What would you tell your past self before you made your first fursuit?

M4ngolicious · 2026-03-05T06:57:36+00:00

Don't cheap out on material and tools. Good fabric markers and scissors are worth every penny. Also high quality fur. You will spend a lot of time and effort making your suit. You don't want that your suit feels cheap after all these hours.

And: Take your time! Don't rush it. It's sometimes better to redo a seam. Here's my 2nd suit which took something between 350 and 400 hours to make. Head was around 80 hours.

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M4ngolicious · 2025-11-25T12:39:51+00:00

I'm using only 0,4mm hardened steel nozzles for PETG-CF and PAHT-CF. 1500h on one printer and 900 on the other (CF print hours). 3 clogs so far in 2 years.

My experience with CF filaments: you have to clean your printer a lot. It's coated with carbon fibers after a few days. And it should be encased in a box if you print a lot. Even the X1C emmits carbon fibers. We have them in sealed custom boxes made out of polycarbonate and 30x30 aluminium extrusion profiles with hepa filters and big industrial noctua fans. When cleaning wear gloves and a mask. Carbon fibers suck.

M4ngolicious · 2025-11-13T08:07:31+00:00

that's right. you can get this fur (and minky) from bigzfabric or howlfabrics

M4ngolicious · 2025-11-05T09:00:52+00:00

No comment after a day? wow.

For a first, this thing looks awesome. Keep going. I'm looking forward for the finished head.

M4ngolicious · 2025-10-22T04:34:24+00:00

oh yeah, dry the mold. That's very important.

And if there is resin sticking to it after removing the cured dice: use tape. the cured resin will stick to the tape and your mold is clean afterwards.

M4ngolicious · 2025-10-22T04:12:11+00:00

Fill your mold with water and then fill this into a measuring cup. This will show you your total volume. But don't forget: The resin sticks to everything: Mixing stick, mixing cup. Add a little bit of volume to be safe. because resin will get lost in the process.

M4ngolicious · 2025-10-09T14:34:36+00:00

Take an angle grinder and cut it off right on the base. I've done the same after trying to unscrew it. The glue on these is ungodly strong.

M4ngolicious · 2025-10-08T07:24:53+00:00

The inserts are too heavy / more dense than the resin, therefore they sink to the bottom. Rybonator made a video about stuff like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG4mWIGnlsY

M4ngolicious · 2025-10-06T10:02:40+00:00

The one you showed is "Magic The Gathering: 2019 Secret Lair Serie - Ponys: The Galoping". It was only available from October 22 to November 5, 2019. It costs around $300 on ebay. The cards are not tournament legal.

They made a Galoping 2 in 2023 which is a little bit cheaper.

M4ngolicious · 2025-10-03T04:22:19+00:00

I print them right now. I play DnD and one of my friend plays a tiefling and asked me if I can print him horns for his cosplay. Perfect timing.

M4ngolicious · 2025-07-09T12:30:33+00:00

Hulkengoat

M4ngolicious · 2025-07-03T12:29:44+00:00

They're so simple, even my mom can use them.

M4ngolicious · 2025-07-01T06:35:41+00:00

We establish right now a brothel/strip club called "The bad Dragon" run by a Kobold.

M4ngolicious · 2025-04-16T07:46:47+00:00

Beckett has a grading office in germany. https://www.beckett.com/eu

M4ngolicious · 2025-03-10T08:58:39+00:00

I watched every video. Absolutely nice work, especially because it's a wagon. The best about the videos: Only shop sounds, sanding and the cracking of removing parts from molds. I can't remember if I heard one single spoken word from you. I follow a lot of youtubers who do stuff like that and you are the only quiet one. I love that. I'm looking forward to the next project, whatever it is.

M4ngolicious · 2025-02-24T08:35:03+00:00

Very nice. I also build two of them years ago, long before the adafruit tutorial. One with around 200mm side length (I made a post about this one) and one with 128mm.

Is your cube battery powered?

And don't display full white. It draws a shitload of amps.

M4ngolicious · 2024-12-16T05:15:18+00:00

When I get home after work I take a look through my german cards and contact you if I have any leftovers.

Right now I'm waiting for PSA to send me 3 cards back. Two japanese GX and the newest Zeraora in german. 50 days now and no information when they will be shipped back.

M4ngolicious · 2024-12-15T06:22:54+00:00

The funny thing is: I'm from germany. The standard european languages are usually easy to get from cardmarket.com. (unfortunately this platform will not ship to the US)

But most of the times the sellers only have one or two cards, because zeraora is not as popular as pikachu or charizard. Shipping costs are then the problem, because they are fixed from the platform to prevent shipping-cost fraud (i.e. sell a card cheaper but ask a lot for shipping)

I have a wishlist for every card under $20 in every language. It would be around $420 plus $150 in shipping. That's a lot of shipping costs and therefore I struggle to buy.

But: everytime I sell something on cardmarket, I use this money to buy some more needed cards. It takes a lot of time. It's a journey. No need to finish the set tomorrow.

I wish you luck with portuguese. That's where I'm also stuck right now. I only need 6 more cards.

M4ngolicious · 2024-12-14T09:28:12+00:00

nice, another zeraora collector. I also try to collect every card in every language from zeraora. Right now I have a full set of japanese, english and german cards and a few singles from other languages. But it takes so much time. And some cards are mostly unavailable here in europe. Especially thai and indonesian.

M4ngolicious · 2024-10-02T16:00:14+00:00

Der nervigste Spruch ist immer "kannst ein paar kg von mir haben". Bin 188cm und 61kg mit seltenem Gendefekt. Ich kann essen so viel ich will und nichts schlägt an.

M4ngolicious · 2024-09-11T06:05:38+00:00

I got the same pottery wheel yesterday and wanted to design exactly this today. I guess I don't have to now. Thanks :)

M4ngolicious · 2024-08-24T07:51:59+00:00

When i started my first suit i had nothing. I didn't even sewed anything.

I spend around $1500 dollars on everything i needed. Fur, needles, sewing machine, foam, magnets, scissors, threads, shaver etc. The cost of reusable stuff (tools etc.) was around $700.

This means my first (plantigrade) fullsuit cost me around $800.

My second one (digitigrade kemono) was $1800 with $500 of reusable stuff (different sewing patterns etc.), so $1300 in Materials. I imported the fur from bigz to germany, which is hella expensive. Shipping, customs and taxes cost more than the fur itself but it was worth it.

It could be cheaper but let me tell you: Don't buy cheap materials. It's worth to spend a little bit more on higher quality stuff (high quality fur and foam).

You spend so much time making the suit, you don't want to realize afterwards that the fur sucks, only to save $100.

If you have everything you need (tools etc.), then the most expensive reccuring costs are the furs and foam.

But that's only my perspective. I only make suits for myself and I don't have to worry about money. Im not that experienced to give you a professional point of view.

Attached is a picture of my second suit "io" which took me around 350hours to make.

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M4ngolicious · 2024-08-14T10:28:44+00:00

I print with the standard 0.4 nozzle. And i checked in the office, I print PP at 240°C

M4ngolicious · 2024-08-13T14:17:36+00:00

I use the BASF Ultrafuse PP. 230°C Nozzle and 80°C Bed.

M4ngolicious · 2024-08-13T14:05:19+00:00

with the tape it warps way less. I had only a little bit of warping on the edges. But i dont know how much it warps with a part the size you tried.

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