☆~~ Granado Doll Discussion Part 18 ~~☆

@Quiet and Insane Yes the come wired you don't have to ask for it. I love them on my guitar player he can do some really nice hand positions on his guitar.

 

Excellent given that Enoch #2 (Jin'Yuu) is also a guitar player! Although I can feel Iwan death glaring me.

 

I'd be nervous getting on Iwan's sh*t list, maybe it's time to make some promises you don't intend to keep (right away, that is)?

 

Well as long as he can wait to vivisect me after I've compared the v1 and v3 hands then we're all good.

 

Hoo boy, now I am really tempted to get the new jointed hands too since my Noah/Michael's character plays the erhu. While his current Impldoll jointed hands are capable of surprisingly dainty poses, they're simultaneously snappy and loose (if that was even possible), and so far all my efforts at restringing them have ended in frustration.

 

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Rich 020821 c by SteamWitch, on Flickr
The resin doesn't match perfectly to his old (not Granado) body but I love the way they pose. I didn't try hard to get a chord placed

 

Ahhhh now I'm super excited to get these hands! And the body too I suppose!

 

AHHHH my Newton head is here! other than needing to make his eyes a little larger, which I knew about, he's exactly what I hoped for! AND his resin is a pretty darn good match.

He's in white resin, and the body is a Volks SDGr in their white- it might have a liiiiitle aging, but overall the match is great and the proportions look great in real life.

 

Congrats on getting him. He looks great, looking forward to what he is going to look like.

 

Oh congratulations! That's a good match. I can't wait to see what you do with him!

 

Thank you so much! I'm all about details ^.^ I really admire all of the intricate work you put into your crew as well!

 

Thanks you guys! I am very excited! BUt the wig I got him is wayyy too big, his head is about 20cm. ANd this character has such a specific hair and clothing style I will have to make his wig myself, I think. Time to go find some silver suri alpaca...

 

@Rosslyn Congratulations! Oh boy, he has the same head circumference as my Michael, who has given me my own share of wig-finding problems. Unless you can find the exact style in 7-8in, making your own is the way to go!

 

Trying to find out a bit more about the Jane head, but I don't see a neck or head circumference on the Granado site. Before I start casting around with a wtb I wanted to make sure it will even fit in with my crew and I can usually tell that from those two measurements, if anyone knows that easily...

Body said the neck is 9.5cm, so if anyone knows head circumference I'd be obliged.

 

All I have is the little 29cm version. Sorry. Did you try just asking Granado through your account page messaging popup? They're really good about responding.

 

How is everyone? I have yet to take photos because I have real-life work to take care of, but my Noah's 75Adagio finally arrived!

There are some limitations to his posing that I'd have to get used to (compared to my Impldoll Idolman that has thigh swivels similar to the newer Granado tinies, that is), but I'm still over-all happy with my purchase. In fact, so far he's my only major doll purchase for the past two years that won't require any immediate "surgeries". All my other new arrivals had had to be taken to the dollie hospital due to problems in manufacturing and/or shipping. Kudos to Crocus Lee and the Granado team!

 

Ooh congratulations!
I've been quite good. Trying not to be too impatient about my Granado order, but also absolutely dying to take photos of the guy the body's for. He's had a face up, eyes, and and wig for years so he's good to go right away. Although, the original outfit I purchased at the same time has since been split up and other doll have laid claim to it. I should at the very least try and get him a pair of pants. Otherwise he'll be stuck in a yukata for a little while. (I personally wouldn't mind him hanging around in the nude, but I live with my grandmother so uh, gotta keep the boys decent )

 

Thanks lots, @Quiet and Insane -- I was also reaching the end of my waiting limit because I paid in layaway, and only finished it December (basically, I waited for six months from layaway start to end of production). I was even having dreams of receiving the wrong item, which pretty much shows how anxious I got. And oh boy, I know how it's like to have to keep the boys decent. While my spouse doesn't mind lounging naked dollies, the repair man might not.

Anyhoo, I managed to snap a quick shot of Noah. I didn't show the true color image because his current faceup is of a waaaay different hue than the rest of him (the base resin colors are identical, though). While there are certain joints I would miss (yoo-hoo, thigh swivels please), the 75Adagio has really grown on me! Granado even sent the body with silicone kips on the shoulders, neck, and hips, which help a lot with holding poses. Just take care not to let the joints "suck in" the kips, of course.


Adagio Noir by Yela Gatchalian-David, on Flickr

On a side note, I had a funny mini-mishap with changing his "special parts". FYI, they are attached via an elastic that loops from the head to the groin. I accidentally let go of the elastic at one point, meaning I had to partially unstring him to pull back the "special parts" elastic to where it should be.

 

@AntarelNefertili - Nice to see Granado are still sending out bodies with kips too! Iwan's body came with kips and (still being new to the hobby) I was over the moon happy for this surprise. The great irony is that one of the kips being sucked into his left elbow meant he was always curling his arm in on itself, and I didn't realise that was the cause until I took him apart a year later to blush him. I ended up working it into his story, hence all the scarring he's got on his arm.

Oh nooooo, I just got the mental image of a tiny sausage being flung across the floor when the elastic is released. I'm glad none of my two strung boys have catapulted a sausage yet.

 

@Quiet and Insane That's just the annoying thing about kips, right? If they get stuck inside joints, you may have to resort to unstringing to retrieve the disc. Noah is actually my first big doll that is sueded in any other joint aside from the neck (haven't pulled together enough willpower to do the task on the others), so I initially didn't realize that his resistance to changing poses was due to the kips.

Wahaha, that had to be a really tightly strung pickle for it to be launched off bazooka-style. On the other hand, using elastics meant that it is more securely latched on than the corresponding pieces of my LoongSoul guy, whose "special parts" magnet has already required regluing on several occasions.