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Louisville Doll Theft Update
So I posted a couple weeks back about my friend whose landlord stole his doll collection, and I have good news and bad news.
The good news is we were able to track down one of the trucks. The bad news is that it belonged to a charity donation pickup that just ended up with their clothes and furniture after everything else had been taken by the "cleaners."
After calling all the cleaners and junk haulers in the area, we've narrowed it down to two, the first admitted to working with Barrett Goff/Allodium in the past but acted a little squirrely when I mentioned stolen property and said they hadn't been on that side of town that week, but the guy was otherwise sweet and cooperative, and said company policy is to donate anything not broken. The second admitted they let their employees just grab and take whatever, then got an attitude and said they "couldn't confirm or deny involvement," and told us to come back with a warrant. They're the only ones out of the internet's entire trove of KY Louisville area junk haulers that refused to give answers, which is pretty sus.
(Who, in the course of a normal conversation, says stuff like "can neither confirm nor deny involvement"? Not sure if these guys are guilty or just extra...)
Anyway, with nothing turning up on online resale platforms, the next stop is flea markets. As they're working extra gigs to save for a new place (and a lawyer), I'm hoping to save them a PI fee by organizing a sweep with people in the area, to run through local flea markets and see if anyone's trying to sell a massive doll collection. They already can't afford HRT anymore, if they have to pay a pi and a lawyer, getting justice will get prohibitively expensive both financially and personally
If you are local to the Louisville KY area, even if you're not in the hobby, please dm me and I'll go over the ones we haven't eliminated by phone yet. They've been advised to get a private investigator, but they really don't have that kind of money lying around after being robbed and left homeless. If I can get enough Baker Street Irregulars together to help, we can let them use their savings for a lawyer.
Again, the collection is made up of mostly Ringdoll, DIM, ResinSoul/Bobobie, and some Soom. Also among the more distinctive dolls we're trying to recover are Custom House Saint Mina and LE Sad Mina, an Island Doll Shukaku ver. 2 fullset, and a secondhand Volks free choice girl with goth vampire faceup and antique-looking dress.
If anyone knows attorneys who take cases for cheap or pro bono, please contact me so I can refer them. They've applied to the ACLU, but with the organization's workload these days, it's kind of a crapshoot.
If you can't volunteer and want to help, you can donate at:
Cashapp: $hyperionasshole and his new PP @memeharrington
Because posts with images get more traffic, here is me and my friend on my annual bluebonnet day, and our dolls (the blondes--RS Dai and 1st gen BBB Apollo--are his, and probably still wearing these outfits):
#bjd#abjd#ball jointed doll#help#ball-jointed doll#bjd help#stolen bjd#resinsoul#bobobie#discrimination#hate crime#louisville ky#bjd help wanted#doll theft#ringdoll#custom house#saint mina
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And I really mean "nearly" funded: I am $88 away from making Muriel a reality! Anyone else want a Creature?
Please take a look here!
#Also I think the KS algorithm will favor me if I'm funded in 48 hours#so if you want to reaaallly help Muriel please consider it!#super blessed btw#Muriel bjd#ball jointed doll#bjd
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the big and long miss yucky restoration post, part 1:
early february, i got a very damaged (what i thought was) ddh-10 (dollfie dream head, model 10) head from yahoo japan auctions. i had never seen a doll with such damage EVER and even though i hoped someone else may buy her (i did not want to pay the shipping fees), i ended up buying her. for your viewing pleasure, images of miss yucky at the start of this with explanations of what exactly is the damage (or what i thought the damage was at the time)
[ID: Four images of a severely damaged doll head.
The first image is of the head facing straight forward. Her face is very unevenly colored. She has small patches of a darker and more yellow vinyl tone showing on her face, from the paler paint cracking away. Her face is very simple, with big eyes that have cartoonish eyelashes and a small smiling mouth. Noteably, her nose is barely there. She has many spots of dirt on her forehead. Her eyes are dark blue and round, with unsmoothed white clay above the iris.
The second image is inside the doll's head, showing the eyes being held in with hot glue, gray clay, and blue sticky putty. Her headcap is set to the side and the true more yellow vinyl color is visible on the rim of the head that is open.
The third image is her head at an angle that better shows the eyes. The eyes themselves have a weird bumpy texture on them and her face looks very shiny from this angle.
The fourth image is her head in profile, showing that her nose has been almost completely removed. The discoloration is more visible in this photo than the first, with patches of bright white along the head seam right beside dark patches where the paint appears to have been scratched away. In this picture, it is most clear where the headcap has been replaced from the original, as there is a lower seam running around her head, with the headcap being much smaller than it should be. /end ID]
Hopefully her nickname makes more sense now lol. More elaboration on the issues and her process to looking a lot better under the cut, because it is long :)
As for the issues, I assumed it was either a sealant issue or just something mysteriously wrong that was causing the sheen (once I got her in the mail, I began to assume that it was all the plasticizer leaking out of her head, leaving it rock hard). Plasticizer is what keeps vinyl (which is what her head is made of) squishy, and when it leaks out, it leaves a sticky residue on the vinyl, a lot of sheen to it, and most importantly, when it is all leaked out, it leaves the head hard. Her head was as hard of a rock (or as hard as my resin dolls) and that was the only thing that made sense. It couldn't be age, as at the time, I believed she was a DDH-10, which had only begun production around 2016 (and most of the heads that had hardened over age were at least 5-10 years older than that).
Her eyes were stuck in in some mysterious way. The white on the top being not smooth threw me off, as I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be clay or just something to stick the eyes in. I hadn't really seen white sticky putty used on eyes super often but it is something that was used. The other obvious issue is the modding. At the time, I fully believed she was a DDH-10, so was shocked at all the modding that had been done to her. Her eyes had been widened, nose completely sanded away, chin seemingly sanded a bit, and her head cap was from (what i thought was) a different company. We will return to the true ID of miss yucky shortly.
Once I got her, I became aware of a few more issues:
She was INCREDIBLY sticky when I touched her face. This is not normal with vinyl dolls, and I could really only pray it was a sealant issue (as the most popular sealant in the BJD hobby, MSC, can seal glossy if it's used improperly (I've had the same issue when spraying it too close to the face or in too cold of weather)). The shininess was far worse in person as well.
The aforementioned head as hard as a rock. For people unfamiliar with vinyl heads, this specific type of doll has a headcap (which is the thing that you can kind of see is ill fitting in the original photos) that you are supposed to be able to squeeze the head to remove. These kinds of heads are VERY squishy. For example, my other vinyl doll, Beatrix, has a head so soft that I can easily remove the headcap with little effort (it's about the squishy levels of a Monster High head if that helps). At this point, I was very worried I would be completely unable to remove her headcap. But since the listing photos had had it removed, I was moderately hopeful
Her eyes were in odder shape than I thought. Prior to getting her, i had assumed her eyes were the ones you see in an average stuffed animal, just simple ones you sew in. With her modded eyes, it was pretty clear that she would need some kind of custom eyes, so this had made sense to me, that someone would have gotten those eyes and popped some clay around them. But upon getting her, I saw that they were custom eyes that were usually made for these kind of anime BJDs (term used loosely but most vinyl bjds like this have stylings closer to anime artstyles rather than the realistic ones that resin bjds have) and had some weird residue on them.
Her eyewells (the bit of vinyl between her eye and eyeball, where your waterline would be if she was a human) were much deeper than expected, which was why her eyes looked so deep and far back. Most of my resin dolls have similar issues due to that being how the company sculpts them so I wasn't too worried about that as much as I probably should have been lol
[ID: Two pictures of the same doll head.
The first picture is from an upwards angle and shows that she has a somewhat thick line of vinyl between her bottom eyelashes and her eyeball itself. She is being held by a pale hand and the photo is under harsh lighting.
The second picture is facing from the front and is being held by a pale hand. She is noteably very shiny and is about the size of the person's palm. /end ID]
You can see here the way the vinyl is thicker under the eye than it should have been in this case. The second picture is there because she was MUCH bigger than I anticipated, about the same size as Beatrix's head. Quick explanation on why this is odd: The DDH-10 sculpt is meant for 1/4 or MDD scale bodies (BJDs have different scales, all compared to the human body. 1/4 scale dolls are less than 2 ft tall, or on average, 45 cm tall. MDD is the type of body that the company that produces the DDH-10 that is made for the 1/4 scale), but the DDH-03 (the head model Beatrix has) is meant for 1/3 scale (on average around 60 cm or around 2 ft). Everywhere online had said that 10 head model was smaller but I didn't think much of it at the time.
The day that she had arrived, I had made a post on a big BJD forum, as a sort of project journal as I worked on her. The members were IMMENSELY helpful and the hunt for her true identity had begun. A few members were convinced she wasn't a DDH-10, but to me, I really was convinced she was, as she had been listed as such, had arrived in a box for that head type, and the way that she could have been modified made a lot of sense to me with that sculpt. This was not the case, as she ended up getting id'd as an Obitsu 60 cm girl head. I'm including this for a reason (and not just because I wanted to do a big post writing up the specifics of my journey fixing her)
[ID: A blank doll head. It has the same smile and nose of the doll head shown in the photos prior, but noteably does not have any eyeholes carved in. Her vinyl color is much warmer and closer to a typical peachy tone than the very pale paint covering the prior shown doll head. /end ID]
This photo is taken from an old Mandarake listing, as one of the forum members had linked me to it. The most noteable thing here, is that unlike the head I have, the eyes are meant to be painted on (much like a Monster High head). Which means the customizer before me had hand carved these eyes (and somehow got them as even as they did). Other good news with this- the body I wanted to put her on was an Obitsu body, so somehow, they matched perfectly (each vinyl BJD company has different skintones, so I was not expecting that much of luck).
Her ID aside, let's dive into the restoration! I had to give a bit of backstory before we got into the good stuff lol
First step was getting her headcap off, as I wanted to remove her eyes before cleaning her face, just to not cause more damage to them than what had already happened to them (at this point, I did not know why the eyes looked like that). Thankfully, a hair dryer was able to heat the headcap and get it loose enough that I could pop the headcap off and get my first look inside her head.
[ID: A closeup of the inside of the doll head. There are thick globs of hot glue holding the gray clay in, a mysterious clear shape that is the back of the eye, and blue sticky tack holding it all up. /end ID]
Getting a better look at it, I just decided to dive in and start prying the hot glue off. Once I did that, it revealed that the gray clay was in fact Apoxie Sculpt (which dries VERY hard when its cured all the way. This was the worst case scenario, as I did not want to deal with removing that) and that one of the eyes came out all the way.
[ID: A closeup of the doll eye out of the head. It is surrounded by white clay on the top, with some of the Apoxie sculpt on the top. Above the doll eye, there is a piece of Apoxie sculpt that has browned and has some of the blue sticky tack on top. Two pieces of the hot glue are below the eye and the head is off to the side. /end ID]
I was SO relieved to see it was coming out, but the other eye did not come out as easily sadly. There was still a big chunk of clay that was presumably used to hold the eye in. I have no idea why the eye mechanism was like this at all to be honest. That clay was NOT coming out at all, so I moved to get her cleaned up.
At this point, I had noticed some black spots inside of the head. I was praying it was not mold because that would be nigh impossible to get cleaned up (given I could not just do what you do with MLP and heat the vinyl up and squish the mold out with using Oxi-Clean. Her head was too hard for me to do that). I had also been hit with an overwhelming "new vinyl" smell, which was another sign of the plasticizer being completely gone/leaking slightly, so I was pretty sure that was the case.
I cleaned her up with warm soapy water, but it didn't really get anything off. My next step was to remove the faceup with acetone, which is a little stronger than what most people use to remove faceups but I am very careful with it so please do not try using it unless you are cautious as well. I needed something strong to really get the layers of paint off. With how many dolls I've removed full body/full head paint off of, I have the method down pretty well (a short list of painted dolls I have had to deal with: my own Cordula head, as her head is bright white and needed to match her yellowed body; the body I have for my big guy (which was just a LOT of blue paint); Clarimonde's body (which was painted mostly to hide the top surgery scars from the modification but I wanted to remove the paint)). It came off pretty smoothly, and was revealing a gorgeously yellowed vinyl underneath. Quick clarification here, most people do NOT like their dolls yellowed. I do because it's easier to blush and work on because it is not stark white and I feel it makes the skin look a bit better for the most part (most of my dolls are yellowed but maybe 2 of them). She had some minor staining around her eyes and mouth but nothing compared to what I expected.
[ID: The aforementioned doll head, now much closer in tone to the listing photo. Her face is all cleaned up and her headcap is resting besides her. There are some faint stains by the eyes left from the eyelashes but she is otherwise completely cleaned and is blank. /end ID]
The difference was stark, as she looked much better with all the discolored paint removed. What I had worried was mold was just paint from the faceup and came off completely with no worries (I am convinced I kept lucking out with her because she was thankful to be cleaned up and taken care of).
I had, weirdly enough, been very worried that she would lose all of her charm and cuteness with no faceup, but she did not. Now that I had cleaned her up, I could return to the to do list. With no faceup, it was clear her eyes were slightly uneven, and the modding had left some scratches inside of the head that i wanted to clean up (namely because I felt bad for her for having to have those inside her head). Her nose was something that I definitely wanted to resculpt (which was partially why I wanted to get this doll, she was a big project and an excuse to learn skills that I had been too scared to learn prior to this, sculpting being one of them), but the shape was something I was super uncertain of. She would need custom eyes that were made to fit only her eye shape (her eyes are carved very low on her face in comparison to the original, so normal round BJD eyes would not fit properly) and I would want to make her a wig. I also needed to get her on the body in a specific way modification wise, which will be something we will cover in a later post (as I have not done it yet lol).
Starting with the eyes, I started to work on getting the chunk of clay out of the head. I was immensely glad I had gotten a dremel to help restore my big boy (if you remember me posting images of getting the clay on a chest piece sanded down, that is the same doll) as I had to pretty much sand away at the clay for about an hour or more. Eventually I just gave up and pried it out of the head with a small sanding tool (as sanding it down was just not working too well and it was kind of my last resort). I sanded the inside of her head and outside of it, but neither of these differences show up a lot on camera, so I won't be including images. I sanded the outside of her head to get a few of the areas that were stained a bit to be a tiny bit less stained, as well as wanting a fully clean and sanded surface before I started sculpting.
[ID: Two pictures showing the inside of the dolls head. The first one has a large chunk of white clay visible under the right eye and the second shows the same spot with no clay, as it has been removed. /end ID]
You can see how big of a hunk of clay it was! It was BAD lol. I got through maybe 3 long youtube videos while getting this thing out.
The eyeballs themselves turned out to be made of resin, and thanks to one of the members suggestion on the forum, I cleaned them with acetone. They believed it was just sealant sprayed while the eyes were still in, and the acetone cleaned them up beautifully. They were still not the right fit for miss yucky, but I was very relieved to see that they cleaned up okay.
This photo was before cleaning them up, as I was so confused what could have even been going on here and needed to get advice.
[ID: The eye close up. There is an almost foggy texture over it that obscures the colors a bit. They are a dark blue. The surface is very bumpy and there are some remnants of the white clay that surrounded them still attached. /end ID]
And this photo shows them cleaned up! The left one has been cleaned and the right has not.
[ID: The two eyes laying flat on a gray countertop. The left one is still moderately foggy but is much much clearer than the one to the right. There is a slight gradient in the iris and a small light blue highlight towards the bottom. The right eye is much foggier and is still very bumpy. /end ID]
As for the nose, I was originally planning on doing a larger nose (at least for an anime doll. Closer to what a Dollfie Dream Alna looks like versus the typical very skinny pointed nose) but the more I looked at her, the more I felt she resembled Pinoko from Black Jack. The eye shape, nose shape, and mouth shape (as well as how the eyelashes were painted) felt near identical, so I took inspiration from how Tezuka drew her nose when I was sculpting. I wanted it to flow into the rest of the profile naturally (that does not make much sense but it will once I show the pictures, or so I hope). I didn't want to do a super big difference with her nose, and stick to the original aesthetic as much as I could (which was my goal for most of this project, stick to the original but make it look a bit less "haunted doll" (as one forum member described her)).
[ID: Pinoko from Black Jack. She looks surprised or startled in the photo. She is a pale young girl with a orange-brown bob with bangs, wide brown eyes, a small round nose and a round face. She is wearing a blue shirt. /end ID] (This photo is from the All of Black Jack artbook if anyone is curious)
^Pinoko for reference. I hope the similarities are clear to see! I took some "pre-op" photos of miss yucky (she still does not have a name) and then got to work with some superfine white milliput.
[ID: Images of the blank head from the front and both sides. The first three photos show what the head looked like before the nose, and the second three photos show what she looks like with the nose. The nose is a very stark white compared to the rest of the head and is fairly small. It is upturned and has a slightly rounded tip. It flows into the rest of the profile smoothly, causing it to look very natural from the side. /end ID]
I was not perfectly happy with the nose but it was pretty close to what I had wanted, and I hoped that painting would just fix my issues. It is hard to see here but her eyeholes are also more evened out, although it is a VERY small difference.
The next step was a faceup, which was admittedly very scary. I got nail brushes to help get the fine lines a bit better than what I could do with my usual brushes (my hands are IMMENSELY shaky and have not wanted to cooperate at all during this project, thus the faceup has taken forever because I want to get it right) and wanted to pretty much just redo the previous faceup but with eyebrows and not the scariest skintone situation known to man.
For some context here - normally with faceups, you start with using chalk pastels to shade the head, then go in with watercolor pencils to get the lines, and then do acrylic paint last before doing the final sealing and glossing areas that need to be glossed. I normally follow this to a T, you can see that in my past faceups, I do most of the blushing and the eyeshadow colors first, then go through the rest of the steps.
This was not the case with this head, as I started off with trying to sketch her eyelashes with a watercolor pencil (this did NOT want to cooperate with her head texture/sealant texture) and then eventually just gave up and went in with watercolor paints on a brush. This was ALSO a pain (she wanted to be so so evil to me during this step I think lol) so I just went in with acrylics before doing anything else on the head. Her faceup was going to be mostly acrylics (minus the blushing on the cheeks) as I wanted to keep a similar look to how Tezuka paints Pinoko (he was a very big inspiration during this project, and is why I am doing certain steps, such as the nose and eyes (when I get there) the way I am) and keep the head's cartoonish and cute appearance. The eyelashes were the worst part of it, as I wanted to keep them symmetrical or as much as I could, but it was very hard. I got through the faceup immensely slowly, but to be fair, I was working on another faceup as I did hers (as I wanted to redo both of my anime style heads).
The eyebrows were OBJECTIVELY the worst part of this faceup though, as even in the mockup, I really struggled to paint ones that I felt suited her. At this point, I was really empathizing with the previous faceup artist as with her eyeshape, good eyebrows were hard to do. My other struggle was matching the nose to the vinyl. I am normally somewhat decent with color matching (again, doing Cordula's faceup around 3 times and having to color match the head to the body with paint each time helped here), but this was just very rough, as even with sanding, I felt the nose didn't blend into the face the way I wanted it to. The color was off and I couldn't figure out exactly HOW which was a very big pain. Admittedly, in lower lighting, the nose mod looks GREAT but up close with harsh lighting (which is how I do my faceups), it looked pretty rough. I'm not done with the faceup just yet, so I'm really including a few WIP pics, as I will be tossing the finished faceup pics in when I make the part 2 of this post :)
First off, the nose painted pics:
[ID: The head, now with the sculpted nose that is painted over, on a messy desk. The first image is in harsh lighting and the line where the nose mod begins and the vinyl head is more apparent. The second image is in darker and warmer lighting, and the mod looks more natural. The third image is under the same harsh lighting and shows the head tilted on its back, showing the side view of the nose that is painted. This angle makes it look better than in the first image. The paint is nearly perfect color matched but is slightly off. /end ID]
For my very first attempt doing a mod like this, I was very pleased with how it looked. Milliput is NOT as bad to work with as I anticipated and with the paint, the nose looked pretty natural. It definitely encouraged me to want to work with it more in the future, which is good (as I need to go back and fix Aca's top surgery a bit lol, as I was too scared to do the sculpting at first for him, but now I feel moderately confident about it). It was pretty fun to sculpt it but the painting was a bit of a pain since it was just off in a way that I couldn't put my finger on.
Next up, the most recent WIP
[ID: A closeup of the head, with the same cartoonish lashes painted on in black that she had before. The lashes are incomplete, with the left eye being painted partially with dark brown paint and the right in black paint. Both eyes have the bottom lashes fully painted in black and faint brown pencil marks serve as guides to place the lashes. The right eye has the first two eyelashes painted in black, whereas the left only has the pencil marks. She is very faintly blushed with a light pink on her cheeks. Another doll head in the process of being painted is in the background of the photo, mostly out of shot. /end ID]
I did dark brown paint first, in hopes that I could just outline it first and then do the blushing I needed to, but the stupid paint was NOT going on solid. So i had to jump right into the black paint and pray for the best. The best thing about acrylic paint is you can wipe it off with water easily. The faceup has been taking days, not just because of my chronic pain flaring up and making it hard to move my hands in a way that would work to make these eyelashes right, but because I am doing one lash at a time. This makes sure that my prior work isn't erased if I need to redo a lash but it makes it take a lot more time. I did this for both the heads I was working on, as they both are very fine motor skill required and I needed to get them perfect. The nose mod is also a bit more visible here, it really looks good in certain lighting and bad in others which makes it frustrating lol.
That's all for this VERY long post, ty if you have made it this far! The next post will hopefully be including progress on:
The faceup (hopefully done lol)
Eye making (this will be a VERY miserable time for me I fear)
The way I'm working with my personal modifications to the body to get the head to fit on there
Wig making/styling a wig I have to be her temp wig
And as a little bonus treat, her with Beatrix before I got her cleaned up :)
[ID: A pale vinyl BJD with an orange wig holding the project head. The doll holding the head has green eyes, and a very orange toned faceup. She is sitting on a white shelf and is wearing a white turtlenck and a striped yellow and white skirt. Their heads are around the same size. The project head has had no work done on her in this photo, so the contrast between the heads appearances in this photo is quite stark. /end ID]
#twist rambles#bjd posting#this is LONG long. so that is why it is under a cut lmao#and i need to make a post showing bea's faceup progress i think... but i gotta work on their heads a bit more now.#its insane how well its gone. i rly think shes happy to be home and grateful im helping her look a bit better :)#and in unrelated news good god im so glad i redid bea's faceup bc mannn it looks so much better now lmao. even if she was crazy stained#from the past faceup lol.#anyways. back to work. but this is what ive been working on for like a week but didnt wanna derail from the strike bc of how long of a post#ik it would be. like. as u can see i can talk abt dolls for forever. but this is not like... even all of the stuff i could talk about but i#wanted to kind of take ppl on the journey i was on#i think this is prob the longest doll post ive ever made good godddd... so sorry lol
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So... you know, I got this Little Monica Tommy, and because I really liked the original style, I went for a similar look
But tbh it has been bothering me and I'm not sure if I want it.
So I thought, maybe she wants to be a brunette? I grabbed some brown fibre and held it against her head.
Instantly liked her better.
BUT THEN I thought, maybe she just doesn't want to be short haired? So I took some blonde fibre and held it against her head. And now I'm in the dilemma that I like both 🫠
I guess I'll see what I'll say after a night of sleep.
I'll probably make her two wigs RIP
#bjd#little monica#help#wig making#decisions#I'm bad at decisions#usually my dolls are pretty clear about what they 'want'#🫠
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where is a good place to buy a first ball jointed doll??
#bjd#ball jointed doll#i just realized i can now afford one and i want to make my middle school dreams come true#also i dont want to get scammed i need help
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I need to look into how difficult hybriding sooms are with their weird neck parts because I saw a couple old heads for sale that I think could work for Faolan (if I dyed them a light tan, which honestly I like dying things. The closest I get to being a mad scientist after soap making xD). I hadn't really looked into soom too much because most of the ones I've seen second hand are full dolls and the bodies don't really work for him/ the scale I want for Vanora (also I'm cheap and don't want to pay that much for a second hand doll lol). But the head sculpts I think have a similar sort of aesthetic to dream valley compared to some of the other companies I've been looking at.
That would mean possibly breaking my "wait until her head gets here in case you decide it won't work" self imposed buying ban, buuut...I already paid her head off. I might as well try my best to make it work. Which I guess means I'm just going to end up with a collection of 1/3 scale dolls, whoops
#quill's bjd adventures#i could wait and just watch the listings. one of them has been up for a while at least#but her head probably won't be here until may or june :/ so like...i could get his now. or wait and hope its still there#and if not try to figure something else out :/#i am impatient i want to work on them now! i dont need to do mods on them and they have simpler clothes than moshang!#but nooo i am doomed to wait because of pesky things like production times for pre-orders lol#im going to try to figure out some kind of face up mock up for vanora in csp at least#maybe that will help#once i figure out blending mods and what brushes to use
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ok so, i made a lil dolly of ms frizzle and now all i can think about is making lil dollies of winnie, mary, and sarah and i am going nuts over it
i think the three of them would love the fact that i wanna make lil dolls of them, especially winnie. like, theyve never had anyone do that to them, so the thought of me trying out something ive never done before just so i can always have them with me would make all three of them melt faster than honey in hot tea
i'd have to ask mary and winnie how the fuck they do their hair like that cuz idk how to draw it, let alone recreate it with yarn shhdhdj. oh! and i'd have to ask sarah if she has any tips for making the clothes cuz i dont really know how to make clothes in general, let alone doll clothes
ik the dolls are gonna look really skrunkly and messy, but i think they'd be super proud of me for trying something new, and over the moon that i chose the three of them to be my muses for it.
YEAH I SAW YOUR LIL MS FRIZZLE DOLL SHE'S SO CUTE 😭😭😭 ALSO PLEASE DO!!!
I think Mary would be climbing walls (metaphorically) too ngl. I believe she's an arts and crafts girly (not as much as Sarah though but definitely does some clothes and such too!) so she would find it especially cute.
I believe I can help with the hair and clothes!!!
Winifred's hair is pretty much the same as Queen Elizabeth I, and this tutorial is pretty easy to follow! Definitely not historically accurate in the techniques but it's the same shape lol. Basically her hair is just two big buns!
Mary's hair however... I can't by the life of myself figure out how her hair works (my hypothesis is that her hair is twisted into shape... Kind of.) apart from her having one tiny braid going along the whole hat shape of her hair.
All the tutorials I've seen for her hair have in common using wires and some sort of cilinder to shape her hair tho!!! This is one of the easiest ones I've seen. (Btw it's crazy to me how this lady has her exact vibe)
Now for the clothes you can check Salvador Perez's Instagram account! (He's the costume designer from the second movie) But if you don't want to scroll too much it's okay I gotcha! Here you have:
• Sarah's sleeves (they're sewn in on the corset!)
• Sarah's corset (you don't have to embroider anything, I think it's better if you use markers instead)
• Winnie's top gown + accessories (basically her full gown is two pieces: the top one, which is the deeper green one, and the under one, which is the one with purple and a lighter green)
• Mary's full outfit + details (this one's just a general idea)
• Mary's corset + sparkles (once again, more of a general idea)
• The Sister's shoes + thighs + undergarments (looove love Winnie's boots ngl)
Making sewing patterns is basically like making puzzle pieces and putting them together, so getting the shapes shouldn't be too complicated! In any case, if you need help with that I can help you out! (Unfortunately I'm no taylor but I'll do my best). You can also look up tutorials for specific things like skirts! (They're actually one of the easiest things to make!)
#Yes I've been saving this references since the movie came out#both bc costume design is one of my special interests AND because I too want to make the sisters as dolls#although in my case more like bjd. and my designs of the sisters#I hope this is of any help to you#hocus pocus#hocus pocus 2#asking the ghost#obviously you don't have to make them as detailed as this unless you wanna#I'm just a reference hoarder
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I stayed up a bit longer since I finally got back to playing my gnome bard, my first character in BG3. Stopped the serial killer first since I heard you have to watch the long rests with that.
But then after I did Astarion’s quest. Stayed up a bit longer because of that.
And like, it’s one thing to watch the cutscenes in videos and to actually, like, play it. Even after seeing all the cutscenes, it still made me emotional watching it all. Can’t imagine how much more it might have been if it was my sorcerer who I’ve been playing more lately, and besides cutting a drow’s head off to deliver to be fertilizer, she’s more softer than my bard that started silly and started growing more caring as the story went on.
#like I literally cried and I was expecting that since I have already seen the cutscenes#but that didn’t change my reaction at all#even grew scared seeing him captured and needing to run over and help him#the DA series is probably my favorite video game series#and though the characters in those games became favorites#I’ve never had such a reaction like that while playing#and now I need to try to sleep since I really need to go to sleep#because I have to make a bag tomorrow#and also my Charm Doll Evan will probably come tomorrow#also like getting a BJD for Gwen is top of my list once I’m able to start saving up#but also I think the next one or maybe right before her#I’d like to shell Astarion#I’d thought about shelling Alistair from DA before and my dwarf warden#but that was a maybe that’s be cool#while Astarion is like no I want to shell him#and maybe figure out which character or make a new one that could be shelled later to be Tav#des says stuff
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I'm getting a ball jointed doll when my money comes through!!!! (Probably the Doll Leaves doll called Louis! He looks closest to my unnamed OC anyway)
The only problem is, I'm not doing my work XD I'm only focusing on my characters and my silly little clothing ideas.
#HELP ME#I have 4 days and I need to script and record this presentation#but my brain is hyperfocussed on doll content#bjd community help me#how do yall cope#I just want to yell about my little plastic person#also I got my measurements wrong so I measured around 20cm NO HE IS 45cm and I was bowled away#Little did I know that there are 70cm and 90cm dolls out there....
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It came up in conversation how I'm often finding good BJD listings on eBay and how do I search in order to find things.
My main searches are:
bjd -ucanaan -toy -toys -popovy -recast -eva -doris -barbie -gift -changeable -removable -gifts -oueneifs -faiiry -ken
and
volks -azone -blythe -pullip
However, I've also excluded a lot of sellers that sell recasts.
To do that you have to go to Advanced search and scroll down to here:
and put in whatever sellers you don't want to see in your search results.
I just added one, so mine's:
jalpit,unlimitedcellular,lxlstech,jorge-dimensiones,femail007295c,wework-now-24-hours,the-real-deal-usa,noamsshop,usa-best-deal,caladhieltan,beautyforyou66,us-deal-monster,natalula,matthew--aceron,riprin-70
right now.
Probably better explained by someone else:
which is from here: https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/How-to-block-a-seller/td-p/33017351
I also set the first search to North America only because there's no "everywhere but China" option. China is where most of the fakes are coming from as of now. That does mean I miss out on a TON of listings, though.
That helps filter out recasters that don't disclose they're selling recasts and AliExpress junk.
The Volks search's results are much fewer so sorting through them isn't as daunting and I have that one set to worldwide.
Either way, afaik Facebook Groups is the most active place to buy and sell BJD right now? I'm not in any groups, though.
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Hey, to anyone into BJD dolls, can you tell what doll this is? Whether or not the face is an exact match doesn't really matter bc when I was younger I sanded down her nose and lips for some reason (by young I mean really young, I was given her when I was like 9-)
I think she's supposed to come with more hands than this, but some of them were in this round pink little box if that helps.
Her eyes are pink and I received her with a short straight wig and curly wig with bangs.
I honestly don't know if details like that are relevant, I really don't know much about BJDs. My aunt got her for me when she was at a garage sale bc she heard I wanted a BJD, so I don't know how much I got with her came with her or were made/bought by her previous owners. She was wrapped in this pink blanket thing which is another thing where idk if it came with the doll or not. I know there's like...BJDs that come with stuff and that come without stuff so I'm really not sure-
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Dolls Still Missing:
7/26/23
Note that some of these will be missing headcaps or listed as just heads because Jim Alan Mueller (wholesalejim on eBay) sent back random body pieces just to be a dick
Resin
Ringdoll Pan w/ permanent single horn mod on head
Ringdoll Chen
Ringdoll Quiz GS fullset
Ringdoll K fullset ver. w/ attached hair; minus priest outfit, which was with me at the time because I was trying to make robes; head magnets are screwy so headcap doesn't stay on well **
Island Doll Shukaku ver.2 fullset
5Star Doll Edward
DollClans Vezeto on Mirodoll 60 body **
Blueblood Dolls Draven
Doll Leaves Andrew
Doll Chateau Hubery; company faceup
Dollzone Elsa
Soom Firelord Chrom
Volks Free Choice SD girl; no ears, just holes where elf ear parts used to be; goth makeup; antique dress ** ¡¡
A second Custom House Mina he found; zombie mod; full body painted
ResinSoul Dai NS; mellowed to tan-ish
Bobobie Apollo; 1st gen; also mellowed
Vinyl
Smartdoll girl, NS
My Ballerina Dolls Nicolas
DD Nemu Asakura, customized **
DD Vocaloids 9s and 2b
Heads:
Angell-Studio Vejino; faceup has 5 o'clock shadow
HZ Wang Ye
Minimee Ruki w/ vampire mod
Minimee Gazette (all) **
Minimee Dir En Grey (all)
IOS Jaguar
** These are the dolls he is most concerned with recovering, either due to sentimental value or how difficult they'd be to replace. Reiterating that we can reimburse you for buying to return if it's down to the last day and we can't get it reported in time, as long as you're open to small installments.
According to public records, Mueller has a second business address just over state lines in IN, so be alert to the fact that an IN-based wholesaler could still be him:
732 E 82nd Ave, Merrillville, IN 46410
¡¡ Less than fun fact: this is Carmilla's 4th time being stolen. She was a secondhand purchase from someone we knew from DAK, and she was stolen from and recovered by her original owner 3 separate times at conventions over the years she was with him. We were hoping she'd be a little recovery charm... then remembered 4 is a bad number in Japan. :/ (We still believe in you, Carmilla!)
Photos:
My favorite picture of Father K. We were chilling in the hallway at A-Kon and this Slenderman cosplayer wandered up, completely taken with him. He asked for a photo.
DollClans Vezeto in Volks's Young Black Jack Kiriko fullset. Independent of his correlation to my Volks Black Jack, there's no mistaking that nose!
The Nemu Asakura custom, which may be listed with the wedding dress or shirt/stockings anyway since it was part of a fullset
The My Ballerina Dolls Nicolas, since it's a relatively unknown brand
Ringdoll Chen
Note: I made a lot of the clothes that were stolen, so in the event he posts dressed dolls, shoot me a dm and I can verify the listing that way.
As always, a big thank you to everyone following this story and everyone who's helped us along the way. We owe y'all so much gratitude; we never would have found any of them without y'all's help.
#louisville doll theft#bjd#abjd#ball jointed doll#help#bjd help wanted#ball-jointed doll#ringdoll#my ballerina dolls#5Star Doll#Smartdoll#island doll#dollclans#soom#soom firelord chrom#minimee heads#dollfie dream#nemu asakura#vocaloids#stolen bjd#stay sharp folks#it's not over yet#ebay#ebayseller#ebaystore#stolen items on ebay#end wholesalejim#louisville doll theft update#edited#oops forgot honey
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Hello! Bjd anon here, may I request Welt, Sampo, and Dan Heng with a crystal reader. Like, their body is made out of crystal and they're really fragile. Inspired by houseki no kuni :>
Also, i love the bjd one!
-Doll anon
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A/N: Hello, Doll Anon! I love the nickname you gave yourself, it's super cute! Also thank you for the creative requests! I've actually never watched Houseki no kuni, so I researched it for you a little! I hope it's okay!
Content: Established relationship, fluff, tiny bit of angst, sfw
Reader has no set pronouns!
((Not fully proofread!))
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》Dan Heng
He protects you with his life, that's for sure. No harm will ever come to you with him around. Though that means, that he's a bit worried and paranoid about you all the time. The thought of you getting permanently damaged or hurt makes his heart break.
He doesn't treat you any differently from other people though for your appearance. And he makes sure, no one else does either. If anyone dares it, they'll be dragged through the mud by him verbally alone, in the most bluntest way possible too.
Holds you close to him, his hand always holding onto yours tightly, even when you're doing the mundane things. Others may tease him for being soft for you, but he doesn't care.
Treats you with the utmost care, always making sure not to hold you too tightly or ever put you in harms way. He won't let you ever fight anything either. Not when you have him to do it.
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》Sampo Koski
Finds how delicate and fragile you are absolutely adorable. He loves holding you close to him, always slyly promising, that your dear boyfriend will take good care for you.
He also uses your fragility as an excuse to have his hands on you at all times. He doesn't want you to trip and break after all. Or someone stealing you away from him. Things would turn really ugly, if someone dared it. That also includes people bothering you for your looks, which he won't ever stand for.
Definitely likes showing you off to everyone. He's very proud that you're his and makes sure everyone knows. He loves seeing you blush, whenever he does this, finding you too cute for your own good.
He absolutely does not let you fight anything. In fact, he makes you never have to, by just not attracting any trouble to you. But if things come to a head, you can always count on him keeping you safe.
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》Welt Yang
He's absolutely fascinated by you and wants to know everything he can about your existence as well, just so he knows how to help you out better with anything you need.
He always holds you so delicately, warm hands caressing your smooth, sparkling skin with wonder and awe. He promises to keep you safe, to never let a single thing harm your perfect skin.
He isn't the one to ever brag loudly, but he definitely keeps you on held onto his arm at all times, proud to have a breathtaking s/o like you. Anyone who tries bullying or teasing you, will be shut down fast by him.
He is fully capable of protecting you and even fixing you up, if you do break something. Just let him handle everything, he'd do anything for you after all.
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A/N: I hope this was okay! Thank you again for the request!<33
#honkai star rail fanfic#honkai star rail x reader#honkai star rail#honkai star rail x you#hsr x reader#hsr fanfic#hsr welt#hsr welt x reader#hsr dan heng#hsr dan heng x reader#hsr sampo#hsr sampo x reader
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It's really funny looking back at my old concepts for this doll/character and seeing oh I was going for x vibe and now that I'm redoing it (and with better techniques/tools/practice kind of) it's going so much better than it did before
#twist rambles#like. why did i want to do full acrylic on the lips 😭 it does NOT look like real lip texture i promise#this is mostly thanks to a VERY helpful bjd forum member who was very patient with me but i feel that even tho I've taken over 6 months off#doing faceups this one is better than the one i tried to do last on her. weirdly parallel to the first faceup i did on cordy tbh bc that was#after YEARS of not practicing or doing it but doing more art related stuff. and it turned out very well for the time i was doing it#and thats how this is going. i think doing digital art has helped a lot weirdly like I'm working in more subtle layers and building it up#which works better for well. guy w insanely shaky hands disease (esp rn. ive been up nearly 24 hrs). so im glad its going well so far :)#hope that will continue bc i rly am happy w it thus far. rn just waiting for like 5 min until the sealant is dry and then... more eyebrow#work :/ <- hates doing the eyebrows. would love to never ever ever have to do eyebrows again okay.
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Iza’s Yearly Big BJD Lineup 2023 :: 64 BJDs from 81cm to 12cm (+ pets!)
I finally got around to doing my yearly big BJD lineup in December 2023, für hounding my sister for over a year to give me my two doll bodies back.
This was a 3 day ordeal (2 days of shooting images, and another day of editing, combining, and labeling), but I’m glad I got it done. In total I manually merged 12 photos.
I excluded 4 dolls, 3 have identical doubles (head and body combos) and 1 was too similar to another (only a different head, but same company head and body combo), so I didn’t feel the need to add them. I also did not add a doll I gifted my wife for Christmas as she hadn’t gotten her yet when I did the lineup. She’ll be included in next year’s lineup though!
If anybody wants specific dolls from above compared (dressed or nude), please let me know and I’ll try to do it in the next week! I can’t do the whole lineup nude as I do not have the energy nor the ambition for that. It was intensive enough to just do them dressed, because I do this without help…
Anyway, I hope this is helpful to at least one person out there!
I’m not gonna tag all the doll sculpts in the lineup, that would just take too long, but I will add a couple of companies in the tags at least.
#bjd#abjd#ball jointed doll#izasbjdphoto#bjd photography#legit bjd#iza rambles#BJD height comparisons#doll comparsion#bjd comparison#bjd lineup#TD doll#dollzone#doll chateau#soom#fairyland doll#Dream valley bjd#resinsoul#loongosul#immortality of soul#Limhwa#volks#volks doll#izasfaceups#volks bjd#mystic kids bjd#Bjd colleciton#Doll collection#bjd hobby#dollblr
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Muriel bjd update
An update about my Muriel ball-jointed doll(s)!
I am planning a Kickstarter for this project. It is not ready yet but I hope to have it ready later this month or early next month. I do NOT plan to sell these online apart from the KS campaign, because of recasting. I plan to sell them at furry conventions and ball-jointed doll conventions if I can get myself to one (I live in Florida, though). There will likely be fewer than 100 of these but I haven't calculated all of that yet. I have a serial numbering system and a way to authenticate them that I'm excited to try in my next prototype!
After discussing having them casted, I think I will be 3D printing them myself, as the open mouth faceplate cannot be casted, and I don't want to deal with having to print that anyway and making it fit a casted one... If I regret that choice, I will learn for next time lol. The next doll I am working on (my Harold) I thinking might be a better choice for casting, as they would be one color and have a closed mouth.
I was using Siraya Tech Fast Mecha for my next prototype, which was to be the Official Muriel in her natural colors. What happened was basically two things: 1) resin is expensive and 2) it got really really hot outside, which separates Fast Mecha from the Tenacious I mix it with. My next prototype is basically on hold until it stops being 100 degrees out, which it has been since May... Fast Mecha is a compounded resin and does separate. One of the tails I printed for another doll had a transparent tip because the resin separated at the end of the print once it got hot out, so I'm not going to have that happen with a 20-hour print!
Anyway, I'm going to try a few different mixes of the good resin with some ABS-like and Tenacious, as I like how those feel more than Fast Mecha on its own. Mecha is kind of like, powdery, or has a rougher sort of texture, seems to get dirty easier (or I am bad at cleaning it) and is not as transparent. I liked how you could see through the ears a little, like real ears, and Mecha robbed me of that lol, so I want to try cutting it to like a 50/50 ABS-like and Mecha mix, and then add 1/5 of Tenacious to that (math is not my thing but I always add my Tenacious at the end now; it gives me extra resin to not run out in the print and helps my brain calculate things). Also, the cleaning process for Mecha is like, they tell you to toothbrush the entire thing with alcohol, and I want to streamline my post processing, so a resin mix would be good, as long as it doesn't create the scratches in the joints. I want to get it down to a ratio where there is no powdery grinding residue on the joints. The only review I can find said they did 50/50 Mecha and Tenacious and it still did not powder itself at that ratio, so I'm hoping I can do that but with the ABS-like resin I like.
So! Stay tuned for updates for the Kickstarter. I know a few people on here expressed interest and I'm excited at the possibility of actually being able to send some Muriels out into the world, if I can generate enough interest!
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