IMPL dolls Star, Model and Idol Discussion thread part 13

@Ipledreamer Hmmm. I don't have space for furniture but I don't lack for wall height. Do you think any standard shelves, maybe with heavy-duty brackets, could hold an Impldoll Idol man?

 

I thought I'd share a picture of my IMPLdoll Heloise.

 

@Audrina Mystique Oooh, that's the first time I've seen her, very nice!

Now that I'm looking at her... has anyone made one of these into an Iron Woman or other Iron Man related character, that anyone here knows? With a little modding that would be perfect.

 

@A Wee Tiefling
I'll leave the tidbits here in case others are also interested.
you can email her with a HD photo of the eyes you want as reference or choose from her catalogue. the eyes come of metallic pegs. snip the pegs at the back till you have around 3mm or so of it to help keep in in place when you push it into your polymer clay ball. take a sharp scalpel and carefully trim off any glue that may be sticking out from the periphery of the iris back. this is important because even though those little pieces might not be immediately visible, when you push the iris into the clay, they WILL show.
once you've prepared your irises, make 2 balls of polymer clay in a slightly smaller size than you need for your doll.on a flat surface and gently press them down. you need to make the balls smaller because when you press them down your aim will be to create a half sphere. this means your polymer clay pieces will expand outwards and should at this point become the correct size to fit your doll. i like to draw circles the right size for the doll eyes on a piece of paper, then put the polymer clay balls in the center and work on top so i know i'm getting the correct size.
if they end up being a bit bigger you can always carve or sand them down so it's okay if they're roughly the same size.
gently press down your half spheres to form a slightly falter top. not too flat. locate the approximate centers of your polymer clay balls and gently begin to press your irises in place trying your best to apply vertical even pressure. at this point you do need to move slow and patiently. be gently. once your peg is all the way in, the back on the iris should be evenly resting on the polymer clay. you want to gently press it in just enough to hide the very bottom rip of the iris. if you press to fast and too deep, your polymer clay will warp and create a doughnut shape around your iris. preheat your oven to a lower than recommended temp. i use 175 to 180. sometimes 200 depending on which oven i'm using but because your polymer clay is small , it doesn't need to bake at high temps and it doesn't matter if it's 100% baked. so long as it's hard enough that it's not malleable and doesn't deform, you're good to go.once you're happy with the eyes, put them in the oven and bake on a lower than recommended temperature. for about 10 to15 mins (less time than recommended for most polymer clay). the lower temp will also help your colors stay the same. blues and greens tend to wash out a bit with too much heat.
once baked you can either choose to gloss the whites all the whole eye, add veins if you want or just leave it as is (which is what i do)
the process itself isn't complicated or hard by any means. don't let the size of the length of the instructions scare you off. I love the eyes i get out of them. i usually order several pairs and just keep them around.

@IngieBee this style beard texturing is really fun and relatively easy. to do as are the scars. I will eventually do a tutorial on my Instagram page for them like i have done for the attached hairline.... but i need a good opening in my schedule to do it. recording the process does mean it's slower. but long story short, it's just gel medium you can get at most craft stores. scars are very easy to do with it (though you can also use several layers of PVA glue). the beard requires some more patience and maybe some practice on a head cap (it washes off) but it's otherwise not a complicated technique. not something you can't teach.[/USER][/QUOTE]

 

Awesome!!! It's so good to see an owner's picture! That is one of the coolest dolls they ever made!

Really @Ipledreamer , be I never even thought to ask! Maybe next year???

Wow, thanks for all that info @MaryamDN !! I really need to sign up for Instagram! LOL

 

@Ipledreamer Not at the moment, but I could certainly take some more of her! What would you like to see? Different angles, action shots?

@With-a-curl I honestly have never seen any owner pics with anything except the default faceup and body blushing on any of these girls except mine. But yes, that would be another great character to do with her!

I've had the hardest time bonding with this girl. I originally got her for a story that fizzled out before it even started, then last year I wanted to enter her into the body blushing contest but I couldn't come up with any ideas. Then I came up with the idea of making her the Yellow Ranger from Power Rangers, so now she's become the spirit of the Sabre-Toothed Tiger Zord.

 

@Audrina Mystique I think she'd make an excellent cyborg! Of course I just love cyberpunk and she could simply be in a VR activated costume And YES to more pictures, with more angles and actions! Is she flexible?

 

@IngieBee That's how I got my Christopher, I just asked them if I could order her. She's not on their website but I saved her photos from back when she was first released. I love that they do that. I mean the worst they can say is 'No' which just means your wallet thanks you. I've found this company to be one of the nicest to deal with. There is only one other company that is just as nice (OT company).

 

I really can't ask until I am ready to pay unfortunately, and I can't pay . My Plaice could really use a body, but what did I do? I bought 2 heads!!! Now I need more bodies!!!

 

@Ipledreamer , I don't know Heloise? Where is Heloise?

Edit: Oh stupid me! That is the robot lady! I do believe she is from the model days, no? The one human picture they have, it no longer links anywhere, but she looks like she is on the FGB star body:


I'm going by the collar bone, both seem to have swivel arms??

And where did Leona come from, she's gorgeous (or am I suffering memory loss again? LOL)

 

LOL, good luck resisting, you know it's futile, @Ipledreamer

 

Well, @Ipledreamer , I'm glad you are strong because I'm not, and the only thing keeping me straight as usual is lack of funds, LOL

 

I'm so bad... I just bought a body for my Plaice. He's so cute, I couldn't bare to see him floating around! I also bought some stretchy stuff at Alices since Plaice is going to wear the outfit my Nicolas has on, I'm putting Nic into a trendy sweats. I also went to SartoriaJ and got funky leather pants for Eclipse. I want the boys dressed! LOL

 

thanks God i learned to sew for all clothes, it takes time to get good fiting, but i have planty of fbric to do practise. now im working on t-shirts for myself and for selling, but need new iron for applications on t-shirts as my dog eated iron cable.... oh well, it means i can sew and iron on all t-shirts in one time :-)

 

I know! I want to sew but I have no place to work . I've been trying to get my eldest daughter's room cleared out and organized, but I'm still not finished

 

@IngieBee Do share more of embodied Plaice when you can! I need to know what clothes the big guys can fit and look good in

 

I think they could be even bigger than Iplehouse EIDs! Maybe Superhero is safest? But I just bought EID pants from Sartoriaj and hopefully they will fit and I'll take a picture I have the FGB though, and I think the TGB might have a bigger butt? The pants I got were more fantasy, the "leather" riding pats that flair out at the thighs? It's for my Eclipse who has an oversized medieval style shirt. But then the stretchy stuff ought to fit, I think

Also, I added to my order a Leona head, and paid for a faceup. If they don't make the inner eye too red, it can look pretty interesting, but their latest faceups look like they have swollen eyes, LOL. Still, I decided to take my chances on a faceup :/

 

Hummm, yes, I always planned on sewing clothes for my dolls, but never get around to it I got Nicolas this sweater, an off white turtleneck and these pants. I think it'll look great if I can squeeze them on Nicolas. ???

 

@IngieBee strechy trousers will be good i think, and if you dont have space for sewing mashine you can always do it by hands :-) maybe its solution, but worth to try.... Im sewing in my bedroom even i dont have too much space, so usually i move serger on one side, than take simple mashine and when i need serger i swich them.

 

@IngieBee Those trousers look really good, I hope they suit! I'm also joining the group of weaklies who need to buy something new. It's time for me to bite the bullet and go full Idol...getting me the Tony! I might save myself some trouble and order his fullset, though I don't like it at all...

 

Thanks for the encouragement @Anita2006 I'm just taking forever to prepare my area

@A Wee Tiefling and @Ipledreamer unfortunately Alice's wrote to me saying there is no way that stuff will fit . They directed me to the manufacturers who will custom size and I got Nicolas a mod pin striped suit - I think. I haven't heard back from them yet though...

 

@Ipledreamer

So...do you own that blinged-out Nicholas military rock god coat? Because so far the only outfits I like have BLING and LAAAAACE and while Commander Hairdo is a bit appearance-conscience I doubt he'd be pleased if I forced him into an outfit with both LAAAAACCCCEEE and SEQUIIIIINNNSSSS!!!!ELEVENTY. It's all a bit too on the nose for him.

(I love these Idol women clothing tho, they actually seem to be trying to make unique looks, not plain street fashion stuff)

 

Actually, I think it's interesting that they just released a few casual street clothes for the girls! But no, @A Wee Tiefling , my Nicolas arrived un-ordered (by mistake) in white skin and I got inspired by a model who has albinoism. Currently he is wearing the black shadow outfit, but it doesn't suit him IMO. Being inspired by a model, I see him more fashion consious. Plaice will get his outfit, and being an elf, I think it will suit him well . I have my fantasy crew and my human crew

Duh, you didn't ask me, LOL

 

Hopefully this is the right place (so many retired Impl threads)! -

I'm planning on purchasing Filraen (after Iplehouse Rex and Charm Doll Dunn, oof), but Impl's having anniversary sales right now so I'm very tempted to nab Filraen in October. Depends on a few things though (I want to pay off one of my layaways in full...)

 

@Nissa , which one is Filraen? Can you link? I can't find him!

I'd love to get Garza before the event is over as well, but I don't think I'll have the money in time

 

@IngieBee

I found him on a couple dealer sites, haven't decided where I'll eventually order from. If BJDivas is affiliated, I'll go through them (have to go check that now haha).

Impldoll Idol Filraen

I like that he has a more 'mature' face, as well as expressive and angular, because I'll be commissioning lots of mods for an older character (who's close with a character I'll be shelling with an Iplehouse EID male doll). Their sizes are comparable, with Filraen being a couple centimeters taller, which is just perfect.

 

Oh! He looks familiar, @Nissa! I wonder why he isn't on the site anymore??

I also wonder whatever happened to the Asian sculpt they posted on Facebook forever ago? He might be better for my character than Garza...?

 

Hi there! Just wanted to note that we do represent them.

 

@IngieBee Your answer helped me anyway, yay you! How do you find the quality of the clothing? I had a look on Impl's website and found an outfit that could work...but I'm becoming used to the silly amount of frills and froofies on Tony's fullset.

@Nissa Filraen has the coolest face, he looks so much more like a traditional elf than some of the more stylized and baby-faced type sculpts out there. Also BJDivas are great! Just finished a layaway with them...now for this one (big sigh) I like living on crackers and canned beans. Really I do.

So...how do people bewig their big ol' lightbulb shaped Impl heads. It took me an age to style Delia and I'm still not happy with her current wig

A Wee Tiefling on Instagram: “My elegant Fia came for a summer stroll #bjdphoto #bjdhistoricaldress #bjdclothes #bjdstagram #impldoll #impldolldelia”

 

@A Wee Tiefling I only have the Gavin outfit and for the price, it is excellent. However, they goofed mine up. They added one too many buttons... That is below the chest piece with buttons, mine has two more back snaps.looks a little weird but I just let it go.

 

Oh, he has cool ears too! Neat!

@A Wee Tiefling yes, I have a summer flu today, LOL, and I am more ... Errr... Confused than usual and not following everything clearly. But I have found you can still buy some of their outfits even if they aren't listed, so do ask if you like something

 

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK. I just got a response from Impldoll!!!!

Dear customer

The production of the head has been completed and we will release Asian style dolls very soon,
Now mainly in the making of accessories, clothing has other accessories^^
Best wish
Sean

Oh, and this is the outfit I ended up getting for my Nicolas. This company will taylor to your doll's size, which is awesome

LOL, and I just found these eyes under my bed


I'm planning on repainting her, I think I can do better

 

those eyes looks great, more on scary vamp side :-) she needs just eyelashies and face up will look difirent. eyelashies makes big difirent on face up :-)

 

@IngieBee

I love the idea of getting tailored outfits! I have a Star male body in the works so I'm pretty excited to get him some fancy tailored duds. But them pinstripes: WHOA! Also, I love those cool grey vamp eyes! I need something similar in blue for my incoming Aurora

 

I'm so excited to get that Asian sculpt, because my favorite book was/is Snowcrash and I really want him to be Hiro Protagonist I might put him on the Star body so I can make the Huge guy Raven on Idol body. I already have YT on a small loongsoul body, so it would be like a different scale for my Snowcrash crew, LOL

 

Oh wow, I'm sure I've already written here but I lost it or something. Thanks for the nice comments on my Crystal's new eyes. I should get my mold soon so I can try making my own eyes. I'm looking forward to doing that. I know Crystal would look better if I would put eyelashes on her but I really want to give it another try on the face up or maybe I can just add to what she has.

I seen some interesting techniques lately that add to the realism of a face up. I'd like to try it.

I'm so excited for that Asian head mold. I really think that it will suit a character from my favorite book, Snowcrash. I'm thinking of putting him on a star body. That way I can make Raven this huge Inuit character in idle size. He won't look especially large against my existing idles but he would look good with the other two characters.

LOL, Now it's there ^^^^

 

I've looked waaaay back in the thread and can't seem to find where someone kindly answered what size eyes the Ziv sculpt takes. The Impl site says 14mm but sometimes companies put quite large eyes in the doll when a size down would look better. Or you need the larger size as the eyewells are huge and would have gaping otherwise.

I'm looking to purchase some eyes and I've found some I really like. One pair is only available as 14mm and another pair is only available as 12mm. How well do the eyes show in the Ziv sculpt due to his semi-closed eyes and would I have any gaping with 12mm? I can't wait too long on the 14mm eyes as it appears to be only the 1 pair available otherwise I'd simply cool my jets until I had the sculpt in hand and go from there to figure out eye size.

And I am FINALLY going to be purchasing a Ziv in custom green to match/be close in colour to the Impl Simon Colourful Life I have as the Ziv will be his grown up version. I hope to place the order soon but I'm still trying to figure out what sculpt I like for the free baby doll I'd qualify for with my order.

 

Hi @Iron_Dog , you know you owe us pictures of your Ziv, right? LOL.

Anyway, I don't have him but I can say a few things from experience. Since Ziv is more Anime style, the width of his eyes are probably at least 14mm. The thing I want to warm you about, because I have a couple of squinters, LOL, Is that you have to find low dome or no dome eyes, as the domes won't fit in the small space / opening. So my educated guess is to stick to 14 and make sure low/no dome over the Iris . Hope that helps??

 

@IngieBee Yes, when I do get him, I will certainly post pics. It's been a long road to find the right character to shell in the Ziv sculpt. I'm pretty excited to have him finally come home since I've loved the Ziv pretty much from the moment I saw him but everybody I tried to put into him was just a touch off/not right.

I have a couple of half-closed eye guys in my crew (and 1 with completely closed eyes) so I do know about the sometimes challenging issue of the eyes being the right size but the domes making it not happen. I can live with a little bit of gaping but I'd prefer to have decent fitting eyes. I'm also looking into getting some moulds and just making my own. I've made acrylics with the eye blanks and it was a lot of fun so I'm thinking doing resin ones where I can get really funky with the sclera colours or embed gems and the like will be even more fun to create.

 

Cool, @Iron_Dog , I'm so sick of taking chances on ordering eyes and them being wrong, etc... That I also decided to make my own. I got two silicon molds that I'm waiting for, both for small Iris, one with a hole for the pupil. I bought some m2 washers to paint and insert in a depth that real eyes would sit at instead of deep round bowls just to see if it looks flat or not??? I'm so looking forward to doing this! I've kind of always wanted to try, but it wasn't until now that my frustration has overcome my fear, LOL

I have dollies go get right! And incoming too!

 

I'm particular about the eyes in my boys. I've been fairly fortunate but some of them have been frustration incarnate to find them the right eyes.

I was given the eye blanks by a friend and enjoyed making the eyes. I've watched some tutorials on how to make resin eyes on YouTube and it seems pretty straight forward. I'm sure there's a learning curve to getting them just right and I anticipate having some less than perfect eyes at first. But that's how stuff goes when you're learning something new, right?

 

Right!

 

Ugh, I just read on impl's site that they are now only using anti uv 'environmental' resin and I am worried it won't match my Plaice??? Ugh, always something.

 

@IngieBee

They must know we're all devoted Impl lovers to do us a dirty like this (But it makes my life easier since now I have no choice when ordering and we librans hate making decisions)

 

It might not be that much of an issue. Environmental resin simply means that the materials used to make the plastic were sourced by environmentally sustainable methods.

 

Environmental resin is the lovely more transparent resin usually. But I just don't know if It will match the head I got earlier this year. My Dylan's head is also completely different from his body, and though I live with it, I'm not happy.