Boston!
A couple of the dolls have come back down from the top of the bookshelf. Tisquantum fell on his head, actually, but fortunately I'd moved the cycad out of the way so he landed on the weird shelf made up of slats of soft wood & only dinged his MSC slightly. Now he's sitting on the back of the couch looking angsty, and waiting for me to make him a 14th century jupon to check that I've worked out the seams before I cut fabric for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
grauwulf. (since, er, I don't actually have the pattern or anything.)
This little guy has been sitting on top of my VP homework:
Some of you might have figured out by now that I have a bad habit of bonding with blank dolls, and then never finishing customizing them. This is Boston (as in the Boston fern, a cultivar of Nephrolepis exaltata.) He has a top for his head, a classy helmet, and another head with a cap for it (although that one is pink) all of which are in their ziplock baggie in the doll trunk. I got him on a whim-- because I could, as he and his two brethren (one pink, and one ragamuffined; I considered the patchwork doll, but against green & swirly it was no contest) sold out in a couple hours-- and then fell madly in love at package opening. He is gorgeous (and green and swirly!) andbatchix did a fantastic job with his jointing & posing as well as the aesthetics. So I trimmed his sprues & mold lines very carefully to finger smooth, to save as much of the swirly unmolded color as possible, and thus he has stayed. There are theoretical Plans, but thus far I have been thwarted by an insufficiency of appropriately scaled fake fern leaves, and possibly the lack of a mini Victorian glasshouse. (Puck needs a cage, Boston needs a fernery. I need more room & less stuff, but we're working on that...)
grauwulf. (since, er, I don't actually have the pattern or anything.)This little guy has been sitting on top of my VP homework:
Some of you might have figured out by now that I have a bad habit of bonding with blank dolls, and then never finishing customizing them. This is Boston (as in the Boston fern, a cultivar of Nephrolepis exaltata.) He has a top for his head, a classy helmet, and another head with a cap for it (although that one is pink) all of which are in their ziplock baggie in the doll trunk. I got him on a whim-- because I could, as he and his two brethren (one pink, and one ragamuffined; I considered the patchwork doll, but against green & swirly it was no contest) sold out in a couple hours-- and then fell madly in love at package opening. He is gorgeous (and green and swirly!) and
batchix did a fantastic job with his jointing & posing as well as the aesthetics. So I trimmed his sprues & mold lines very carefully to finger smooth, to save as much of the swirly unmolded color as possible, and thus he has stayed. There are theoretical Plans, but thus far I have been thwarted by an insufficiency of appropriately scaled fake fern leaves, and possibly the lack of a mini Victorian glasshouse. (Puck needs a cage, Boston needs a fernery. I need more room & less stuff, but we're working on that...)
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I need to finish mine too.
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And if I had a doll sized appropriately to work out patterns on, I totally would.
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I'm not sure "sized appropriately" is really accurate, but I mainly just need to confirm that the gussets go where I think they do. Also, one of the common BJD aesthetics goes really well with 14th c or so. (
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He should come visit Dartax and Rogue... yes, yes he should. XD
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I actually want to compare his joints to Dartax's sometime (although I did finally find the bit of flashing that was keeping him from standing up, so it's not urgent.)