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Hybrids can a make a temporary neck donut?

Dec 20, 2025

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    1. Hello.
      Bought a head and want to hybrid it in the distant future. I tried it on a 70cm body, took a close up photo, and I am not sure about how it looks. So, I have decided to take full scale photos on a 70cm and a 75cm body. I am NOT using either body with this particular doll head.

      Is there any material that I can use between the neck and the head to temporarily lengthen the neck on the 70cm body for the photographs? (Cardboard or something?)
      I want to see if it looks too big to work with any 70cm body.
      I mean, if I can make a better triangle for the head to work on a 70cm body. There might not be a point of crafting an adaptor for a head with a body that it will never be hybrid with.
      I also was going to do a dress test.
       
      #1 tinyflame, Dec 20, 2025
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    2. I've never used neck donuts in between the heads and necks myself; I always use it inside the heads as S hook stabilizers. Having said that, in the older days, people would use a soda bottle cap, as a makeshift option to neck donuts before those were widely available. Perhaps any short of thick plastic you can repurpose, like coffee container caps, or even thick layered cardboard might help. The softer materials will probably lose volume with the constant pressing of the elastics pulling the resin pieces together, but it should work for a few photos. You could probably sculpt one as well, but that doesn't sound like a quick substitute. Good luck, and hope that helps!
       
      #2 Enzyme, Dec 21, 2025
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    3. I've put silicone disks, cut out leather or felt disks, or just hot glue sueded the neck hole or the neck to make a bigger head fit, or to make a head sit higher on the neck. For a temporary fix for a couple of photos all those should work okay.

      There's also this tutorial for a more permanent neck cap thing.
       
      #3 cobaltconduct, Dec 21, 2025
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    4. Soft washers? I know I guy who photographs dolls a lot. He is a professional people photographer though. He wanted to lengthen one of his girls necks to put a long wrap around necklace on her for the photo shoot. I suggested the soft washers and he tried it and said it worked wonderfully.

      The soft rubber ones are important so they don't scratch the resin. You can just remove them afterwards.
       
      #4 RabbidBunnies, Dec 21, 2025
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    5. I've used random spare neck donuts I have to prop a head up / make the neck longer. It's not always the best for posability but should work if you're just testing it
       
      #5 Serraphym, Dec 21, 2025
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    6. Thank you everyone. I need to see which of those items I can find and take the photos in the next couple of weeks and post them here.

      I was planning on dressing the 70cm doll, for the first time. And, it gave me the idea to try the floating head, again. The floating head is larger than the default head and I never measured if it is sitting lower. It IS one of the doll bodies that the floating head is supposed to be compatible with.... I wish to pose the dolls next to one another, once I finish the hybrid.
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      #6 tinyflame, Dec 21, 2025
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    7. I've done this with cardboard in the past. I just needed something to let me see if a head would work on a body if I modded the neck, so I made several "washers" out of cardboard. I used the kind that cereal boxes are made out of.
      I just stacked them up until I got the height I needed.
      Not the most elegant solution, but it worked. :)
       
      #7 Lillith, Dec 29, 2025
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    8. I took a measurement from the shoulder seem to the bottom of the neck cowl, both had the same measurement. (Triangle shaped neck.)
      I did not feel like much, so I tried some simple shots. There are not to scale and I did not place the camera on a stand. (Also sorry for the wig and eyes, as I did not buy any for him, yet. And, eyes are too big.) I have not taken the "side by side" shot, of the two together, I would like them to cosplay together one day.

      Doll head I am trying to figure out a body for, is on the left. (Proper configuration is on the right.)

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      Don't worry about this wig, I wanted him to wear black wigs and a navy wig. Cosplay with a darker brown wig.
      I had to use 14mm eyes. 12mm eyes should look better for him.

      I took the photos with wig only, to see if it is possible to hide how big the head is. It might be easier making a decision about how tall of an adjustment to make for the neck, when the doll is unclothed.

      I am still undecided about the 70cm. I am still afraid how heavy other 75cm doll bodies might be, to ever try for it.
       
      #8 tinyflame, Jan 1, 2026
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