Author: GlaceLeau

Soony group shot! So, a very kind user on DoA responded to my WTB for a LTF body for the LTF Soony faceplate I recently got. She mentioned having other old CP/Fairyland items she was looking to sell, and very kindly offered to sell me this sleeping Delf Soony in addition to the LTF body. I was totally shocked! I am collecting Soonies but I never would have expected to find this one. She’s wonderful. She’s on a very old v1 Dollfie Dream body, which I actually do like (especially the color, it’s a soft beige almost like RS’s Coffee tone), but I haven’t decided if I want to have her on the leftover F60/Delf parts body instead since it matches her. Also, forgive the unfinished faceup on the little one!
( P.S. If anyone wants to sell me a F60 elf Soony, especially in WS, to complete the collection I will appreciate you very much )
( P.S.S. REALLY hoping that Fairyland does Soony for the next round of Lookback dolls )

1. CP/Luts Delf Sleeping Soony on Dollfie Dream DD1 body
2. CP/Luts Delf Soony with old Feeple60 arms and legs
3. Fairyland Littlefee Nanuri 2015 / Dreaming Elf Soony modded faceplate on LTF girl body
4. Fairyland Minifee Soony / Juri 2014 on A-Line body with CP/Luts Minifee hands

Another girl I’ve been working on since summer because I’ve very slow! I got this Torrie head from Dollmore. Torrie was actually the first BJD I ever had, about 14 years before I got this one. I had originally picked her as an alternative to Soony, the one I really loved, because she was smaller and less expensive. I eventually sold her because I was afraid to do much with her, and disappointed that she wasn’t Soony. Now that the Soony-shaped hole in my heart is full I can appreciate her on her own merits, and she is an adorable sculpt that I have no fear of doing my own customization on. I put her on the modded Resinsoul body that Juri used to be on, and the match is a lot better.

I tried something a little different with her faceup, where it’s heavily inspired by the work of Ravendolls. I don’t think she’s been in the hobby for a long time now, but her faceup portfolio and style was hugely inspiring to me when I first got into BJDs so I thought I’d try to go for that look with this doll from the same period. It’s honestly still a lot more my style than hers but it was cool to at least try to do something different.

1. Kid Dollmore Torrie head on a modded Resinsoul Rong body with Minifee #6 hands (Resinsoul wrists modified to magnets)

Faceup process and a comparison between my Juri’s new and old faceups. It’s pretty fun to see 3.5 years of faceup progress! I actually really wanted the heavy coloration look originally, but I didn’t have very pigmented pastels, and the whole faceup was done in 2 layers. (The new one is 3, I’m not that NOT lazy still =p) I tried to contour her nose to look wide/flatter. I also added a comparison of a phone photo taken up close and one taken further back and cropped because she looks really different with the lens distortion.

1. Fairyland Minifee Soony / Juri 2014

More things I’ve had going for a while… I actually got a second Minifee Soony head that I wanted to use to make a darker skinned Soony. I had still been meaning to repaint my original Minifee Soony as well, since she was airbrushed (poorly) to match her old body. Since I’m waiting for the dark tanned body, I decided to repaint the new head as the original one’s character so that I could use the old faceup as an immediate reference, or keep it if I didn’t like the redo as much. I’m pretty happy with her though!

1. Fairyland Minifee Soony / Juri 2014 on A-Line body with CP/Luts Minifee hands

Here’s a newer-to-me girl, Black Cherry Dolls Cookie Brownie. She’s very fun! She’s wearing a Barbie shirt and Gene Marshall pants. She came with a very nice faceup by onion.bulb on IG, but it was damaged (lashes pulled off and took some paint with them, and rubs in the blush and lips), so I added some more blushing to fill it in.

1. Black Cherry Dolls Cookie Brownie in Copper

Also in that last post, but I received the Dream Valley body in yellow for Tennant, so naturally I went right about cutting it up, haha. He was way too tall compared to Daniel and Conchita. He’s still a bit too tall but any further height would be harder to remove. I removed a chunk from the ankles and shortened the neck.

It wasn’t too hard, just a lot of sanding to smooth it out. I did it once before on a Resinsoul body and used Milliput to connect the pieces which I think was less visible, but I got lazy here and used superglue since I could always Milliput later.

What I did was stick the calves onto the feet, then draw two level lines around them by holding a pencil parallel to the table and rotating the calves. I drew perpendicular lines across (like a train track) and also marked the back center to keep things lined up. I cut the pieces out with a Dremel (saw might’ve been better but I don’t have a good one) and used a coarse sandpaper flat on the counter to get the edges flat and even. I glued them together by lining up the back center lines and the internal channel, then sanded it smooth.

1. Dream Valley B4-04 51cm boy body in yellow with mods and Dollshe 18M Fashion Maxi Mystic hand in Oriental
2. Custom 3D printed head and body with Resinsoul Tang limbs and Dollshe 28M Fashion Maxi hands
3. Dream Valley B4-04 51cm boy body in white, unmodded

I am behind on Tumblr again, RIP

After a long time searching, a kind soul contacted me who was willing to sell their Littlefee Soony! This faceplate has some unfinished mods I needed to tidy up but I’m very excited about this little one. Her ears were cut down further than I would have done but I think the shape is really cute. The faceup is a WIP – I wanted her to have big dark brows. She’s stuck unfinished at the moment because I can’t get to the airbrush right now and I can’t seal the layer.

1. Fairyland Littlefee Nanuri 2015 / Dreaming Elf Soony modded faceplate
2. CP/Luts Delf Soony with old Feeple60 arms and legs
3. Fairyland Minifee Soony / Juri 2014 on A-Line body with CP/Luts Minifee hands

A handful of quick photos from after I rearranged my shelves and redressed some dolls. I’ve been working WAS to much overtime for over a month now so sorry I don’t have much to say.

Tags on Tumblr are so annoying I’m just going to list the dolls in the post body and hope that lets searches pick them up.

1. Custom 3D printed head and body with Resinsoul Tang limbs and Dollshe 28M Fashion Maxi hands

2. Iplehouse FID Elle

3. Dollshe 18M Fashion Maxi Grown Saint SA sleeping head with eye mod on Fairyland Fairyline Minifee boy body

4. Souldoll Soulkid Joelle on Akagidoll 45cm body

This is a bit different, but I’m making a tweaked Tennant
doll head sculpt to print at a larger scale and I wanted to hear if
anyone has some thoughts/critique/suggestions on the face sculpt/anatomy
before I commit! I’ll add some asymmetry near the end. The shoulders,
hair and polypaint are just to help visualize.

Update on Nabiya! I finally did a last layer on her faceup. I think I change her wig more often than any of my other dolls… I don’t know if I can’t find one that suits her, or if it just suits her to change it up a lot. She really needs new eyes, these are blatantly too small for her eye wells, but nothing else has irises of the same size and darkness and I find those parts to be perfect.

More recent photos of Daniel, mostly to show off his new rings. Also there you can see that Tennant on the Dream Valley body is way too tall, haha. When his body in the right color arrives I’m going to shorten the legs.

I took these boudoir-y photos of Daniel a while back for a Men’s Monday BJD thing that IG was doing a while back. I get the distinct feeling the Tumblr crowd will be more interested than IG though. Thanks for all the nice comments on him!

Someone on DoA was asking about MSD hybrids so I snapped some pictures of my MSD Schulze (which has eyes modded smaller, and is from 2005 according to the headplate) on a bunch of bodies. I threw the DV girl body in there just because I had it around and undressed, haha.

Dream Valley B4-02 girl body in yellow with Doll Chateau hands (the foot is somewhere else): Super bobbleheaded but would probably look cute with the more anime-looking heads honestly. The body is in the right color family but lighter. A newer head might be closer.

Dream Valley B4-04 51cm boy body in white skin / WS (mine is using a Dollshe hand as well): Very obviously not a resin match to Volks NS/pureskin. Actually looks good proportionally if you want a very tall doll.

On Fairyland Minifee / MNF old A-line boy body in NS (from 2007-2008): Good resin match, but the head looks pretty big. The neck is thin for my taste. Newer FL NS will not match like this… the color is different after 2012 or so.

On Souldoll Soulkid NL boy body in NS (mine has modded hips/thighs): Souldoll NS is very light and pink and doesn’t match Volks at all. Also this particular body poses horribly (hence the mods). The proportions are quite nice though since it’s a bigger body.

On Akagidoll 47cm boy body in NS (mine has Resinsoul hands right now): This one is my first choice. The color is a little darker than my head actually, but it looks good with the faceup. Great proportions, like a taller version of the original measurements. Also it’s just a really solid inexpensive body that poses really well.

Here’s the last of my kinda-finished dolls to recap (phew). She’s a Unoa 2nd Cream with the Dollybird face. She has a really weirdly designed body with astonishing bad and weird engineering, but I really wanted her because she can squeeze into Gene fashions and I have a whole lot of them that I got from an estate sale.

I tried to keep her faceup fairly simple but a bit glam. I didn’t sand her eyebrows or anything so those were a bit weird to paint.

This one had been my project for a month or so! She is Large. Very Large. But also not as heavy as a resin SD. She poses well and is super fun. I did pretty extensive mods on her face trying to make her look more stylized and less childlike.

She’s a Parabox 80cm Otohime Yu-Chan and she wears:
26mm eyes (could probably do 28mm since I enlarged them)
16-17 inch wig (Monique human hair and one from Parabox)
Newborn and 0-3 month baby clothes
Size 2 baby shoes

I also followed ao_ame0321 on Twitter’s tips to joint her hands so they’re very fun now. She’s also super fun to dress since I can pick up $2 baby clothes when I go by the thrift store.

I was fortunate to be able to snag both parts of this modded Minifee Tika at once from different sellers! I thought this head had a really appealing look but I didn’t want to get a floating head that was old FL tan and have to find a matching body. Luckily, a matching old tan body popped up. This doll has intense knife cat energy and similar vibes to older CP sculpts like Breakaway which I love. For the faceup I went with a similar vibe to the concepts I abandoned on Soony and I think it suits them better.