ friends list :)

its 8:45pm here ;) welcome to monday btw!