#frankendoll

[oddball-n-the-dolls]

“Pleasant Company OOAK Mollipede Doll”

Pleasant Company OOAK Mollipede Doll | eBay

She is truly one of a kind and must be experienced to be believed!

Pictures from the listing:

[cian1675]

Frankendoll

(In which I combined Alfie, Tones and Pepper into 1 doll for Halloween xD)

[myondolls]

A little doll project round up in an attempt to get me motivated again.

Starting with the "limb projects".

First up we have Sindy (aerobics? She was the barbie gymnast competitor). That one I got from @keiths-dolls I think?? Or maybe it was @firespirited ? I have 2 of these but I forgot if I got both from any of you or not.

Her legs mysteriously fell off during the night as the plastic as the joint crumbled. I want to keep as much of her original body as possible so the plan is to cut a bit at the knee (just the rounded tip and whatever is inside), fill the leg with something (hot glue? Milliput?), Round up socket, drill and stick DCSHG legs in there. The hand is broken too but thats the same kind of replacement.

Second we have Sindy (the cycling one). Strictly speaking there is nothing wrong with her, but I saw @oak23 give her DCSHG arms and I really wanted that for her. Not my original vision. So the usual cut/round up/drill and insert ritual.

Next we have Pocahontas. I didn't like her click legs, and in an attempt to remove them properly I snapped the pegs off. Found some barbie legs that can fit (the color is not an exact match but very easy to correct with just a blush). I would need to use the method of inserting bars across the socket on the legs, drill a hole in the hips "middle wall", and pass an elastic across everything (much like the early monster high dolls and some barbies).

Next we have bootleg Elsa. The torso did not have a proper joint and relied on plastic elasticity of a bar between the 2 parts. Which huh.... Didn't last. I need to stick them back together somehow (i don't care much if there is no movement). Probably gonna fill the cavity with hot glue and just stick it together. Hot glue is my friend. I don't care too much for this doll but the skintone is interesting and she had nice joints so it would be a shame to waste it.

I forgot who she is. i found her in a carboot sale covered in mud with a broken arm which I already mostly fixed. The wrist hole is too big for the donor hand on the "new" arm so I need to fill that and do the usual round up/drill/insert. I also wanted to paint the arm silver but I need to find a way that won't stain around (metallic paints seem to have that issue long term??)

Not sure who they are. It was part of the carboot sale haul. The hair and all fixed up nicely but the hand is all chewed up. I think the nicest way would be to find limbs and cut at the elbow. Color matching isn't too much of an issue but I cant find limbs of the right size (barbie is too big, that doll is on the smaller side).

Disney body. Nothing wrong with it really, but I have matching arms and could "upgrade" her. Not an urgent project as she has no matching head.

Another project sponsored by @keiths-dolls (not really). I dont know what doll this is and there is nothing wrong with it, but I don't like bent arms so I thought giving her bootleg MH arms would look nice. I don't know what heads fit on these, but the small neck make it a good candidate for figurine hybrids.

If anyone is new and sees this, I feel obliged again to tag @dolldirt without whom I wouldn't consider any of this, since he made the tutorial for limb replacement/upgrade that sparked all this, all those years ago. So if y'all don't know what the "cut/round up/drill/insert" method is, i am referring to his tutorial. Go check it if you haven't seen it.

[myondolls]

Still dying to do something with these

[myondolls]

I got legs for him but im not sure they work quite well.

Maybe i need to dive into my lego box to try and make something similar to what obiwan has there

Preferably creating a double knee joint ?

[myondolls]

Right so I still have that action figure body thats missing an arm (and hands) but thanksfully has her stump still in.

I gathered my "ew not pretty" bodies (personal opinion, if you like them and can make it work on a doll, thats good) and realised miss boobage mctrunk-torso had one advandage : the pivots on her arms are placed low. Which means I can cut up her arm in the relevant spot and glue it to the stump, and have full movement.

The arms are super long also so it gives leeway to cut a bit longer and sand it down to size. Ill have to shorten it at the wrist too.

Picture as illustration, obvi I will cut the OTHER arm corresponding the missing one.

Im not quite sure yet cos i kinda want to color the arm to make it prosthetic-y. I mean fuck it, if its gonna be different lets roll with it, you know. Ive seen people attempt silver on their dolls with... not so good results? Which is what I wanted to try.

In that spirit i am tempted to just stick something completely different like a robot arm.

But. I dont have one.

Decisions.

[myondolls]

Another of my crazy projects from before I burnt out.

The plan was to paint it in a way that made the color transition not as jarring. (Some pink on white and white on pink)

The goal was to have a bony bust for a CAM combo. I used a salvaged broken spectra and a broken bonita femur.

As you can see one was a quicker fix. The skeleton one needs a lot of work still. I kinda messed it up when drilling the holes for the lower legs. When I am motivated I will fill the gap again and redrill.

In the mean time, hairy-legs is ready for a proper project.

[cian1675]

I've been waiting for Halloween to make a frankendoll from my 3 Switch boys and it is now time! Today's get ready with me starts with me separating my 3 dolls into different body parts so I can combine them into 1 frankendoll. And then, I dress them up as Frankenstein's monster. :D