{"id":604,"date":"2021-08-22T23:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/olderprogress-photos-of-myr-i-sanded-down-a\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T03:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:28:01","slug":"olderprogress-photos-of-myr-i-sanded-down-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/olderprogress-photos-of-myr-i-sanded-down-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-604 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/olderprogress-photos-of-myr-i-sanded-down-a\/attachment\/605\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/26ca144a5c74b9e1e1a183d0824cc0f33544069c-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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src=\"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ad1ae7d5ea1e0029b8523fd6a34d91ff2d181070-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ad1ae7d5ea1e0029b8523fd6a34d91ff2d181070-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ad1ae7d5ea1e0029b8523fd6a34d91ff2d181070-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ad1ae7d5ea1e0029b8523fd6a34d91ff2d181070-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ad1ae7d5ea1e0029b8523fd6a34d91ff2d181070.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Older\/progress photos of Myr! <\/p>\n<p>I sanded down a LOT of resin on the mid-torso to rough in the wasp waist and lessen the muscle definition. Then I sliced about a centimeter off the top and sanded it down from there, shortening the torso significantly. I expected to make the torso look short, but it was so elongated that it looks more normal than where I started, haha. It&rsquo;s also now a rounded joint instead of one with a ridge like the original, so it can be moved without pulling. I significantly reduced the bottom edge of the upper torso. I didn&rsquo;t change the shape of the joint, I just ground down the edge and the chest. I flattened out the chest as well, which sounds like a weird thing to do on a male body, but the shape actually looked more like modest breasts than pecs, especially with my waist mod, and Myr doesn&rsquo;t have breasts, so I flattened it out to a more ambiguous shape. <br \/>\nSanded down the catches on the shoulders and upper knees.<br \/>\nTried to fix some of the issues with the lower knees. Honestly, they&rsquo;re just not very well shaped or designed, but I tried a few things that might help. I carved out more of the back so that the edge of the cup is surrounding more of the ball and flattened the sides of the ball. <br \/>\nSliced the thighs into two pieces added a mobility joint.<br \/>\nSanded down the tops of the ears so I can sculpt the downturned ones. RIP Seng&rsquo;s cute ears. <\/p>\n<p>The elbow cup piece is actually pretty round on top, but the upper arm&rsquo;s socket is oblong, so the joint doesn&rsquo;t work like a ball joint and won&rsquo;t rotate. But! The upper arm&rsquo;s socket is actually round with the exception of the pieces that extend down the sides. If you cut\/grind those down, you get a regular nice round ball joint that actually rotates and works well.<br \/>\nThat alone reduces the annoying rotate-and-popping thing the bottom joint does, but I really really hate that so I wanted to make it impossible. I did exactly the same thing I did in the lower leg: I carved out the inner joint area of the lower arm (the bottom of the ball part) so that the double-joint\/cup part doesn&rsquo;t get pushed out when it bends. Uh, it makes more sense when you see it.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t change the middle\/elbow\/cup part at all. I did also flatten the sides of the ball part of the lower arm; that probably didn&rsquo;t make a difference right now, but I want to suede the sides of the joint when I&rsquo;m done.<\/p>\n<p>The arm is no longer a terrible obnoxious pain. The top part moves freely and with sufficient friction (because this joint actually fits well) and the bottom no longer rotates (no more Z elbows) or pops. I also suspect the bottom bends a little further, but I didn&rsquo;t really check.<\/p>\n<p>I also did a mouth opening with custom tooth piece, downturned elf ears, and filled in the sides of the eyes, then did some general face sanding mods. <\/p>\n<p>They were dyed with Rit Dyemore (after an ordeal where my iDye Poly wouldn&rsquo;t stay the same color for 5 minutes), sueded, scarred and painted. They&rsquo;ve had two custom wigs, one with Tibetan lamb and one with brushed yarn, and several pairs of custom resin eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older\/progress photos of Myr! I sanded down a LOT of resin on the mid-torso to rough in the wasp waist and lessen the muscle definition. Then I sliced about a centimeter off the top and sanded it down from there, shortening the torso significantly. I expected to make the torso look short, but it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/olderprogress-photos-of-myr-i-sanded-down-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,6,5,304,8,29,7,84,201,195,202],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-default","tag-bjd","tag-custom-dolls","tag-dolls","tag-dyed-bjd","tag-glace-dolls","tag-glace-ocs","tag-legit-bjd","tag-modded-bjd","tag-myr","tag-resinsoul","tag-resinsoul-seng","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaceleau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}