Foyer Ambiance

 

 This is a long-awaited sequel to After the Gala which I built in 2024. The rather loose theme is something like well-dressed people with big plants; here, both of the are inspired by the Botanicals theme. The dress uses two key parts from last year's Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet, the magenta petal piece and the large dark red fern. I combined them with a piece that is an old favourite of mine: 47844 Windscreen 9 x 3 x 1 2/3 Bubble Canopy, available in nine sets between 2004 and 2008. And it looks like it could be a new part from 2025, designed for flowers. But it isn't! A timeless classic. Here, eight of them in dark red form the hip/upper leg part of this trumpet evening dress. The whole thing is quite geometric. 

I built most of this quite effectively in February. Then I got influenza, and my efforts to finish the upper torso area, where the bare skin meets the top part of the dress, were completely useless. I only returned this some time later (after making a bunch of yet unpublished models) and finished this week, throwing together the plant in a couple of hours. Even the solutions of the upper torso did not take too much effort: There certainly is a difference betwen building in fever and without a fever.  

I wanted the hairdo to be somewhat festive. No idea about the terminology, but it is something between a bun and a braid, with some elegant loose bangs hanging on the sides. The braid-bun thing has Friends horse bridles stretched around a megaroni tube, creating a braid pattern - but it also reminds me bit of a xenomorph head; it's a Giger hair. For extra elegance and colour balance, I added a fur-like cloth skirt element from Constraction Range Trooper - a prize from Bio-Cup. I tried several alternatives before setting for this composition that leaves the shoulders visible.

-Eero.