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Loonakit (why does everyone spell it lunakit?) is just my name for these things I make. I came up with the idea six or seven years ago when I wanted to make gift plushes for friends but didn’t have enough time to make “real” plush. (It takes days to sew just one normal plush, even when it’s not very large or very complicated.) I was thinking of how to make a thing that’s still a cute creature, and still fluffy and cuddly, but have it be as simple as possible, and this is what I came up with.
I call them Loonakits because the first one looked really wild-eyed and crazed, but also rather like a kitten, so “loony kitten” become “loonakit”.
This is completely absurd, but I guess that’s what the whine thread is for, right?
I am currently kind of frustrated by the way economics works. Not like… frustrated because I don’t understand it, I DO understand it, but the way it works is just aggravating. Supply and demand and scale and all that. Especially scale lately. I am sitting here realizing I am actually charging more than some PYO Windstones for what is basically a PYO product of my own, and that’s stupid, but I can’t charge less and make any money! Not unless I could somehow sell hundreds of them, but I can’t. 😛
Thank you!
The plushie kind of Loonakit runs from $25 to $50 depending on exactly what you want.
These resin guys are $30 for just the cast parts, $40 for one that’s assembled and has eyes and magnets and elastic and everything, and $50 for one that’s completely finished and painted and all.
I got my unicorns in from the caster yesterday. Here’s one that’s been assembled but not yet painted. I’ll have some painted ones next week. 🙂
It’s a kind of matte sealant/paint. (it’s the only truly matte topcoat I know of, it’s not even a little bit glossy at all, unlike “matte” modpodge or most other sealants, which are more like semi-gloss.) It comes in a bottle of brush on paint, or as a spray can. I use the spray, because you can’t brush terribly well over pastels, you’d just brush the color around as you went.
Chalk. With resin at least I’d worry too much about the oil soaking into it. Also the powdery nature of the chalk pastels makes it easy to scrape up a little powder and brush it on with a paintbrush, which is how I do it.
I’m using Schmincke pastels, which are kind of expensive but SUPER saturated and nice, I only need one or two coats to get great color. And I use a base coat of Testor’s dullcote which gives a great surface to pastel over. (And also keeps the pastels from staining the resin, meaning I could remove it and do a different paint job someday if I felt like it.) I also spray on a layer of dullcote in between layers of pastel, and one over the top once I’m finished. So there’s four or five layers of the stuff at least on each of these.
Thank you guys!
I just finished painting the test casts. 😀 They came out AWESOME! I’m really excited to get to the kickstarter campaign to get these cast, though I still have lots to do before I can launch it.
Here’s some pics of the painted test casts, including one with the fennec that was my first pet ball, which shows that these are a little bit larger.
Ooooo. You do awesome stuff! I love the kirin, that’s a great combination of the traditional style and your own, I think.
Now HERE are a few pics of the one that I think people here might like. 😀
I have been using up some colored apoxie sculpt that was starting to go odd on these, so the originals are kind of a mish-mash. Here’s a few pics of the original while I was sculpting it.
And here’s a couple of early test casts that didn’t work out well at all.
And here’s some test casts that did come out all right, showing off the two resin colors I want to eventually offer, and the different eyes as well. The white one has flat-backed acrylic blanks and the black one has realistic glass ones.
Oh yea? You don’t still happen to have the super light blue one with the light colored tail do you? It’s near the middle of the group photo of them all lined up and on the bottom row of the shot with all their little faces <3
All the painted ones were people’s orders, what I have is blank ones. I could paint another one like that though.
