#xinyiwawa

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I wanted to start this project since Summer of last year, when I received my Xinyiwawa bodies and heads. However, life and nature and stupidity happens and gets in the way of life. I removed the insert eyes, because I want my Eren to have his beautiful vivid emerald green eyes, he has in the anime. I know that in the manga he has grey eyes, but I am biased towards green eyes (my own mother and a lot of fictional characters I love, have green eyes!). I got the one Xinyiwawa head with the grey insert eyes, that they only seem to carry on their own taobao shop. However, I don’t know nor feel like I will be sticking to the grey ones, so I chose to use one of the heads with the more common brown eyes. 

I’m done with the painting process. Now, I’ll need to work on his hair, I am aiming for the man-bun as well as the loose long layered look. I don’t mind making tiny wigs, but I know the eyes are going to be a huge pain in the gut-hole. It’s already proving to be a royal pain in the behind finding 6mm eyes, let alone glass ones in green with 4mm irises. Most are either acrylic, or two millimeters too big. The clothes at the very least are easy enough, for a no-skills, not-a-seamstress like me to worry too much. 

At the least, I can always find readymade pieces for 1:6 figures, since I am planning on putting him on my awesome KamiSoul body. It is a bit broader, and much taller than the Xinyiwawa body, which is ideal to me, because I want to give Eren more accurate proportions to the anime and not such a huge noggin. I know that some people feel the Xinyiwawa head is too small for its own body, but I find it too big. This one in particular, is bigger than GameToys’ Sephiroth’s head. And that figure is on a 12+ inch, kind of muscular body. The Xinyi one is short and quite slim, with very narrow shoulders. Which to me, makes this head (and the others as well) too big, for my own personal taste on male “action figures.” Not looking forward to the ordeal getting the eyes is going to be, I can always try modding the original Xinyiwawa ones, but I don’t feel it’s going to go all that well. T__T;;

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My work in progress Xinyiwawa 12″ fashion doll body. I removed the nips, because I didn’t like the placement. I sculpted my own, because I am weird. I have little MSC left, as I mentioned when I posted my Barbie Fashionista repaint a few weeks ago. I did order a few more, which I am hoping will get here by Thursday.

I still have enough to blush the torso, hands and feet on this body. So that’s where I focused the light spraying of fixative. I haven’t sealed him yet, I just wanted to see how dark I wanted his body blushing to be, so I took these. I usually love blushing stuff, so I tend to over do it. Despite loving very heavily stylized body blushing on art dolls, and other dolls in general. I prefer more subtle blushing on my own dolls. Having said that, I struggle to stop, because I love the blushing process so much. That’s why I took a slew of photos, I wanted to make sure I could see how dark it is, as he’s super light and the light makes it a pain in the gut to photograph (plus these are crappy cellphone photos). DX

I will leave the body as is for now, and wait for my extra cans of MSC to arrive, to seal him, and then decide if I want to add more. I still need to add white acrylic lines on his fingernails and toes. I always leave those for last, and I might add a few more veins, I think they are not even noticeable anywhere, but I did do a few all over, particularly around the hip area.  I was thinking about sanding the undies off, but then I got lazy. I really regret not sanding the seams smooth however, I thought they didn’t look too terrible, but they kind of do under super bright LED light (which is what I use to take photos and do custom toy work).

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So this is kind of a haul. It took quite a while to get here, and I took a while to order because I wasn’t sure where or how to order. I got these from Xinyiwawa’s TaoBao’s shop, to make sure I was getting their stuff and not possibly anything else.  

I mostly got them for their 12″ fashion doll male body, as I want to place a few 1:6 female heads on male bodies, but 1:6 figure bodies are actually more “realistically” proportioned, so the females are smaller in all regards to the males. Which makes it a pain in the gut to hybridize willy-nilly, but I prefer more Japanese anime/video game aesthetics for the male dolls/figures I own, so the hybridizing females on males seems like the only logical choice (for now?). At least, for the ones I want to customize, the ones based on licensed character are either not made or I already own them. (:

These bodies are really nice for the price, I would say super nice actually (I collect a lot of toys and figures, so I think based on those I own, I can say so)! I love they are hard plastic and not vinyl, and the heads are really nice in person as well. I really love the aesthetics of all the heads, but they are a bit on the big side for my taste. They are all kind of on the hard side of vinyl also, not squishy so probably not that great for rooting. The last two heads I got as free gifts, due to them being “bruised,” which I believe to be just dirt but I’m super happy nonetheless with all these. 

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More spam, I mean work in progress photos of my Xinyiwawa body. I think I’m done now. I just need to seal the work for the last time, and add gloss to the nails. I was thinking of painting the undies, but then I saw that where I went over the “elastic’ line it looks like they are translucent and thought “maybe I should pretend he’s wearing transparent undies and blush all...” But then I felt like it might come across as me being a perv, and there’s no need for more of that, all things considered. (:

I was hoping I would do my dream subtle body blushing, but no, I had to overdo it once again. Story of my life, I guess. I am into veins though, so I went a bit overboard when I saw that the light blue pastel ones didn’t show up at all (in crappy cellphone photos)! I went in with extremely watered down acrylics, and really went to town this time. Lol! 

He’s very light however, so maybe my camera(s) were having a hard time distinguishing from the light-blue pastel from the very light pale-yellow plastic -- I would think those two colors are very different, but who am I to say (cameras also see light and color different or adjust differently than human eye, so how those work, I don’t know?). These kind of show up a bit, but I did go a bit nuts with them. I am nonetheless a bit upset that I once again, did pretty heavy body blush, when my aim was subtlety. Maybe I should stop complaining and just not try it anymore. I enjoy the process, however, so I might try with my other two Xinyi bodies, or even my re-bodied Mattel ones. Or maybe it’s old age and all I can do is complain.

I didn’t seal this yet, because it was already pitch black outside when I was done (and I’m terrified of creepy crawlies, spiders live in dark corners) so I’ll leave it for tomorrow. This body will more likely than not, go to my 9S cosplayer twin -- I got the SuperDuck 2B set and head sculpts for that reason, to have a 2B (I already posted before) and a 9S twin cosplayer custom action-figure/dolls. So he’ll be dressed 99% of the time, and there was absolutely no reason for me to modify or blush the body, but here we are. Next time I’ll try to blush the head to match the body. (:

[the-enzyme]

So I was checking if my 1:6 female heads will work on the Xinyi bodies, and I think they possibly could, if I am willing to heavily mod the neck. Which I can do, but I am not sure I want to. I would have to remove about 1cm from the length of the neck, which would probably mean possibly damaging the connector, and making the body useless for its intended heads, or possibly any other heads if I decide I don’t like my 1:6 scale female heads on it. DX

I’m going to have to do a lot of Photoshop to see if I do actually like the heads on it, before I decide that I want to possibly ruin this body. I got a few Xinyi heads precisely because I wasn’t sure it would work for my heads. So, there’s no need for me to worry these bodies will go to waste, because I own heads that perfectly work for them. However, that would mean not getting bodies for my 1:6 heads, for who knows how long? I don’t know when/if there will ever be another toy brand making slim-ish male bodies that are tall and not super cartoony, like the Mattel ones (that aren’t Ken), with enough articulation to not be practically static figures. *sigh* Oh well, I guess I’ll have a lot of thinking to do.

Regardless, I took these comparisons between the different male fashion doll bodies that I have unboxed, nude and headless. I own a lot of other stuff, but I was lazy to remove the clothes/heads or don’t have unboxed. I added in an action figure body just for kicks. I took these mainly because there was someone on DoA sort of suggesting Xinyi copied Volks and Obitsu male bodies, when the Xinyi body looks absolutely nothing, aesthetically or proportionately like either. Proportionally it's not even close, and engineering wise, you can see why these bodies are inexpensive. The engineering on the Volks is pretty dang neat. The Xinyi are good, but nothing to write home about -- the knee joint does allow for a lot of cool poses, as do the arms but the torso joint is unnecessary, and there could have been one at the undies, since they are already there anyway. 

So, even if I didn’t own these (I don’t own Obitsu bodies, yet), I would be able to see from tiny, blurry pixelated photos, that the Xinyi bodies are nothing like the Volks ones. Or, even the Obitsu, which are the height of the BTS one from what I have seen, but closer to the Volks New EB N boy body, which I own, but was lazy to undress and remove the head for these. The Volks are super cartoony, as I had said previously (on DoA), and the Obitsu are pretty similar in shape, but much smaller and have less sculpting detail. The Xinyi ones are more realistic in torso length, girth and sculpting as well. The legs are a thousand miles long, which I am not a fan of, but definitely much more aesthetically pleasing (to me).

Edit to add: I did a lot of research before purchasing from Xinyiwawa, not only because they don’t seem to have a dealer in the West, but because there is basically no actual info on them, outside of few with questions about who they are and some random speculations. I don’t know if they are super new, but this particular body was released sometime in 2019, along with their inset eye head. I found nothing that proved they were/are coping any other company, and from all the research I did, nothing actually is close or looks suspiciously like any other companies work. Be it BJD, or fashion doll existing sculpts. Their dolls seems to be their own work. I don’t purchase illegal copies of other brands stuff, and would never purchase recasts of BJD of any form, because I don’t appreciate people’s work getting stolen and sold as someone else’s. As an artist, I wouldn’t like it if that happened to my own work, but as a human, I wouldn’t want that to happen to any other person. Regardless of how much that person makes, or if that person happens to be CEO of a large toy corporation. 

 Apology for the two anthology ramble, thanks if you read all the way! (: