Arkham's Children

Well, the Volks SDC Arashi on the MSD boy body was delivered the day after Xmas. He was in better shape than I thought, although he definitely needs some TLC. I'll take him apart, take out the glue sueding (hate that, drives me crazy), sand the seams, and restring him. He needs some cleaning up. There's a few marks on the face-up, but if I'm careful, I think I can preserve it? We'll see how it goes.

I was going to name him Rory, but he's definitely not a Rory. I named him Jasper instead, after my 2nd favorite character from Twilight. (Bella's dad Charlie is my hands-down favorite, but I don't like the name Charles.)

Jasper came without eyes, but I have two sets that might do for him. A Luts blue glass 16mm and an Enchanted Eyes urethane (Milky #6) 16mm. I got the brown eyes for another doll (Kaj, my Luts Kid Delf Almond) and I need to pull him out and check to see if I changed the eyes out already.

The story with Kaj was one of those learning experiences. Several years ago, when Luts introduced their Yuz Kid Delf sculpt, I wanted to get a pair of Kid Delfs to be brothers. At the time, they were offering cat ears/tails, so these two were going to be the Malachy brothers, a pair of mischievous cat boys. However, when they came in, it didn't work at all. Kieran (Yuz KDF) had a much smaller head that Kaj (Almond KDF). So Kieran kept the Malachy surname and I gave Kaj a Swedish surname, Utne. No particular reason, I just thought Kaj Utne sounded cool.

Kaj and Kieran. The vampirish red eyes are Enchanted Doll urethane Milky #19). As you can see, the Almond sculpt (Kaj) has a much larger head than the Yuz sculpt (Kieran). So much for my cat brothers plan!

Kieran did still do the Cat Boy thing, though.

Kaj had brown eyes for awhile, but they ended up going to Bryony (Bluefairy Kate) because I wanted a brown-eyed blonde girl. These are Enchanted Doll Milky #31 and Milky #4 (half-graduation) with Milky #6 rim (variations of brown) urethane, 16mm, low dome.

So Kaj got Blue eyes (these are Droprop Cobalt Blue urethane). But I think I switched him back to his original Enchanted Eyes Milky #19 (red) and gave the blue to Jillian (Dream of Doll DOC Tender Too girl). But she may have to give them back.

So this eye thing can get complicated, but this kind of customization is what makes BJDs so fun.