1/6 Princess Tutu (Modified)
Commissioned kit. Apologies in advance for how long this description will be. This kit has been in the meaking for QUITE a number of years just due to the concept we had in mind, how to accomplish it, life situations, moving, etc. Thanks Rae for being so patient during all these ordeals ^_^;
Creation of the Tutu Fan:
- For the fan I was not sure how to make this work without it making it too labor intensive, so down the road I managed to make a few vector files to cut on my cricut machine and layer each part / detail of the fan accordingly. I then glued and painted it after.
Creation of the Extra Arm & Other Items
- As far as the extra arm goes, the copy of this kit I had, I managed to have another friend wanting to sell her copy, so I purchased it for another “secret” project in the distant future, but did not need the tutu skirt and other parts. So I also used the other bent arm from that copy and cut off her other hand to bind them together to create a new arm pose. Adjusted fitting so both arms look correct and removed easily and bam, done.
- Remade the tendril bits to the back of her tutu using thin acrylic rods and a dot of resin on the ends for that tear drop look. Heated the rods up to be the proper shape.
- Lastly, the water base was a quick thing encase my friend needed to use it for other display purposes / space.
Upgraded Pendant
- Her pendant is actually a private commission through another client but got approval to use the pendant for this kit as well. (Sorry, file is not up for grabs)
- Anyway, I 3d printed it to a decent scale and had to modify the file so details popped up more at this scale and thickened the file for durability. Still fragile but better than the "original" one ^_^;
Modifications for Antique Base:
- The base is all from scratch, using a cake pan (lol)
- Baroque silicone molds for the outside details
- Metal jewelry chains and so on.
- The gears at the time I tried wooden ones, but sanding them smooth was a pain. So I vectored out some gear shapes, exported them into Cricut and cut them using a custom setting to cut out on polystyrene sheets.
- Used plastic scrapbook gears and stacked them up to make the foot stool for Tutu since the mechanics needed even balancing.
The electronics got a bit complicated cause:
a) the base needed to be tiny
b) play a specific music track
c) rotation
d) the figure is stable while rotating
e) had to be wireless.
- So this took the longest out of everything, so after much studying about splitting electrical connections and evenly distributing the power.
- I managed to get it working eventually. Then the next part was compacting allllll of the wires and electronics into this darn cake pan, have operational buttons and storing the battery and speaker to be accessible which I was obviously able to accomplish...
- The only thing you dint see is a pic of the bottom of the base, but all it really is, it is a solid flat foundation covered in felt material, a battery pack cover can be removed to insert batteries, and an opening was made to let sound amplify outside of the base, I was happy how clean it looks especially on a detolf.
Antique Music & Rotating Base
Water Base Version
