Coppelia [She is finished! 12/26/06 Photos (nudity and the completed outfit!) Pg5)]

Well sanding is just about finished, she's all smooth, but I have a couple of dents and the odd rough patch to smooth out.







I didn't sand the left forearm because I'm going to make 2 molds of the right side one instead.

Still here she is having a well deserved sit down. It's a little hard to see all the details because she's so white, I keep losing the shadows!

I have my mold making silicone on order, as well as resin. Keeping my fingers crossed the molds work out ok

 

I couldn't either when I saw, I think she might be a little too smooth, or rather too shiny. I started matting her down a bit so hopefully she'll be perfect soon enough *crosses fingers*

 

I have a wig for her already, but I can't wait to see her strung either! Even more excited for what she'll look like with a face up.

I don't think a doll really has much till at that's done. i guess it's the customizations that really bring them into their own?

I have confirmation that the silicone has been shipped, so I'm shooting to get the molds made over the weekend, which will leave next week for casting and customizing!

 

You guys are so sweet. I'm so glad you like her. I really wanted to make a slightly more mature mini who was cute, but could also look a more grown up. Grown ups can be cute too!!!!!

Going to make a test mold to start with and see if it works, then we have a long weekend to get going on the big ones!

To get her so smooth I started out sanding the sculpey with a not so fine 150 grit to get rid of any lumps and bumps, then coated her in gesso (I used brush on, and getting rid of the brush lines was a pest, but they have spray on gesso these days!) I sanded that pretty much egg shell smooth, then sprayed her with Mr White Surfacer 1000 I found at the local hobby shop. That filled in any tiny scratches, evened out where the sculpey started to come through the gesso, and left her with a nice ultra smooth finish! The only thing with the white surfacer, when it builds up it dents pretty easy, so it's best to keep the coated parts somewhere safe till it's time to mold I think.

I'm going to try the Flat Mr Super Clear to matt her down a little and she should be good to go I hope?

 

That doesn't sound odd at all! The hips are my favorite bit too, I just think hips are so sexy!

 

I began committing my little girl to the goo today. i was getting worried that my surface texture obsession was going to lead to me ruining everything and decided to quit faffing and start molding!





It's terrifying and exciting all at the same time. Just sad that neither my silicone nor my Legos went as far as I had hoped.

Still you come so far, too late to back out now.

 

Interesting. I have like a thousand old molds made out of this stuff I could use too if that works out?

 

Thanks so much It's been fun making her so far. There are a good few people on here making some great dolls, is a great forum section to look around!

 

It was funny we bought this giant Lego block filled with Legos on a whim one day, then when I got to molding I remembered the hobby shop guy saying about how legos made good mold boxes ages ago and figured it's worth a try.

Haver to say best way ever to make mold boxes!

 

The limbs I'm going to be drilling, same with her butt, the head I made the mold in 3 pieces, so one for each side, and one for the hollowing out of the head, if you look at the mold photos, the colum coming up out of the head goes all the way around and down.

The torso I'm doing as just 2 pices, with the back mold pice going up into the chest cavety. if that all makes sence?

There is a useful site about posted here on DOA in fact! http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24965

 

Soooo I cast my first head and it had a bubble problem, the 2nd one the pigment and the resin I'm guessing don't work well together, and the head took for ever to cure (like days) and ripped the mold, Bugger.

Any whoo after a trip to the UK and getting my 10lb box of silicone I'm getting ready to start molding again! Figure if all goes well, I should have a resin doll to show you all next weekend! The girl has clothes, shes hair, eyes and jewelry, she just needs you know, a body!

(It's good to set goals, makes me get to work and stop messing about!)

 

Thanks you guys! I started casting her over the weekend, if I can just get the last couple of molds finished I'll have a resin photo this week *fingers crossed*

 

She's done at last!!!! After October it was hard finding time to work on her, but yesterday I finished and she's now standing on her own 2 feet!


Coppelia says "Hi!"


And here in all her EGL princess glory!


I was so happy when I gout her strung and she stood up. I've never held or seen a BJD in real life, and was worried making one that could stand would be a very precise job. I guess not.

She poses pretty well for me i think, and can't wait to finally take some gallery photos! (But I'm going to wait till I have her outfit completed before I rush into it.) (also got to get the lighting to really pick up her facial features, they seem to keep getting washed out in my people strength lamps )

 

It was, but worth it! I'd recommend doing it to any one, plus after the first one, all you need to sculpt is a new head every time you fancy another doll!

 

Thanks so mcuh! I loved your heads an tiny so much in your other threads!

But yeah she's resin. I used the Alumilite white resin for her, and bought a bottle of their Caucasian skin tone pigment. After that I added 4 drops of the pigment to the part A in the bottle and that's how I got the skin tone.

The cool thing is I ran out of resin half way through and had to dye a 2nd batch, using the "count the drops" method the color of both batches is as close as you can get to identical (the top half of the torso and her right leg are 2nd batch)

The only sucky thing is, still bubbly You cant see in the photos but she has a fair amount of tinny bubble clusters on the surface in places.

I've heard that heating the molds in a microwave, or dusting them with oil free talc help with that though? I also found the ones I had to recast a few times, they got better after the first few times, probably due to less crap left on the molds like mold release etc.

I think to get a totally bubble free cast we'll need to either pressure cast em, or de-gas the resin first.

 

I might have to take you up on that once the Xmas crazy is finished! I bet she'd love a play date

 

Thanks! She's my little girl and I love her to bits!

Thanks, I bet you could do it too if you tried! All it takes is patience.

Thanks so much!! *Dolly takes a bow*

Glad you think so! the body took so long, I feel kinds bad hiding it with clothes now, but I don't want to end up being pervy naked doll lady

No deflation we need you 3D!!! I have to admit though I hadn't seen one in real life, there are lots of detailed photos about on this forum, so it wasn't too bad for getting an idea. After that it was trial and error, you should have seen the shocking first attempt at a torso joint!