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Well the long weekend was spent mostly in the company of small children and assorted teens as my sis-in-law was off to the hospital to deliver a healthy baby girl. :)

That meant I didn't get a chance to work more on the ears for my 50cm Obitsu girl/Inari.

Here we have the *fox ears* formed from transparent Sculpey and baked. I'd wrapped her head in plastic wrap so that I could form the curve at the base and then hoped they didn't flop over when curing.






After a bit of sanding I wiped them down with isopropyl alcohol and left it at that. I wasn't sure that I hadn't left some fine cracks in the surface and didn't want to get water below the surface before I applied a coat of MSC.






The coating then gave the surface a tooth and I applied chalk pastel, trying to match the pinks to the dolls facial colouring.







When I started to apply the magnets, I realized that the small ones, that were to go in those tiny holes, weren't strong enough to hold these big fox ears on her head through the wig and vinyl head cap. Using a knife I carved out a larger hole for larger Earth magnets to match the bigger ones I'd glued inside the the head.







Although my Inari is still wearing the eyes, wig and clothing belonging to other dolls ~ I wanted to show off how well these worked. I could have formed them thinner and I might still do so ~ but I haven't worked in Sculpey before so it was all one big experiment for me. Finesse comes later. :3







At least I like to think they worked rather well. What I am particularly happy about is that they have that nice transparency that shows daylight through them like a real animals' ear would. I am waiting on the arrival of her wig before I decide how to approach applying white faux fur to the ears ~ but I will be instead working on her tail.