DoT Resin - what is it like?

Hm.... sounds like DOD old resin ^^'
Mikael and Vanilla's resin are very smoth, but might be just me. Chocolate is a little bit plasticly but not a lot. Compared to other dolls I don't see a difference at all. o.o
But again, I'm not all over resin feel, so I don't usually notice ^^'

 

Hm... I understand what you mean now...

Hm... I don't think Vani is shinny on the light ^^' I'll check it out for you

 

I think I know what you are asking Rynn. In the gallery there is a picture of a black camine, and in the second picture, his hands look...well..shiny. No matter what light or how I photograph my CP dolls, that never happens, and their resin never looks like that. I was thinking about buying a DOT, but if that is what the resin looks like, I might not. This is the link to that post : http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38550

 

A thing more easier to ask is.. does the DOT resin feel kinda like clay? Like baked polymer clay? (Scuply, ect.) That's what DOD resin was like when the Guardian boys came out..

 

Well, I got my DOD guardian boy back in March, and his resin is a clear, luminous pinky white. I love it by far over my CP doll.

 

I got mine in March, and.. truth be told..

I really didn't like the color when I got my other doll... He looked sickly next to my other doll.. And I never really bonded.. DOd posing and color wasn't really for me.. ^^;

Edited because I was too tired, and too harsh

 

Hmmm... My Tender Too feels really smooth, and is a little shiny (his hands) but my Bee-A is only shiney when I've taken off her MSC. o.O... I really so wish I had something to compair with ^^;

 

My Tender Zen (Evelyn) doesn't seem to be shiny at all. And his resin is smooth, and doesn't feel like clay. I don't have a CP doll to compare to yet, though, but I have noticed in gallery posts that some dolls do tend to look shiny (not just DODs) and in mid november I went to a meet and saw some other DOD dolls that were shiny as well. I'm wondering, maybe its cleanliness? If we play with the dolls alot the oils from our skin might make them look shiny? I'm very careful with Eve, and haven't really played with him alot since I got him, so maybe that's why he's not shiny?

 

If you coat the doll, it cuts down the shine a LOT. Not speaking from experience, I dont own anything, but just talking about plastics in general. The shinyness is caused mostly by A) the smooth surface of the resin and B) oils from your hands and also, occasionally C) Mould release.
When they take the doll out of the mould, they may or may not wash it. Sometimes the waxy-ish material used to keep the resin from sticking to the mould can stick to the doll, thus causing it to be shiny.
So, if the doll is shiny, to the point to where it bothers you, either coat them with something.. or just give them a bath. Dirt and dust has a lot to do with it as well.


Also.. Guys, dont start throwing around resin-quality accusations.. I know you've all apologized, but.. Fact of the matter is, all companies use different resin, and if there WAS a quality issue, it'd likely be so minute you couldnt tell unless you actually worked in polymers.
So, honestly, the whole resin quality thing is a matter of opinion, mostly.
And if you bring up narae/other dolls that use french resin, the only difference is it costs more and is translucent. So... resin quality really is a moot point. It's just if the doll is too smooth/dirty/oily/uncoated/etc.

 

I don't think so, from personal experience (not saying that you're wrong, just saying my experience is very different). Compared with other companies, I think DOD's resin is not higher nor lower in quality, and I love the color. (Dolls I have seen/held in real life and am therefore using for my comparison: Delf Chiwoo, various Volks dolls, some Customhouse dolls)

I like the resin of my DOCs, it's not too smooth and it's not rough either. There is a bit of shine, but a quick coat of Testor's Dullcote takes care of that, and I'd coat it anyway for protection.

EDIT: forgot to add, I got CM in March and Min in October =3

 

The only shinning parts are the hands to me o.o

I don't think DOD resin is lower quality, I've been in meetings and actually it is just like the others to me. I love the color, love how pale and pinkish they look...

 

It's a different type than Customhouse, which is a better explanation. I like the feel of Customhouse better... DOD is really pale, without being Beauty White.. So... that's probably why I don't like it.. (And it was really hard to photograph my DOC..)

 

Just for the record, Customhouse resin can be super-shiny too, and I've never heard anyone complain that they used low-quality materials. (ShinkeiHanayama's Petite Little Friar was sooooo shiny before I coated her, almost like a mirror.) I'm not sure what causes it, but I'm pretty sure it's just a quirk of some resins, and not a quality issue.

 

I never said CH resin wasn't shiny too. I think it's because oils, or that its a type of PLASTIC too.. I didn't mean to offend anyone! ;x; DOD uses a different quality resin... It's just not to my taste anymore.. I definately loved my DOD, but getting another doll made me realize that I didn't have a strong 'bond' as I did with my new doll.

Honestly, do you think it matters? :3 There are hundreds of DOD's.

 

Noone should be offended by your opinion xD; At least, I wasn't ^^; Everyone has different likes and dislikes; I personally like DOD resin, and you personally don't. Noone should fault you for it.

 

If you're concerned about dolls being shiny, you've got two options . . . (1) use some microfine sandpaper to very slightly dull the surface (and I mean LITERALLY 'microfine,' 3M makes a microfine sanding sponge which I use on my dolls), and/or (b) coat the shiny area with MSC Flat.

My Unoas are very shiny unless I coat them with MSC, but that mattes down the surface nicely.

Oh, and I *love* the resin on my TToo and Bee-A, they've got absolutely gorgeous skin!! I haven't found them to be shiny at all, but if I did find some shiny spots, I'd just matte them down as described above.

-- Andi

 

My T. Too is no more shiney than my MSD Shinsiya, but I have washed both in dishsoap and lightly sanded tham with 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper (the black kind), so they look the same.

I don't think the shininess has to do with the resin as much as what the parts looked like when they went into the molding process...shiney parts in, shiney parts out.

DoD also sands their bodies before they send them. If you use very fine sand paper (600-1200) you will get a shinier surface (some of the sanding sponges labeled "extra fine" have a higher grit count) which is why I like 400, it gives me a satiny texture without being too shiney, plus I think MSC sticks better.

(Oh, my dolls are uncoated except for their faces...I don't care for coated bodies.)

 

Good point, I didn't even think of that. I'd take a slightly-shiney doll to having to sand myself anyday... I hate the sound of sandpaper on stuff xD

 

I do not own a DOD doll, but from what I saw in Vanilla's resin (DOD Shall) is that the resin is very life like! Really pinkish, and less prone to get yellow... The old resin looks like it gets yellower every day, so does the CP Beauty White! I always keep my Maeve out of the sunlight... o.o
But the CP BW resin is very good too, not shiny at all! And I took off the MSC because of the greyish look it gave to her body ;^; I have to apply more sometime, but I have to find a way to buy it!!! o.o

 

DoD sand their bodies first?? oh..Juyoku's skin isnt shiney and is very pale (which I love), but when he came he had spots on his chest that looked like someone tried to sand him with paper that wasnt fine enough I like the resin a lot myself but that sanding thing does make me a little sad T^T Ill need to fix that one day...

 

Oh, I'm sorry -- I wasn't talking about you at all! I used Customhouse as an example because it was the only other shiny resin I had ever seen, not because you had one of their dolls! I didn't mean to offend anyone either. ^^;

I have absolutely no judgement about you and your dolls, I swear. We love who we love, and it's not always predictable, so I don't think there's anything wrong with keeping some dolls and letting others go.

 

Yes, she was very shiny under her make up. I think Customhouse resin is good quality, and I equally like CP and Volks. I had a Yen for a week, we didn't bond, but the first thing that I noticed about him was that his resin felt plasticky - which doesn't mean that DoD resin is low quality, just that I didn't like it. Also, that was back in April, it could've been the batch.

 

I just got my T.Bee-A, and she's not shiny at all; but I got her from a woman who had her sanded, blushed, and coated. Her color is a lovely peaches and cream. I'm very pleased with her.

It's too bad you didn't bond with your T.Too, Rynn, but to each his own. At least you know now that you prefer other brands, and you've found dolls you are happy with.

 

ahahaha!! the truth is... you've seen NOTHING about how truly shining DoD resin is...

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27453&highlight=shiny+zen+pchaness

BEHOLD~~!

and so I've came to the conclusion that DoD is a very good company that tries a little too hard to please their customers... and sand their dolls until they're ultra smooth and pretty before shipping them out...

 

My Customhouse body - from a ltd St Demian - was really shiney (though not as shiney as Pchannness's Zen oo; ). Kuro also became shiny as he was played with. I gave them both a light sanding and that worked really well to take them back to their soft matteness they came with.
I haven't had any problems with my CP resin yet. But I think it's from the old batch, I'm worried about the new CP resin... ;_;