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Long time no see! RL has been doing me in these last couple of months, big-time. But bringing a little bit of joy to my life, my Narin arrived yesterday, as many of you probably saw in DoA or in my other journal.
I still have the blank "Orochimaru" head and I've gotten so attached to it being blank that I'm not sure anymore whether or not I'll have it painted like Orochi at all. It's quite beautiful just the way it is.
So, what can I say about Asadel, my new boy? The minute my mom saw him, she said: "Oh my god, that doll looks like it was made for you." And he really does. He is so 'me' that it's just funny.
The sculpt of his face is flawlessly beautiful, the resin is perfect. Basicline did a perfect job in his faceup, just what I asked for. The sculpt of his body is so lifelike, with his ribs peeking out and veins in his hands, like Hound. The only beef that I have with him is his legs. He can't sit at all and his knees keep popping out of socket. I'm not sure if I should suede or wire or both. I've heard that the 43cm Narins and Naraes pose perfectly, and I've heard the same of the 60cm Narae, so I think the leg thing might be a problem restricted to Narin. If I can just fiddle about with him, I'm sure I'll find a solution that will get him posing right. He's strung very tightly and just wants to stand straight up, LOL.
He is the most realistically proportioned of any doll I have ever seen. He looks very slender but he's actually a bit bigger than an SD13 boy and so all the clothes I have are a little tight on him. His shoulders are very broad and his neck is bigger around than most dolls, big hands, big feet, and a very, very small head. The effect is perfect, he looks more like a real person than any other doll I have ever seen, besides Artist Dolls. For anyone looking for a highly-realistic doll, I'd reccomend Narin. He looks so different in pictures vs. real-life. You really have to see him in person to know what he looks like. Even when I look at the pictures I took of him yesterday, they don't really look like him.
His backstory is forthcoming. Eve and I designed his whole past about two months ago together. He ties into Jedusor and Haruhiko's story and the war that they fought 1000 years ago. I'm calling him a demon, but he isn't a demon in the Christian sense of angels and demons. I'm coming at it from a more fantasy angle, I guess. Just like elves are a species, so are demons, not necessarily inherently evil, but genetically specific.
Here are a couple of pics until I get some better ones shot:
tee-hee, PJs!!
I still have the blank "Orochimaru" head and I've gotten so attached to it being blank that I'm not sure anymore whether or not I'll have it painted like Orochi at all. It's quite beautiful just the way it is.
So, what can I say about Asadel, my new boy? The minute my mom saw him, she said: "Oh my god, that doll looks like it was made for you." And he really does. He is so 'me' that it's just funny.
The sculpt of his face is flawlessly beautiful, the resin is perfect. Basicline did a perfect job in his faceup, just what I asked for. The sculpt of his body is so lifelike, with his ribs peeking out and veins in his hands, like Hound. The only beef that I have with him is his legs. He can't sit at all and his knees keep popping out of socket. I'm not sure if I should suede or wire or both. I've heard that the 43cm Narins and Naraes pose perfectly, and I've heard the same of the 60cm Narae, so I think the leg thing might be a problem restricted to Narin. If I can just fiddle about with him, I'm sure I'll find a solution that will get him posing right. He's strung very tightly and just wants to stand straight up, LOL.
He is the most realistically proportioned of any doll I have ever seen. He looks very slender but he's actually a bit bigger than an SD13 boy and so all the clothes I have are a little tight on him. His shoulders are very broad and his neck is bigger around than most dolls, big hands, big feet, and a very, very small head. The effect is perfect, he looks more like a real person than any other doll I have ever seen, besides Artist Dolls. For anyone looking for a highly-realistic doll, I'd reccomend Narin. He looks so different in pictures vs. real-life. You really have to see him in person to know what he looks like. Even when I look at the pictures I took of him yesterday, they don't really look like him.
His backstory is forthcoming. Eve and I designed his whole past about two months ago together. He ties into Jedusor and Haruhiko's story and the war that they fought 1000 years ago. I'm calling him a demon, but he isn't a demon in the Christian sense of angels and demons. I'm coming at it from a more fantasy angle, I guess. Just like elves are a species, so are demons, not necessarily inherently evil, but genetically specific.
Here are a couple of pics until I get some better ones shot:
tee-hee, PJs!!