SPARKLES I TELL YOU

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Finally got around to fixing Daja's brass hand!

Here's what it was before:



It's not terrible, but it's not terrific, either. After I painted it I found the part that describes the metal as a fingerless glove, which Tamora Pierce confirmed. At first I just wanted to acetone off the fingers and maybe clean up the wrist edges, too. But my spectacular lack of understanding of the properties of paint meant that the stuff I'd used has remained faintly sticky, and it's a pain in the ass to keep it from collecting grit.

Plus, somewhere in my travels, I had picked up some really awesome nail polish.


Around here, we don't use no stupic amateur nail polish.

It's way more vibrant than the paint I was using. It's got some multicolored sparkles. I don't think brass does, but I rationalized how it could work a couple ways:

1.This is magic brass on her hand. Maybe the magic manifests as tiny sparkles for those who can see it.
2. FUCK YEAH SPARKLES.

And having thus authenticated this color, I wiped the paint off her hand and reapplied this stuff!



So now it looks like a mitt! I've still got to dig a bit of the old stuff out from between her fingers and wipe away that one little bit of extra seal, but overall I'm quite pleased!



Palm side. I can't express how great it is that the hand is no longer sticky.



So now Daja has a better representation of her brass mitt. And I got an excuse to use my sparkly nail polish! Sometimes, things have a way of working out.

Comments

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

For getting the stuff out from between her fingers:

Nail polish remover + wooden kebab skewer tip.

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest a Q-tip.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

You can get pointy Q-tips (I have some), which could also be worth trying, I just thought her hand might be too small for even the pointed ones to be fine enough and have little enough nailpolish remover soaked into them... I'd have thought it would get all over her hand and risk damaging the plastic that way.

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Sinful Colors is AWESOME stuff. Inexpensive and wears pretty well, too!

[redbird57.livejournal.com]

I always wondered why her hand was brass. Also, Tamora Pierce was born the next town over from where I live!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

It happens in Daja's Book. There's ... a bit of an accident with some tangled-up magic, a forest fire, and a brass-capped staff she carries around. The brass melts over her hand and just decides to hang out.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

1.This is magic brass on her hand. Maybe the magic manifests as tiny sparkles for those who can see it.
2. FUCK YEAH SPARKLES.

I vote option 2! And laughed involuntarily enough to draw attention.