DiM (Doll in Mind) Mini Discussion Part 6

They are wonderful!!

 

They are adorable Love the way you styled them

 

They are so cute and adorable! Beautiful picture!

 

Stopping by to share my twins as well

 

@Dew_Drops Yay to more twins !

 

I do like DIM heads, I have two, a Human Flowne and a Youra, both on Luts KD Romantic bodies. Below is my Youra, she is now Ondine my water sprite.

 

More twins~.

 

They look beautiful, as always. I love how detailed their styling is ^^

She looks so innocent and fragile!

Cool idea for a photo!


I can't remember if I showed my Aura with new wig here, but here she is

 

Beautiful dolls everyone thank you all for your kind words.

Aura looks amazing @Caramello_Cat

@Shin__ I love the concept for your photos with the roses, I also love that we both have twins

 

I'm loving seeing all the DiM dolls! Especially those related to the final group orders we did.

After a production delay, the body for my Laia will be arriving any day now - maybe even today? It'll be good to have them all assembled!

 

Ahhh everyone’s beautiful dolls Beautiful pictures @Dew_Drops @Xanadu Dolls @Shin__ @Caramello_Cat ! Keep them coming I’m hoping I can post pictures soon but it will only be resin matches (my DF-H body just arrived) and WIP of my Larina boy pics

 

Oooo I can wait to see

 

Well it arrived, but the s-hook for the neck is way too small for the massive gaping hole that the Laia has for the neck. The head will just fall right off. So unfortunately now I need to figure out what I have that can serve as a substitute!

 

O no, what a downer I hope you’ll be able to find a substitute until you can get the correct S hook. What body did you get again for your Laia?

 

I had the exact same problem with a Huajing body that arrived a few days ago. The DiM head has an oddly large neck hole. In my case, I just swapped a too-small hook for a larger one from another body where the head has a normal neck hole and the size doesn't matter. Maybe you can swap some hooks too if you have any other msd bodies?

 

Oh! Did we get the same Huajing body? I LOVE that company's sculpting/engineering!

Yeah, I'll have to have a search around. Unfortunately I don't really have a stockpile of these things any more, because I decided my BJD collection was done a few years back so I haven't kept anything other than the bare minimum.
Might be something lying around though!

 

I also had a similar problem with my Laias and had to buy larger S-hooks for them!!

 

For those with big DIM neck holes-if you've got room inside the head, you can put a washer in it and pull the elastic up through it to stop the s hook. I did that with my Sergei on his old body.

 

They are all beautiful and am looking forward to seeing more spam of the new arrivals.

 

If this is their special body from fairies release, then yes! I absolutely adore this body, as you say, the engineering is top notch. I'm working now on a comparison shoot with all my msd bodies including the new Huajing body and it's the most poseable among them. It's also works well with the Larina head. Except for this small hook and a little too short neck. But that was easy to fix with hot glue. I hope you too will find a way to solve the hook problem soon.

 

Yup, that's the one! It's so beautiful. And I won't lie, their prices are very appealing too. You get a lot of quality for your money.

I used to have a little plastic bag somewhere absolutely stuffed full with spare s-hooks from over my years of collecting BJDs, and I can't imagine any scenario where I would have thrown it out, so I'm hoping for it to turn up. Fortunately I'm not really in any rush, since working on BJDs takes a lot of time and energy and is not something I can spare either for at the moment!

That said, relatedly... everyone, please dissuade me from getting another body. It's been so long since the DiM group order, and so long since I gathered everything I needed for my dolls that I kind of don't seem to have planned correctly, and I have one extra (very expensive) outfit than I do dolls. Realistically I suppose I should try and sell the outfit, but since I have both Benetia heads, brain is telling me what if the second Benetia got a body of her own instead of being an alternate expression?

 

Preview of my boy, Mudo

Spoiler: Cutie!

Waiting on his wig, outfit, and eyes, but i thought I'd take some pics
Faceup: Disemberlee
Body: Universedoll 1/4 boy
Wig: Sin
Eyes: Oscardoll

 

Damn I love DIM lips. They're just so POUTY. Nobody does lips quite like DIM

 

Yes DIM lips are something special I also love their noses.

 

My Becca's body from DF-H came in about a month ago. The match is perfect (taken without flash)

The body is wired sueded (first time having one). I really like her broad shoulders and curvyness of the body line.
I have more pics here

 

Gorgeous! DFH make nice bodies, expensive, but nice. My Annabeth is on their old "soft" boy body.

 

Yes I think DF-H my new favorite company for bods- the sculpting and posability is good! They have a soft body? Like non-resin?

 

What do y’all use to keep your Larinas or Laia’s faceplate from popping off when you wig them? I just got a new wig that’s a bit of a challenge to put on and the faceplate just wants to kamikaze out onto the floor

 

Honestly? I eye-putty the heck out of it. As long as you make one long strip to go most of the way round, and don't put so much on that it squishes right out when you put the two parts together, eye putty is actually very strong and holds them real well.

The faceplate system does drive me up the wall!

 

Nah it was just what they called it because he wasn't all buff and muscular. They discontinued it sadly, it's a nice hefty body.

The faceplates drive me nuts too! I touch them and their whole face falls off!

 

Glad to see I'm not the only one there. I need to order new magnets but I gotta measure them first.
For now I use washi on top to hold as much as it can lol.

 

@nattherat thank you, I will try the eyeputty method XD
@purple_monkfish ahh I see. Yea they do be discontinuing a lot of their things lately. I been seeing that in the DF-H Discussion
@Shin__ XD

 

Does anyone know if Miadoll pink is a good match for DIM normal?

 

Just waiting for his eyes now :3

 

Are you looking for matches to newer DIM normal or an older DIM normal? Sorry I dont know if Mia Pink will match, but I am curious as well

 

My heads are from one of the preorders from only a few years ago, they've been in a box since so should still be pretty pink.
I think they match Doll Leaves pink and maybe Huajing's pretty well? But I don't know if Mia Pink is pinker than those, both are very very pale

 

Meriel, don’t see many of her.

 

She's adorable !

 

She’s so cute

 

Thank you!

Thank you!

 

I ordered a body which HOPEFULLY will work for one of my DIM floating heads.
it's only taken me what, like 2 years? lol. Whoops?

I'm still trying to decide what I want to do with the other ones. I get all decision paralysis when it comes to bodies and stuff. Anyone else deal with that?

 

Did you get the Huajing body in Mia pink? I ordered in Mia White for my Jullis head I got in our first Last Chance GO :3 I have a character in mind for him (finally, this probably took the longest )

It has taken me awhile to get my dolls completed, as I bought the heads with no idea what to do with them. I’ve got one complete (Larina boy), two in the works (Becca has a body and has been sent to a faceup artist, Jullis waiting on his body, then faceup). The Flowne I’m planning to rehome 3 MSDs seem enough for now- I’m naming them after magic skills from the Persona game series XD. While I’m working on my MSDs, I’m changing my Love Size DIM BBjorn (the doll I’ve wanted for so long). I just got a new and better body for him and I’m waiting for a faceup artist to be available to paint him.

What about you? Who’s left you working on?

Also, anyone with an Ace or Julius- what size wig you have yours on? 1/3 too big and 1/4 too small- do you use 1/4 and if yes, how did you adjust it to fit his head?

 

I got a sprouting dragon mia pink, which I hope will be close enough.
Huajing also calls to me so that'll likely be the other body for the other head.

Still haven't worked out what to do with white skin ace, his head is SO BIG.

I got bodies for my first two relatively fast. My Gayane is on a boy doll leaves body and Annabeth is on the now discontinued DFH "rounded" boy body or whatever it was called. It's a pretty chonky body and I dig it. Works well with the larger head.

But I got Larina and uh... whatever the other one was (I lose track, damnit) from the last go and never got around to deciding on bodies. I knew I wanted something curvier than a lot of msd girl bodies at the time, something with more hip and what's quite nice is in the last year or so we've seen a bunch of more affordable companies come out with more pear shaped or curvy bodies so that's really nice.
I also have an extra head which is uh... also Larina? She's older and more yellowed though. She'll get a body eventually too.

I actually have quite a few floating heads to get bodies for which is my goal for this year and moving forward. I've told myself "no new full dolls til you have these heads bodied dangit!" but that's not an easy task.

As for Ace, I dunno. I might dye him because I really am not a big fan of white skin dolls. I find it far too stark. But I gotta find a body that works for his massive noggin first.

 

I actually have a DIM boy body (well full doll) and yeah, the original bodies are HEFTY and quite tall. I think they're about 47 cm, which is big for msd.
I think my boy is Alpon? I had to mod the neck and it needs more work because the neck doesn't actually FIT the head, which is bizarre given this was the body the doll came on. DIM it sounds like weren't overly concerned about bodies and heads matching.
But it's kinda useful to know how big the bodies those larger heads actually were. I keep meaning to grab my Ace head and try it on the DIM body and see if the neck is more proportionate to that head.

To be honest I keep meaning to play "musical heads" with my dim heads anyway I just never quite have the energy to do so.

 

Yes 47cm is quite big- almost the size of a short SD XD And the bigger heads could’ve probably fit on those 50cm ranged bodies. I never had the male body but I did see the pictures you posted of your Alpon and his neck. How much of the neck you had to mod off?

When I was body huntin, I used the DIM measurements posted in the Dollmakers section to match to the body’s I was interested in. It is hard to find an msd body with an 8cm neck XD I think the male V1 was their biggest msd. And I think you right about the heads not matching the bodies XD

The closest I found is Universedoll with 7.5cm- which fit perfectly to my Julis. But the other parts of the body, like chest circumference, just looked strange with his big head. I’m hoping to end my body search with Huajing, as it has similar neck size (7.2cm) but talll like the V1 body and bigger chested than the UD body.

If you ever play musical heads with your dolls- I’d be interested to see you Ace on that body. I think Jullis is similar size. Is Alpon bigger headed than your Ace?

 

Alpon's head is wide rather than generally huge like Ace/Julius but yeah, it's a pretty big head. He takes a 7 inch wig though. Most of my msd dolls are 6-7 while he's 7-8. Still msd sized, but yeah, he has a really wide face which makes his head look massive.

I took quite a bit off the neck and tried to taper it so the head would fit better. It's still not great. I could do with taking more off the inside of his head so it sits a little further down the neck but i'm nervous to take too much material you know? It's better than it WAS, but his head still perches too high imo. Thing is, i'm not sure i'd ever find another body his fat face would look okay on because he needs those really broad shoulders.
I'll get some pictures later on.

 

Ooo Alpon has a wider face/head? That’s interesting, I wonder if he’ll look more proportionate on a 50cm body? Dollzone just released a 50cm msd body (DZ 51cm Special Boy Body) with pretty wide shoulders- wider than the DIM msd boy body. If I had waited in Huajing I might have snagged it lol.

 

Digging through my doll boxes I found my old Luts Ttori who i've been trying to sell for like 2 years now. I figured "hey, why not see if one of the DIM heads works?" and so I grabbed my older more yellowed Larina head and I really like the proportions. The colour match isn't perfect as of course the DIM head is a lot paler, but both are similarly yellow toned so I think it'll work once there's a faceup done.

I also tried the same head on my Angel Region Little Fair/Blue Fairy body but I didn't like that one as much. The proportions work okay, the neck fits nicely and all that, but it's a far older far more yellowed body and it's a little wider and more baby-like than the Luts body.

I also tried Ace on the Luts but there's no way that works. The bobble head just doesn't look good imo. The Luts body is too short and narrow in the shoulders for such a huge head.

I gotta find some clothes so I can take a photo of Larina on their new boy body heh. And find a wig for them. I don't have that many wigs going spare.
particularly not masculine ones. Short boyish wigs that don't look like bowl cuts or mullets are so difficult to find dangit.

I have quite a few different doll bodies here so if anyone has any particular combos they'd like to see with either Ace, Alpon, Larina, Gayanne, Annabeth or Laia I can see if i've got the body. (Can you tell I really like DIM heads? lol)

I haven't decided yet whether Laia or Larina get the body I ordered earlier in the month. I suppose i'll see how I feel when it arrives.
But it'll probably go to Laia for variation's sake. still, the idea of boy/girl twins using the Larina sculpt certainly solves the issue of what to do with my spare Larina head. Hahaha.

Ace continues to be problematic though. Damn him and his giant head.

I'm not well today so I don't really have much energy, so Larina has to just sit in underpants on my desk til I have another spurt of energy and can find some clothing.
it comes in short bursts and then i'm wiped out for a few hours.
Boo.

 

My flash makes everything look way worse but here's Larina all painted up on the Luts kid body!

the colour match isn't great, but I don't really mind too much. I'm just happy to have a floating head on a body at least.



The proportions look pretty decent to me.
Please don't judge my cluttered desk lol. I haven't found a home for my project dolls yet.

 

So many dolls Larina looks good on that body- very cute

 

My Huajing Uncle body came in about two weeks ago and thought I would post a pic of my msds so far
I think the body looks really good for my Jullis - the body has wider shoulders and a thicker torso. The resin match is terrible however. I got the body in MIA White - which I thought would have a more yellow undertone but it seems to have a pinkier undertone. I plan to have the artist who did my Larina do some color matching with blushing.

Also wanted to debut my Becca's faceup by AnnaQueen. I don't have any clothes or eyes for her yet but she is so cute

Spoiler: Additional Photos

I can't wait to get him faceup I have a concept to have him be lightning or fire theme. I want him to be hotheaded compared to my chill Larina boy, Mudo.


Side view. The neck is a little skinnier than what I wanted but it's sclulpted nicely. It doesn't look like a nub like my Universedoll neck.


He does some beautiful, natural poses that hold. What I especially love is that the body doesn't "'snap'' back after posing like some bodies do. The body doesn't seem like its strung tightly yet is so flexible and holds poses so well. Also, the body is very light. Much lighter than the Universdoll body and DF-H body my Larina and Becca are on. I'm very pleased with my purchase.

 

I’ve been considering getting a brother/sister pair of DIM 1/4 dolls, but I’m not a huge fan of their bodies. Are there any good resin matches out there between DIM NS and something else? I have seen people use Dollzone, Doll Leaves and Minifee bodies.

Do any of you have some good recommendations or pics you can show me?

 

The ones you listed are good matches (I don’t have them to compare tho.) I have a few DIM hybrids - Doll Family H in Yellow (the head is much older - newer DIMs are more pink) for normals skin and Universe Doll white for white skin are pretty decent matches, I don’t have a MSD comparison, but I find Migidoll Beige Cream (their NS name) is a very good match and Migidoll does sell MSD sized bodies. I did a few comparisons pics in this thread:
/threads/dim-hybrids.881769/

 

I also had DiM Larina on the Doll Leaves body for a long time, it was a decent hybrid, but I recently upgraded to the special Huajing body for better posing. You can see the hybrid in my comparison here:
/threads/new-huajing-special-body-and-others-msd.879582/#post-13176811

 

I just ordered an older Flowne head off Xianyu, and am hoping to secure a body that matches relatively well while also offering a good assortment of hands. Does anyone know if there is a Gem of Doll resin color that matches well with the original Flowne normal skin color? I've attached the photos I have of the head, taken with no flash on an iPhone camera!

Spoiler: Photo 1

Spoiler: Photo 2

Spoiler: Seller's Notes on Resin Color [English]

Spoiler: Seller's Notes on Resin Color [Chinese]

 

Left to Right: Zio, Mizu (?), Mudo


Been a long time getting them to this point XD I went with color themes for now but I think I will change it up. Especially for my Jullis - those clothes are way too tight for him

Spoiler: Zio, my Fergilicious Vampire

Spoiler: Mizu, Glam Rock Witch

Spoiler: Mudo, Adorable Goth Demon

Spoiler: Group

Jacket-less


With each other's jackets

 

those hybrids look great, the bigger body works really well with Ace's head.

 

Love Dimdolls! ❤️ Larina got some attention this week. Although a few years ago I wipe a face I gave her with so much love, I want it back and as much as I try, it just isn’t possible. Have you done this before?

 

A wonderful trio! I like them and the way you dress the three of them.

 

One more of Larina because I think she’s so adorable with her mouse. ❤️