by SetsunaKou » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:54 pm
I'm pretty excited about the Island Doll 65cm body and jointed hands I just bought! It's to replace the 70cm body that my Kiyan doll has now. (He's a DZ Yuu) I LOVE the 70cm DZ body, but he's too tall for our 'seiyuu' gang portrait dolls!!
We have Takahashi Naozumi 5'4" on a 58cm YuHao body; Miyata Kouki 5'5" on a 60cm Fantasy Doll body; Fukuyama Jun 5'7" on an AoD 62cm Type I body; Hino Satoshi 5'7" on an AoD 62cm Type II body; and then Taniyama Kisho (Kiyan) 5'10" on the DZ 70cm body.
However, when standing all together, the 70cm was just way too tall. It made Kiyan look in a different scale or at least 6'2" tall when he ought to be 5'10" tall compared to the rest. The others all look perfectly in scale to each other, except for Kiyan-sama!
So.....after a lot of going back and forth in my mind over the decision (I've had him as the 70cm for over 4 years now and it's tough to change....:cries: ) I found a really good priced Island Doll 65cm body. (Only $321 total with regular & jointed hands & s/h included!) With some kips and probably a little apoxie sculpt on the shoulder area (Kiyan has really nice shoulders/arms in real life, so his bjd needs them, too!) it should be fine. So I'm anticipating that body for him, so he can finally fit in with the rest of our fold.....
Also, I decided to make my sister 2 new 1/3 bjds for her birthday in August---Leiji Myoga & Ryoko Mikage from Corda 3. I hoped for a good deal on their bodies, though, since for our chara dolls, we just display them and rarely ever pose/play with them, so any type of body would be fine. In fact, I prefer 'various' bodies for all our dolls, so that if someone commissions us for an outfit to fit a 'certain' body, we actually have the body to work from. ^^
So I've been looking for a body we don't own yet, and found an AoD 58cm girl for just $145 total with s/h! I bought her and can't wait to work on Mikage! ^^ I preordered the 2 Anime Parabox heads from Emory-san, and that just leaves finding a 70cm ResinSoul NS body for Leiji! (He IS 6'4", so he needs to be a 70cm! But a skinny, anime type body, and RS is the best at that!)
I hope Emory-san gets in a NS Long (Resinsoul) soon, and then I'll be all set for the birthday surprises!