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[thanate]

So, question for those who have successfully managed to sand doll seams-- what grit sandpaper do you use? I tried a couple things on Waif when I first got him, and wasn't happy with the results and never figured out how to do it properly. But there are a couple very in-need-of-sanding bits on Beryl. (silly Soom, leaving little pink casting lines on their dolls...)

They have also changed their packaging, and instead of friendly (if slightly funny-smelling) gray foam, she came stuffed into impenetrable bubble-pack. I think I could have thrown this thing across the room and not damaged her, which is good, but it took me a moment to figure out that undoing the tape across the bottom was how to get in:


...there was also a picture of "her little sheepy foot is as BIG AS HER HEAD!" but the camera took it with flash and then died again, so I'll need to take another one later. And I am close to falling asleep typing, and there are seams that need sanding, so I think she will stay human for tonight, and I will do things with horns and hooves and wigs and saying nice things about the_impassive on DOA tomorrow.

Also, I will have to do comparison shots of her vs Lady before disassembling her, because I now have two sizes/colors of EXACTLY THE SAME DOLL. Proportions, hand positions, everything. It's rather weird.

Comments

[the-impassive.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeeeaaahhh, see, that's why I didn't take sales photos of her out of her packaging - it was like some glassblowers had taken a side jaunt into Tupperware and encased her. !!!!

I'm glad she got there quickly. I knew she'd get there safely - a damn truck could run over that packaging and not phase her in the least.

[batchix.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that's cheaper for them than the foam? We looked into foam and it was going to be ridiculously expensive so we went with pillows instead.

I use 250 grit, then 360, then 400 or 600- depends on how anal I feel like being. I don't sand seams often. If you do it in the sink with wet sanding it goes faster and comes out smoother. And you probably know but sand in a circular motion, not back and forth. :3

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I suspect it is cheaper, and it may also be slightly better protection as well. That thing was pretty solid.

Thanks! I think I used up most of my lifetime desire to sand things in about 7th grade when I spent 4 weeks sanding down a bank for shop class, but seams on dolls bother me. I shall explore the basement for what we've got in the way of wet-dry sandpaper.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I was just clearing the doll packing off the living room floor, and realized the industrial air packaging had a web address on it. This is probably of no use to you at all, but I thought I'd pass along that it is made by: http://www.indisair.com/en/index.asp who seem like an interesting outfit, if rather heavy on their marketing pictures.

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

this one?

[thanate.livejournal.com]

yup. :)

[laeticiav.livejournal.com]

Wow, congratulations! I'm so glad you got her (I kind of wanted a Beryl, but I'm getting the guy version and I'm trying to tell myself that that's enough). I can't wait to see what you do with her. The blank slate is very exciting. What do you mean 2 sizes/colors of the same doll? (What I think would be really awesome would be a grumpy little child size satyr so there was a whole family of them!)

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Hee... I kind of want one of each as well. But I'm restraining myself! I mean, if I couldn't be bothered to get them at the time, what business have I whining about it now? (cough, cough...) And I want to see what else they come up with. (Dear Soom, please post Virgo! How can you call it a September doll if she's not up by the 18th?)

Lady is a mecha angel girl, so I've now got mecha angel and super gem bodies, which I could tell were virtually the same from their site pictures, but hadn't quite realized the full scope of it before getting Beryl out of her super-packed sleeve and saying, "Wait, I've seen this doll before!" Sadly, I do not have extra satyr parts for Lady, although I'm vaguely curious how close the Sard legs would come to fitting her. I mean, she is supposed to be a shape-shifter and all...

[laeticiav.livejournal.com]

I bet you could make some satyr legs for Lady (I say, like that would be easy -- I'm ridiculously optimistic like that, which is why I have $50 worth of resin eye making supplies in my house... no one who just spent 10 minutes getting cat hair off black work pants should be trying to cast resin).

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I could (in that "of course I could but I don't quite visualize how I'd start or anything" sort of way) but Puck has claim to at least two pairs of wings first, which I also haven't started yet.

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

I love the impenatrable bubble pack, but it makes the packaging appear really cheap. C'mon! These are $800 dolls we're dealing with.

*shakes fists at Soom as usual*

Shadow didn't have red lines, but I keep hearing about it. Hrm...

And GODS, do I wish the mechaangel boy body were this only larger. Srsly.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I think I was comparing it to the standard cheap amazon-esque bubble packing, which makes it look lovely and elegant-- I kind of opened the box and thought she looked like Snow White or encased in ice or something, though.

She's actually only got one or two bits of the pink mold stuff that I noticed (Lady is much worse, but they blend in better with the normal skin, and since I never get around to sanding anyone, this is probably a good thing) but there's also some slight dark blue staining on her hands which irritates me slightly. Oh well-- it's not as if I wasn't contemplating mud splattering her and things...