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Frightfully Tall Clawdeen custom! Fun stuff. I promise her head and body match in real life, I didn’t change the color of either. That’s just the camera being weird.

Anyway, I did the very obvious eye surgery thing using an exacto knife and diamond files. The head glue was, as others have noted, super weird but at least less gross. I positioned the eyes up considerably higher than the painted eyes so she looks pretty different. The eyes are 16 or 18 mm – I don’t know and I honestly don’t remember where I got them? It is a mystery. I did her faceup BJD style, it was fun.

The wig was also a fun experiment, and it hides the fact that she has no ears. It’s a very lazy plastic-and-painted-masking-tape hard cap with glued-on tibetan lamb that I got from the trim of a $1 skirt from a rummage sale at the local children’s theater, which is probably the weirdest possible source of specialty craft supplies. I have no idea why that skirt was trimmed with that.

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.

A few pictures of Tennant all put together outside. Thanks to @oak23 and @dollsahoy for the nice comments on the WIP (I don’t know what the best way to reply is, I’m awful at Tumblr.)! John, I’ll try the lighter next time I mess with him, and Andrea, that made me actually laugh, he is VERY my style, huh? 

Anyway, outside and dressed. Now that his shoulders are narrower he looks much better in the Rosie O’Donnell suit jacket. I cut apart his finger and tried to heat shape them but they’re soft and it didn’t take. I’m going to wire the fingers with pins, but I can’t find my metal cutters, bleh. 

@oak23, you’ve put these hands on this body, how do you get rid of that ridge on the wrist? The plastic’s so hard and brittle. 

Bonus Kid Kore repaint from when I did Tennant. I basically had just been testing all my strokes/colors on her, so when I was done with Tennant I felt bad and gave her a ~30 minute repaint using the colors I had on the palette. Could be a lot better, but, ::shrugs::

I like this face mold and her huge hair, though. I stuck her on a handless EAH body because apparently the ball at the top of that neck is close enough to the ball-joint neck she originally had to work. The neck looks hilariously thin, but it kind of did on her original body too.

Finished up Tennant-doll for now! First two photos are him finished, third is the WIP where I left off (although I’d glued his hair down between that and the last time I posted him), and the fourth is his original repaint from… 2010, whoa. I still think it’s pretty funny to be painting a doll to match a character that was based on the doll in the first place, but, either way, I think it’s an improvement!

I got some Golden Fluid Acryllics for my birthday, which I used to finish this repaint, and they are awesome. Passable out of the bottle, and mixed one drop paint to one drop water, they actually feel a lot like using a pencil – a light, even line that dries super quickly. I also love the little dropper bottles, I don’t feel like I’ve wasted a ton dropping the colors onto the palette.

As for the paint job itself, I mostly tried to soften up and even out the eyes. I didn’t like the look/color of the brows I’d blocked in before, so I wiped them and started again. Whatever mix of paints I’d used, it was apparently terrible because it stained the area yellow despite only being there for like two weeks.

I also tried to cover up all the stress marks from prying open the torso with some bruises, but in my attempt to actually get the paint to stick to the slick plastic I definitely overdid it. For now i’s fine though, since I don’t leave him sitting around shirtless, heh.

Also, can I just say that this face mold looks 10 times better with the hair slicked back like that? It’s also smirking, which I hadn’t really noticed.