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!
04/2025 – I was never quite satisfied with the waxy looking Sunlu printed Daniel, but Resione released a new BJD resin that I really wanted to try. I went back to prototyping some more tweaks on my prototype – updated knees, neck, shoulders, and even some rough hands and feet. I took a week off from work and used most of it to print this guy out. Here’s what I wrote about the process:
I printed for 7 of the last 8 days, 10 completed prints total, 32 pieces – 1 whole MSD-sized doll, 2 extra heads, and print tests. I followed the given settings and instructions very closely, including using a kombucha band and space heater to keep my garage and the printer warm. Maybe recklessly, I never emptied the vat or removed/cleaned the built plate between prints. I had 6 total part failures, annoyingly not until what would have been the last plate. One faceplate and the hands failed, I figured due to insufficient supports. I sliced them separately with more supports, and they failed again, really early that time. I restarted the print without changing anything and they printed just fine that time so I have no idea what they problem was there. Maybe USB issue? The resin does not like being paused. In the past I’ve usually paused an hour or two into long prints to make sure everything was sticking, and every few hours to stir the pigments, but when I paused this resin, supports failed at that point. From the third plate onward I didn’t pause anymore and only had the three parts at the end fail (twice). I’m kind of exhausted from all the printing but I’m very happy with the results. The support settings do leave big bumps but the results are overall beautiful. It’s hard to capture the difference on camera, but in person the resin does look really crisp and opaque compared to the Sunlu/Siraya/white pigment mix I’d been using previously, and it was really nice not to have to stop and stir the resin constantly. The pieces feel harder and look more like cast resin or Siraya Mecha White. For my usage (mostly printing heads and parts to be compatible with existing BJD bodies/parts) this is definitely the best stuff I’ve used.
I’m finally satisfied with how he turned out. The only thing I miiiight adjust is the calves because the ankles are a bit unsteady, and to finish the hands and feet of course (even though I intend to continue using the Dollshe and Resinsoul hands that fit his shoes). I got him sanded pretty quickly, before I even took and other photos, and he looks and feels just like a casted doll for the most part.
10/24 – After finishing the PLA prototype, I used up a holiday weekend printing him in resin. I hate resin printing! This is Sunlu Beige mixed with 10% Siraya Tech Tenacious and a bunch of white resin pigment. Unfortunately I don’t think I used enough pigment because he has a slightly translucent waxy quality that I don’t care for. I also accidentally printed two left thighs, oops. He does pose much better in resin than PLA, but he is heavy!
10/2024 – Just some comparisons of the new PLA Daniel prototype with the old one, clothed, and compared to Tennant. I wanted to keep him as similar in size to the old one as possible so that I don’t have to replace his whole wardrobe, but I did make him a little bit bigger overall after this.
Oct 2024: After many months of testing and tweaking, this is the “final” PLA prototype for Daniel. I started this in 2022 but getting a new FDM printer (Elegoo Neptune 4 Plus) in 2024 made it so much easier to work on. All the joints have been iterated to balance my preferred aesthetics and functions so I’m pretty happy with him. No hands and feet yet, so these are from Dollshe and Resinsoul respectively.
Ghost in the Shell Innocence Gynoid Hadari doll I got off Mandarake. The lips seemed to me painted with enamel the same as the white coating, so I opted to just paint right over them. She’s a stunning sculpt! Although, I think it’s funny that her teeth are the only part not coated in white enamel. The picture that shows the inside of her head gives you a good visual of how yellow 17-year-old resin might get. The inside of her head has never seen sunlight so this is 100% natural aging.
I keep coming back to this post when trying to find other owner’s photos of Hadari.
There aren’t many other than her left default. That last pic shows how nice the sculpt actually is with the sloppy lip paint hidden.
I’m pretty sure that’s deliberate and they intended Hadari dolls to look like old gofun dolls, but it might just be factory workers that weren’t too interested in what they were doing, too.
I do think she’s a genuinely gorgeous sculpt. I just with she had hip/wrist/ankle movement. I still haven’t finished her face but I took a new photo for you.
Merry Doll Round Olathe very much needs a new faceup, but since she has SOME faceup it’s not at the top of my list, haha. She’s lovely though! I put her on an old Angel Philia body which matches surprisingly well, but fell over into 5 pieces immediately after taking this photo, haha.
I was really jazzed about the skeleton event heads from Fairyland – older sculpts! But skeletons! I have wanted a Woosoo for a while and skeleton Woosoo is the coolest one possible. I bought the head off someone and was prepared to watch for a WS SD body for a while, but the head was actually shockingly small. I’ve heard people say that the F60 Lookback heads were small, but they weren’t kidding! With Woosoo’s already small face, this doll is in proportion with MSDs, not any of my other SDs. I put the head on the WS 50cm Dream Valley body I’ve had for a while and it looks surprisingly good.
Zeri’s sculpt is SO cute, even with just some pencils for a faceup she looks nice.
I moved and haven’t done much doll stuff, but while I’m here here’s some pictures I took of Meefa in the new yard today!
( 14 November 2022 ) I burnt out on dolls a bit towards the end of the year due to the combination of receiving a LOT of dolls I had been waiting for really close together, and getting ready to move out. But I saw this Lunnula Moonbeams head with a faceup by @theugliestwife that I had missed out on earlier in the year and I had to jump on her! She’s on the leftover mix of Feeple and Delf body parts from Soony.
( 29 October 2022 ) Mayakdolls June in dark tan! She’s lovely but I received so many dolls so close together than I’m thinking of letting go of her if anyone’s interested.
( 3 October 2022 ) The beautiful Angel
from Little Rebel! He is so detailed and beautifully sculpted.
I love the design of his shoulder joints and all of his joints work
very well. Finding a wig is a bit tricky because his cranium/skull is
very small compared to his face. The Umber color is very similar to my
Garden of Dolls dark tan doll (Resinsoul dark tan) and my TV_Head from
Rap1993.
( 20 September 2022 ) I’ve
only done the first layer of Alice’s faceup, but I’ve been super busy
and probably won’t finish her for a while, so I put her back together so
that she’s less unnerving to have hanging around. Better than blank at
least! I’m going for a Heather Silent Hill 3 vibe with her faceup.
You ever get an outfit
that’s so good it instantly makes the whole doll click for you? I
commissioned Jeanette Means on FB for a slinky white femme fatale look
for my Soony/DD1 hybrid and she absolutely knocked it out of the park!
( 17 August 2022 ) Meefa needs some repairs but I still played a little dressup.
(August 17 2022 ) TV_Head is an amazing stander and fun to dress
( 15 August 2022 ) My two newest…. the super cool TV_Head from @rap1993 at Resin Rose and the lovely and ethereal Shinydoll Meefa! An odd pair for sure. I used my Instax mini printer to print the screen for TV_Head though I need to photoshop a version in the right aspect ratio.
