Tag: hybrid doll

Another doll head I’ve had forever: High School Musical 2 Troy. This is honestly one of my favorite faces Mattel’s ever done. The eye paint is unusual and gorgeous; even with slight wonk as this one has, it has a lot of spark and personality. The face mold is nice and doesn’t have that “celebrity face mold” look at all. But it’s a small head because they apparently decided that the best way to make teenagers was just to shrink down a regular Ken. 

I found a Hunter Huntsman and I really wanted to put this head on his body using @dolldirt‘s bread tag trick, but I carved the hole a little too big. OTL I want to try using some hot glue in the neck rim to get it to work, but for now, he’s on a Fashionista Ken body. (No, the clothes really don’t fit.)

Also in the garage sale action figure haul: plain ole single-jointed, no-molded-clothes GI Joes. I kind of prefer this to the super-articulated one to be honest, if only because two of my three SA Joes have had their elbows disintegrate while sitting on my shelf. At least these guys are sturdy.

Anyway, Kocoum here is another “didn’t have a color match for a long time” head. The body looks a lot closer in real life than it does in this photo. OTL He seriously needs paint and styling (look how frizzy that top part is), but I’m way more inspired to do it after @dolljunk‘s great Kocoum. 

*insert meme here*

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.

Still trying to decide who gets the pale MTM body. Just wasn’t feeling Lois Lane. Here we have Stardoll and Gillian. I like the proportions of the Stardoll; she has a smaller-than-average head and the hybrid looks pretty high-end imo. On the other hand, I’ve had Gillian a long time and the posing makes her face feel more expressive. Indecisiveness.

Scary Mary! She’s a Kurhn knockoff that has apparently had all of the color fade out of her vinyl. She was also on a weird little Breyer body. This is an Apple White body that has Catty hands for some reason (thrift stores, haha) but I think it works for her. It’s not as green, but, y’know, nothing is. The neck opening is very shallow on this head so the bulge at the top is very apparent, but I really can’t be bothered about it.

I’d almost forgotten this repaint to be honest, her head was too light for any body I had, including her original body, so I had experimetally stuck her on a tiny Breyer body, which was kind of cut but just not expressive or self-supporting in any way. And it still didn’t match. EAH has enough dolls in the super-white range that this one (Poppy?) is a great match for her though. I like her as an uncomfortable Cupid.

I had a big head-swapping session and finally came up with the idea of putting my Bratz heads (none of which I have jointed Bratz bodies for) on MH/EAH bodies. D’oh. Way nicer proportions than Barbie/Liv bodies.

Medusa here is my first real doll repaint and she’s been on a click-leg SIS Grace body all this time. She’s slightly lighter than the Grace skintone and slighty darker than Clawdeen. I have one Clawdia, but that’s too dark plus I only have the one, so, Clawdeen it is. She can sit now! And bend her wrists! It’s great.

I should try giving another dolls gelled curls like hers sometime.

Not-great photo of $1 doll show Janay head. She has some mystery debris on her face I can’t get off with rubbing alcohol and a magic eraser. Maybe with Windsor and Newton? I’ll probably repaint her eventually.

I got Freddie at Target (was hoping for other dolls on clearance, Descendants and EAH were the only ones at 70% off though… ) right before wisdom tooth surgery so I didn’t get a chance to unbox her for a while. She’s really cute and feels much nicer quality than I expected, having acquired some EG dolls at thrift. I actually like her face mold, but I noticed her reddish skintone was a really good match for Janay’s, and the body proportions seem okay for a regular-sized head, so they’re probably getting swapped.

Adventures in rebody-ing. A very awesome friend got two MTM dolls for my birthday, which means I immediately had to try out some heads.

I had two favorite dark-toned heads to duke it out for the body, Generation Girl Part Nichelle with badly rubbed lips and as-of-yet-unidentified 80’s Cara with heavily conditioned hair. I really like both of them! Nichelle’s been pending a repaint a long time, though, so I figure who wins the body depends on that…

Pale body had the Lois Lane head right now. I really like the features of that head, but she’s just not doing much for me and I haven’t been able to dress her…

Actually, note that all of these picture are taken on my bin of clothes. See how many clothes I have. Then think about the how often I’ve actually posted pictures of dolls all dressed. I need a stylist for my dolls, haha.

Another (slightly older) WIP dolly, hodgepodge OC Myr! The body was a Monster High Howleen and the head was a very discolored Disney Store Elsa. I tried @oak23‘s method of dyeing the parts with iPoly. Uhh, the dye was working really well on test pieces, but the steam from the pot started coloring my stove hood before I could put the parts I actually wanted to dye in – lesson learned there. I took the pot off the stove, then decided to go for broke and toss the parts into the warm water. I used a tiny amount of black dye going for grey but they still came out really dark in a short amount of time (except for the lower legs and joint pin parts). If I did this again I’d definitely not use a color I wanted a weak tint of – it dyes too well! I think the color would be very even if I could’ve left the parts to sit. 

In the end I did paint over most of the body and all of the head for consistency, but the dyed color is extremely close so I’m not so worried about chipping. The color is darker than I really wanted (it looks lighter in the photo, there isn’t as much contrast in the stripe in real life) but it still looks pretty good I think. 

They still need hair, ears and antennae, but it turns out I don’t have any golden-blonde hair, somehow. 

PS: Painting yellow scleras on black is awful.