Freya goes Egyptian

[Faydreams]

She makes a really cool Egyptian Goddess Bast.

[TsukiNoKemuri]

Samara, my Freya, is slowly, slowly coming together with an outfit inspired by Bastet (aka Bast)... still experimenting with how I'm going to do her gold jewelry, but at least the fabric base is done. I think Freya is perfect for the role.

[Faydreams]

Do you mean the Egyptian collar? I know there is a tutorial on another doll site that makes one out of beads and wire. Let me go check....

http://www.dolls-n-daggers.com/Dolls/Fo ... opic=129.0

Yeah, that's the tut! Of course you'd need to scale it up a bit for this size doll but the same basic steps should work for your Bastet.

[TsukiNoKemuri]

Wow, Faydreams, that is brilliant! And oddly enough, I have almost all the materials on hand for that! Definitely bookmarking this, and also may make it as an alternate bit for Samara when she's not in her main outfit.

I'm heavily basing Samara on the version of Bastet depicted in the mobile game Puzzle & Dragons:
http://puzzle-dragons-global.wikia.com/wiki/Bastet
Except without the hair -- I tried a wig and immediately decided it didn't work. So it's things like the bracelets, anklets and crown that I want to create.

I have lots of options to work with for the gold. I've worked with Sculpey before, but it doesn't seem like the right tool here... though I'll possibly use it for tiny beads. I thought to work with plastic, either #1 or #2 (which my community doesn't recycle unless it has a threaded neck/mouth, so I have plenty) or #4 (the plastic that Perler beads are made from), but I wouldn't be able to fine-tune sculpting bits of it in three dimensions. I'm still waiting to stumble across something while cleaning my storage room and have an epiphany.