Author: GlaceLeau

Hello from August 30th Glace! This is the first post I’m throwing in there since I filled up my queue. I really don’t know how to reply to reblogs and stuff but I’m super touched by everyone’s nice comments and support! Thank you so much!

I bought a BABY from JAPAN, aka: Mandarake had an old Volks doll of the sculpt family I love, described as junk, for a very reasonable price. MSD Schulze on a girl body! Is that not just a Maria?? I don’t know! Old baby is from 2005.

I decided to mod them to look a bit more like their SD counterparts, so I used milliput to shrint the eyes and sanded some sharper angles into the face. I put them down for a long time because I wasn’t feeling the blank face, but once I started on the sescond layer of the faceup I warmed up to it. I’m still trying to land on a good body for them… they’re too mature for the MSD body but not mature enough for a slimmer body (and the head is huge). I did swap out the hands for Akagidoll hands.

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.