El Chignon Dolls Maria

July 2023 – I took some photos of the lovely Maria from El Chignon Dolls! She came with hot glue sueding and she is a fabulous poser, but I wish she had flat feet. I didn’t have any shoes that actually fit, but I was able to stick her in some What’s Her Face sandals so that she could stand on her own.

I love Maria’s head as-is, but I wanted to do a quick comparison/hybrid test with Minifee. I think it works quite well! She is about Moe height and the medium tan is very similar to FL tan. The Moe body is from ~2012 and pretty severely yellowed/greened while the blank head is new from late 2022. The neck is thinner than Minifee and but not so thin that it doesn’t work. No clothes-sharing between them, obviously, but I easily fit her into larger MSD boy sized clothes.

Unoa 2nd Instruction Sheet

This is more for documentation/usefulness than because it’s interesting to look at, but someone on DoA asked about how to string a Unoa 2nd so I took a picture of the instructions because it’s genuinely the weirdest stringing I’ve ever seen. The head is attached with a thin elastic that’s looped around the arm elastic! So weird!

I sometimes think about trying to drill through the torso and/or add a torso joint to make her a bit more posable and stable.

PNW BJD Expo 2023

(Making an earnest effort to get all my doll/art posting caught up so hopefully you don’t mind the backlog queue!) June 2023 – Photos from PNW BJD Expo

BIG Myr

I got in my head that I wanted to 3D print a REALLY BIG doll. Myr is a small character, so how about a life sized Myr? I tried a few times to sculpt them, but I was never happy with the results (apparently I don’t know how to sculpt cute things!) so I decided to commission a sculpt for them. I got in touch with Morphingon (Etsy/IG), who has a great creepy-cute style and some body sculpts I would have been happy to use, but they actually sculpted the full body, and amazingly well! The doll still needs a lot of work but they are very fun to have around. They are 120cm tall and wearing a human sized wig!