Build-your-own Beast Girl! [I'm back! 05.22.15]

Having you here makes it better!

 

I found another picture of Jenky Fusilli. She was with me at the Resin Rose BJD Expo last March! Here she is, tired from posing all day, curled up in the lap of my Dollmore, Mellow Cole.

 

All of the dolls in this line (I plan more heads) will be named after pasta. Farfalle will be next.

 

No photos yet, but there has been an update. I was...in a mood last night, so I attacked the joining of waist-into-pelvis on my newest junk cast. My experiment worked. I had been going backwards. I had her pelvis insides smooth, and built "teeth" stoppers into her waist. I reversed that and built slopes and stoppers into the pelvis while smoothing out the bottom of the waist part. I feel VERY foolish not having seen this earlier...but I have it now, so I will run with it. I plan to take photos of the New Junk Cast verses the first edition (now nicknamed "Jenky Fusilli") to show where my progress is. After her pelvis is sorted, I am reworking her legs from the knee to ankle. I do not look forward to that, but it must be done. And every last one of her ball joints needs smoothed and reshaped. And her arms have no muscle.
Those are many updates away, however. I will think on my success today!

 

For fun, have a quick photo of calico fauxpal horns and Fusilli's cat ears!

 

Epoxy resin with crumpled cellophane bits. They take forever to cure, but it doesn't make me break out in a rash like translucent urethane does.

 

It's really not worth a tutorial. Take clear Epoxy resin (maybe with some glitter in it), pour it into your mold, pause occasionally to drop cellophane flakes in, poke with skewer if needed. Then wait 8-10 hours for it to cure. It takes practice, but those are all the steps. It's a shame epoxy resin is too soft to string (I know...I tried), I could make some great doll parts otherwise!

 

Okay, here is the new cesarean joint! I will demonstrate compared to Jenky Fusilli (who has the unaltered body). I'll smooth it out more, given time, but there is already vast improvement!


Straight on. The pelvis piece has had the back built up and the front cut away.


Forward bend. Mobility is less, but the motion is so much smoother! It is also more stable in the hand.


Backward bend. Range of motion is almost identical, but you see how it is still loads smoother.