As much as I find Original Effect's Army Attractive line aggressively banal and unimaginative, I must confess that I admire their dedication to realizing comic-book proportions in 1:6 scale. All their dolls so far top out at 13.5 inches. Some of the height comes from the platform heels they all wear, but most derives from the fact that their legs ( Read more... )

This 29cm figure amazes me. Look at this Youtube review to see what she can do! If got her, I would keep her naked all the time and make her a robot to hang out with my fairies. She's a lovely mixture of form and function. Did I mention that she has articulated eyelids?

I would love to have her, but, given ~$300.00 to spend on a single doll, I ( Read more... )

And by "everything," I mean "humanoid characters from their animated films." Interestingly, a lot of these dolls have basic articulation [head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips, knees]. The cartoony style of the headsculpt actually agrees with my stylized, exaggerated aesthetic, so this information could be relevant to my interests.

This ( Read more... )

1. Disney, Hello Kitty or Rilakkuma sets from Rement
2. Bruce Lee dolls from Enterbay
3. Iron Man dolls from Hot Toys

1:6 scale things that I would be very interested in

1. Sets from Rement that contain the kinds of things that made the company so popular in the first place: food, appliances, toys, school/office supplies...heck, even candy!
2. Anything by Enterbay ( Read more... )

There's an interesting discussion currently on Figurvore about the above subject. Seneschal, the initial poster, asked why people don't erase/hide/edit out the articulation in their doll photos. He finds it a distracting problem that's easy to fix.

My response below:

When we engage with fictional realms, we agree to suspend our disbelief. I assume ( Read more... )

Bwah hah hah hah!

This may seem incredibly obvious, but I have recently concluded that 1:3 is not my scale. Even though I have several 1:3 scale BJDs, they represent a deviation from my true interest, which is 1:6 scale.

I should just stop buying 1:3 scale BJDs.

Anyway, my interest in 1:6 scale BJDs conveniently reduces the scope of BJDs I'm interested in to just a ( Read more... )

In light of several impending 1:6 scale BJDs [Novella, Theophany, possibly Soom Asis], I'm again examining my list of 1:6ers in storage to see if I can detach from a few. I have listed 3 that might go: AJ Regular [as opposed to Steampink AJ], Michaela, Tituba and Sarah.

AJ Regular [last photo] and Tituba [the one with the bonnet] are hanging around ( Read more... )

This guy over on One Sixth Warriors [OSW] did a bash of a short, fat, wide, round character, Pigsy, who I guess is from a video game. He got into all sorts of molding and sculpting and redoing for metal accessories, joints and headsculpt. I, however, am most interested in his clever use of parts from a baby doll as the base for the torso and limbs ( Read more... )

I've been a dollmaker for years already. I just haven't made any in a while.

I've actually scratch-built a doll before...in summer, 1998. Frustrated with the lack of figures of Frank from Rocky Horror, I decided to make a 1:6 scale version of my own.

I made the head and neck out of peach Super Sculpey, sculpted on top of a dowel for the spine. Of ( Read more... )