Lizstar

Gay Murr Girl

Liz, Goblin, Part-Time Shark, VTuber, retired speedrunner, author, GDQ staff, Sega fan, "Yuri Sommelier", Walking Encyclopedia of All Things Useless, Twitch partner, general menace. Says "Murr" a lot. This is not a place of honor, views my own, etc. Avatar art by me.


Lizstar
@Lizstar

One of the projects I've wanted to do for a long time is to take all of the Kirby's Adventure ability icons, make them all into perlers, and make a giant painting out of the collage. I finally was like "maybe I should look into doing that, perlers are relaxing during downtime", so I got a script to tell me how much of each color pixel I'll need. Each of these things is like, 33 by 41, that's not too much, ri-

Oh right, math. Multiplication gets outta hand quick. Fucking christ, that's a lot of perler beads

I can order them in 2000 chunks for 2.39 each. With the 25 bags I'll need to complete this project, that's 59.75. Goodness gracious. I forgot how expensive this hobby was, I haven't done perler stuff in like 4 years lol


Lizstar
@Lizstar

Another largescale project I wanted to do was another painting collage, this time of every single ending screen from Ristar. You may notice that this one is a little larger than the Kirby's 320x172.

581x340 = almost 200 THOUSAND beads. If I consider that the website sells beads for 2.39 per 2000, that's like, at least 239 dollars. Probably more, since I'll need to buy far more variants of colors.

I actually started on this one, once. I was gonna try to just do one and see if the entire project was worth it. Just ONE of these is SO MUCH, I spent so much money on beads, and I still didn't have nearly the amount I needed (I was kinda unprepared). And then something fell onto the card table I was making my perlers on, the OTHER picture happened.

I never went back to this project lol


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in reply to @Lizstar's post:

Oh man, that'll be really cool though! And at least it's only like, 3 colors, so you won't end up with a bunch of extra unused beads because you only needed like, 15 of a particular color. I definitely wouldn't know anything about that... :host-nervous:

Also, WOW that's a much better price for beads than I was getting a couple of years ago. According to my LTTP Perler spreadsheed, I was spending $5.60 for bags of 1000? Are Perler beads more expensive in the Pacific North West? That doesn't seem right...

Were you using minis, or regular sized perlers? The regular sized ones are larger. Also that's from the Perler website, and for some dumb reason, THEY DON'T HAVE ALL THE COLORS. I've found other sites with more colors that list some for like, 3-5 dollars.

Oh, yup, I was using regular-sized. That at least goes a fair way towards the difference in price!

And no, they don't have all their colors online for some reason! It's really weird.

in reply to @Lizstar's post:

holy shit, is there any sort of way to prevent this from happening when you're working on a big project? like a lid that clips on and holds all the beads down or something? or do you just have to get lucky