Another (slightly older) WIP dolly, hodgepodge OC Myr! The body was a Monster High Howleen and the head was a very discolored Disney Store Elsa. I tried @oak23‘s method of dyeing the parts with iPoly. Uhh, the dye was working really well on test pieces, but the steam from the pot started coloring my stove hood before I could put the parts I actually wanted to dye in – lesson learned there. I took the pot off the stove, then decided to go for broke and toss the parts into the warm water. I used a tiny amount of black dye going for grey but they still came out really dark in a short amount of time (except for the lower legs and joint pin parts). If I did this again I’d definitely not use a color I wanted a weak tint of – it dyes too well! I think the color would be very even if I could’ve left the parts to sit.
In the end I did paint over most of the body and all of the head for consistency, but the dyed color is extremely close so I’m not so worried about chipping. The color is darker than I really wanted (it looks lighter in the photo, there isn’t as much contrast in the stripe in real life) but it still looks pretty good I think.
They still need hair, ears and antennae, but it turns out I don’t have any golden-blonde hair, somehow.
PS: Painting yellow scleras on black is awful.