A weird one: 1988 Bikin Big Bad Wolf from a Red Riding Hood doll gift set. I don’t have too much to say. I just love it. Although, looking at it, I’d love to see what @dollsahoy would do with it!
Month: September 2016
Liv-eyed Cleo I did ages ago and keep forgetting to post. She’s a bit sad; her eyes are hella wonky because I didn’t have enough kneaded eraser to make them stick, so I just glued them in with white glue. I don’t recommend it. All her blushing also disappeared because I didn’t seal her. And her repaint is lazy.
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Another doll head I’ve had forever: High School Musical 2 Troy. This is honestly one of my favorite faces Mattel’s ever done. The eye paint is unusual and gorgeous; even with slight wonk as this one has, it has a lot of spark and personality. The face mold is nice and doesn’t have that “celebrity face mold” look at all. But it’s a small head because they apparently decided that the best way to make teenagers was just to shrink down a regular Ken.
I found a Hunter Huntsman and I really wanted to put this head on his body using @dolldirt‘s bread tag trick, but I carved the hole a little too big. OTL I want to try using some hot glue in the neck rim to get it to work, but for now, he’s on a Fashionista Ken body. (No, the clothes really don’t fit.)
I said please don’t slow me down
If I’m going too fast
You’re in a strange part of our town…
Yeah, the night’s not over
You’re not trying hard enough
( Re-do of a 3-year-old picture that I started last year. I’m so good at finishing my own stuff… )
Also in the garage sale action figure haul: plain ole single-jointed, no-molded-clothes GI Joes. I kind of prefer this to the super-articulated one to be honest, if only because two of my three SA Joes have had their elbows disintegrate while sitting on my shelf. At least these guys are sturdy.
Anyway, Kocoum here is another “didn’t have a color match for a long time” head. The body looks a lot closer in real life than it does in this photo. OTL He seriously needs paint and styling (look how frizzy that top part is), but I’m way more inspired to do it after @dolljunk‘s great Kocoum.
*insert meme here*
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I got ahold of some awesome early-mid 2000’s action figure stuff from a garage sale recently ad have been looking to the best ways to put it to use. This Blaine head is actually one of the very oldest dolls in my collection, but he’s the tan version and darker-skinned posable Kens are in pretty short supply. One of the garage sale finds was the later 21st Century body, though, and it is a perfect skintone match. I really like the body too; it’s a lot more natural than other playline 1/6 I have, except for the hugest double hinge joints on the elbows and knees. Can’t win em all, I guess. Anyway, his neck’s short and I’ll probably space it out somehow but for now I’m content to finally have him be able to sit on my shelf.
Still trying to decide who gets the pale MTM body. Just wasn’t feeling Lois Lane. Here we have Stardoll and Gillian. I like the proportions of the Stardoll; she has a smaller-than-average head and the hybrid looks pretty high-end imo. On the other hand, I’ve had Gillian a long time and the posing makes her face feel more expressive. Indecisiveness.
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“I have a Ken-sized suit vest, right?”
This is why so many of my dolls go naked. I’ve been hoarding thrift store clothes for over 6 years and they’re only organized into three containers: one for clothes I don’t actually like and am just keeping because they’re rare or belong to particular dolls I might sell or are particularly silly, one for dolls Bratz/MH size and smaller, and one (this one) for everything else. I am not at all lacking in clothes but there’s so much I take forever to find an outfit. I’ve tried breaking it up and that doesn’t even help because I end up needing all of them anyway. I need doll stylists.