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05-11-2010, 04:04 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Australia, Brisbane
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Devising a way to craft my tail.
As the Wyvern, people who are familiar with the idea often ask me, where's your tail then?
This has put my mind in unsatisfaction until my next task is complete. I plan to try and form a way into making a tail and NOT just ANY tail. I want to create a tail that can swing around with a subtle press of a button, trigger or lever.
*It has to be light enough to walk around in.
*Preferably standing upright most the time so it doesn't drag on the ground or get in peoples way, I'm thinking something that looks like a black scorpian tail with dragon scales.
*Don't want it to swing too hard or else it might cause injury to myself or others and might even get my tail confiscated D:
If anyone has any swell ideas on how to craft this i'd appreciate it, until then I guess I'm going to have to invest some time reading up on hydraulic engineering and electronics. :/
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05-11-2010, 07:56 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 42
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Go find a forum about cosplay and ask there. They're the ones you want to talk to about this.
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05-11-2010, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: R'lyeh
Posts: 2,104
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If you're that bothered about accuracy you should cut off a limb.
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05-11-2010, 09:49 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Sweden
Posts: 79
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Articulated tails are damnably hard to make work in any good way. Non articulated ones are easier, but even these usually involve the use of "invisible" nylon strings to hang right, move right and generally not look dead.
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05-13-2010, 12:49 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Australia, Brisbane
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Malice In Wonderland
If you're that bothered about accuracy you should cut off a limb.
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I'm not cutting off another one.
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05-13-2010, 01:20 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ThenAgain
Go find a forum about cosplay and ask there. They're the ones you want to talk to about this.
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Actually, I think it would be wiser to look into robotics.
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05-13-2010, 05:25 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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This is stupid.
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05-13-2010, 07:13 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: R'lyeh
Posts: 2,104
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
I'm not cutting off another one.
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Well Wyvern's do have three or less arms/legs.
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05-13-2010, 02:25 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 42
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
Actually, I think it would be wiser to look into robotics.
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Who said talking to cosplayers and looking into robotics were separate?
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05-14-2010, 04:06 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Australia, Brisbane
Posts: 19
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Malice In Wonderland
Well Wyvern's do have three or less arms/legs.
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Well....alright only because you say so
This better grow back though
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05-14-2010, 06:35 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: ∞ ∞ //▲▲\\ ∞ ∞
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Kill a snake, then attach it to your pants... it's nerves with keep it moving to where it looks like a tail for a while...
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05-14-2010, 06:59 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
Posts: 2,606
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AAAH!! WYVERN!!
*slashes at it for +10 damage with Sword of Striking*
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05-18-2010, 12:30 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Australia, Brisbane
Posts: 19
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vindicatedxjin
Kill a snake, then attach it to your pants... it's nerves with keep it moving to where it looks like a tail for a while...
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Actually I might be able to hook it with some electrical charges and get it to swing around when I shock it with a press of a button. Kinda like what we did in a science experiment to a dead frog back in high school.
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05-18-2010, 05:58 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
Actually I might be able to hook it with some electrical charges and get it to swing around when I shock it with a press of a button. Kinda like what we did in a science experiment to a dead frog back in high school.
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You'd kill a snake so you can look like a moron? Fuck you.
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05-18-2010, 06:22 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: United States
Posts: 340
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
You'd kill a snake so you can look like a moron? Fuck you.
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I somehow doubt that our resident wyvern was speaking with any serious intent to follow through with his serpentine hypothetical.
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05-18-2010, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Near Southampton
Posts: 1,319
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
You'd kill a snake so you can look like a moron? Fuck you.
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I'd kill a moron if it'd make me look like a snake.
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05-19-2010, 12:27 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Australia, Brisbane
Posts: 19
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
You'd kill a snake so you can look like a moron? Fuck you.
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05-19-2010, 03:50 AM
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#18
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: R'lyeh
Posts: 2,104
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
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I approve of everything in this thread apart from anything related to Heath Ledger's joker.
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