#doll wips

Red Girl's Dollpire hands are blushed and manicured!

did the hand blushing and manicure on the Supia body that goes with the Impldoll Crystal head i've been working on. i love how the nails turned out, but i don't like how Supia's hands are sculpted with the fingers fused together. i could have messed around with separating them, but i just didn't feel like it 😮‍💨 really trying to move thru my many many doll projects and get all the dolls put together without getting hung up on overcomplicating every single step. which is a weakness of mine with anything creative 😅

speaking of getting more projects done...i'd said awhile back that getting a new puppy had really taken up all my hobby time at the end of last year/beginning of this one. here is my big baby now at 7 months old! his name is Wellington and he does like and answer to his big formal name, but his main nickname is Beef or Beefies 🥩❤️ (he really gets excited if i address him as Mister Beef Wellington 😆) anyway, he is much more settled in now and is a very good boy, so i'm able to actually spend free time doing hobby stuff again! hence the more frequent doll progress updates lately. (@dollsonmain i guess he doesn't look that much like Iggy 😂)

and in another installment of Doll Happenings I Am Annoyed With Myself About....😅😅😅

well that didn't take long to do at all...

having the use of a power detail sander makes modding go a hell of a lot faster and beat the shit out of my hands/wrists way less than when i was doing it by hand with wet sandpaper! the exposed white patch sort of breaks up the visual flow but this neck length looks really good to me. and the head fits on it so well now that i was able to just sit it on top of the neck for these pics and it stayed with no assistance at all.

had a little bit of free time to work on dolls today, decided to use it to dremel down the neck on my recently acquired Supia body to make it fit the Elfdoll K head i got it for. this is just the rough dremeled stage still, i haven't sanded anything yet

left is the pic of the unmodded body with a K head on it that the person i bought it from took to show me how feasible the hybrid might be; right is post-today's dremel session with my K head. color match sucks for sure but all his parts are getting painted anyway so i don't care

well i am finally done with waiting in patience. (i actually like the way Chinese tracking updates get translated to "wait in patience," like a somewhat stern reprimand, a lot better than when American websites are annoyingly chipper and cutesy and tell me stuff like "hang tight!"). regardless of how it's worded, my 9+ month wait for a Miracledoll Zhi Shen head ended today. and the box was the fanciest one i have ever gotten for a head, for sure.

she was bubblewrapped and face protected when i first opened it but i took all that off, put her back in her fancy box, and took it all downstairs to take pics. she has one of the plastic card-type COAs in there with her, and they also sent a nice pair of glass eyes. almost a shame she won't be using them-- she'll be getting red eyes since she's going to be a Dunmer 😅

the light was fluctuating so wildly while i took these, a thunderstorm was on its way in. here's her face tho

and then two seconds later it got DARK but here's her profile

and the neckhole in the bottom of her head is HUGE and will need modded to be a much much smaller diameter. she was made to go on a 68cm muscular body and was very much in line with the trend for big tall dolls with very tiny heads. i got her to go on a 60cm Resinsoul body 😆 i was figuring that she was so incredibly pinheaded on the giant body that she'd probably work okay on a smaller 1/3 size. i compared real quick to the bust piece on my Resinsoul body and the proportions are fine; they should be perfect once i do my planned shoulder-widening mod.

i had to take these pics in the unfinished windowsill in my art room bc especially right now with the storm coming in, it's the only room in my house with enough natural light to get a decent photo. but it is also currently an unusable, gutted mess of a construction zone...

let's see if my undressed dolls standing in a lineup and not having actual genitals, in a post about assembling their bodies, gets flagged even tho i put their silly non-detailed non-anatomically-correct little "dicks" in boxes

✨️it's a dick in a box 📦 ✨️

ANYWAY

these two both made it out of the "disassembled dolls" box today! on the left, the Arsene/Impl hybrid can actually hold his head in a level position and look forward normally now! and he has eyes! next i need to paint his face and make him a wig and something to wear. plus i need to replace his hands-- the ones that came on the body are too small for my liking.

and on the right, the Dikadoll Floyer/Resinsoul hybrid that i've been procrastinating on finishing the neck mod for forever 😅 it was definitely one of those things that feels like a massive endeavor and then when you finally get to it it's...literally nothing to get it done. like 10 minutes with the power sander and then just blushing the sanded resin to blend it in with his head and the resin that was a bit yellowed and not-sanded. that was it. and then restring, which is a quick process for me. he also needs a new set of clothes, but otherwise he's good to go!

(another pic of Dikadoll Floyer, bc i really like his face and i'm extra happy i have him, after learning today that Floyer is now a discontinued sculpt. i guess all my guy dolls are, now-- i have this Floyer, an ancient Granado Boyd, an equally ancient Elfdoll K, Souldoll Robb who was an unpopular limited, and idk if Dollshe is still saying you can order one but even if he is Dollshe Arsene might as well be discontinued bc you'd never actually get one if you ordered it 🙄)

ok so after unboxing my newest addition to the BJD WIP crew this afternoon, i really wanted to get my dolls organized. so i took everyone who is currently disassembled and in mid-modding off of the various work surfaces in my art room, bagged them all up (some of them were already in gallon freezer bags) and... the result was this box. which contains seven disassembled 1:3 scale bjds. NO MORE PROJECT DOLLS, this needs to get cleared out. wtf, self 😭😭😭

a goal that i have been working on that's kind of connected to/a co-goal with finishing my dolls, is redoing my art/doll room. my house in itself is basically a giant WIP that i live in, bc when i bought it many years ago it was old and in super shambolic condition (hence me being able to afford it) and i'm still sloooowly working on fixing it up (bc i also can't afford to just top to bottom redo a house in one big go like house-flippers do!) when i first got the place, i had to completely gut the room i use as my art room and there were some rotten old pipes that were beyond my ability to DIY that needed repair...then once i got some basic drywall up i had the idea that i would let it be a super neutral white box situation to help with both light and minimizing visual clutter so i could focus on stuff better. after some years of that...i have realized i hate it 😅 there is a reason no other part of my house is a neutral/beige/white/minimalist space, and it's bc i hate that style. so i recently painted the walls a nice strong blue, and i am working on actually finishing out and decorating the room so it doesn't feel like a soulless cubicle

and part of finally making the whole room how i want it, to me, is having my dolls all put together and looking nice in their display instead of being in bags and piles all over the place 😅 so getting this parts box worked thru and emptied is, in my mind, an element of finishing my doll WIPS and finishing my room