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Weekly Photo 15/2025

"Where are you, Yuu~?"

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Alma.

He is a fandom favorite and that for a reason. I didn't plan to have him as doll one day but as I saw the Stevie head I really liked it and ... then I came to the conclusion this will be Alma. Perfect fit.

Alma Karma is a Luxi Studio Stevie on Huajing Doll Body

Full Custom by me / Character by Katsura Hoshino

[florizzia]

"Do you think they're gone? Do you think?"

Aaaaah, minha dupla favorita! A Idi e o Ota! [Oooooh, my favorite duo!! Stu and Pid!]

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WiP - Alma - Painting Parts - Pt 1

So we have a super weird boquet of flowers once again. Be amazed by my storage skills for wet paint :')

Jokes aside this is how chaotic working on several parts at once looks like.

First off was coating all the mods and some unmodded parts in layers of white paint to a) give them texture and b) cover the gray of the Apoxy.

Some needed several layers and yes some parts look super messy inbetween this is a huge status of "trust the process" here.

I will group the different pieces for less chaos here. This is the progress of the feet. I tried to blush them (they didn't got a layer of white paint and that ... sadly showed), but well... it was horrible. So I decided to paint them and then coat them with glue to give them a more plastic/layered effect to the rest of the feet.

Same procedure for the leg joint parts here, here the glue is also a protective layer .. I hope it will minimize the damage (and hopefully not limit the movement too much), we will see how/if this helps or not. Worst would be the paintjob to be damaged in the end. I didn't want to get dye for like 4 pieces again :/

This part was the least exciting, but here you can see I also have some texture on the legs, I even added more later on. I want to give him a more mechanic look here and there to underline the Akuma Transformation.

Most fun was seeing this parts come together. At first I was not sure if the red was the best choice (yeah I know he is shown in purples a lot but Allen's curse is also shown purple around that time).

Also this is my main ref here, aside a lot of Manga panels, I really love the use of colors here for Alma. You also see why I went for a darker blue wig with light highlight colors.

But I have to say I really dig this. It looks super cool already, I am very looking forward to match the torso parts to this.

Now to wait until everything is dried/cured to continue.

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WiP - Alma - Painting Parts - Pt 2

So the legs are done and sealed already! What is left? The whole chest/torso and the face. For now I will work on the rest of the body which means a lot of paint is involved.

First I coated the parts again with some layers of white to pick up the texture the legs and the face have & to cover the apoxy.

For viewing convience I will group the parts again, here is the progress on the hands. Alma truly is a little parrot regarding the colors.

I worked on the other pieces by colors then aka first made the light blue, then the reds, the greens, yellow, pink and then the dark blue.

Here is the chest part as you can see I started to mark down the areas for a better orientation where which color goes.

I think the most rewarding piece was this one, I love especially the back where the tail is framed by the different colors.

The arms were done step by step, here it was helpful I worked on the pieces by color as the reds had dried as I came to add the blue etc. so I was able to build up the pattern.

Then the glue coating followed just like with the leg parts, to give those areas another texture again.

I was about to add the blushing of some parts too but tumblr only allows 30 photos per entry :')

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WiP - Alma - Modding, modding and ... drilling

So finally it's Alma's turn. I decided to go for the Akuma variant and he will be very colorful. The colors all vary somehow I picked one specific illustration as main reference but will give it my own twist here and there - artistic freedom if you want to call it so.

Also I have to adjust some designs to keep the paint intact later on, I hope everything will work out like I imagine it.

At first I wanted to keep him strung but then went to unstring him, which was the better choice here. I have enough wooden sticks and boxes to put stuff into to work on several parts.

First were the legs, the mod here is just small rings around the ankles, so that was done quickly. I use Apoxy Sculpt here.

Then the calves... that design confuses me a bit as I only add the parts that are higher than the rest, the other bits will be painted accordingly but I had to look up several references to understand what was going on here.

I didn't take the arms apart because I needed to estimate where to put the 'horns' here without limiting the doll's movement too much.

Also I did a tiny tip for a tail, before I attach it I will let the parts cure that will be easier to handle.

First time to make some pointy ears. They turned out okay I think. I only made fin ears before.

The next morning I got my rotary tool out and drilled a hole for the tail to stick in.

After securing the tail both sides with apoxy (I am not sure if I will coat the wire later or just paint it a bit, I like the idea of Alma having a flexible tail), I checked the references one more time and added a few things to the arms.

While this has to cure another day yet again I hope to start with the paintjob on the cured parts.

[keiths-dolls]

my HuaJing girl finally got a face.

Her eyeshadow and hair matching was not intentional, it was a happy coincidence.

I'm pretty pleased with how she came out. I haven't painted a bjd in months, probably a good 6 months so it was a little strange to get back into it.

I can't decide if she looks worried or wistful.

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Not a great photo but new girl!

She's gorgeous even with a shit wig and no faceup.

I'm planning on a pastel lavender sort of wig for her, though the one i'm looking at has bangs and i'm not sure those won't drive me insane because wigs with bangs always are waaaaay too long and get in the eyes.

Her outfit I cobbled together from the few not fantasy bits in my collection. I need more modern clothes damnit. She fits this knitted shirt nicely actually.

Once games workshop restocks their sealant i'll do her faceup but until then she has to remain blank. Ahh well.

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