|
 |
|
Thursday, May 22, 2008
RD & DH Doll Hair Color Reference: By Color
I figured it would be good to have a list of the photos by color as well. I'll update this as new photos are added to the group. If you find an error PLEASE tell me.
Dolly Hair is based in California, USA. They carry saran, nylon, acetate and polypropylene hair. Mohair can also be bought through them and shipped from a farm for an extra charge.
Restore Doll is based in Texas, USA. They carry saran and flocking hair.
My Little Custom is based in Devon, England. They carry saran and nylon. MLC stocks most of the same colors from the above store. When a color/hair type carried by one of the two stores is NOT carried by MLC, it will be noted.
Who should you buy from? Do your research. Who has the color you want? If's a common color, who's price/shipping is cheaper? Who is closer to your location? All three stores sell non-hair items, if you need something for your project, will you save shipping by getting it with your hair?
DollyHair & My Little Customs
Saran
Sugarless Gum Pink: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
"Regular" Hair (Discontinued) (DH only)Mystic Heather: 1
Nylon
Devil's Food: 1, 2, 3 (right)
Mixtures
Polypropylene
Restore Doll/Katsilk & My Little Customs
(Numbers refer to RD)
Black Orchid (34) (Blend): 1Blondicious (81) (Blend): 1Bronze (22) (Blend) : 1, 2, 3Brunette (3): 1 Caddy Red (29): 1, 2, 3CM Midnight (1)(MLC: Midnight): 1, 2CM Ruby (5) (MLC: Ruby Red): 1, 2Fairy Lights (76) (Blend) (RD Only): 1Golden Girl 24 (Blend): 1, 2Grant a Wish Gay Parisienne Red (72) (Blend) (RD Only): 1 Hi-Ho Silver (18): 1 Joyeux Rouge (75) (Blend): 1Orange Blossom (30) (MLC & DH: Tangerine Orange) : 1, 2, 3, 4 Orange Thermal Magic (39) : 1Original Brunette (15) : 1Plum Crazy (33) 1 (front) Purple Passion (27): 1, 2 (background) Seaweed (79) (Blend) (RD Only): 1 , 2, 3, 4Sheila (70) (Blend): 1 (left) Sky Blue (35) 1, 2 (Tickled Pink streaks) Stacy Titian (32): 1, 2 , 3Taxi Yellow (61): 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5Tickled Pink (28): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Tu Tone Titian (21) (Blend): 1Mixtures:
Azure Blue (19)/Sky Blue (35)/Turquoise (51)
Posted at 02:28 am by Lonnikins
Permalink
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Doll Hair Flickr Group/Doll in the Heel/Ah-Mei's New Hair
Look alive, lovelies! I've started a Flickr photo group. RD & DH Doll Hair Color Reference. A wordy name but it will be dedicated to photos of dolls using Dolly Hair and Restore Doll hair in other to provide referances of the colors. I HATE not being able to find photos of hair colors I've trying to compare. Doll customizers don't tend to list what shade and from where. MLP customizers do more often but you still come across many that are unlabeled or, worse, the thread says what the used but it's so old that the pictures are dead ;_; Hopefully this will help though. I went on a big photo-inviting spree of photos that already met the rules/criteria. Hopefully most of them will agree to have the pictures added. Anyone reading this who'd like to join and help is most welcome :3
Oh yeah! Once upon a time I said that my Kid Kore/ Galoob Spice Girl hybrid's head was way too damaged to reroot a third time. Well, I did it. Ah-Mei has nice new saran now. It fluffs out a bit but it's alot nicer quality than what she had. (Wig hair sucks gaiz) Oh yeah. I aldo sculpted a ball on to the neck with Milliput to keep her head from flying of at inapropriate times.
Posted at 06:59 pm by Lonnikins
Permalink
Friday, May 02, 2008
Casting Rootable Doll Heads?
I was looking through a Micro Mark catalog. If you were into building model trains and scenery you could go broke buying all the little gadgets designed specially for the hobby.
ANYWAYS, they have an item called " TCR-40" that is meant to be used for casting tires for model cars. It's urethane, which is exactly what Volks says their Dollfie heads are made of on the site. Could you take this stuff, tint it differently, pour some into a head mold and rotate it untill it was set up, to get a hollow, rootable head? This fellow did some tests using it for action figures but the pictures are already gone. He mensions issues with the softness...I wonder if that would effect doll heads.
Meanwhile, over at Alumilite, they have flexible casting resins in multiple stiffnesses. The downer is that the ivory color is only available in Flex 70 ("similar to a car tire") and 80 ("similar to a roller blade wheel"). I wonder if "car tire" would be okay at the thickness of a doll's head? 50 would probably be better but the caramel coloring probably wouldn't tint as nicely.
Posted at 01:39 am by Lonnikins
Permalink
Monday, February 11, 2008
Noix De Rome Cat Ears: How do They Work?
It drives me CRAZY. Noix De Rome sells a cat ear kit but I can't figure out how it would work. If they poke into the head on the pegs, then why are they in two pieces? Does the bottom part go inside the head? Wouldn't it be awkward to connect them? What are they made of, anyway? I have seen them in use but I can't find the photos now.
Posted at 12:35 pm by Lonnikins
Permalink
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Licca and new Fashion Fever
I love the way the vintage Liccas have the little stick-out ears. If they put out a fashion doll here and now with ears like that, I'd probably buy one and put many many little rings in them.
You know, if I had lots and lots of money, I'd buy a fancy expensive Blythe doll. I'd strip it, sell the naked doll on Ebay and put the dress on a cheap Licca. I'd do this for the lolz.
The new Fashion Fever dolls, some of them at least, not only have elbow joints but WRIST joints too! On a $10 doll! Danm. I notice too, that they are back to the 2000 body proportions. Obviously the kids must have felt the same way as the adult fans about the stumpy body. Or at least thought it was lame that they would have to buy ANOTHER size of clothing. Way too soon after the 2000 body switch to replace it.
Posted at 11:22 pm by Lonnikins
Permalink
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Hmm. Avant Browser blocks all the side bar images for Blog Drive when you have Ad-Blocker enabled. Darn.
You know how I said I wouldn't buy a Beauty Cuties? Well, they were at Winners and.....yeah I got one. My LoveyLu on Flickr. I've having problems working on her. Gargh, and you KNOW now that I've started this it means they WILL put out another version with a with a smaller, lighter head.
Mattel included a card for their surveys. "We listen to you!" they say. Yeah right. When I tried to take the survey for Beauty Cuties, it kept telling me it was unavailable.
I TOTALLY do not recommend them for kids. Get a styling head, get a doll but don't get this toy in an attempt to combine the two. A styling head would have a nice sturdy base and Beauty Cuties are too top heavy to really play with.
RestoreDoll has a new size of doll hair. XL is for BIG dolls like Patty Playpal and My SIze Barbie. :O Not something I personally need but it's nice that folks who do can get it in longer hanks.
Posted at 11:54 am by Lonnikins
Permalink
Monday, October 22, 2007
Giant Girl Doll, Shoe Molds, Wig Making, Procrastination
If you think you have space issues with your dolls, imagine owning one of THESE? Isn't she amazing? I love how she was looking at the children playing on her arm and even when she was obviously being picked up and put down by the crane, she was still looking around and checking out stuff. Making a big puppet like that move around in a reasonably human-like way is one thing but it's all the details that make it way cooler.
I made a bunch of 3 part molds for doll shoes but I'm not having much luck getting a good end result. 2 pieces for shoe shape, one for the hole inside for the foot, but then you can't really get the foot-hole maker out. I figured I could cure the Sculpey using the boiling water method and just peel the shoe off when it was done. Regular Sculpey III cracked when I pulled it off so I tried again with Sculpey Flex. That cracked too >__<
The foot-hole piece is made of Milliput, shoved in when soft and pulled out when hard so it would be the EXACT shape of the original hole. It also means it can't go in the oven though. I supose I could try using Milliput for the actual shoes but they WILL have to be painted and they will have NO give. :(
Still working away on a good wig method. I got some fine Aida cloth and tried wetting it, stretching it tightly over the head and letting it dry. Mmm, it holds the shape at first but it REALLY wants to go back to being a flat circle. I have tried hot gluing a ribon band around the inside bottom of the cap and one going across the top. This keeps it from distorting, near as I can tell, but you can't really sew through hot glue easily. Back to attatching the hair to a cap with a glue gun? :( It just feels so cheap. If you made a wig using a glue gun then tried to sell it, probably no one would buy.
Oh yeah. I tried making wig bases from the Sculpey Flex a few weeks back. I was thinking of the WHF doll wigs again. Basically, if it's thin enough not to be intrusive, it tears easily. thick enough to take advantage of the suposed rubbery-ness and it's too thick.
ARGH. SO MANY UNFINSHED PROJECTS. >__< I have a bunch I'd like to finish by Christmas and one in particular I'd like to get done by Halloween. That is not very far away and....her arm is missing -_- These things just sort of roll away. I hope it turns up because I don't really want to make another one.
Posted at 08:58 am by Lonnikins
Permalink
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Noemie's eyes, MFD Package, Beauty Cuties
Now that the package has arrived, I can safely post THIS. See Alcy? This is what I mean about the Noemie eyes.
I ALSO got a package ^__^ I ordered some stands from My Favorite Doll because it worked out cheaper than getting them locally and they have a better size range. I'm still working on fixing up my room and I figured that dolls standing take up less room than dolls sitting. Their packing peanuts are SO COOL! They are biodegradable, made of corn starch and disolve into a gooey mass in water. I tried tasting one, don't reccomend it. I had lots of fun throwing them into the air and rolling in them while the cat stared at me like I was insane. They also sent me a post card and pair of Barbie heels as a promo for Randall Craig's RTW. I can say for sure that I'll never purchase any of the clothing but....freeebie. *_*
Kinda disapointed about the Beauty Cuties. The head is TWICE as big as Blythe's? WTF? I was hoping to get on on clearance or sale or something, stick it on a jointed Barbie body and have a sort of poor man's Pullip.
I miss the FriDoll 5. Every now and then I consider redoing them because I'm 100% sure that my answers have changed after al this time.
Posted at 07:59 am by Lonnikins
Permalink
Saturday, May 26, 2007
>_< I ruined TWO heads I was sculpting earlier today. I've been trying to hallow out the heads that won't have wigs through small "trap doors" in the back of the heads the way Catsy aparently has it. The problem is that at the size I'm doing them, they are getting kinda distorted. I'm thinking maybe what I can do is cut the top off and hallow them out like a head that would have a wig but cut the trap door in the back, then put the top back on and seal it back together after baking. Milliput would work but I'm a put nervous about putting it in the oven, what with the baking temperature being the max heat resistance. Hmm... a pickle indeed! :o Maybe Liquid Sculpey would be good enough?
Posted at 08:22 pm by Lonnikins
Permalink
Sunday, May 20, 2007
What has teh Lon been up to?
Lessie now, what can I tell you about....
Okay. I have entered two contests on BWY since I last wrote. The first one was a hair styling contest judged by Ken Paves :D My first entry was done on a FF Sasha. The rules stated that synthetic hair couldn't be added, unless it was from another Bratz doll. I'd been monkeying around from unraveled ribbon fibres, though, so I braided some into the hair. My second entry was a dyed, cut, and permed P4F Cloe. I didn't win but I'm still happy my work got seen. Here are the rest of the entries and what Mr. Paves said about them :D The second contest was a custom contest. I had originally planned to redo Jan, make him a party dress and do a Bratz girl up in drag wearing a tux. Gardening is another of my hobbies, though, and working on the entries kinda fell by the wayside while I was trying to get some old ground useable. In the end, I only entered Jan. Ugh, my first root job on him sucked! It left so many holes I had to work around. The crazy thing is that I heard it took 4 large skeins of saran to reroot a Boyz doll but he only took one and I had left overs! The color is "Cognac" from RestoreDoll, in case anyone visits looking for alternate photos of the shade. You know what drives me crazy? I bought the new hair on sale and I think I may have paid more for the crappy toyokalon hair I used the first time >_<.
Jan's dress was my very first princess-seamed dress XD I've seriously never tried doing it that way before. The crown was another experiment. I wanted to see if the cheap, little plastic rhinestones would melt if they were baked under low temperatures. Mmm, yes and no. As you can see, they did stay in one place but they also became smooth, losing the jagged "cut jewel" shape. It should be fine with small ones but I wouldn't do it with anything larger. (The contest is still awaiting judgement, I'll letcha know how I do ^_~)
I got Alcy's Valentine's Swap package out. It was late but it did get there. This was one of the things I sent >D
I have discovered the joys of Milliput, at least as a filler-inner. I'll have to see if I can figure out how to use it for actually sculpting. Aparently it's easier to work when it's stood for an hour? Rock solid when it's cured though.
Papupepo (Japanese). If you haven't visited, you should. The clothing patterns that are posted are mostly for Jenny or Licca but there is some explaination of how to make your own. I've made a pattern but I have yet to test it. My brother was knocking on the computer room door last night and I yelled back "Go away! Can't you see I'm making tiny bras??" XD;;
Posted at 01:24 pm by Lonnikins
Permalink
|
|
|
