#hackass hackery

what i should be doing: eating, then starting commission work: millie yellow,chandra frozen ultra long (ugh long reroots are a pain because hair gets everywhere if you don’t stop and braid every ten minutes)

what i’m doing instead: letting my noodles go cold while I use vaseline, friendly plastic and sis’ heatgun to figure out what to add to make half round eyes work in rainbow highs, the brown ones above are 16mm. minor problem: uh reheating the head without melting the friendly plastic.

Ok so what you’re looking at is a 17 by 14mm shape, more semi circle than oval with the eye “window” area in the top corner, X marks where the tearduct is. 12mm deep at the top, 10mm at the bottom. I could put in 16mm eyes that have been sanded down at the top to 14mm but they’d still need to lie on an uneven thick base and have some padding at the bottom lower corner. I’m gonna need thick white eye putty which means waiting.

LMAO I need more people in my life to say “No saf, you dumbass, buy proper supplies! Consider the price vs the time you’ll use up trying to make a hacky solution work for you” but yeah getting air-dry clay types that work on plastic in france is very expensive and I've never sculpted before and probably won’t again.

So Drywall polyfilla does work but

you have to wait 10-20 minutes before touching it to get that sweet spot where it’s actually moldable. Anything before or after = crumble city

thicker bits don’t dry without cracking so you have to layer it and wait an hour etc, blabla very tedious: look at that lumpy cracked bootay

the mess is wild

I still don’t know how well this will take paint or glue or whatever. Whee.