That's right folks, it is not just part cheetah part fox... but part kitsune fox! meaning its gotta have more than one tail!
These tails as requested are huge! So huge we had to take an unconventional approach to stuffing them after finding even the most loosely packed pillow stuffing too heavy.... so each is 80% styrofoam packing peanuts. The results sound a bit rustly (like plastic bags or crunchy leaves) and the tails are a bit firm and not all pillowy... but they are so very very light weight now!!! And the customer is more than okay with the flaws the packing peanuts have, she is just so happy to have 3 tails that won't break her back lol.
The three are all rigged together as a unit on 3 extra wide nylon straps each 2 inches wide, that is 6 inches of strap coverage so the weight is spread out.
I spoke with the customer about making the center tail is larger and darker to add some variety to the mix, it also allows the center to be more visible from the side, I love the results (the back will have a marking on it to tie in the center tail color, which is also the color of the bridge of her nose)
Them spots took ages to do and I did as many of them as I could to match the pre-printed fur, and I tried to copy the meandering pattern seen in the fur (which also has some small unspotted gaps) the spots are larger than the pre-printed fur but that is because if I made them smaller they would look like tiny vertical stripes not spots XP
At first we were going to airbrush them but DF fur just does not take paint well, it takes more brushing and more coats with this texture of fur to get the color laid on, and there is no way I could have gotten the spots this solid with airbrush work, in the end despite the extra work I am glad we did not do airbrushed spots!