My DIM Kadaj Minimee, a few very repetitive photos of his, all dressed borrowing my Mano's body. He would probably look okay on this body, if I had widened the neck opening. However, I didn't do that. I did widen it a bit but not enough for him to sit well on the neck. It's a 12.5cm neck, and while this head sculpt is on the smaller side of DIM Minimee heads, he is still quite large. Kadaj is not a tall character however, he is at around 5' 7-9" depending on how tall Square Enix thought Cloud was in Advent Children. They made everyone taller in Remake, so that Cloud wasn't as short (or so I believe. Just theoretically speaking, but they did change the heights of all to be much taller, now Sephy is like 6' 6", when he was originally 6' 1" in the OG FFVII game). However, Kadaj is a very young person in AC, at around fifteen or sixteen. Which is weird, because from what I understand, most tall people are the height they are going to grow to be in their teens, but I guess it's Japan trying to romanticize height, for some weird reason. My tallest nephew is 6' 4", he was that height since he turned 14... just saying.
I am super happy with him, I never had plans for him to have a body, he is not well proportioned on this body. However, I was able to take fully-clothed, full-body shots before. Now, my Mano's elastic is all loose. He doesn't stand, nor sit, nor pose well anymore. I don't trust him without a stand, so I have him sitting down while taking photos for all my photos so far. It is a pain in the gut hole, but I don't know when I'll be getting new elastic for him. I have restrung my BJD many times, as I used to redo their body shading a lot when I first got them a million years ago. However, I never purchased new elastic for any. I believe my SoulDoll Paris came with a replacement piece (I haven't checked, as I want to get through the dolls/heads I want to redo in some way, first). None of my others have any, so I'll have to invest some time and effort to purchase new elastic for all -- I don't want to purchase the wrong kinds, only for it to go to waste.
I love this Kadaj head sculpt, I feel he is a beautiful sculpt. They did a terrible job on the nose, because the person running the GO submitted their own line guides to DIM (without telling anyone else, nor asking for anyone's approval), and that made them just squish the nose thinner instead of actually making it more accurate. Oh well, I didn't learn about that until just a few years ago. He would have looked so much nicer with a proper Kadaj nose. T___T;;
