[OK] Fern the Fennec fox by Black Dragon Studio

The item being reviewed is 3 years old and may not reflect the makers current style, or work.




Maker Information

Black Dragon Studio


Year of Project2023

Completion Time (?)7 - 12 Months

ETA AccuracyEARLY - the item was delivered before the ETA
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Review Date12 April 2024

RelationshipThe maker is NOT a friend
This relationship was indicated by the reviewer at the time this review was written.


Review Information
ReviewerGuard_mutt

Prior ExperienceI've owned multiple suits before this one.

Wear Time31 hours

Informed Maker of IssuesYes I did and they only helped by shipping me fur to fix the issues (I had to pay for the fur and shipping and repair it myself)


Fern Fullsuit

Neutral

ProjectThis item was a commission

Paid: A Payment Plan of $3000 - $4999

Initial Contact: July 2022

Completion/Ship Date: January 2023

Shipping Origin: China

Type: Fullsuit

Style: Toony

Padding: Digitigrade


SpeciesName: Fennec fox

Found in: Canidae(?)

Features: Horns or Antlers, Hair / Wig


Concept Art


Photos of Completed Product



Overall

Initial ContactVery easy


Maker CommunicationAbsolutely awful, they only communicated with me after I had to tell them to, otherwise I would've just been sent 0 wips.

They did reply in under 24 hours most days thou if I did message them!

(Maker doesn't know English very well so we spoke via drawings + Google translate)


Project Completion TimeVery happy!
Got it a few months before I was expecting.


Overall Project QualityVisually yes, she looks exactly how I was hoping and I do ADORE her regardless of these issues,

But the quality is extremely disappointing, I'm very careful in my suits and things shouldn't be breaking already, she hasn't even gone to a single con yet.

Suit was made very fast and shipped very fast too.

List of things wrong with the suit as i probably forgot some things before:

– Hair tuft fell off after the first use (was sewn on with one single thread)

– body suit didn't fit me at all and my partner had to spend hours fixing it

– no zipper on tail (to remove it or to take out fluff)

– feet paws give me blisters

– paws are extremely poor ventilation

– head is uncomfortable with poor ventilation

– Poor 3D printed jewellery quality

I only spoke to the maker about the Sizing issues and she only helped via sending me fur to resize the suit (she made me pay for the fur + shipping)
After the lack of help for this issue, I never bothered going back with my issues as it was pointless.

As much I adore the visuals of my suit, I cannot recommend Red.



Components


Head

Wear Satisfaction-The head is built on a builders helmet so it can sometimes give me a slight headache and can be hard to put on with my glasses, but it stays in place quite nicely and doesn't touch my face at all when on.

– Head is 3D printed

-The ventilation is quite poor due to the small mouth on the suit

-Vision is very good as its close to my eyes


Visual SatisfactionI absolutely adore the way my suit turned out visually, it's one thing I won't flaw this suit about!

-She's completely accurate to my ref, no issues with that.

– Some areas could've been shaven better but it doesn't bother me enough to complain



One-Piece Body

Wear SatisfactionThis is where my issues come in.

The body suit didn't fit me at all when it arrived, it was to tight all over that if I zipped it up I couldn't breath and the zipper nearly tore off.

I sent a DTD (correctly with extra room even added on)

The tail is sewed onto the body suit and doesn't have a tail to be removed, there's also no zipper to remove padding!! Aka I cannot wash my bodysuit as she has a floor dragger tail. (I've since fixed this issue myself)

The whole suit is stitched with single thread so I've had seams pop already all over.

The padding is made extremely weirdly, to take the suit off I have to lay on the floor and have my partner yank it off via the legs.

Suit gets hot fast and doesn't have good ventilation.


Visual SatisfactionNo complaints at all visually once again.
The shaving on the body is much better than the head.


Hands

Wear SatisfactionThere lined so they get really sweaty very fast, there hard to put on.

The claws are very nice acrylic and are stuck on strongly!

The Stitches on the lining are already coming apart, I've had to reinforce them already.


Visual SatisfactionVery cute BUT they're made too puffy around the wrists so they don't tuck into my arms sleeves of my suit properly, they look weird untucked too unfortunately.


Feet

Wear Satisfaction(Digi feet)

-The feet give me blisters if I don't wear thick socks

– one of the claws already fell off and had to be resewn on

– they connect to the bottom pretty good!


Visual Satisfactionthe foam on the bottom of the feet were made into cute paw shape

Claws are cute (fabric claws on feet)

The fur doesn't connect to the other coloured fur near the toes, so there's a gap showing foam


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Comments

  1. I wish I could update this review!

    id change it to a big fat NO!
    this suit has fallen apart more and more and is just awful, shes already retired :/

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