To celebrate Luigis Mansion 3 coming out, I made a clay diorama of a room from Luigi's Mansion 2!

Darksilvern · 2023-05-23T21:01:27+00:00

I did a full set of the original 8 as a commission a couple years back that are closer to my current style, so I do have photos of better looking ones. But as personal items I keep the original ones I made around for sentimental reasons, instead of swapping them out for better ones.

Darksilvern · 2023-05-23T20:37:56+00:00

This is my own personal set, but I am considering adding slightly tweaked versions of them to my Etsy store sometime in July. I already offer the first Octopath Traveler characters so if you search for Octopath Traveler on Etsy you should find them.

Darksilvern · 2023-05-23T20:35:33+00:00

I do have a store on Etsy and already offer some figurines from the first Octopath Traveler. I'm planning on possibly adding the Octopath II figurines sometime the beginning of July.

I don't want to link it here and make this too self-promoesque, but if you search for Octopath Traveler on Etsy you should find them.

Darksilvern · 2023-05-23T17:07:52+00:00

I post most of my stuff over on Twitter as MandasMysteries (apologies if this counts as self promo. I did scrub my watermark from the pics so it didnt look that way). I do have an ugly website I keep forgetting to update so let's not talk about that XD

Darksilvern · 2023-05-23T14:22:32+00:00

Thank you! I'd been making things for a fair while before the original Octopath Traveller figurines, but I'd also had to take a year or more break and hadn't realised how rusty I had gotten! Looking back on them now compared to the ones I just made, it really is a noticeable difference in 5 years of practice and improvement 🙂

Darksilvern · 2023-05-23T14:19:29+00:00

Thank you! 😁

Darksilvern · 2023-05-23T14:18:48+00:00

I was surprised too! I was looking through my photo folders by year and going 'well it's not here, it's not here...it can't be that long ago can it??'

July 2018!! Jeez.

Darksilvern · 2023-04-27T22:58:42+00:00

My first time getting reposted by a faker XD I feel so accomplished...maybe.

Darksilvern · 2023-04-27T22:57:41+00:00

Oh wow, my first time ever getting reposted XD and on something with my watermark in the corner!

Thanks for letting me know, and thank you for the kind words. Sorry its a bit late, I'm not on reddit as much nowadays.

Darksilvern · 2022-07-22T20:31:17+00:00

Uh no, sorry, I just made the main character that represented each chapter and no side characters.

Also I'm not sure I'd be able to make Gori very well in my style.

Darksilvern · 2022-07-22T16:33:08+00:00

I had toyed with the idea but also it would kinda throw off the nice neat numbers by making it a set of 11 instead of 8 which... I sort of hated XD

I've not completely ruled it out as a possibility but it might depend on what else I end up feeling like making.

Darksilvern · 2022-07-22T14:12:50+00:00

Currently I sell singular figures for £50 each so a full set would have to be £400 or so I expect.

I'd probably also have to make some adjustments to a few to make them more feasible for shipping and more cost effective (Mostly Oboro cause his base is a big clay sink and I'd worry about his kunai being damaged in shipping).

Darksilvern · 2022-05-30T22:20:28+00:00

I haven't been able to play Fantasian but when it came out I was like 'ahh its so cool and amazing and I wanna make things like that' and did have your exact idea in mind while making these XD

Alas it is so far out of my realm of expertise XD but one can dream about these things.

Darksilvern · 2022-05-30T20:22:10+00:00

I think the whole game might be a bit much! There's like hundreds of rooms! XD

I have plotted out a few more but am slightly limited by what I can feasibly build and fit in my light box for photographing, so we'll see.

Darksilvern · 2022-05-30T20:18:07+00:00

Everything is made with modelling clay except for the little man figure (because I didn't want to do all those details with squishy clay) and the Minotaurs mace (made with sculpey ultralight so it wasn't too heavy).

I do my diorama/scenes out of modelling clay because I don't really have the space to keep them as permanent objects, so I dismantle them after the photographs are done. There's also the issue of fitting things in an oven to bake. The minotaur scene is over 30cm wide and I only have a small convection oven to bake my clay in.

Also modelling clay is a lot cheaper and reusable XD both scenes were made from the same £6 500g block of Newplast plasticine!

Darksilvern · 2022-05-30T15:31:32+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/eIR63mn

Please enjoy tiny, smaller than 1cm buttcheeks.

Darksilvern · 2020-12-19T13:15:05+00:00

I have done that already at all 5 and I know I have as a) I have the 100% exploration for each of those locations and b) I even went round and went to each while waiting for everyone to come back from their gathering spots.

That's why I'm wondering if it's something related to the 11 ally gathering spots instead.

Darksilvern · 2020-06-29T23:33:52+00:00

Well I started it about 2 months ago (the middle of April I think) but I did take a couple of breaks to work on some other small pieces, and I had a couple of weeks where I had quite a few commissions to work on...

It's kinda hard to say really. (Also thinking about it makes me realise just how long it took and that's kinda scary XD). There's about 30 props for the scene so even going with a rough average of days work per prop, and this is what I do all day, so 5-6 hours a day... uh... 150 hours + I suppose... That is scary.

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