Modification Leg-Paw Mod

So I’ve done quite a few hybrids with paws, and attempted a mod with apoxie at the joint and the question really depends on a few factors.
With apoxie and sculpting joints, I personally found the tension of a well strung doll is too much for apoxie alone to handle. as a result it crumbles and breaks and all that hard work goes to waist. So, it might be good to sculpt around the joints of an already existing pair of legs. youll need to be careful of the pillow effect though. Dollightful on youtube has several videos where she mods Monster High dolls, a lot of the mechanisms that she uses cant be transferred over but there is still good sculpting advice in there.
my personal ideal is getting a pair of existing fantasy legs and hybriding them to the desired body. several factors can make this process easier or harder. firstly, I find it is easiest to hybrid based on thigh circumference. If two different dolls have the same (or 1 or 2 cm off) thigh circumference then they can likely be put together. You’ll need to be especially cautious for SDs. If the hip pocket is too big the thigh, then the doll will not be able to stand (and it will be ugly as can be). its easier to match up MSD legs in my experience, since SD sizes - or maybe just the SDs i own - have more variation in their measurements.
Finally for stringing, the simple tried and true test of laying all the doll pieces out to the full height of the doll, folding the string in half and pulling to visually measure if the tension lines up should work. Youll have to string the doll with straight legs so the string will need to stretch that far. Ill make another post with some hybrids ive done in a second, just so you can see what im talking about

 

MFirstly with the apoxie legs. I spent hours custom sculpting and sanding joints to fit with an impldoll body I had


She looked so good when I put her all together but I left the legs attached for a couple days and did some practice posing to see how it would faire and the apoxie did not hold up. A whole section at the side broke off and the whole project was completely scrapped as a result.
I've had far more success with MSD hybriding with DV fantasy parts. They're easier to get a hold of than you'd think! I just bought some off of the second hand marketplace here on DOA actually! Below I have pictured a hybrid between an aimerai girl body and the Dream Valley snow leopard legs, and the one under that is a Coral reef girl body with the Fawna deer legs. The Coral Reef girl body hybrid has a small gap in the thigh but its nothing too obvious or ugly but the Aimerai hybrid was a perfect fit! Both these dolls are still currently hybrids.


I also attempted to hybrid a pair of legs from the 70 cm Apocolapse body (horse legs) and I tried it on several bodies but had the issue that the thighs were too small to fit into any hip joint. I don't have pictures since those were just out of curiosity and none of the dolls that I tested stayed together. The DV boy is now back together with one of my favorite heads. I used the whole journey as an excuse to turn one of my favorite dolls into a satyr . Soom Fantasy parts for their 70 CM+ boys though I've had more luck with hybriding. Again, just check the thigh circumference and it should give you a general idea if the hybrid could work. It's not a guarantee obviously but it works decently well.

 

Resinsoul will cast paw parts on request I believe! I just saw someone's custom order in the discussion thread: /posts/13213254/

It might take a bit of modding to get them to fit on the body you want to use but at least they'll withstand the stringing.