I did a bit of resin crafting, finally making use of the last batch of moulds I had ordered. These require quite a bit of secondary work, painting in the details, but I absolutely love them.
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I first cast the blanks. They have all the outlines I need for later. Usually I use one colour only, but the scorbunny has the orange red ear tips. After that I paint in the details, using either acrylic paint or UV resin. Small lines like the nose are painted in with a permanent CD marker. I had to try some out to find one that doesn’t dissolve in the final layer of resin (mostly UV, epoxy only if I’m making some anyway, no use mixing up 5 ml of epoxy) . The hooks are sterling silver, the bead is some semi precious stone.
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I love Grookey. I don’t like its evolution that much, but Grookey is absolutely adorable. You can see in the top one where I didn’t wait for long enough for the acrylic paint to dry.
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And Sobble. Sobble gets the coolest evolution, but as a baby they’re just a little Emo. I love Sobble.
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I also got moulds for the original Kanto starters. If you compare Squirtle to Sobble, you can see how much more complex they got. Here it’s just eyes and mouth, done.
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Bulbasaur is the least favourite Kanto starters and I don’t know why. They’re so cute! Here I went from semi precious stones to a glass bead I had lying around.
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A bit of an anachronism: Original Game Boy design with Galar starters. Yes, making the tiny silhouettes is fiddly. I still have my Game Boy, btw.
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And because not everybody has their ears pierced, I also made some pins. Bulbasaur is missing, because my friends nicked them.
Well done, and quite cute.
Those are very cute!
I have zero knowledge about Pokémon (is it something you poke or wut?), but these are very cute.
Charly@3> I believe it’s a Japanese adoption/shortening of the English words “Pocket Monster”
I haven’t kept up in a decade or two, but I think it started out as a Nintendo Gameboy game where you would go out and “find” and “catch” and “train” various critters to fight in arenas and such. And I think there was a bit where you could trade them with friends and such via some cable or something.
There was also an animated series back in the 90s or so? I think it first caught my attention because it had an intro sequence with all sorts of flashy red/blue stuff, and supposedly triggered seizures in a bunch of kids (I can’t remember if this is urban legend or actually happened…)
I think Pokémon is by now one of the biggest and longest running franchises. Yes, the TV series still exists, with every bnew generation there is a new series.
lochaber
It was actually a single episode that has since then been withdrawn. My kid is a walking encyclopedia of Pokémon trivia. She can tell you all about games she never played and that were released 10 years before her birth.