Too much Running Man

I made a hoodie yesterday, which is the purple-blue/green thing Dennis is wearing there. I was kind of excited so as soon as I finished I changed Dennis into it, without ironing the hoodie first, so the hood's kind of messy.

And I think I've been watching too much running man, cos, look at how I dressed Dennis. Haha. My sister says he reminds her of Jae Suk now. XD But anyway, Dennis's getting a lot of photos lately cos I'm too lazy to put him back in the box, so he's hanging around outside, and that makes him the easiest to pick up and take photos of. Lazy much?

Bald

Some things about dolls I learn from owning them, others I learnt from other doll owners. Dennis now uses those rubber wristbands meant for humans on his head to hold his furwig, after I saw Shunyuki and Ching Yan do that. It holds Sunny World's wigs there, which is a major feat. SW wigs are the loosest furwigs I have, seriously. Most of my furwigs aren't very loose, but having this rubber thing on it helps a lot. And best thing? It doesn't stain (or hasn't, so far). I kind of cheat by putting it on the headcap so any staining would be there, and not on his faceup. Haha.

Okay, so I ordered a LM type B body for Hew, and just finished paying for it. I don't like making payment cos I keep double-checking that everything is correct and all, so it's very stressful. :/ But anyway, I've ordered Hew's body, instead of succumbing to temptation and buying heads. Now I just need to wait.

Anyway, I think the SD13 body has a thicker waist and torso than LM type A. But SD13 has slightly narrower shoulders. Dennis is so fat now, haha.

Dennis's new body :D

I was at camp when Dennis's new body arrived (figures that it'll arrive when I'm away D:) but yesterday I went to string the body up and plop Dennis on his new body. He's using a SD13 body now, which is much broader and thicker than I expected. It suits him better too, cos his head is so big, haha. Matches pretty well, which I'm really happy about. His head still looks paler/yellower/less peachy than his body, but at least it's not super obvious. It's like, I can only see the difference in strong sunlight, so that's good. :D



Anyway, he doesn't stand as great as his old body, but I'm going to live with that. His thigh joints are kind of weird though. There's this part that can come out, even after you string it. It has hot glue remnants so I think I'll need to find someone who does hotgluing to do it for me. I thought maybe I can just leave it, but I tried seating him, and pop, out came the joints, so I went to tape it together for now. Not pretty, but his clothes cover it. I'm just hoping it won't stain or what. :/



And a sort of full body shot to show he has broader shoulders now. Hehe. My desk is pretty messy with jewelry bits everywhere, haha.

Anyway, his old body (Abio Angel) is for sale on doa if anyone's interested? http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?525353-Abio-Angel-boy-body-

I really should stop browsing DoA marketplace when I don't have money. Or rather, when I don't have money to buy anything if I want to get Hew a body before his head yellows too much or something (I keep him in a drawer, but you never know, I guess?) to match Little Monica. Always tempted when I see Esthy's Peroth or Volks Amelia or Olivia Morgan.

Anyway, I guess it's easy to want quite a lot of dolls. Gah. As it is, my wishlist is pretty short, especially compared to when I just got into the hobby. The ones who are currently on the wishlist:

-Zaoll Muse/luv (Alfie)
-Zaoll Muse boy (Jack) *
-Elfdoll Vivian (Tiyana)
-Volks Olivia boy/Amelia boy/F-38 (Caillen)
-Migi Cho? (Frederica aka Freddy)
-Volks Amelia boy/Heath (??) *

The * means the characters are from another storyline. Hmmmm. Some alternate Universe totally different from the story I have for most of my characters in doll form. It's kind of new, this er, storyline, so it only has 2 characters so far, and I've no even named the main character although I've drawn him a few times. Haha. Didn't even noticed he doesn't have a name until just now...=_=

The characters/dolls I have/waiting for:
-Gabriel aka Gabby (CP dreaming Lishe boy)
-Dennis (SDF Bliss)
-Nathaniel aka Nat (Migi Jina)
-Hew (Migi Miho)
-Sion (Migi Miho)
-Ezekiel aka Zeke (Leeke Khal)
-Kristolf (Leeke Mihael)

...There's disproportionately more guys than girls.

I realise there's a lot of characters that no one but me knows anything about. Maybe I should actually try to write their story sometimes.

New lens 8D

So after waiting for more than a week to find that the salesperson FORGOT about the lens I ordered from Challenger (he got transfered to another branch, and never bothered telling the rest that someone ordered a 50mm lens. D<), I finally got the NIKKOR 50mm 1.8G lens. I did watch some tutorials about the lens, and on doa, where people advised against using the lens at its lowest f-stop (f1.8), but you know, me being me, I had to try.

When I got the lens, it was at night, and I took Sion out for some random try shots. He got new jeans, by the way, bought from Izam. Baggy jeans. I think I have some phase between skinny jeans and baggy jeans for my dolls, haha. But I like how the jeans are distressed nicely, and that it's a light colour. Okay, anyway, the shot below was done with f1.8. You can't tell, cos it's small and resized now, but it's not very clear/in focused. Which is precisely why people advised against using f1.8. I'm using f2.2- f2.8 for now. Going to see how it'll work out.



And this morning, I took some overdue shots for the piece I made like, last week. I'm lazy like that. :/

I had Gabby wear Nat's wig for fun, since Nat's not around. Gabby looks pretty pretty, haha. And his head is big, cos Nat's wig (8-9inch) can't sit properly on his head. You can tell by how short the fringe is, compared to when it's on Nat. Oh yes, Nat arrived in Canada with cats10 already. :D Can't wait to see how his faceup will be.



And I didn't notice it until now, but the shot below has Gabby at the same angle as the one above. -_- Well, at least Gabby is more like himself in the shot below.



Anyway, I think I rambled in this post, cos it's hard to construct proper paragraphs around photos. (< Nah, that's just an excuse, I always ramble)

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Hew

Sometimes, I hate him. I hate that he's younger, that I have to take care of him, that I have to clean up his shit. Mostly, I hate our Mom for leaving and putting me in charge of him. But I'll know I'll never be able to just leave him alone. 

Because if I did, I'll never live with myself.

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When identical twins are young, people think it's cute to dress them alike. When twins grow older, they usually want to break out of the looking alike trend. After all, we are our own person, as much as we are someone else's twin. It isn't that I want to look like Sion, but rather that it's easier. Easier to pass off as him in classes when he's skipping it. Maybe it's a stupid reason, but I grew used to having the same hairstyle as him.


It's not that I don't love him, but sometimes I wish he'll realise that whenever he does things his way - like skipping classes, like fighting people who laugh at him, like talking back to our Dad - I have to clean up after him. Do damage control. ...I want to be able to make my own mistakes too, not learn from his.


I don't think I'll ever be able to stop taking care of Sion, but there are days where I wish I can.

Added a cbox to the layout, since I think people will feel more inclined to write in the cbox then comment? Well, at least, I would find cbox easier. Just write and I'll try to reply all of them (probably won't be hard, given the number of people who actually read this blog, haha). It'll be similar to tumblr's "Ask me anything" function, except, you know, everyone can see the comment. But I've been using blogspot for so long, I'm rather lazy to change to another site, so I'm going to be stubborn and continue with blogger until I'm convinced otherwise. :|

Some photos of Dollzone 65cm jointed hands VS Soom. Soom looks small in comparison.







See those metal thingies in the DZ hands? Anyway, those are 65cm hands and not 70cm. Catherine (who owns the doll with the DZ hands) says the 70cm ones are even larger, and probably will suit EID better?

Personally I think jointed hands are some amazing engineering and aesthetics feat. They're so small and poseable, and it's just amazing that they even have veins and all, you know? But my parents were like, "Hm, nothing much" when I showed them. The only person at home who finds them cool is my sister, haha. But most of the time I don't know what to pose for the hands, and while I know I can just swap it out with his normal hands, I don't like Little Monica's hands much, so I'll rather just leave the jointed hands on.

Doll Meet

Went for a doll meet with Catherine (Zetahadrian), Eleanor (Shunyuki), Qian Xiu (Usaaki/Minyo) and Ching Yan yesterday.


A blurry group photo, cos my camera was uncooperative. Only 1 not inside is Ching Yan's Soseo, cos he's a head. Left to right: Havyen (Soom Lami), Polar (Migi Shion), North (Migi Cho), South (Migi Cho), Hijikata (IOS Mezz), Sion (Migi Miho), Hew (Migi Miho), Valerie (AS Kana), ?? (Sorry, I didn't get the name/sculpt, but he's a little fee something?)


























I love Polar's smirk :)


Ching Yan swapped her Cho for her Soseo after this, yup.


I really like Soseo's nose :D


Catherine's much better at posing dolls than I am...you can see what she was able to do with my twins, haha. Whereas if it's just me, it'll be boring photos of them sitting side by side,
































Soseo borrowing the 70cm IOS body.








Valerie's so pretty, and she makes me want to get my girls. I did plan for girls but arh, not yet.





That's all the photos that were decent enough (read: not too shaky/blur) to make it. Had a fun day out, but man, editing so many photos is a bitch. I've not decided which to upload to dA, so I'm being lazy and putting it all here for now, then decide another day, when I'm not so tired.