Month: August 2021

I got an Unoa Lusis head at a doll show and decided that I wanted her to be a Sphinx! Imade her body in the posable art doll style and I learned a ton about how to do it better in the future, haha. She has a Buff headback, the sanded Resinsoul Tang upper torso I had left over from Daniel, and a pair of ResinSoul jointed hands. I 3D printed the wrist parts. She borrowed Soony’s wig for the convention I brought her to (November 2019, RIP conventions), then I got her a better one than the gray wig in the top photo there but I haven’t gotten a photo of her in it yet.

In 2019, I was thinking about Doll Chateau’s humantaur dolls and thought I’d scratch the itch with a modding project. I got a couple of the Tall MTM dolls and just went for it. They were attached with Apoxie sculpt, then E6000, then I went over the seam with some acetone-melted plastic goop a la @dolljunk , although I didn’t realize that the skintone didn’t quite match until I saw it in daylight, haha. I’ve since put a better-matching 90s Teresa head on this body.

After I made the Tennant BJD, I had to make Daniel, but he was a much bigger project because I knew that I couldn’t get a body with the right body type (ESPECIALLY not in ¼ size). He was a work in progress through a lot of 2019.

I created the torso sculpt starting with an open source character creation addon for Blender (Manuel Bastioni or something like that? It wasn’t available anymore last I checked.) but I modified/resculpted it quite a bit. The head, like Tennant’s, was done in Sculptris then Blender. I finished the pieces the same way as Tennant’s head… it was just more pieces and a lot more work. I also put some heavy gloss around the joints to protect the paint under the final matte sealant coat, and all the pieces are sueded with real suede very generously. None of the joints have chipped yet.

I used the limbs from the Resinsoul Tang body Tennant was on before and I got some ¼ Dollshe 28M hands. He’s kind of similar in measurements to a DearSD or “Big Baby” doll. I’ve since created an updated head (I didn’t even finish the wig for this one, haha) but the body is still the same.

3D printed Tennant BJD, mk 1, from 2018! He was originally made for a Resinsound Tang body with Dollshe hands, then I got him an Akagidoll body later. He was sculpted by me in Sculptris and finished in Blender. I printed him on my Monosprice Maker Select Plus and finished the head with putty, spray can primer, lots of sanding, and a terrible thick coat of Krylon spray paint. His hard cap wig is saran and very much glued in place, haha.

I’m still pretty proud of him honestly, but I made a version with a refined sculpt, smaller head, and resin print later.

In 2018 I managed to acquire a version of a dream doll of mine, Minifee Juri 2014/Elf Soony! Soony was the first BJD sculpt that I fell in love with so I was thrilled to have a small version of her. She started with a Resinsoul Rong body, which I did pretty much all the same mods that I described on Myr on with the addition of modding the hards into wrist pieces for the Minifee hands. I airbrushed her to match the lighter Resinsoul resin, but did a bad job of it, so the pain was pooled around her nose. I still like her faceup, but I’ve since gotten her a Minifee body, so I will need to do one that isn’t airbrushed lighter.

She’s a mean little vampire matriarch who dresses like a goth teen to get people to underestimate her.