Do you melting it so much on purpose?

Yuppers, it's called "full melting" or "pixel melting". I melt one side to give it that clean pixel look while leaving the other side as a clean perler look. Thus anyone of my pieces will have either of the desired looks. :)

Thanks for the reply. I only did one full-melted picture, now I only melt it as little as possible.

Aye there are all different melting methods out there, almost as many as there is drawing methods. Although, because I am focusing on wearable perler pieces, like badges, I wanted to make sure they are as strong as possible. I posted this... http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14884229/ ...a while back about the beads and melting method I do. I wanted to make sure that if they were sat on or bent in a bag for transport that they wouldn't break. *thinks to himself* actually I think I'll do a video... yeah I need a video lol. Stay tuned! X3

About your link.

Unfortunately I live in russia and I can't legally buy Perler brand beads, so a while ago I bought our "version" of it. It's made of another plastic, curvy as shit and easy melting. Poor quality, etc. The example of the curveness: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2vg22a6s.....11.31.jpg?dl=0 But I'm telling that not because of the whinning. That beads are made of some kind of plastic that, when bending, sounds like plastic bag. I mean that one: http://www.tvcook.ru/uploads/images...../19/fb7ed4.jpg (not sure if I use the right word, don't forget, I'm not an English-native). That brand shows perfect bending properties. Unfortunately the pin board is smaller than beads. I mean that even with brand-perler pin board I still can't make anything larger than 10x10 (see the Furrball photo I shown). If you make thing for wear, I think it makes sense to find some brands with plastic of that kind. Since I do it for surfaces, they are useless for me now. Note me if you want samples, I'm thinking about getting rid of them.

About the brands.

Have you tried Hama? If yes, do they have different material with Perler? I have gifted box of Perler brands, but I'm out of some colours now and can't continue my projects. I'm thinking about buying Hama beads, they have the same palette, but not sure if they could be melted together.

About the beads linking.

because I am focusing on wearable perler pieces, like badges, I wanted to make sure they are as strong as possible. Some time ago my girlfriend was sitting near me, making a skull for her bag with perler beads. I gave her the metal ring and she connected it to the bag. But a little after she gave me it back, because the bead the ring was connected to almost went detached. Since I sew sometimes, I decided to connect all the beads with threads. I think I can ask her to make a photo I could send to you, if you're interested.

Ah, my fault, I should have noticed the name. Sorry about that. I see what you're talking about on the Furrball, it almost looks warped (bent, contorted, not aligned).

As for brands, I have tried, Magic Beads, Melty Beads and Perler Beads. I did look into Hama, but because they are over seas it was to expensive with shipping to get it in the US, I want to say those are based out of the UK... I think? Out of the 3 I have tried Perler were the best quality by far. The other two (shown in that picture) would crack and break and were honestly really really brittle. They would even bubble when melting. Honestly I did look at some of the melts on the hama website and it looks like you could try them out to finish a project but the melts seem more like one of those off brands I mentioned above. I'd buy a bag or two to test first before dumping a bunch of money on a big order.

That would be neat to see, although all the holes (if not close to all of them) during my melting process close up, so I don't think that would help me a bunch. Either way for the headshot badge I made for myself I did do a stress test like that, I was wearing it and had my roommate try and grab it and pull it off my neck. Funny enough the lanyard metal clip broke off before the beads did. Which is why I need to make a video of these things. X3

I hope that cleared things up, by the way, your English is spot on. I'm impressed. I didn't know you were Russian until you told me. I just glanced over your name and it didn't click until you pointed it out. lol

But yes, I've heard hama is good, but haven't tried it myself, so experiment first. I hope they are as good as perler! :)

Thank you for such and informative answer!

Here is the skull: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u.....UAbotx2Ez4.jpg

although all the holes (if not close to all of them) during my melting process close up
That's the main idea. If you melt it so much just for the durability, sewing will make it durable much more even if you just made it stick together without melting to holeless state. I spent about 15 minutes for that skull, bigger pictures like your badges will took about an hour.

by the way, your English is spot on. I'm impressed. I didn't know you were Russian until you told me.
Oh, thank you. I'm still making mistakes and ashamed of them. Pity I can't move from here and use it "in the wild".