50–65cm Dolls Coralreef Doll Jiu Er Mao 1/3 Girl Body (61.5cm) in Normal Pink

Ordered this body on August 27th via Alice's Collections, it arrived here on October 28th, in only 2 months! So it beat the head that it will be hybrided with here, by about a month-and-a-half at least, I am thinking.

This is my first experience with Coralreef Doll, and this body has made me an immediate fan. No lie.

After doing some research for bodies for the incoming AcornDoll 1/3 Cha Cha head in "MIA Pink". I chose this body, mainly for details like the expressive and detailed hands, and its seemingly impressive posability-engineering. Resin compatibility we will have to wait and see, but I will blush the head to match, if it turns out it needs it.

It's incredible to me, how far engineering has come, in these 15 years since I have been collecting BJDs. This body is so, so good, I wish I had the funds to replace all my big girls' bodies with one!

Onto the slew of photos, I will likely need more than one post!

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Sturdy beautiful box

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Well protected doll-body under paperwork, with the extra hands in the open head slot

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Immediate (yawning) cat in box lid

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One of the set of extra hands, and paperwork

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Just gorgeous hands. This is the resin in daylight and this photo reflects the true color with about 98% accuracy. It's a lovely hue!

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Mummy with freed digits

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Super sturdy stander, right out of her confines. Granted, this is without head weight attached, but it inspired confidence right away.

Posing pictures coming up in the next post!
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On to the main event: posability!
Color me very impressed and pleased! Those enormous hip peanuts, and her "short" ,for lack of a better term, buttocks, allow for incredible range of motion which I wish my DollsTown 18-year girl body would have. I will still, one day, sand down the buttocks on that body!!

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Forward slouch via the under-chest joint. I chose Chest Option "B", by the way.


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Sideways slouch. This body was so inviting to start playing around with right away, that I didn't get around to unwrapping the fish neck protector until later.

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Slouching to the left

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She sits so easily and balanced and beautifully. Those huge hip peanuts do an incredible job , then especially! Hi, fishie!

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Not ONE of the other bodies I own can even remotely approach this!

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Or, this.

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Now THAT's what I'm talking about!!!

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What those short buttocks allow in range of backward motion

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I am in love with this body. It's officially my absolutely new favorite, bar none. I like the resin plus the color very much in addition.
It's almost a shame to take her apart, she's so stellarly tensioned. But, I want to get to know her, and see how she's put together, and I want to MSC all her parts and blush her. Also, I do think I want to sand her chest down a tad bit, as well as sanding down the very pronounced tendons on the backs of her hands a tiny bit as well. So, as soon as time allows, that's what'll happen!

Super happy with this purchase, I highly recommend her, you guys!!

Thanks for looking!



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Thank you! I looked up the dolls you mentioned and you are right, they have those fantastic hip-thigh joints as well! I am excited that the poseability of those smaller hunks of resin translated so effectively to this SD size as well. And good point about the elbow joints. They are indeed both pretty, line wise, AND very effective. The lower arms can literally be posed any which way. Only joint that may need sueding actually that I have found, is the wrist. The hands could use a wee bit of help. They are ok holding poses for now, but I 'd like that to be perfect.

Thank you! It's always so risky, just chosing a body by research online, rather than getting to actually try it out, It's often nervewracking to do box openings.... So happy and relieved this one exceeded all expectations!

Haha, good plan! I wish I could buy two more for my NON floating heads even!

Thank you! Yes, it's an absolutely impressive stander!

Your comment way back when right after I had ordered that I was really going to love this body strengthened my confidence in her so much, @lutke , and you were so very right! Spam Caroline around for us too, she is soooo cute!

WOW is right! And thank you, that is Bobby, one of our Balinese, the only cats we can have in this household so people can still breathe

I think you'd not be disappointed. Mind though, that the neck is a bit slender, at 8.2 cm circ. Not sure how wide souldoll's head openings are. The head for this body that I have on order claims to have a neck opening of 9 cm so would likely slide down on the neck. To remedy that issue (if it indeed will be an issue) I plan to do some modding at the head's neck opening to narrow it.

 

Thank you. I am too, so happy with that! Highly recommend if you are in the market for a well-posing SD girl body!

I have taken her apart now for blushing, and saw that she also had been hot-glue sueded very neatly and nicely, in her armpit sockets and hip sockets.

Her string's super tight and I left it intact, will make copies of both loops now that it's not stretched out yet, for exact tension replacement string in the years to come. Her resin parts are near-solid with only small tunnels for the elastic, no wonder she feels so heavy and massive. Also does mean the size string she comes strung with, cannot be improved upon, thickness wise, unless you'd drill out the channels a bit.
However, since she was such a stable girl already, I'll keep this size elastic for her. I dremeled down her chest by a lot, down to an A cup, more to my liking, and sanded down the tendons on her extra hands.

Slow but steady progress, will keep you all posted!

 

@lutke Aaah that is great advance info, about the Maskcat Lisette on that body! Perfect! As, according to the head's artist, this head is 22 cm as well, taking 16/8 eyes, and with a neck opening of 9 cm, so it should work well then, proportionally anyway. And if it turns out the head will sit too low on this body's 8.2 cm neck, I will epoxy the head's neck opening 3/4 cm narrower.

Yes, Coralreef's 1/4 th mantis body is just gorgeous. Those feet! I would love those feet on many of my girls, MSD and SD! And I adore the hips they give their girl bodies. Who knows. They may one day have that body in SD as well. Oh, my poor wallet, now that I have discovered their bodies, I must say!

The delivery of the head..... I had inquired 6 weeks or so back, when they then emailed back that end of ordering was the first day of October and then it would take 2 months after that. So perhaps somewhere before the holidays? We'll see. I'll feel reassured when I get an update sometime, or, if no word, I may just send them another email at the beginning of next month to kindly request another update.....
Verrrrrrrrry curious to see the level of resin - match/no match - ... no idea how this "MIA Pink" will compare to anything. Exciting!!

 

I have her in pieces currently, I also have dremeled down her chest to about half its former size, so that measurement would not be true any longer. But when I have her back together I will take the unaltered areas' measurements and list them!