{"id":2821,"date":"2012-12-28T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2015-07-15T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:29:45","slug":"peter-shows-blender-and-lazy-cacti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/12\/28\/peter-shows-blender-and-lazy-cacti\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter shows blender and lazy cacti."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, Peter has been modeling most of my recent 1:6 scale accessories and set pieces. That&#8217;s because he&#8217;s the only finished Zombieville denizen of average height that I can stand. Both of these qualifiers are important, because B&eacute;atrice is finished, but she has dwarfism, so she&#8217;s not as easy a reference as a Zombieville denizen of average height. Theophany is finished, but her personality annoys me too much to let her in pictures frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Other Zombieville denizens exist, but they are not ready for modeling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna needs her hair finished. I&#8217;m having an epic fight with it, to be detailed later.<\/li>\n<li>Carter needs a headback, a custom body constructed [fat doll!], faceup, eyes, hair and clothes.<\/li>\n<li>Chaz needs faceup and hair.<\/li>\n<li>Isabel needs a custom body constructed [fat doll!], faceup, eyes, hair and clothes.<\/li>\n<li>Novella needs faceup, eyes and hair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay&#8230;anyway&#8230;here&#8217;s Peter showing off the blender that I got from stupid.com. It started off as an Xmas ornament, hence the little metal loop at the top. It&#8217;s a solid piece of painted resin, 2 inches high, which scales out to 1 foot in 1:6 scale. There are no removable parts, but it&#8217;s well sculpted. I also may be biased toward it because its design reminds me of the blender in my kitchen growing up. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/peter\/blender.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Peter making good on the proclamation on his shirt by showing off last night&#8217;s craft: lazy cacti. If you search on steps for making small-scale cacti, you&#8217;ll come up with tutorials that require you to punch out individual leaves with a miniature cookie cutter or even add minuscule spines with single toothbrush bristles. If you want to go that way, I applaud you, but I have neither the patience, nor the tools, nor the inclination. I believe in saving my details for the stars of the show, <em>viz.,<\/em> my dolls. Therefore, I sought a simple, inexpensive method of making passable cacti.<\/p>\n<p>I made these first by procuring a package of 4 terra cotta pots with a 0.75 inch diameter. I used some polymer clay to fill each pot with a unit of soil.<\/p>\n<p>After that, I prepared my cacti. To fix them securely in each pot, I mounted them on wooden coffee stirrers cut to size. For the small round cacti, I just glued one or two 10mm pompoms on top of the stirrers with hot glue. For the taller tubular cactus, I glued one end of a pipe cleaner near the point where the cactus would join the soil unit, then wrapped it all around the stirrer, making sure to add more bulk to the top for a more accurate, bulbous shape. <\/p>\n<p>I then planted each cactus in the soil unit, then removed it, so that each stirrer would have a slot to go into after the soil unit was finished. I cured the polymer clay, then painted the visible parts of the soil unit [top, upper sides and inside of slot] with a few layers of raw umber acrylic paint, a color that looks like shit.<\/p>\n<p>When the paint was dry, I glued the soil unit into the pot, then the cactus into the soil unit. I used white glue in these cases for a closer fit.<\/p>\n<p>Voila!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/peter\/cacti.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1432870.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1432870.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1432870.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, Peter has been modeling most of my recent 1:6 scale accessories and set pieces. That&#8217;s because he&#8217;s the only finished Zombieville denizen of average height that I can stand. Both of these qualifiers are important, because B&eacute;atrice is finished, but she has dwarfism, so she&#8217;s not as easy a reference&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/12\/28\/peter-shows-blender-and-lazy-cacti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter shows blender and lazy cacti.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[746,704],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-16-scale-stuff-i-made","tag-sets-16-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}