today is a special day on the dark side a fellow dabbler in the dark arts nerdy crafter
has sent us her very first craft kit
so today's video is going to be a craft kit unboxing and review well mostly going to be me
sculpting a creature of darkness with a sprinkle of salt so here's the box did i take a sneak peek
yes
anyways there's a letter in here with chip and dale on it
does this mean that we're best friends we're best friends we're best friends
let's see what my best friend gave me an instructional booklet i know there's some
top secret instructional videos linked in here which i'll watch privately because you know i
do my research it may not seem like it but i do some stickers to add to my growing collection
also jackie is doing this little resin nyan cat keychain giveaway it's one of her original
creations and basically if you get the craft kit you have a chance at winning one i guess
i didn't win that that's unfortunate i would hate to have that effect this review it's okay
a little bowl that folds up that's fancy
there's a lot of sculpting and painting essentials some floral wire some salty brushes a ton of clay
tools for details and smoothing and stuff there's even a sanding stick i actually like this sanding
stick better because i feel like it'll be able to get into all the little nooks and crannies
that sanding block can't get into sorry sanding block i still love you she has a lot of stuff
in here a lot a lot i'm just gonna go through it quickly right now rubber bands a high quality mold
custom made by nerdy crafter herself think you put the little guy together like that
a uv light to help cure the resin a ton of polymer clay stuff we've got the clay adhesive my favorite
clay sculpey clay it's also ace of clay's favorite that gives it a little more credibility than i can
provide tons of plaster which is enough to make like three characters so if i mess up
i can just cut that part out no one has to know a funnel alcohol inks and resin popsicle sticks
a rubber spatula she really fits so much in here a sharp pointy thing some epoxy sculpts to help
with more stubborn things like wings and tails things that break easily a resin mold so you
can make like custom eyeballs and gems and stuff there's still more it's like christmas in july
a whole set of jacquard paint a pouring thing for the plaster a mixing tray and a personalized
cutting mat i've been waiting for this kit for so long i have so many evil plans for this
first things first i'm gonna start off by making the cute little plaster guy here's the mold you
just stick the two pieces together gotta make sure it's really sealed maybe even wiggle it
around a little bit to make sure the seams are all lined up wouldn't want any spills i'm acting like
i know what i'm doing i don't i just read the instructions i then rubber banded him together
i started off with three rubber bands which is really all you need but then i got scared because
i seem to mess up everything so i added some more rubber bands now he's not going anywhere i
measured out some plaster and threw that into the bowl jackie said you don't have to be exact so i'm
sure if even half of it ended up outside the bowl i'm sure it'll be fine it's fine it's fine as long
as some of it makes it into the bowl you'll be on track i think i do my research i do my research
then i measured out the water after that i just mixed the plaster and water together
wow i found that the back of the spatula kind of worked better for me to mix it up and scrape
it off the bottom and break up the clumps i jammed the funnel into the head and poured in
the mixture i just tried to fill it up as much as possible kinda just shaked it a bit and then
poured more in i let him sit for 45 minutes and then it was time to unleash my masterpiece
it honestly looked perfect but then i got a little too excited and snapped
let's just pretend that didn't happen sorry it's okay luckily for us jackie included
everything you need to fix it if you get too excited like me which apparently no one else
did but me it's honestly an easy fix i just used some epoxy to stick his arm back on my
guy also had a little air bubble on his hand which is normal just means i didn't shake it
enough so i just filled that in with epoxy as well and then he was ready to go well i still
need to cut off his antenna my character will not be having an antenna absolutely not though
i think he would have made a cool tinky winky now i wish i had made a tinky winky
he has a very cool pose he's kind of like hunched over a bit or like he's in the middle of walking
so i kind of wanted that to play into my character first thing i'm doing is roughly sculpting on his
cloak i'm planning on making a necromancer today a cat necromancer to be more specific
a necromancer is like a dark wizard they can bring the dead back to life and basically control them
i wanted to make something truly truly evil not that the stuff i usually make isn't evil
but you know still going for that creepy cute vibe though maybe a notch closer to creepy on
this one the instructions mentioned you could use baby oil to smooth out the clay i just had
some on hand so i used that i poked a hole on the back that's where the tail's gonna go he's a cat
so he needs a tail i made two little spaces for where his ears are going to peek through
and then added those in i then plopped him on a cookie tray to bake in the oven
then just in time my girlfriend reminded me that we don't use the cookie tray so much
because when it heats up for whatever reason it likes to catapult whatever's on it
which is unfortunate because a cookie tray is meant to be put in the oven
i hate you anyways that's a story for another day
so i transferred him to a lasagna tray instead and kissed him goodbye
unlike the cookie tray my lasagna tray is more functional so everything went perfectly
i sanded him down a bit and then started adding some more details this part looks like a mustache
it's not it's going to be the cat's mouth it'll be easier to tell once it's painted he's going to be
carrying a spell book i wanted it to look old and worn out he doesn't actually read it because um
well he's a cat it's just meant to look worn out for the aesthetic i added a little skull and a
patch and some buttons to his cloak some details to flesh him out i wanted to give him a staff in
his other hand i used some floral wire and epoxy sculpt for it luckily jackie provided epoxy for
little additions like this i wanted the staff to look like an old wooden stick so i just kind
of made it imperfect and added some texture on it i drew on his eyes just to get an idea of where i
want to put them i then added his tail with epoxy after that i used some more epoxy to add some more
details here and there some skulls stitches some plates on his book jackie included resin
in the craft kit i've never used resin before so i really wanted to give it a try i was a little
scared things might go south i even did a little test of what i want to do it's just a little ugly
so excuse me i poured some resin into the mold then i just shined this uv flashlight on it for
30 seconds and popped it out surprisingly it was very easy i don't know why i thought using resin
was going to be way harder but it wasn't at all so what i'm doing is making a little scepter like a
little crystal ball for the top of his staff i saw this picture on google of this cat necromancer who
has fish and bones on his staff i just thought it was really cool so i kinda wanted to recreate that
so i painted the inside of each sphere and then just kind of joined them together with more resin
in my opinion i think it looked pretty nice i just stuck it to the top of his staff and then he was
ready to paint jackie included this really pretty purple color it's like metallic and looks really
metallic she includes quite a bit of colors and metallic versions of some
of them i just had to use this metallic purple it's beautiful
it almost made his cloak look high-end or something like it's made of leather i didn't
mean to make him look so high-end in fact quite the opposite i added like patches and stuff to
his cloak but i really like the way the metallic purple looks on him he's a black cat because those
are my favorite kinds of cats probably to no one's surprise i like how the black makes him
look mysterious i don't know like with the hood and stuff i really like making little figures
especially like adding on to a pre-existing doll that's kind of why i like doing doll and squishy
makeovers i love making these little creepy cute characters out of them by building on a
pre-existing figure i think this kit is honestly perfect for me because it's what i love doing and
this figure is much more customizable and the best part is that you get to keep the mold so i
can just keep making as many of these figures as i want rather than having to keep buying more dolls
in total the kit is a hundred fifty dollars i feel like the fact that a lot of the stuff is reusable
and it's such high quality the paint is high quality the mold is a custom made
mold that you can't get anywhere else there's a bunch of reusable things like the cutting mat
and the clay tools and there's just so much stuff packed into this box so i think it's
worth the price so the adventure continues then i started painting his book it's like
an old dusty tome that weighs as much as his head that's why it's held by a leather strap
kind of like a satchel he's that kind of guy the satchel kind the gold accents on the book are the
plates i was referring to i feel like i've seen him on old books it stirs some kind of memory
hopefully you know what i'm talking about then i started painting on his staff i added some
red to him i felt like it clashed with the gold because it kind of made it look like mcdonald's
and i love mcdonald's more than anyone else but with his whole stylish purple leather robe
it just doesn't fit it was like cheapening the look so i got rid of it i originally tried going
over it with some black but it was blending in too much so i used the same light brown color
that i used for his satchel strap and now i think it looks more subdued and better fits with his
bougie leather cloak i went over the patches with a slightly lighter color than the cloak
just to help them stand out a little bit more then i moved on to his face he's got a little pink nose
and i painted his tongue as well he's got an open mouth an homage of sorts to my lol doll collection
i wanted him to have bright yellow eyes i just always pictured him with the yellow eyes i've
always wanted a black cat so this cat is kind of based off him maybe my future black cat we'll see
hey this is editing loon from the future a little bit after i finished the video this
mostly black kitten was roaming the hallway outside my apartment and then scratching on
my apartment door not sure how we got in the hallway someone must have let him in because
you can't get in the hallway without being a human and having a key but somehow he managed it
the apartment building mass emailed everyone but no one claimed him
so of course i'm keeping him i always did want a cat but i wasn't planning
on getting one at least for a couple years but here he is
say hi to sniffledorf the mayor of boxville boxville yay i think
sniffledorf is a perfect evil name so that's his name sniffledorf the evil cat necromancer
i love love love how he turned out i feel like he looks truly evil he's bad to the bone bad
and bougie all in all i loved using this kit thank you so much jackie for sending one my way
if you want one of your own all the links will be in the description down below
they're only available for a limited time so if you want one i'd be sure to get it now
oh my gosh is that goldie and sniffledorf's crystal ball
my dad told me he ran away liar click on the top right or bottom left to help me get goldie bad