#kenlooks5

[the-enzyme]

I took slightly better lit photos of my repainted Ken Looks number 5, on his DamToys 1:6 action figure body, at the request of a friend to see comparisons between that body and his original (made-to-move?) Ken body. I am so happy with him, I kind of want to repaint more Ken. I never thought I would want to, since my first repaints of Ken doll didn’t have rooted hair, and that is my preference for fashion dolls. However, I love this head sculpt, and the fact that it is a rooted head, makes it just so much nicer (IMHO).  

I only regret not having the option to shrink his head a bit, since he does have a flocked under-shave; submerging the sculpt in acetone would melt the glue and ruin it. I rather keep that intact, since flocking it not something I plan on trying any time soon. I prefer smaller heads, on broader shoulders for my male dolls, so his proportions on the 1:6 action figure body are not exactly as I would have liked. However, they are better than on the super-cartoony (IMHO) default Ken Looks body. 

My repainting skills need a long way to go, before I am satisfied with them. Despite that, I am still very happy with how he turned out. I am also pretty happy to learn that his default stock fits on the 1:6 action figure body, except for the shoes. I was afraid the pants wouldn’t go past his thunder thighs, but they did, even went on the padding on his inner thighs (which I didn’t even think about removing). I hope the shirt won’t stain the rubbery upper torso. I was thinking about adding some amount of texture with mostly red toned acrylics, to give the body a better match to the Ken’s plastic, but maybe I won’t have to. Not because I am lazy, but if I don’t have to, I rather not try. DX 

I also regret not sanding his chin to my liking and just trying to shade it to look smaller. If I am ever adventurous, I will try to make it smaller, without damaging the rest of the repaint. (:

[the-enzyme]

I finished my Ken Looks #5 repaint last weekend, and also my customizing process of my Myou Bettina boy as far as painting went. It was then that I realized I don’t own more pure-white synthetic fiber to make a wig for the latter. I had a lot of it left over, from when I made my Hujoo Wings wig a few years ago, but now it’s gone. Nowhere to be found. *sigh*

I purchased some more just today (hopefully it’s the same as my custom Eren Yeager’s wig fiber), so I should be able to continue working on him soon (hopefully). I’m super happy with my Ken (Looks), so much so that I really dislike the proportions of his own body now, when I didn’t mind them too bad when I got the 1st one that I’m keeping MISB. I might have to get a 1:6 action figure body for him later on. I already tried him on a few, and he looks super nice on some of them.

I’m also quite happy with my Bettina boy so far. I f-ed-up the first eyebrows I gave him, because I wanted to try something new (for me!). I ended up wiping them off, once they were already sealed, and now I’m not sure I like them well enough, but I know I like them better than the first ones I gave him; I wanted to try “surprised” brows, because default Myou Bettina (all of their dolls, if I recall correctly) has them. I thought the sculpt looked super cute with them. However, I am all for angry brows, the angrier the better. I don’t know why I thought I would like surprised brows on my own painted dolls, if I painted them myself. Lol! I love my Bettina nonetheless, I just suck at painting on 3D surfaces, more so on tinier ones. I am looking forward to working on him further, although making any clothes will be a struggle. He is going to be my fan-art version of Ken Kaneki -- with a lot of artistic liberties, because the sculpt and body-to-head-proportions are nowhere near Kaneki’s, but that’s who I want my Bettina boy to be. (:

Most of these were taken when either MSC was still drying, or when the diluted gloss was drying on Ken (Looks). I did add a bit of gloss on my Bettina’s eye lids, and a ton on his lips so that’s there too. However, on Ken (Looks) I wanted subtle sheen, but on these photos, it was still just freshly applied -- it’s nowhere near as shiny now IRL. Last photo is of both my Kens (Lol, I have to give Mattel Ken a new name!). For some reason Bettina is blurry as the dickens. *shrugs* I want to share some photos of the body blushing on my Kaneki, but I know this place doesn’t like nud3s, so I probably won’t post any on here -- at least not full-on-frontal ones. 

[the-enzyme]

I finally received the 1:6 DamToys body I purchased loose/parted-out, for my Ken Looks number-5 repaint. I was hoping I would be able to get him a Leon S. Kennedy one, I waited forever to see one anywhere, before I lost all hope, so I just got this one from a parted “European s0ldier” from DamToys line of m1litary figures. I wanted the Leon one, because the paint on the upper torso matches perfectly with my repainted Ken. However, this one is not painted as red-toned as Leon’s upper body. There is some paint, but it leans more towards the average “grey-toned” skin most 1:6 action figures suffer from. It’s super hard to tell from my crappy photos (I was too lazy to use my hyper-bright desk lamp, so these are super dark). My phone’s camera had a terrible time adjusting the colors at all, because my desk is red-ish faux wood, the head sculpt is very tanned-red-toned, and the body also has a heavy tanned tone with varying degrees of gray and the middle abdomen a red-tone that actually matches my Ken pretty close. 

It makes me wonder exactly how people assembling these bodies go about picking which piece goes where. I’m not criticizing them by any means, just wondering why they chose to give this specifically mostly grey-toned body a reddish toned middle abdomen piece, when they gave Leon’s body, that has a reddish-toned upper torso a grey-toned middle abdomen. DX 

I’m going to give the upper torso piece a light layer of “texture” with acrylics, to give the whole action hybrid doll, a better match. Otherwise, I am pretty happy with the proportions. I wish the head was much smaller, Ken has a larger head than most 1:6 male head sculpts I own, which tend to be more or less “standard” size (for 1:6 action figures). I just prefer smaller headed toys in general. The head doesn’t look as massively large, as it appears in the last photo, that’s just me sucking at taking photos and some camera angle/distortion.

This body didn’t come to me with hands, which I already knew when I purchased it (kind of a thing when you buy parted out action figure bodies), but it did come with feet, which is pretty cool -- one less thing to worry about. Although, it’s not really a necessity with most 1:6 action figures. Because this body came without hands, I was trying my WorldBox set of eight pairs of hands that I purchased for my one WB figure I own. I was pleasantly surprised they are beautifully shaded, and the nails are also realistically painted and glossed! I don’t believe the beautiful detail shows well at all on any of these photos, but I am super happy I decided to purchase these, when I already own too many spare 1:6 action figure hands, and I certainly didn’t need any more of them. lol! They are much nicer done, than the GT, not the sculpt, but the shaded/painted details is much, much nicer (what I was hoping the GT hands would look like). They are sadly too grey and a bit too dark for this dude, thank goodness I hoard hands too -- I might have a pair that works. Otherwise, gloved hands it is. ^___^;;