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Published: 2013-07-07 23:01:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 192; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 1
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This is my Basilisk pair of dolls from this spring. They're both OOAK and fully poseable. The white one was made on a whim, but its similarity to a character I was writing made me think it needed its partner - the black one. The two are everything to each other. :IBasilisks are dualistic drakine creatures. They are wingless and lack the stereotypical stone-gaze; that power specifically belongs to the younger of the Original Basilisks, and her broodlings are much weaker; they have no magic other than empathy.
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Oh, thank you! I'm hoping the judges at the State Faire think so, too! u.u
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I am sure they will 
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I like them too, though they were a huge pain in the ass. The material in the claws is steel-reinforced epoxy putty (it makes them very durable, and I can sculpt them seperately and insert them, which makes them look better) and it's very dark in color, so it took three or four layers of white paint to get them pale enough. He was a lot of fun to make, though.
The sculpted skin has a layer of shiny glaze, and then a layer of unshiny glaze. I think it gives them a really nice luster. ^u^
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I had to google epoxy putty
Never used it. A two-component clay, right? High durability sounds good... Most of the clay I use is a bit fragile... But only the smaller parts.
In this moment I imagine dragon-doll-feet made of moldable silicone... they could not break and would have an interesting surface feel
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Apoxy is the "clay" one - the epoxy I use hardens in minutes, so I can't really sculpt it much, but I use it for structural things and really little stuff like claws. One of my dolls had to have plate things and I made those with it, too...
I have always wanted to try with silicon, but it is very expensive. 
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Yes, silicone is expensive... but the sculptable kind is sold in smaller less expensive packages which are meant for
making quick molds. Maybe something like that would be good for a smaller sculpture of course.
But you have also just a few minutes for sculpting it before it hardens.
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I think I've seen that. I'll have to try to pick some up next time I get one of those 40% off coupons and I have the money...
You might be able to sculpt a layer of it over a base, and do it in a few layers, to make it easier. They sell stuff to change the dry time of some clays, I wonder if any of that would do any good? I use oven clay so I've never had to buy it.
I saw casting latex once...it might be fun to sculpt a "doll" and then cast it in that. I don't know how you'd add the armature, but it'd probably have a wonderfully "dragonlike" texture as compared to minky! I like fuzzy dragons, though; the ones I write about are fuzzy!
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of course fuzzy dragons are sweet
Well, it would be great if casting anything was easier...
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