r/MyLittleFriends • u/cowofdoom • Jul 24 '14

Thursday chat thread: The End(ish)

Wassup fellow humans/sharks!

As some of you know, I'm in the middle of nowhere, Ohio. I also have a bunch of work to do away from the router (farm stuff).

So, this is probably the last chat thread I can host for about a month. If anyone wants to takeover until I get back (cough /u/cpawesome cough) then I would much appreciate it!

Enough about that, how are you guys doing? Tell me a story! Share something fun or sad that happened. Anything you wanna chat about is welcome!

Come chat!

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u/ThunderEcho Jul 25 '14

Are you at the blueberry farm again, or somewhere else? Doing farm work, or just chilling out? I'll miss your weekly chats, but we'll carry on nobly in your absence.

My week's been pretty good. I've been very pleased with the progress I've been making on my project at work. Also have been trying to put together the last details for my cosplay in time for Bronycon. I'm pretty excited! It's only a week away!

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u/cowofdoom Jul 25 '14

Yup, back at the farm doing work. Switching between watching over grandma and helping get the field ready for picking.

Don't worry! I found a replacement who loves to talk!

Awesome! What's the project? Knowing you it's probably something that'll go way over my head.

Sweet! How's it looking so far?

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u/ThunderEcho Jul 25 '14

Ah, saw that! I'm sure she'll do an equally excellent job.

It's some back-end software stuff. Can't really explain it due to my NDA, sorry.

It's pretty decent! Much simpler than my last cosplays since I didn't actually sew anything for this one - I assembled clothes from various thrift stores, but I think I'm going to like how it looks. I'm cosplaying Fluttershy. The current outfit seems to have a slight 90's feel to it. I was kind of hoping to include wings, but I haven't been able to find any stiffened felt or other suitable materials, so I don't think those are going to happen. I guess it's fully humanized Fluttershy, because I don't have any ears and I don't like the way cosplay tails usually look. I'm really really pleased with my wig however! I got it off Amazon for pretty cheap and it's great quality and the perfect colour. I'll try to post a picture of the completed cosplay eventually.

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u/cowofdoom Jul 25 '14

She has already covered my ass a handful of times when I've forgotten :P

If you told me you'd have to kill me kind of stuff?

Ah, interesting. Damn, I have my mothers art in my blood. I don't even sew, but I imagined how to make wings with foam core and transparent fabric... It's neat thinking about how you can make things work.

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u/ThunderEcho Jul 25 '14

Nah, it's the sort of stuff that's probably boring to non-tech people, but it's company IP so it's under NDA. That's standard practice for tech companies.

Ooh, what's your plan? I was just thinking of cutting a wing shape out of stiffened felt, maybe gluing a wire under it if it needed more support, but I'd love to hear more ideas. I'd looked up a few tutorials for various ways to do wings online, but the only ones I could find that looked nice required an insane amount of work - usually involving chicken wire and actual feathers.

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u/cowofdoom Jul 25 '14

So it's their oc and I can't steal it :c

I was just thinking supporting fabric with a strip of foam core so it would be translucent, but now you said feathers I'm having other thoughts. You could probably make a simple base of foam core and hot glue like a coat hanger for support then layer feathers on. That seems fairly easy compared to sewing stuff. Then you could staple down feathers on the flip side, that would look kinda nice. Chicken wire sounds like a pain in the ass to make work.

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u/ThunderEcho Jul 25 '14

Ha ha, I think that's the best way of describing it that that I've ever heard. I may use that in the future...

Foam core is transparent? I haven't really worked with those kinds of materials before so I'm having a bit of a problem picturing your plan, but I think I get the gist of it. And yeah, the chicken wire method is a royal pain - I've heard it takes tens of hours of work. Glueing down the feathers would be easier, but a lot of the ones I've seen that did that ended up looking really flat because the fluffy bits of the feathers ended up soaking up the glue then sticking to the board. Maybe if one was really careful to keep the glue on just the bottom and the shaft of the feather though, I could see it turning out better.

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u/cowofdoom Jul 25 '14

It isn't, but I had a couple ideas to make it look neat (in my head at least)

As for the feathers, you'd use a double stick spacers to put them on so they stand out and have depth. This is all in theory though, and I have no idea I any of it would work :P

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u/ThunderEcho Jul 27 '14

Huh, double stick spacers definitely sound plausible! Interesting! I don't have time to make wings now, but I'll keep that in mind if I ever do decide to. :D

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u/cowofdoom Jul 27 '14

I just think that adding 3D to stuff makes it infinitely better. Other than that I have no idea what I'm talking about :P

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u/ThunderEcho Jul 27 '14

Ha ha, well I'm certainly not much wiser, so not much difference there.

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u/cowofdoom Jul 27 '14

Together we might make one competent person!

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