#tasting flight

[renai-fr]

Perler Bead Flight Flags

Made these flight flag coasters a bit back, figured it was a good time to post 'em! I do enjoy Perlers, they're like pixel art but at the end I can hold them and stuff.

Crafting details after the break, if y'all want to make your own.

These are using the original 2013 flag designs/colors on a 14x14 board, with standard 5mm beads. If you wanted to do the current flag designs, they'd need a little bit of tweaking as many are more symmetric in the current art (and also, I'd recommend a 16x16 size, since then you have room to put the current art's border). You could also try out an odd-sized flag, 15x15 maybe, but the angles at the bottom will look a little off. Doesn't hurt to try stuff though!

I got most of the beads for these out of variety packs and various kits, which don't necessarily label the colors in them, but these are my best guesses to what I used:

Earth: Tan design on Brown base

Fire: Butterscotch/Orange on Light Brown base

Wind: Dark Green on Kiwi Lime

Water: Light Blue on Dark Blue/Cobalt

Lightning: Toothpaste on Parrot Green

Ice: Turquoise on Robin's Egg

Light: Cheddar on Creme

Shadow: Pastel Lavender on Purple

Nature: Kiwi Lime on Dark green

Plague: Red on Cranapple

Arcane: Pink on Raspberry

(Most of these came from the Multi Mix packs or the Neutral Colors/Fun Colors trays, but Cranapple in particular was catankerous to get ahold of. Fitting for Plague, I suppose! Anyways, there's some wiggle room on hue for a lot of these, too, I was just using what I had onhand as much as possible)

As for what I would do differently if I made another set of these? Well... I've gotten a bit better at getting the melt level consistent, so there's that. Learned the hard way that trying to melt two designs on the same pegboard, even if said board is big, isn't a good idea (and it's near-impossible to fix). Also, I was using one of the freebie folded pieces of parchment paper, so some of the coasters have creases... On non-ironing notes, I think it would be fun to take a stab at a micro-bead variant, since they support a higher dpi and all!

Anyways, if you decide to make your own set, please uh... I'd say ping me, but I'm not actually sure how that works here? I think it'd be cool to see 'em, that's all. Happy crafting!

[the-tiniest-demigod]

Could you imagine the amount of stimulation that would come with kinito coming out of the computer for the first time. do you think he could handle it

one second he's not feeling anything then next it's EVERYTHING. he can hear everything, sounds the computer microphone couldnt pick up before. he can see everything, pixels smaller than he could ever imagine. he can feel everything, the light breeze. the sun. the humidity. every breath going in and out of his gills. the sweat on his face and the tears welling in his eyes. The complete panic and fear as he goes into fight or flight do you understand

someone get this thang some noise canceling headphones

[pestilentbrood]

Kantrix meets his father for the first time and unfortunately learns that he's the guy everyone's been talking about who drinks plague juice for funsies

[eternalcalifornia]

[eyefocusing]

somewhere on the other side of the ark silverbolt is sighing really loudly

[kinghorrorboros-fr]

After 5 years on site, never having left fire flight. I finally get myself a flambebe.

Say hi to Cinder!

[loafbud]

[werewolfcandy]

GAZE UPON HIM!

[ink-of-a-thousand-currents]

Ok no so my thing. My thing about the "no zombie babies" skins rule.

Like I get that it's about the child death implications. But. Two things

The amount of PG-13 novels that include child death?? Are none of the staff Warrior Cats fans... I get that visual stuff can be a different beast compared to written works, but this feels like at least a little bit of a disservice to the younger teens on site in the same way a lot of sanitization in media lately has been.

Didn't we used to literally have eggs dying as a mechanic. I know we don't anymore, but like. Wild turnaround, yknow what I mean

[snarling-mimic]

Cassiopeia 🌠 -- from the stars

[exilynn]

EDDIE'S VIBE IN (flight of Icarus love's dragons) GODDDD JESUS CHRIST

[rogue-cassian]

Diego Luna on his comfort show

[freaky-dan]

as you can see, I have the best music taste

[dormiebasne]

my babyk…. i just realized i forgot the fade on his tummy but as per usual i cannot be bothered to fix it also i drew him at 3am

Idk if the hairstyle comes off correctly (double twist dread); outside of veilspun I don’t draw hair much. I also… did not…. draw the individual twists….. whatevs. Im just manifesting in him bc I lowkey want them….. with the blonde accent….. but im afraid of the barber

[eternalcalifornia]

[apocalyptic-byler]

will byers would love conan gray’s lyricism