( 16 June 2022) A grail boy! Irvin is
another one of the dolls I really wanted when I first got into BJDs,
around when he originally came out. He doesn’t come around often and
I’ve missed/lost him when he came out, so I was so excited to snag this
one! He has a broken finger I need to repair but I’m not a perfectionist
about that. I kind of want to add to his faceup though, and take his
eyelashes out since the way they’re installed they’re actually super
long lashes put really far into his head so they point straight down.
Also he really needs a better wig. He’s actually a character of mine
though, this is Bat!

This is another project I’ve had going for a while… Tennant but Big! The faceplate is the full width of my printer so I did the ears as separate pieces. I got this Charmdoll body (72cm) in the older opaque resin and I like it but in photos the neck looks a bit thin for his jaw. (It doesn’t look as bad IRL so I I have no idea, haha.) I sanded the jaw down a bit, which was easy enough to do since this is the first print I’ve done where I’m trying to use the actual printed resin as the final surface – many thanks to @aishavoya for giving me a tip about using the white resin pigment ages ago. There’s also a bonus digital mockup and a bonus shot of the first try at the faceplate where I seriously undershot on how much resin I needed in the vat.

1. Custom 3D printed resin head on a Charmdoll 72cm body body in old resin pink

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

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

Once I was actually nearly finished with my OC dolls, but not off my OC dolls kick, naturally I started thinking about shelling more OCs. King had been in the back of my head for a while, but I never come across any Project Doll Parts that seemed like they would work for her. When I realized the scale that Daniel and Tennant had turned out, though, I realized… hmm, that’s about FID size. And Iplehouse is a great aesthetic match for a Barbie like King. And when I went looking, I found a perfect combination of sculpt and color for her on the DoA marketplace, so that was that.

I made her wig pretty quickly, but I put off redoing her faceup because the Iplehouse one was perfectly nice. My first redo attempt, in December 2020, was just bad! Sometimes it’s just not working with you. I gave it another try slowly over this spring/summer and I’m much happier with the result. She’s gorgeous and she poses… enough, but I hate the Iplehouse hips, haha.