Pocket Venus (tiny) --- Lola - some final pics (07/21/08)

resin pics on page 6 - at last, we have achieved moldness!!!
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ok, so I really have been kind of good this week, and have started doing some sanding and such on Bug. and I really, really do want to finish her off and get her casting in resin, really I do!

but so many images, so little time! and it takes a much better person than i am to sit and sand when you could be squishing clay...

so please meet Astarte - the pocket venus. (I read that phrase in a book from the 1920's and always loved the image....)

one pic is with Bug to show you her approximate size (with high heel feet she measures just over 8" tall)

yes, she will get arms and hands, and her shoes will be redone. and her legs will be sanded down as much as possible to give her big hips and tiny dainty ankles.

have to try to find some roughly doll house sized eyes though.... i made her some little balls of cernit for the interim.

 

(i like her with no arms too.... )


dancing goddess :










and to give an even better idea of size = the eye is an 8mm one






and here is Superwoman!!! (can't you just see the cloak floating in the wind behind her?)

 

<snork!!!> thanks Chuuie - I know she thinks she is pretty sexy --- so glad that you saw it too!


WOO HOOO! Forest, come on jump in, the waters fine! I'll trade you 10 semi-finished grey bjds of varying wierdness for one bjd harpie from you!!! (hmmm - i probably HAVE 10 semi-finished bjds of varying wierdness..... such a coincidence!)

thanks guys --- don't like those shoes on her (love the spike 12" heels, but the front part isn't right) so am looking at those strange tall getas and chopines (???? from Venice?) but may just go back to some sort of spiked high heel.... just have to figure out how to make the loop at the top of the foot strong enough......)

 

just for fun --- redid her feet, and gave her a mohawk headcap.

she is a lot of fun to pose - but in redoing her butt, i think i changed her center of gravity, so she won't do the single footed poses right now. will have to work on that.

 

<grin> - hey Kaye, you can't be a perve for noticing that cause then i'd be a perve for intentionally sculpting it, right? besides, she just so obviously is happy with herself, I love it. (being of that type of body set myself - vertically challenged and horizontally spreading ------ but too shy to enjoy myself like she is, she is based on a couple folk i've met who were so very comfortable with their non-dollfie body types)

hey Bruny! oh yeah! hmmmm --- now i need to figure out how to give a tiny that sized perfect finger and toe nails....

hey Keanna, I'm working on arms and hands now, but i'll try some feet next. her proportions are not going to be good for most clothes though.... but i would love to see her in a little hiphugger goth pleated skirt with suspenders and a short t (hmmm, hey Tro-chan!!! can i bribe you to make her an outfit????)

thanks DenaliWind - she has been fun - though her joints are a struggle.

couple pics with "normal" hair...

 

Darkmothflame has kindly volunteered to help me try some molding and casting.... and Twigling had kindly offered advice on joint issues and casting --- so I'm planning on taking them both up on their offers and see if I can cast both pv(the pocket venus) and bug in resin.

i'm keeping my fingers crossed and will post pics as we make progress. and we'll see how it goes from there. I definitely plan on casting her with assorted feet <grin> and in different resin colors.... hopefully by early summer.

will be an interesting spring!

 

I've just ordered some 3mm eyes off of etsy --- if they fit, i'll post pics...

 

even cooler, just found out that person does 2mm too ---- oh well, we'll try these first.

 

awesome hamsters!!!

darkmothflame and i are working on her molds (more are being poured as i type - i hope!) and the eyes are due in later this week.... hopefully there should be some pics then.

need to figure out how to color the resin next....

 

ok - finally got some eyes that sort of work for her... these are 6mm on wire eyes from etsy... 5mm might have been better - but these aren't bad.

we are having horrible troubles trying to get molds and casts without bubbles ---- and while setting up molds seems to be logical to Darkmothflame, I keep doing stupid things like setting up a mold so the seamline is horizontal across the breasts. (don't ask. I don't know what in the world i was thinking!!!)

but while i'm waiting to pour an improved head and a new torso, i worked on arms, hands and regular feet and took some pics...






she is very spiritual --- but like me, has a little trouble with the full lotus position...



loves Disco!

 

hmmmmm....

hey Zidora,

I'll play with trying an optional - more standard shaped torso piece out of curiousity.

she really started out very conceptual - no arms, round ball jointing like the extreme artist dolls that these started from.... etc.

and slowly has gone more realistic.

but her upper torso will be sanded more smooth to fit with the rest of the pieces too...

thanks for comments guys - Darkmothflame and i are aware we seem to have problems sculpting things that fit the criteria and are hoping to learn enough to be able to continue to make our quirkier ones, but also ones that appeal to folk too...

hey! anyone have any ideas on pressure pots? I searched the subforum and didn't find too much info. would love to hear about anything anyone has learned....

 

hey guys - thanks for the enthusiasm!!!

I'm still hoping to cast her myself - but if it doesn't look like it will work, i'll be contacting Dennis to see how much she would cost if cast by Bobobie... I really like their service, but was hoping to keep her price down if possible...

i've got a refined face in the molding process so will do closeups asap i have a cleaned up cast from that --- i opened up the back of her head more, it is so tiny that it is really difficult to fit your fingers in to tie off her stringing threads --- so i opened her head more, and will work on the base for the head s hook...

thanks Tea Rose! I believe that the eyes I get from the etsy shop might actually come from her.... they look identical. I'll get closeups asap i can to show how they look in place... I've ordered from Jane a couple of years ago - and they always seem to be out of stock ---- but you can look at the etsy place :

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5523137

now i need to focus on sanding down her toes and fingers and refining.... and hubbie dearest has ok'd expenditure for a pressure pot - but i have to find a place for it... Kaye --- thank you so much for the information! our compressor doesn't seem to have an hp rating on it, but it says it goes up to 135 psi so that is hopeful... boy is it noisy!

we are ordering more mold supplies, resin and some colorants, and we'll see what happens.... going to see if we can figure out some resin colors, may end up with some strange bits and pieces until we figure out a way to be consistant...

thanks again all

hope to talk to you soon
patl

 

whoops - here is the direct link to the etsy eyes for the dolls...
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5523137&section_id=5281643

 

there are plusses and minuses to making them tiny.

because they are so light and all the limbs are tiny - I think that balance is easier. but to keep feet in proportion - you end up with tiny bases to stand them on....

and i have kind of short blunt fingers and find it hard to work this tiny. but at the same time- if a part doesn't work, it is much less stressing to toss it and make another one than it is for one 2 or 3 times her size.

i've always wanted to do one that would fit in a doll house, and that didn't quite happen

my son is helping us now with the molding - he is being very precise and careful (2 things i'm not really good at) --- so hopefully, if we have some dry weather, maybe we'll have some better casts by the end of the weekend.

fingers are crossed....

 

hey all, slowly trudging forward here! thank you again for kind words. sometimes i think if i have to look at another piece of sandpaper my fingers will fall off --- so kind words help keep me trying.

taking a break from trying to sand her smooth and talked Darkmothflame into doing a faceup on one of the casts of her head. (it has a tiny airbubble in its lip - but Darkmothflame still gave it a wonderful faceup...) she also donated an awesome wig for the photos...

please forgive the legs and feet. they are from some of my less successful molds. had to use them because her good ones are in the process of having new molds made...

I also borrowed Darkmothflame's Twig (orient doll vampire Ji) to show her size. I think they look great together....