66cm+ Dolls Doll Chateau Skeleton Winged Medeas: Kahik

Received Doll Chateau Medeas with an A-Body-04-1 skeleton winged body on 5/2/2020, along with a few others in a huge box. Unfortunately, he arrived with a chipped ankle. At least the very delicate wings were in great shape, so we will get him fixed up soon enough.

Kahik is Horseman aspect Tragedy. His wings were quite a challenge.

Methos (DC Mephisto.Pheles) welcomes Kahik back into the tribe.
Not to be outdone by spectacular wings, Methos manifests his antlers.​

Multi-panel shot first, then larger after. thank you for looking!


So many pieces to bind.

Be still now...

There you are, feeling better?

Kahik in Victorian regalia.
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Thank you for looking! xGrimalkin​

 

@TheDoctor - thank you (ps: i love your screen name)
@Ryuichi Sakuma 13 - Hi! and thank you
it's a little long, but i'll try to answer Q's below, with some observations about the mechanics

• the wings have a pretty specific range of motion, but i'm pretty sure wiring or hot glue sueding would help the long bones pose better. they have tiny channels, so wire may be more trouble than usual.

• Two of the magnet parts tend to fall off a bit right now. i need to investigate if maybe the magnets are set too deep inside, or maybe add stronger ones

• the parts that attach to the shoulders have slots that encourage certain set poses. i think you could switch left and right though to get even more poses. that is another argument for stringing them separate of the body elastic since two people couldn't even get enough slack, and like you want to do that repeatedly. i do think i need to tighten the separate i used elastic a little more for tighter poses.

• he currently cannot stand because he has a large 1/2" chip out of his ankle. i've heard they can balance though. actually, none of my DC's stand unaided right now, i need to learn how to suede them, or possibly restring entirely for the kicky ones.

* the wires out of his back were provided by factory to keep a hold on the elastic inside his torso that DC intends you to use to string the wings. Nicola also had these. you pull on them, and i needed a second person to get even 1" out, but the additional 1/2" required, i couldn't get out no matter what we did. i took off a leg to the knee and no difference, which looking back, may be that the legs are individually strung in DC and i had the wrong elastic selected.
> upshot is that i popped his back open and parked the lip of his solar plexus with a soft cloth between (watch your digits!) and used the wires to thread a separate elastic through the two holes and used that to connect the wings. i used two of the tiny replacement S hooks to connect the dewclaw retainers. those wires are living in his box though as they are very helpful to fish around inside. for more info, i have a link in the DC large doll thread about a tutorial another kind owner posted that helped me immensely.

 

^^^ Nicola was much easier with smaller body = smaller elastic the replacement calf will be a little more time i think since i have to wrangle the usps directly, then go back to dealer. i won't try anything cosmetic until i'm sure they don't need to see more of the damage etc.
though i do love him barefoot... have some tall Na-Na style boots, the pointy type with a billion buckles, so maybe they will help him stand. i already have another scene in my head for him

 

i bought some low temp glue before the world went sideways, i just need to find the glue gun now... i've been bracing my courage to try, probably first one of the side characters haha

 

Hi LonelyArtist - thank you yes, it is a slippery slope indeed, and i love the weird stuff too! Methos is such a diva hamming it up. in my mind he is welcoming his old friends and partners; they will be up to all sorts of shenanigans soon i'm sure