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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

[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.