#xinyidoll

My work in progress Xinyiwawa 12″ fashion doll body. I removed the nips, because I didn’t like the placement. I sculpted my own, because I am weird. I have little MSC left, as I mentioned when I posted my Barbie Fashionista repaint a few weeks ago. I did order a few more, which I am hoping will get here by Thursday.

I still have enough to blush the torso, hands and feet on this body. So that’s where I focused the light spraying of fixative. I haven’t sealed him yet, I just wanted to see how dark I wanted his body blushing to be, so I took these. I usually love blushing stuff, so I tend to over do it. Despite loving very heavily stylized body blushing on art dolls, and other dolls in general. I prefer more subtle blushing on my own dolls. Having said that, I struggle to stop, because I love the blushing process so much. That’s why I took a slew of photos, I wanted to make sure I could see how dark it is, as he’s super light and the light makes it a pain in the gut to photograph (plus these are crappy cellphone photos). DX

So this is kind of a haul. It took quite a while to get here, and I took a while to order because I wasn’t sure where or how to order. I got these from Xinyiwawa’s TaoBao’s shop, to make sure I was getting their stuff and not possibly anything else.  

I mostly got them for their 12″ fashion doll male body, as I want to place a few 1:6 female heads on male bodies, but 1:6 figure bodies are actually more “realistically” proportioned, so the females are smaller in all regards to the males. Which makes it a pain in the gut to hybridize willy-nilly, but I prefer more Japanese anime/video game aesthetics for the male dolls/figures I own, so the hybridizing females on males seems like the only logical choice (for now?). At least, for the ones I want to customize, the ones based on licensed character are either not made or I already own them. (:

More spam, I mean work in progress photos of my Xinyiwawa body. I think I’m done now. I just need to seal the work for the last time, and add gloss to the nails. I was thinking of painting the undies, but then I saw that where I went over the “elastic’ line it looks like they are translucent and thought “maybe I should pretend he’s wearing transparent undies and blush all...” But then I felt like it might come across as me being a perv, and there’s no need for more of that, all things considered. (:

I was hoping I would do my dream subtle body blushing, but no, I had to overdo it once again. Story of my life, I guess. I am into veins though, so I went a bit overboard when I saw that the light blue pastel ones didn’t show up at all (in crappy cellphone photos)! I went in with extremely watered down acrylics, and really went to town this time. Lol! 

He’s very light however, so maybe my camera(s) were having a hard time distinguishing from the light-blue pastel from the very light pale-yellow plastic -- I would think those two colors are very different, but who am I to say (cameras also see light and color different or adjust differently than human eye, so how those work, I don’t know?). These kind of show up a bit, but I did go a bit nuts with them. I am nonetheless a bit upset that I once again, did pretty heavy body blush, when my aim was subtlety. Maybe I should stop complaining and just not try it anymore. I enjoy the process, however, so I might try with my other two Xinyi bodies, or even my re-bodied Mattel ones. Or maybe it’s old age and all I can do is complain.

So I was checking if my 1:6 female heads will work on the Xinyi bodies, and I think they possibly could, if I am willing to heavily mod the neck. Which I can do, but I am not sure I want to. I would have to remove about 1cm from the length of the neck, which would probably mean possibly damaging the connector, and making the body useless for its intended heads, or possibly any other heads if I decide I don’t like my 1:6 scale female heads on it. DX

I’m going to have to do a lot of Photoshop to see if I do actually like the heads on it, before I decide that I want to possibly ruin this body. I got a few Xinyi heads precisely because I wasn’t sure it would work for my heads. So, there’s no need for me to worry these bodies will go to waste, because I own heads that perfectly work for them. However, that would mean not getting bodies for my 1:6 heads, for who knows how long? I don’t know when/if there will ever be another toy brand making slim-ish male bodies that are tall and not super cartoony, like the Mattel ones (that aren’t Ken), with enough articulation to not be practically static figures. *sigh* Oh well, I guess I’ll have a lot of thinking to do.

Regardless, I took these comparisons between the different male fashion doll bodies that I have unboxed, nude and headless. I own a lot of other stuff, but I was lazy to remove the clothes/heads or don’t have unboxed. I added in an action figure body just for kicks. I took these mainly because there was someone on DoA sort of suggesting Xinyi copied Volks and Obitsu male bodies, when the Xinyi body looks absolutely nothing, aesthetically or proportionately like either. Proportionally it's not even close, and engineering wise, you can see why these bodies are inexpensive. The engineering on the Volks is pretty dang neat. The Xinyi are good, but nothing to write home about -- the knee joint does allow for a lot of cool poses, as do the arms but the torso joint is unnecessary, and there could have been one at the undies, since they are already there anyway. 

So, even if I didn’t own these (I don’t own Obitsu bodies, yet), I would be able to see from tiny, blurry pixelated photos, that the Xinyi bodies are nothing like the Volks ones. Or, even the Obitsu, which are the height of the BTS one from what I have seen, but closer to the Volks New EB N boy body, which I own, but was lazy to undress and remove the head for these. The Volks are super cartoony, as I had said previously (on DoA), and the Obitsu are pretty similar in shape, but much smaller and have less sculpting detail. The Xinyi ones are more realistic in torso length, girth and sculpting as well. The legs are a thousand miles long, which I am not a fan of, but definitely much more aesthetically pleasing (to me).

Edit to add: I did a lot of research before purchasing from Xinyiwawa, not only because they don’t seem to have a dealer in the West, but because there is basically no actual info on them, outside of few with questions about who they are and some random speculations. I don’t know if they are super new, but this particular body was released sometime in 2019, along with their inset eye head. I found nothing that proved they were/are coping any other company, and from all the research I did, nothing actually is close or looks suspiciously like any other companies work. Be it BJD, or fashion doll existing sculpts. Their dolls seems to be their own work. I don’t purchase illegal copies of other brands stuff, and would never purchase recasts of BJD of any form, because I don’t appreciate people’s work getting stolen and sold as someone else’s. As an artist, I wouldn’t like it if that happened to my own work, but as a human, I wouldn’t want that to happen to any other person. Regardless of how much that person makes, or if that person happens to be CEO of a large toy corporation.