PoM: Deidara, part 2 + arms for Moment

I put my hand over part of Dei's mouth last night and decided the problem was that his smile was too wide on the right side, so I set to work rearranging that some and then set the head aside for the epoxy to cure.

In the mean time, an exciting package arrived !

I've been wanting to do something with my Dollzone Moment for ages now, but he really couldn't do much aside from just stand in place because of how heavy and unwieldy his petal arms were. I put up a wtb thread looking for regular arms for him, hoping to get something that would let me replace the lower half of his arms so that he would have a wider range of positions open to him.

I found someone willing to sell pretty quickly and today the arms arrived.

After a bit of work and some hot glue sueding, he can now stand un-aided and sit down without arm parts sticking out for a mile. I'm not sure yet if I'll hold onto the petal parts I'm not using just on the off chance I want to put them on from time to time or if this new arrangement will be his new permanent state. I'm leaning toward the latter because in his current state he strikes a good balance between fancy parts and functionality (in my opinion).

I'm really not used to dealing with dolls in the 40cm range so when I first opened the arms I was convinced they were far too small for him. They work well though. The color is slightly off but it doesn't bother me. And now I feel like I can design some sort of outfit for him and figure out what I want to do about a face up and other fancy leaf/petal stuff.

I also took a few photos of other dolls who only had temporary pictures up on the page listing all of them. And then I got back to work on Deidara. I re-did his face up and actually painted his scope dealy this time.

Then I spent hours making him a wig even though I realized about five minutes into it that it probably wouldn't work as well as I wanted. It might have worked out okay if I hadn't messed up on the style. I kind of went into auto pilot and started doing it the way I'd done his first wig back when I had no idea what I was doing and didn't realize what I was doing wrong until the very end. Oh well. Learning experience. Next time I want to use different yarn too. I much preferred working with the stuff I used for Auralion's wig and it was a lot faster too.

New mouth pics with (mostly) painted scope. It still needs some small details added but it's functional for now.

There's a picture with the wig I spent far too long working on. It's not awful but it just didn't work out the way I wanted. I might not necessarily go 100% with his canon hair style since his ears are too far back for it to look right I think. We will see how it goes I guess.

new stuff

I got a few new things over the past couple weeks. First off was my Dollzone Moment, which was made possible by a loan from Selly (and in return I will be paying for her fancy new camera!) Win win situation there.

I'm not very good with MSDs and recently decided my last one was going to be up-sized to a small SD. Moment is at the moment the one exception to my SDs-only rule.

The next arrival was my Angelsdoll Baku, who is my re-shelling of Eskilys. He was one of my oldest bjds and one of the only ones I hadn't 'upgraded' since getting him. I feel like he looks much more like his character now (and he even fit the wig I had for his old head!) Now I just need to make him new goggles since the old ones don't fit.

And lastly, I upgraded Statik to small SD size. I got a really cheap, damaged Zaoll Luv head (complete with headback!) off of DoA. The head was originally a sleeping head, but the last owner had opened the eyes some. There also appear to be some sanding or scratch marks on the nose.

I further modded the eyes to try to give them a similar shape to my L-bi so that it might look something like a more grown up L-bi. I need to go in and add eyelids at some point, but I wasn't feeling up to the task today.

Last night I made him a new wig. The old one actually fit, but it was too short. It looks too puffy where the part is in the photo, but in person it smooths down nicer. I just tend to not notice ridiculous things like that until after I look at the pictures on the computer.