Evil doll science

[tikistitch]

So, I had a couple hours to spare this afternoon, so I started OPENING DOLL HEADS!



So, here is Pickles 2.1, with NEW, IMPROVED green eyechips.



Here, in case you don't remember, was Pickles with the first Cool Cat eyechips. I thought the color was off.

But, you might ask, what happened to those old eyechips???



Nathan: Where am I? Why am I so pretty? What happened to my hair? What's up with these douchey clothes.

Pickles: Dood, yer a dahl.



Nathan: A doll?

Pickles: A dahl.

Nathan: A doll?

Pickles: A dahl.

Nathan: Like, a doll doll?

Pickles: Like a doll doll.



Toki: Maybe you ams needs to visit Raziel's cocksessory bins, Nat'ans!

Skwisgaar: Pffft. Dat ams stupids ideas, Toki.

Toki: Ams not stupids!

Skwisgaar: Ams too stupids!

Nathan: Are they always like this.

Pickles: Naw, dey're usually worse.



Raziel: Did someone say ACCESSORY BIN?

Nathan: Hey, who the hell are you? At least you're sorta hot.

Pickles: Er, dood, I wouldn't.

Sariel (to Boon): You know, this would be easier without you riding!

Skwisgaar & Toki: *amsarguearguearguearguearge*



Raziel: There, isn't that just darling!

Toki: Haha, ams hystericockle!

Skwisgaar: Pffft-chortle.

Ganesh: Would you care, perhaps, for a martini, Nathan?

Nathan: *heavy metal sigh* I would like 100 martinis. Exactly 100 martinis.

Comments

[nugatorytm.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to see that the eye transplant was a complete success. Pickles looks a lot more picklier with those greener eyes. His old eyes do look good on Nathan, I must admit.

Oh wow, the family's getting larger and larger by the minute! With Nathan around, I suppose things are gonna be both brutal and metal. (looks at pink cap) Then again... :D

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I didn't go into it, but it was kind of a mess. The first doll I wanted to use for the Nathan head totally wouldn't come apart, so I ended up stripping a bunch of screws. And then I finally got Pickles' head assembled and remembered I forgot to put his head ON HIS BODY. And then Nathan's blink mechanism wouldn't cooperate. AND I found out you can't swap an eye mechanism from a girl doll to a boy doll. Pffft.

But I do like those eye chips better for Pickles. I need to get a better wig for Nathan, but that's easy enough. And I still wanna add Toki's moustache. And I'm not 100% decided on Murderface.

But, it's getting a bit crowded here..... :D

[zsomeone.livejournal.com]

Well that's it, now you have to improvise Murderface.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Dood, it's just (here's the clever thing I figured out today): Toki wears a 'stache, but MF IS HIS STACHE. I mean, seriously. SRS BZNS! It's not just, Oh, I'll go find a triangle hair wig, la la la.

[zsomeone.livejournal.com]

Lemme remind you

Not for always

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

True dat!

(I love Pickles' expression in this cap.)

Which leads me to wonder, if I'm gonna do Savage Young Dethklok, do I need to do Magnus??

[nugatorytm.livejournal.com]

Would a low-pile velveteen work for MF's 'stache? Of course, it means gluing it to the doll's face.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a solution I had thought about for Toki's Fu as well. I have some heads I can practice on now.... Did you see the yarn-faced Blythes link Andrea sent? Sort of ... no words.

[nugatorytm.livejournal.com]

Yarn-faced Blythes? No, the only ones I saw had drawn-on facial hair.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drblythenstein/sets/72157604306065740/

Everything this guy does is sort of amazing.

[nugatorytm.livejournal.com]

Looks like he used Sculpy or something similar to shape the muzzles, and the hair looks like some loopy fabric just cut and shaped around the face. Amazing work, though.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Here's the other link, with a WIP:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iontallman/sets/72157604077411293/

[nugatorytm.livejournal.com]

That has to be a bitch-and-a-half drilling all those holes like that. One wrong move and the poor doll has a LARGE hole in its head. It really wouldn't be ruined, because you can always patch the holes and put a wig over it, but for yarn.

Well, now that I think about it, maybe the resin putty would repair a large hole, too.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

...Or you could paint on a Groucho moustache.

I just never like how facial hair looks on dolls. ie,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drblythenstein/2181674178

[nugatorytm.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's the fact that the facial hair is drawn on, or the baby-face look doesn't look right with facial hair.

[zsomeone.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I say no Magnus.

Possible moustache idea:
1) Obtain small fuzzy brown catapillars, and whatever they eat
2) Smeer bug food on doll faces in the proper places
3) Apply catapillars

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I've got a BETTER idea!

I'll sprinkle CHIA PET SEEDS on his upper lip, and then put him on the windowsill and water him every day!!

CHIAFACE!

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Doll facial hair... the eternal struggle!

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Seriously, it seems like it's a lot easier to fail with a male doll than a female.

[twotone]

Pickles' new eyes are be-yootiful! Well done!

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm probably the last doll collector on the internets who hadn't opened a Pullip head. But, this doll's eye mechanism seems to be especially annoying. All the parts kept jiggling out of alignment every time I tried to put it back. That said, I think I like the Cool Cat eyechips better than most of the Groove ones.

[twotone]

Do I still count as a doll collector if I never dewigged or re-eyechipped a Pullip? I just admire them and sometimes make them pose with my other toys.

[tikific.livejournal.com]

Heehee. No, you're a doll collector! I just consider you more an All Purpose Toy Goddess of some kind, as you have Ponies! And Transformers! And LEGO! And, much coolness.

I must say, I now have a lot more appreciation for those people on Flickr who turn their Blythe dolls into functioning chainsaws or bas-reliefs of the Mississippi delta.