Noo's Dolls

I was googling again last night, and I arrived at an important discovery: if you want to learn about BJDs, you google "doll joints."

If you want to learn about plastic doll joint articulation, you need to search for "action figure" + joint/articulation, etc.

So, what I've found so far:

Anatomy of an Action Figure (found via Google image search):

Link to the four main types of joints on action figures (ball-in-socket, hinge, swivel, and pivot).

Also: Joint Types Custom Tutorial on the Figure Realm forum includes a discussion of the four basic joints, as well as different compound joints. Note that the web archive link appears to be broken (at least I couldn't access it when I tried).

The one I am most excited about was posted on ArtStation: the Toy Troy - Action Figure Joint Articulation Project. There are animated gifs of how the joints work, and how they are made.

Double-hinged knee:

Hinge and swivel ankle compound joint:

Swivel and hinge elbow and wrist compound joints:

Swivel and ball-joint compound head joint:

Pivot thigh joint and ball and swivel hip compound joint:

Swivel and hinge shoulder compound joint:

Ball joint torso:

Due to the ephemeral nature of the internet, if any of these links are broken, I have printed copies for my personal use.

It comes in plastic bags that are difficult to manage when there are a lot of them. They’re squidgey and slide around. It can be a pain.

Now, I am TERRIBLE at understanding measurements. They don’t translate into dimensions for me (numbers are bad) and I can’t visualize the actual size of something at all.

I went looking for a container for all of these bags of doll hair and found this ArtBin.

https://amzn.to/3MXKHU9

ArtBin is a brand that’s been around for some time and tend to be decent containers and organizers.

More importantly, the pictures show the bin with folded fat quarters in it.

I know what a folded fat quarter looks like in real life, and that gave me a decent understanding of what size these bins actually would be.

It’s a good, sturdy bin. I like it a lot. Putting in the dividers took a little fiddling because there was some flash that needed trimmed and there are grooves you have to make sure to get the dividers into for everything to go together smoothly.

I have both tinsel from the doll hair shop that’s on cards in the same little bags, and this tinsel I got super cheap on long cards in long bags.

https://amzn.to/3N2SrUO

These I had to lay across the top because there’s no room for them elsewhere. They do distort the lid a little when it’s closed.

The bags of hair I’ve laid in on their sides so I can see the colors better as opposed to the labels. If I know what label I want, then I know what color and which bin to look in. But if I’m just brainstorming being able to see the hair is better.

I HAVE added an index card to each bag of hair to give it a little more stability and am not sure how well this would be working out otherwise.

But this is easy to see the colors, pick one out, put it back, pick another etc. without bags of hair flying in all directions.

They do still slide a bit when I pick the box up and stand it on it’s end, but they’ve been going right back into where they were when the box is laid down again. This has made storing the hair MUCH more convenient. My hair stash doesn’t take up as much floor space as it used to or can be slipped onto a shelf or under the workstation.

Very nice.

Here’s a link for the bin again, so you don’t have to scroll back up:  https://amzn.to/3MXKHU9

And the tinsel: https://amzn.to/3N2SrUO

A note about the tinsel:  It is NOT the same tinsel as was used on vintage My Little Pony as it has a holographic chip appearance to it and MLP tinsel was solid color. But it IS a large volume of tinsel and looks great on custom projects, assuming you don’t hate tinsel.

It's been a thousand years but Fenris doll is about 95% complete so I can finally show him off 😂

I still need to do his body tats and just some general tidying but.. he's presentable! The clothes are all hand sewn in micro suede, and the armour bits are eva foam.

His tattoos actually glow in the dark but i couldn't find my little uv light to show it off very well.. but, all in all for my 2nd ever doll made I'm quite proud of him 🥺 i could probably improve a lot of things if i did it again but he ain't too shabby.

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Head 3d print & wig by: @beetleboo

Quick lil video demo of my first attempt at follow-me eyes! This character is supposed to be really intense and kinda spooky so I thought they might suit him.

These were drawn on photo paper with a fineliner and glued to a glass cabochon. That easy!

The US National Black Doll Museum closed their doors due to Covid-19, and they lost their physical location.

During the month of February 2022, which is Black History Month in the US, they are trying to raise $100,000 for a new physical location in Attleboro, MA (USA). Please consider donating. You do not need to choose any of the default amounts. Click "Just helping" at top right (after clicking the support button) and type in the amount you would like to give. If 8,500 people gave $10 USD each, they would meet their fundraising goal. Donations are tax-deductible charitable donations in the US.

https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/help_the_national_black_doll_museum_to_reopen#!/

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In August 2019, I held an auction for a doll face up of any kind in order to raise funds for the El Paso Community Foundation. The winner was my dear friend @u4bik, who is not only the most patient soul on this Earth, but also owner of one of my most favorite bjd characters, Skuld. They asked me to paint Skuld's human faceplate to have skull themed face paint but with space in the negative spaces. Two of my favoritest things! Her flesh was dusted with white and pearlescent pastels while everything else is watercolor and mica powders. We contemplated adding iridescent starburst glitters but opted to go with painted stars instead. In order to slightly make up for my tardiness, I made a pair of resin eyes. One pair with white scleras (top) and the other with black (bottom), but both filled with all the glitter and shinnies! I am so happy to know this face plate is back home safe and sound and it was such an honor to paint for them ❤️

Here's a video that shows the paint differently: