Posts Tagged ‘customization’

Posted on März 25th, 2009 by by Dirk

What happened to the Business Poken?

Some time ago I posted about my attempt to create a business style Poken out of Fimo. Well, this is the result:

As you can see I did a very rough polishing job. The problem was that the form was heated too long (or too hot) and got pretty fragile. Even while filing it a little, [...]

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Posted on März 16th, 2009 by by Dirk

The Business Poken, part 1

As announced in the last post: Fimo, baby! If you don’t know Fimo, it’s a lot like modeling clay, but you can harden it in your oven. After hardening, it’s like a long lasting, very hard rubber that can be filed, sawed etc. So it’s a great material to create casings of any kind.
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Posted on März 11th, 2009 by by Dirk

Dark Dude Poken

The current Pokens available are nice, cute and all, but they lack one major factor: cuddlyness. Plus, the hard plastic casing always makes noise when attached to my bag which gets on my nerves after a while. Also, I’m somewhat paranoid that the Panda shell will fall off while I travel and only the hand [...]

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