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The Reddish Mage is the most powerful sorcerer in the garden, with mastery of all the earthen elements (stone, dirt, and vegetation). he brokered the peace that ended the war between the Root and Leafy Kingdoms, and oversees the transfer of power between the Seasonal Queens.

a-kind-of-merry-war

Everyone, say hello to Bigfoot 💅

pahein

Poopsie Sparkly Critters Slime Series 2-1 heads rebodied onto Monster High G3 bodies! Cloud girlie is dressed in a variety of MH G3 clothes, while Star girlie has a custom OOAK look!

More details below the cut!

fuckyeahchinesefashion

OP has transitioned from a regular manicurist to a nail artist who creates designs for Barbie dolls, and people order custom nail designs from her. (cr 61的花花世界)

cryptic-forge

art allows us to ask important questions, such as "what if an apple core was a small girl?"

i'll hopefully be printing a green apple version soon, because there are some styling & faceup choices i want to try with this sculpt. also i couldn't decide what to do with her mouth, so version 1.0 is mouthless, but i want to give the next one a cute grin.

cryptic-forge

i was having a little bit of an art block > wanted to do something unusual to break it. this robot was inspired by going through my box of Trash With Good Shapes, wherein i found a plastic gachapon capsule i built it around.

the upper body is ball-jointed and glued to the capsule, but the legs are magnetic and can move freely along its surface. these robot projects sure do eat magnets, but i've been having fun experimenting.

please note the bottoms of the feet have paw pads.

cryptic-forge

most of the paints i used on this doll glow in the dark, which also makes her look ultra saturated in regular light. she turned out mega cute & i love her.

passionfish11

This post is dedicated to @adihildilid - thank you for (unintentionally) prompting me to finish reattaching Selig’s head! Selig’s head is a Halloween decoration that was, at one point, precariously glued to the original connection joint of the 28 inch Barbie body, and just barely reinforced with a wire through the top of her head taped to the back of her neck/back. It worked fine but when I started working in dental lab i realized I could 3d print her a spine (I got the files from thingiverse and scaled them down in the print software of the printers we use at work). That was probably two years ago ^_^;; I only got around to connecting her new neck to her torso a couple weeks ago. It’s not the strongest connection and I think at some point in the future I’d like to improve the aesthetics also, BUT!!! It is done and that’s what counts. (She is once again wearing very carefully pinned/folded baby clothes. I *could* probably tailor the clothes instead of having to re-pin them every time, but I have like…. 7 Really Big playline dolls who can wear baby clothes and they’re not all the same size/shape. Maybe someday I will do a post comparing different dolls wearing the same items. Who can say, posting is not my strength, but I have so many dolls and projects and it makes me sad that I don’t really share them??? I should ask my wife for help, posting is *their* strength)

Bonus:

Selig in the car to go to my parents’ house for pictures in their dogwood tree. My dad was absolutely delighted to see her there and took pictures of her also (he loves skeletons)

queenofsquids

fabulous, you did an amazing job pinning that dress

b0nebat

Idk if anyone likes my custom dolls here but I wanted to show everyone my latest new doll finished! 💕

Her head is also posable too it just can't bobble anymore since her head is full of tinfoil and hot glue so the neck peg fits

Also a sneak peek of my next doll btw (gonna experiment with dyes)

(Before anyone asks the body is a barbie extra mini btw)

oceanicpride

Barbie Atelier Doll #1

$300.00

nevercomestheday

I have some Thoughts about this doll.

The scale is weird and she’s definitely a BJD style doll but “Barbie,” which is fine, but here’s my bit: the articulation. The fingers and, according to the Mattel Creations description, toes are articulated.

So the fingers are one thing, they didn’t do the thumbs, which is odd, and the middle and ring fingers are still connected like on the MTM hands, which is annoying. But the toes are articulated?? Why?? How?? What does that look like?? Who decided to do that?? And most importantly, why is this the only doll we’ve gotten from Barbie since the 70s with articulated fingers??

I want busy hands! I want GI Joe-style hands that hold things! I want Barbie to be able to flip the bird! And I want it in regular scale!

I am not going to purchase this doll. She’s pretty, and to anyone who does get her, I hope you enjoy her. She’s just not for me. But please, anyone who does get her, post feet pics lmao. I’m so curious what this articulation looks like.

dollsahoy

Articulation history dump time!

So, nothing about this doll--not even the MTM articulation--is original to Mattel. Some sixthscale action figures have had that level of body articulation, as well as fingers articulated like that, and articulated toes, in the early 2000s (and the Busy dolls only had moving thumbs--I'm not sure how much room inside the hands the thumb movement took, or if it would work well with the room needed for the finger hinges, without leaving areas of extremely delicate plastic between)

Here is a hybrid I did in 2003, grafting the feet from a DML action figure, with articulated toes, onto a body that originally had shoe-shapes that you covered with cloth "boots" instead of feet

I know the quality isn't great, but you get an idea of how toe articulation looked

Oh, and, the 16" Madame Alexander Alex dolls also had articulated toes--I don't have any foot photos of the articulated Alex dolls I had, but I did find an eBay listing showing the feet

Here's a picture I took in 2002 of a GI Joe with what Hasbro called Gung Ho Grip, with the fingers on a hinge

The index/trigger finger was separate from the rest, which were cast as one piece. I remember some people very carefully cut all the fingers apart.

The body on that GI Joe had the kind of articulation that was called super articulated back then, and most doll people think of as MTM now. Here's a current eBay listing for the guy above, out of box and out of clothes

(Yes, he's supposed to be WWII war correspondent Ernie Pyle. No, that physique is not at all accurate. That was just the standard GI Joe body. It was also very short.)

Larger fashion dolls have hands and feet that are about the same size as sixthscale action figures, so the finger and toe articulation can directly translate from a sixthscale action figure to a ~15" doll, but, putting this kind of movement on a sixthscale fashion doll's significantly smaller appendages might be too delicate (and or fiddly) for mass production, especially at the cost-cutting levels everyone is yelling at Mattel about these days.

nevercomestheday

Thank you SO MUCH for this!! This makes more sense than what I was picturing lol.

I have one of those Joes, but mine isn’t the Ernie Pyle one. Tbh I’d be happy with modern dolls getting Busy hands that just hold things, mainly because that’s the thing I like doing the most for posing that’s made more difficult without articulated fingers.

I’ve also done a lot of the finger-separating and then either boiling or heating pad-setting them in new poses, but that’s both a pain in the butt and doesn’t always work right.

dollsahoy

You're welcome!

And I can ramble about articulation and modifying quite a bit, too XD

The old articulated gymnast-type Barbie bodies have terrible hands, but, since they're hard plastic, they can be permanently reshaped if you carefully hold them over a hot electric coil stove burner, just until they start to get soft, then quickly bent into a new shape, For me, this improves the aesthetics of the gymnast type bodies immensely

These bent fingers can be good for holding some things! (I have also sometimes gotten the hands too hot, resulting in some plastic bubbling, oops)

I did cut the gymnast fingers apart and reshape them individually a few times, about 15 years ago, but I decided I didn't have the patience to do that in the future, considering how it turned out

But I like the gymnast bodies because they are entirely hard plastic, so they can be painted relatively easily

The first time I had a female action figure who had good articulation, could hold things, and could stand on her own? I realized it was something I'd wanted from dolls my whole life XD

dustyshelfdolls

Doll Hair Salon Day!! Boil perms are always a bit nerve-wracking for me. Fingers crossed 🤞

97smol-dreams

Its very rainy outside! But don't worry, Buttermilk is equiped to handle it!

elsaspants

this little angel is like cake for my eyeballs…

so glad I finally got her! 🍰🍒♥️🥹

queenofsquids

congrats! WOW what a cutie

dandhisdolls

"I know not who you are, nor how I came to find you, but may I just say... Hi. How ya doin'?"

If I had a nickel for every time I made a custom 17" Flynn Rider doll, I'd have two nickels... Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice!

Anyway, yeah! New commission completed 🫶🏼 this time, it's Flynn Rider (or Eugene if you like), from Tangled

Be wary of his smolder™

dolljunk

I honestly haven't been a fan of a lot of recent Skullector dolls, since they're using based on human characters and the shortcuts taken on the costuming and the choices for the accessories is always baffling to me. But I think Skullectors shine brightest when they take the concept of an inhuman monster design and filter it through the lens of a fashion doll.

This doll is honestly more action figure than doll, and I genuinely think that's a good thing in her favour, as her best aspects shy bright when the focus is on the sculpting and details.

I really love all the HR Giger-esque sculpted details on her body, that a lot of the sparse fabric details doesn't feel like a knock against her, but rather letting the base doll breathe.

I genuinely am glad I did go through all the madness to own this doll because she is sheer perfection to me and I really hope we get more Skullector dolls based on Monsters rather than humans.

keiths-dolls

So my B grade heads from Logandolls finally arrived and to appologise for how long it took (I lost count but like.. 8 or 9 months?) he threw in this pumpkin guy.

I knew I had a body that would work, my old 1/4 Hujoo who's head is just a bit too goofy for me to do much with. So off his head popped and on this big ol' pumpkin went.

All the heads needed work, they're unfinished B grades so there's air bubbles, there's gates, there's residual pieces of resin that need removing. But I actually left the resin in the eyes because I like how they look and when light shines through them they look really cool.

I was gonna put a tealight in his head but the ones we have don't quite fit, they're too tall. I'll have to find something smaller that I can stick in there.

I painted the inside of the head in Black 3.0 which is very very matte and creates a pretty cool effect with such an open mouth.

I didn't want to overwork this guy because at the end of the day, he IS a pumpkin head, he doesn't NEED a lot of detail.

Also I haven't actually painted a bjd in months.

I am pretty pleased with him though. The pumpkin itself is quite effective with just this little green and brown shading and I think that with a little light in there to flicker away, he'll look fucking awesome.

The other two heads have been sanded as best I can, but I don't have bodies they'll fit on yet and they're on the bottom of my list of "heads waiting for bodies" as i'm trying to get the ones who've been waiting longest sorted first.

but once the weather warms up a bit, it'll be nice to have a few heads to paint.