Thursday, September 20, 2012

Look Who It Is.

DAVID!!!!

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My long-lost doll!

Oh David. How can you make me so happy and so pissed off at the same freaking time?? It's been like this since day one. A mold who is practically a physical Mini-me of my character who I can NEVER get right.

I'm almost there. Almost. Wow...I even like his faceup in these photos D: And look how white he is!! He's so yellow in person XD but he photographs white every time. I love it.

I do have a thing against putting him in fur wigs...for reasons only known to a small small handful of people...but as long as I keep telling myself it's only temporary until I get his other wigs together, it's okay. That and I thinks it's unfair that Alex gets so many hairstyles and David, who is older, gets one. This is one of his "back-in-the-day" hairs. When Alex would have been blond.

This is the coat I waited a month for, then when I got it (yesterday) the sleeves were too short...they got modded a tad and now they work. It's perfect :D The shirt is new too (I was afraid to go yellow, since it's kind of the same as his skin XD). And since he's not been photographed all year, so are the jeans and...y'know. The Body. THE BODY. I LOVE DOLLSTOWN. David is SEXY. He's NEVER been sexy. NEVER. He is now. Look at that slouch. <3 How did we let them discontinue this body??...it's seriously worth every one of the way too many pennies I paid for it.

He's four btw. Sept 11. I usually ignore his birthday...for obvious reasons. He still gets stuff though. Hopefully his new eyes get here soon. I'm excited for him to have glass eyes. Plus Mini and Chibi David are getting the same ones! :D

Happy!

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Interupting this blog to say

Dollshe shipped my Hound head!! *flail*

I am shocked...yes I know it's just a head and that should naturally come faster than a full doll, but after my last wait for their stuff (14 months, least I need to remind anyone) I really didn't expect it this soon. Or any time soon. Or at all. I'd pretty much tried to forget him completely.

Then today, shipping notice. Shipping. Notice. No "before shipping" for two weeks like last time, I have a tracking number!! God knows if it works or not....I could try it....but if they're like Dollmore it won't work till tomorrow anyway. But I could potentially have him here by Saturday!! SATURDAY!!

I'm excited...way more excited than I was for Saint....

Blame it on the wait (yep. 14 months.), but by month 6 I was over him already. Too broody. Hound looks like a complete ass-jerk, which is good for Israfel who's famous, therefore an ass-jerk himself.
Probably why he and Alex don't really get along well, they're too similar in personality. Though Alex is an angry ass, Iz is kind of a wry one.

Whatever. Hound. YAY!

EDITING TO ADD: Plus my Alice in Collections stuff is arriving today after a month of waiting (WTF?) so David will get his coat and boots.....AND the most adorable thing ever for Baby Alex is finished and will be on the way soon. I am so excited, CUTEST THING EVER!! I can't wait to get pics. 

It is a good doll day.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Mini-David Preview

:D Finally! I've been working on this for a freaking year almost!! I had been planning on mini versions of Alex and David from the moment I first saw Doll Chateaus new dolls, and I put Mini-Alex on layaway at the end of September last year...I didn't actively start looking for a David till after I had Alex, but I'd kind of been looking. It was hard because David should be taller than Alex, by several inches...which for me and the resin incarnations translates to just "taller". Turns out DC dolls are TALL and Alex was taller than all other minis I thought might work XD

YAY.

I'd been set on Latidoll for a while but it's a bitch finding one! Lati rarely opens up for orders at all, and hardly ever for the Blues (then they discontinued the Red line and I really panicked) so buying new wasn't even an option, and it's not easy finding them second-hand.

BUT I did! Sort of. The head was a bit of a debacle, but I was happy to get it home...and though I almost broke down and bought an AOD body hoping it would work, I held out and got my Lati!!

Only to find the head was WS and the body was NS XDDDD WHEEEE I AM DUMB!

Whatever. I fixed it.

Here's Mini-David!

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 I was hoping to have some shots of him with Mini-Alex (whom I can no longer refer to as just "Mini" anymore!!) but I left my good lens at home and none of my photos turned out :PPP
Maybe tomorrow I'll try again.

The more I look at him the more I like him, which is usually good XD
And holy crap is he big. I mean, he barely fits into what he's wearing, and Dollmore clothes are too small on him -- which says it ALL.

These are not his eyes, I ordered glass eyes for him, Big-David and Chibi-David, so now, like most of my Alexes and all of my Wyns, all the Davids will have the same eyes :D

Despite having an almost immoveable torso (like my dreaded SD13 body), I actually love the way this body looks -- so manly next to the wussiness that is Alex. Hand are very nice looking too.

My only complaint/worry is how young he looks...I'm a little concerned that I won't be able to get past that...I guess it will depend on how he looks with Alex. If he's too young-looking I'll have to....do...something. I don't know what. Old him up somehow. Bleh.

Yay Mini-David!! Now to find him good clothes and lots of mini-props! Which is the only reason to have minis! Other than the whole I-had-no-choice-cause-Colin-is-so-awesome thing.

Friday, September 14, 2012

The Adherents of the Repeated Meme

I can't resist doing these stupid things!!


1. What sculpt is/was your first doll?
Dollmore Kara Klum - the basic version, which was the only one in existence at the time...

2. Do you still own this doll?
Oh yes.

3. Was your first doll your grail?
Yes and no. The sculpt is my grail I guess, since no other doll out there compares in my opinion (and who else's matters? XD) but I really wanted him in WS, which didn't exist. The WS one was released less than a year later, so I got him too. Twice.


4. How long did you have to wait from the moment you decided on the doll to actually buying?
Sadly because I printed out his specs off the internets, and still come across it every once in a while, I know exactly when I saw him...so 6 months. First I had to convince myself I NEEDED a $600 doll, then I had to scrape up the money, plus money for important things like clothes. So $800. I spent a lot time looking at him to make sure that was the one I really wanted, since I wasn't going to get anymore. Yep. Just the one.
Just
the
one.
-_-

5. Did you buy it or was it a gift?
Bought him myself, as a gift for me, for my birthday XD


6. Why did you choose the doll you did as your first?
Of course! Like I'd let anyone else pick out an $600 doll for me to buy myself XD


7. Did you have a character in mind as soon as you saw the doll or did it develop after arrival?
Alex was "alive" for probably 7 years before I ever heard of bjds...so I was looking for him, not a pretty doll I liked.


8. Do any of your friends own the same sculpt?
None in my area...But I've enabled a few people I met through bjds and do consider irl friends to get one! *evillaugh*


9. If you could go back and change your decision to buy the doll you did as your first, would you?
NEVER!!!! I am pretty much thankful on a regular basis that my first was my first. I wouldn't change anything.


10. How did you learn about BJDs?
I saw someone carrying one at the Japanese Festival a million years ago...Since I dabbled in customizing action figures to fit my characters (but got srsly stuck on Alex) I thought that doll would be perfect! I told her I really liked it and asked where she got it and she snapped "The interenet" and walked away.
I searched art dolls and jointed dolls and never really found much (maybe some Dollfie Dreams).
A year later I bought an Anime magazine (I think Deathnote was on the cover lol - I never buy anime magazines so it's funny...) and found an add for the Junkyspot. I went there, and used it as a start for my searches. Then slowly became obsessed....

So for those of you who may not know *cough* this be my first doll

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He didn't look like this when I first got him >.<
Took me a while to get everything right, but I knew he'd make a perfect Alex, just from the thumbnail on Dollmore's front page! :D

Monday, September 10, 2012

Alex II: continuing saga.

Well I finally have some updated photos of this guy to share.

Since the last time I posted about him he's had his neck shortened more and a new faceup. I also damaged the body some...the dremel slipped while I was taking neck off, and he's got some nice gouges on his neck. An shook got caught on his upper torso and made an awful hole. *shakes head*
He's a disaster.

BUT I think the new faceup turned out better than the last one, so I'm pretty happy with is. I remembered to try and match him this time so he's not so glaringly off, and his eyebrows and eyelashes are much better.

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Not the greatest shot but it shows up ok He looks much better with the neck shortening. I had a few comments that I could still take more neck off, but mostly from people who don't go for the giraffe look like I do (it's still long, just not as much as it was), and I'm ok with it.

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His head fits better too, since I sanded down to the thicker part of the neck... He doesn't look bobble-headed at all which is great (til his wig goes on lol it always makes his head look so much bigger than it is). He's still on the tall side, but with one less cm it's better.

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Honestly, I love him like this. He's been my current flavor-of-the-month...I haven't messed with any of my other dolls lately XD Bleh, look at that cat hair D:

I love the hoodie too, I've been meaning to buy one for the Alex Collective as I've always imagined him wearing a blue hoodie with a nondescript design. This is perfect. He'll never take it off!

I had put Dollmore Adam hands on him as well...I tried the large ones first because they're my favorite and I have extras for some reason...they were too big. I tried, I left them on for days, it just didn't work. Then I tried the small ones on him. At first I thought they were the same size as his DC hands, but they're not, they're bigger by just enough. I love them. They're even the same color!! Probably because they've never been out of my parts box.

So other than having tiny feets, Alex is looking pretty good. Two people who have nothing to do with bjds saw him last weekend and thought he was sick or dead XD so the faceup was a success! I wired his legs and he's MUCH less kicky now...he's got a good outfit...all he needs is a blushing/tattoo/scar day and he'll be finished! :D


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I have no idea how I'm going to get his tatts on such little surface-area D: D: D:

In other awesome news, I finally got my hands on a Lati Blue boy body! It should be shipped at the earliest today, so I could have it before the weekend even. I'm so excited....this means Mini-David will be here! Mini-Alex will no longer be alone in his world.

I can hear him cursing from here....

Alexes seem to prefer to be alone. But too bad. I'm excited to work on him. I may use him as a template for Big David who needs a new faceup. I just hope he's taller than Mini-Alex. And that his tiny head doesn't freak me out. At least I'll have the body. That's the big thing...I can always find a different head!

Sadly this means I don't have a down-payment for a Volks head for Pilot, or an LM head if I went that way, so he's on hold again....sitting around with no head. I wish he was NS or that Aishe was WS...then Aishe could borrow the body for Halloween.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

I can't decide.

So Pilot (Remmiel) first came home as an Alice in Labyrinth Elijah....Not my first choice for his character, but a doll I've always wanted. While I really liked him as a doll he didn't fit Pilot in my head exactly...and I think he's just too real? for my collection.

Oddly, I never had an issue with how he looked with James...but his "Pilotness" was off somehow...

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Now I have the head up for sale (if anyone is interested lol). I had toyed with the idea of replacing the head with a Volks head since it's a Volks body (you know, the one I can't get rid of to save my life. The Albatross.), and decided that Chris would be perfect...Chris or F16 or F28 or any of the other heads in WS that look similar. I think his/their look is perfect for fitting in with my crew, the slight smile will fit Pilot, and he'll look good with James (who won't be replaced).

Only problem is, they're not easy to get a hold of. I have a WTB up, but no one has shown any interest...there's one or two for sale but I've been told they're way overpriced (and I agree) and most of the others are full dolls that I don't want as I have the body already.

Sooooo I gots a headless body laying around. Which always makes me impatient.

Over the weekend I was at a friends house for a dollmeet and I noticed her one and only SD sized boy was really nice-looking...I honestly thought he was Volks and then found out he was Little Monica...which is a company I already own two dolls from and love. They sell heads separately, and they're only about 120. I have more than enough in my pp which I've been saving for a down payment on a Chris head if I ever get offered one.

I'm not sure what to do now. I'd be happy with a LM head, it would work for Pilot and I LOVE Ryuji (even though he's never had one proper photoshoot - no tatts still and he looks naked without them) and Baby Wyn is the cutest thing ever (other than Baby Alex)...But I have had so many different heads on that stupid SD13 body it would be nice to give it a Volks head and call it a full doll and be done with it.

Blurg. I guess I just sit and wait and see what happens. Maybe I'll get one in a trade, or someone will offer me the Chris/F16 I want.

Or maybe I'll never get either of them and be stuck with a headless SD13 body forever!!!!