Have a kinda dark photo of my still unnamed Roderich head. I did his faceup, and I forgot to take photos with nice lighting. (Mostly cos I sent my laptop for servicing and I couldn't edit photos, so I didn't feel like taking photos). I really like how his faceup turned out, but I don't have a clue what to do with him. And he doesn't really fit (vibes wise, rather than proportion wise) on the Granado Nuevo body he borrowed from Kristolf. I'm still not sure what I'm doing with him really, so for now he's still unnamed. Bleh. I feel bad. I've never had a doll unnamed for long (Even Joe, my Peroth jumped from character to character). Mostly because I buy heads/dolls with characters in mind, but this head is kind of just a "I like this head, and I want the body he's sold with my another doll". :/ Ahhhh. He's gorgeous (I really really like the sculpt), but I need a character for him soon.

Box opening - Caillen's body + LLT Roderich

I always wanted to get a Popodoll 68cm boy body, especially for Caillen, so when I saw one in the marketplace, I got it...but it comes with a LLT Roderich head. Which is a sculpt I like (and now that I can see in real life, I really love the nose and lips), and I'm still thinking of what to do with the head now. Ahh, I am still on 3 for floating head count cos of that >_< But anyway, here's a bunch of photos from box opening. I kind of stopped taking photos on this camera after a while...


I actually missed the collection yesterday so I had to go down to POPstation in the morning. It's like a 24/7 collection service from electronic lockers instead of the Post Office. Anyway, that meant I could get my package at 8am instead of when the PO opens, haha. The parcel is bigger than I thought it would be, since I asked for it to be shipped unstrung.


Also, I'm not sure why my address has "Stockholm" in it, especially cos the sender asked me if she had to write "Singapore" twice for city and country...Hmmm. Either way, since this was sent from Stockholm, the postman probably didn't care about that, lol.


After opening the box...


And after removing all the extra foam, bubblewrap, plastic bags etc used to cushioned the edges, you can see the actual bag of parts is smaller. Super secure packing, which I appreciate as a buyer. (But afterwards, clearing up all the excess packaging and sorting them into recyclable piles took quite a while >_< Oh well, for keeping Caillen's body safe, I guess I can do that ><)


The bag of parts! It looks so strange like this.




And the first thing I took out was the LLT Roderich head :)


This was the faceup he had, but I'm removing it (Actually I already removed most of it, but there's still white residue aka MSC left so I'm doing that again another day). I'm still thinking about what character he fits cos I am really loving his nose and lips. I'm not sure if I like the dreaming eyes but I don't want to mod his eyes either, especially without a character in mind...HMMMM. Still thinking.


Also, his CoA. I never remember how to spell LLT in full...:/ La Legende de Temps.


This was the first part of the body I unwrapped, the middle part of the torso. Look at the number of notches it has. I did however, string him too loosely so the many notches aren't too useful right now. And I forgot to take photos in between, so skip all the unwrapping of the individual parts and stringing (unwrapping took the longest. Stringing was quite fast, cos the channels inside the body wasn't too narrow for my twine to go through)


And a quick comparison of Caillen, Migi modded Cynical Ryu on the Popo 68cm body, beside Zeke who's a Leeke Khal on Akagidoll 66cm body. I didn't want to undress Zeke for this so yeahhhhh.


And look at how smug Caillen is now. Look. Out of all my floating heads who got bodies, he's got to be the one who gives off the most happy vibes now that he has a body. Seriously. So much happy vibes. :D


Also, I made a flower crown a few days back, so Caillen got to wear it for fun.

And this is a shot I took from instagram cos I didn't take anything with my Nikon, but I thought I'll show you the mess after unwrapping (which Zeke was like WHUTTTTTT and Caillen was just really proud of).

(Also, did I mention that the hands are blushed? Yeah, cos they are, and it looks pretty good :) )

Casual doll meet!

I went to a small casual doll meet yesterday organised by MK (lipslock). It was really fun chatting to all of them (we could talk about stuff besides dolls, which is always good) and oh my, all the serious discussion about juices and consistency (ehhh ;) ) Anyway, I realise I don't have individual/smaller group shots of some of the dolls! D: I totally didn't realise it until I edited the photos, which sucks. I didn't take photos of Kris (my Mihael but he's mine so that's fine) and Krios (MK's Resiner, which is D:) Anyway here's the photos :)


MK's Hunter :D (First time seeing him in real life. He's super cool. Also, fist hands and knuckle tats!)


Max (Mouldysweet's) who looks really good with ginger hair too (He's usually blond). And you can't see it but he has a small pony tail at the back, haha.


The 2 Soseos together. We were saying how they look quite different but somewhat equally bored/have a I-don't-care look.


I like this shot of the 2 of them better but Max isn't in focus cos of the angle...


Higeki (Thanat0s on instagram's) looks really sweet and pretty, haha. First time seeing an AA sculpt in real life (I owned an AA body before but I've never seen their heads), and he's really cute :)


Mitchel (MK's) looks really cute and small and grumpy. I swear after all these meets I'm highly tempted to get a tiny cos they're so small. But uhhhh the thought of getting clothes for a new size...and the number of heads I have. I should just admire other people's tinies, haha. Also, he's ginger too! I wanted to take a photo of all the gingers together but I forgot in the midst of the talking. And eating the truffle fries. Mostly talking.


Gabby (mine) with Mitchel cos I wanted a photo of the white skin dolls. Haha. Since they usually appear overexposed with NS dolls. BUT...


Look at this shot, Gabby isn't overexposed! And Hunter is NS but he's not very dark haha. And they both have faceups by propertyoftheuchiha though Gabby's one is quite old so there's a difference in linework etc but they're both really nice faceups. Also, this is just me being amazed by Hunter's lower lashes cos they're really really fine.


As I said, I missed out photos of Kris (see his huge hair?) and Krios (who is even more good looking in real life. I don't know why but I love seeing Volks sculpts in real life cos they have even more "life" to them? I can't really explain, haha). This is the group shot with a mirror in the background so you can somewhat make out us standing in the background and the fries are on the side of the photo too, lol.

It was a really fun meet and I'm just imagining the next meet will be so funny (it's a themed meet, hehe.) But anyway I'll post photos of those when that meet comes around... :D

I took some photos of the twins today, with the new wigs :) Hew was originally wearing the black/olive one cos I ordered that for him, but I realise he suits the blond/brown one better, so I think he's gonna stick to that for now. And of course, Sion gets the colourful wig :D When I first got it I thought a blue based one might have turned out better but the purple is starting to grow on me (I ordered it not realising how much purple I would end up with lol).





As I was taking the photos, I kept having the impression Sion's eyes are a bit wonky but he seems to look alright? I don't know...


And I finally got the hang of styling this wig by the end of the photoset, and Hew finally looks decent, haha.


I think the furwigs are starting to grow on me. I might make this their "default" wig instead of their previous black fibre wig (that just keeps covering their faces).

Shadowboxing

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He can hold those bulky arms on his own! :3 That aside, I'm glad I changed his hands to the jointed ones cos otherwise he can't do the jabs without looking stupid. Haha. And I really want to do a quick kickboxing workout but I can't cos I'm still sick D: (I'm not very good but it's fun, so who cares?)

Anyway, Kristolf's wig is a painnnnnn. As in it is a poofy messy that looks bad without a hat, but it's also the only wig I like, in the right colour, and of the right wavey-ness. I tried mohair but it's more...smaller waves and softer, which isn't gungho enough for him. I think I need to get him a beanie or something (I'm suspecting the beanie needs to be super strong to hold his wig in :x). That aside, Kristolf is like a more ...undecided character personality wise. Unlike some of my other dolls who have more decided characteristics, I'm not very certain how I want Kris to be like, so I'm waiting to find out when I play with him, haha. Like this round of photos make me think he's the kind of guy who gets bulky not from hitting the gym, but lots of outdoor exercise, hiking, kickboxing, mixed martial arts etc.

Also, he's wearing some random stuff that happens to fit him. I need to buy/make him clothes D:

Caillen's new wig

It looks almost the same as his previous one, colour wise, but the texture is softer, and the fur is longer. And it has more blond bits. It's so subtle that I think it's not very noticeable if I don't mention it, haha. Basically I ordered 5 wigs from LaEsperanza (I know, 5 is a bit much for me, but I couldn't help it >_<), and here's one of it. 3 of the wigs are on my dolls right now but I'm a bit lazy to take photos of them all, so I'll update slowly...

I quite like the wigs from this shop. The texture is soft, the fur is thinner than say, Spite and Malice or Thereif, but thicker than Sunny's. There's a lot of colours too. I might buy more, especially a blue one (or a blue with other colours haha), but I'm kinda broke now D: We'll see! I'm quite excited about the wigs actually, haha.

Joints

I was dressing Kris and Zeke today (I left them naked since I took the comparison photos cos I was lazy), and decided to change Kris' hands to the jointed ones. I forgot how difficult it can be to change hands, but anyway it's all done. (I won't be changing them back anytime soon). While struggling with his lower arm, I kept getting poked by the joints of his elbow. And it reminded me that I never had the problem with pokey elbow joints when I first got Gabby. By pokey elbows, I mean this. With the hard edges and grooves and all.

I know it probably looks like every other doll elbow joint, but this one is so sharp compared to Dennis, whom I had sitting with me at my computer yesterday (Dennis is on a old Volks SD13 body). And I realise that maybe the older dolls (companies?) like CP and Volks tend to have these kind of smooth ball joints. Newer companies tend to have fancier joints and stuff, which poses well, but like this Granado one is sharp. Haha. It's not that it's bad, especially posing wise it's usually better, but in terms of cuddly-ness, I prefer the smooth joints any other day.

And I maintain that Dennis is my best cuddly doll. Everyone else is too skinny or tall or pokey for it. This is the main reason why I don't dislike the Volks SD13 body completely, which seems to be the trend nowadays? Especially with SDGr out and looking better. Volks SD13 bodies are the nicest to cuddly and sit in front of a computer to chill out with. (That sounds vaguely weird but oh well)