Tag: 1/6 scale

So, I’ve
been thrifting as a hobby for years and in that time I’ve amassed so much more
doll stuff than I will ever use. It’s gotten to the point that I’m too
overwhelmed to really enjoy the 1/6 stuff, so a lot of it needs to go. It’s all
cool stuff (in my opinion, it’s stuff I’ve kept this long at least) but mostly
of interest to customizer types (as in, not a lot of dressed dolls here), so I thought I’d try offering it directly to
the people who might be interested.

Basically, I
want to put together big “grab bag” boxes on a pay-what-you-want plus
shipping cost system. I’m doing flat rate USPS Priority boxes because these
will probably be heavy anyway, so the cost for a medium box is $14 in the US ($46
international) and the large is $19 ($60 international). I’ll take a lot less
than the stuff is worth to get it to people who might want it, but I can’t
afford to pay to get rid of it, haha.

Here’s the Flickr
album of the stuff that I’m definitely looking to offload, so you can feel free
to stake a claim to specific things that you see. Keep in mind that this is all secondhand stuff; none of it is filthy (I wipe all dolls with disinfecting wipes when I get them) but expect some damages. If you’re worried about the condition of a particular item let me know. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/glaceleau/albums/72157690337801711

Other than
particular things you see in photos, give me an idea of the kind of stuff you want,
like:

  • Dioramas (I
    have a large Priority box with a big bed and spiral staircase that I really
    want to get rid of!)
  • Bratz stuff
  • Mini dolls
  • Vintage
  • Floating heads
  • Articulated
    bodies
  • Disney
  • 1/6 action
    figures
  • Barbie pants
  • 90’s
  • Sparkly stuff
  • Weird dolls
  • etc.

and I’ll do
my best to fill the box with as much of those kinds of things as I can. Just
let me know if you’re interested and we can work something out! 

I got ahold of some awesome early-mid 2000’s action figure stuff from a garage sale recently ad have been looking to the best ways to put it to use. This Blaine head is actually one of the very oldest dolls in my collection, but he’s the tan version and darker-skinned posable Kens are in pretty short supply. One of the garage sale finds was the later 21st Century body, though, and it is a perfect skintone match. I really like the body too; it’s a lot more natural than other playline 1/6 I have, except for the hugest double hinge joints on the elbows and knees. Can’t win em all, I guess. Anyway, his neck’s short and I’ll probably space it out somehow but for now I’m content to finally have him be able to sit on my shelf.

I haven’t done it at all lately, but seeing recent and nostalgic stuff from @oak23 and @dollsahoy has given me a serious itch to start doing/posting some more dolly stuff lately. (Just, like, with lower production values from somebody with less free time who’s too lazy to set up photo backdrops now.) I know this has been a drawing-only blog forever, so if this bothers you I can always move to a side blog. 

Anyway! My main project I’ve wanted to do for a while was improving my OC dolls (shocker). M characters based on dolls no longer look that much like the dolls, which is weird but okay. Tennant here is definitely the most strongly linked to the doll but he really needed a body upgrade because I hate the awful shoulders on the 1999 poser Kens, plus I wanted a wrist on him. I thought about changing him out to the newer Fashionista Ken body with a hip mod but I only have two and felt kind of bad about chopping an arm off a perfectly good one. I saw the shoulder mod @dolljunk did on one though so I thought, hey, I’d try it out on his original, already-broken body and worst case scenario, I don’t like it and do the new Fashionista. 

So, this was the result. Cracking the torso open took 80% of the time and was awful. I don’t know what kind of glue is in there, but all but ONE peg broke clean off instead of coming unglued ever. Half the outer seam just had to be dremelled open, so his sides are a mess now. Thanks, Tennant. I also chopped off the hand and drilled in a Dragon one, which was super easy (although only like 2 out of my big eBay lot of action figure hands were even close to a color match), and tried dremmelling the elbow joint, which made no apparent difference in posability. (I tried.)

The shoulders were pretty easy. I expected to have to make new shoulder wells but I didn’t. I just dremmelled out the outer part of the shoulders and put the arms back in deeper. The leather twine (which is just what I had on hand) makes it a tight fit that can hold poses. 

In the end I added some hot glue sueding to the shoulder and torso joint which made it even uglier but works fine. I’d like to pretty the rough edges up sometime (and I made a mess of some things I didn’t have to, like the left arm, oops) but for now he looks way better in clothes than he did before. 

Re-repaint coming up next.