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Dollies

May 15, 2010 22:31

So I started making a Number One out of this doll:

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theoreticalpixy May 16 2010, 04:15:31 UTC

He's just the standard Pike doll they made for the movie actually:
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3519385

taraljc May 16 2010, 04:37:54 UTC

YAYS!!!

I found out today that the Playmates tunic actually fits the Mattel ken as Kirk better--so I swapped my Ken-as-Kirk tunic on my Pike, so they match. I love your reroot Number One! That's amazing!

theoreticalpixy May 16 2010, 17:17:08 UTC

Matching tunics=love

I ended up dyeing and trimming actually. Though I may reroot her in the long run because I'm not sure if it set fully...

taraljc May 16 2010, 19:17:44 UTC

What did you use to dye it? Because the hari is plastic, most dyes don't take, and you have to be really careful cos Sharpie and the like will seep into and discolour the vinyl of her face over time.

I just put my Pike in Kirk from mattel's tunic yesterday, and oddly enough Kirk looks better in Pike's Playmates tunic than he did in his own.

My house currently looks like a doll factory...

theoreticalpixy May 16 2010, 22:21:29 UTC

It is the weird permanent marker method, which I was way skeptical of in the first place but I had opportunity and time so I tried it anyway(also: finals insanity). It isn't rubbing off on the vinyl or clothes just trace amounts on fingers if I do much with the hair. It'd probably be safe for display but I don't want to risk it. So either I'll pick up some RIT dye (which I know works and is doll safe) and go over it so it's dyed properly or I'll reroot. I just have to get the time to do the change.

Go figure, that is sorta awesome and magical.

boosette May 16 2010, 12:57:07 UTC

EEE! She's gorgeous, obvs.

(Any chance I could finagle instructions/alteration adivce out of you? Because my own techniques run more towards, well. "add seams to the back where you can't see them and buy matching thread later.")

theoreticalpixy May 16 2010, 17:13:22 UTC

You mayyyyy. I'll get pics of the inside and such. I am of the 'make shit up as I go along' school of sewing incidentally but I am getting good at it. (Mostly: if there is a seam; You will have to sew a new one inside it.)

boosette May 16 2010, 17:14:28 UTC

(Mostly: if there is a seam; You will have to sew a new one inside it.)

Soul sister! We attend the same school obvs.