DF (Doll Family) Tiny doll discussion thread

Congrats mirrorcle_world! Bibi is a darling sculpt. He will look awesome in grey resin! Looking forward to pictures when he arrives.

Congrats Kiki Happy! RouRou is such a sweet sculpt.

Wow! Great news that you already have a shipping notice! I'm really curious about her dark tan resin. I'm sure it's going to be beautiful! Please post pictures when she arrives.

 

Anybody else eyeballing DF-H's new Xiao Chan? I lost interest in minis years ago but he is SO cute!!! 35cm though? They call him 1/5 scale. What the heck is he supposed to wear? I compared him to MNF boy measurements and it seems like MNF would be very baggy.

 

I ordered the new DF-h Xiao Chan, 36cm boy ballet from AC. I don't know if he is meant to be here because he is 36cm tall. He is adorable and I want to see how he compares to my Granado ~32cm boys.

 

SteamWitch l agree he is cute. I like the 35cm bjd's.

 

Me! I wanted a more affordable ballet body, but the size is odd. I'm wondering how it would look with a MNF head since it's a couple cm shorter than a Moe body.

 

@Bristol That is what I want to find out, which is another reason I ordered him.

 

It says the head takes a 6-7 wig like the smaller head MNFs... Tempting. I did check last year's DF pink and white skin against FL's, but the FL's heads are darker. Gem of Doll's white is a perfect match with FL's white, but the body isn't what I'm looking for.

 

I haven't bought new BJDs for quite a while. (I missed some dolls I really wanted to have because companies discontinue their dolls and stuff...) But, now I'm considering buying a small one from DF-H while they have the event discount going on --- and while they have the sculpt in their selection at all!

However, I'm pretty baffled with their skin colour options; they have 8 different resin options to choose from!
I tried googling for colour compare pictures, but none of them include the imported resin colours, and the shades vary pretty wildly between the pictures. Though, I don't even know is there much of a colour difference between usual resin and imported resin.

I wouldn't be too happy if I accidentally got a doll that is darkish yellow, super pink, or pure white.
So... If anyone could make this clearer for me, I'd appreciate it!

 

@Karl-Kai, I've only seen the normal pink in person, but IMO it's a workable match for Fairyland NS, if that helps at all! As @Bristol says, it's a bit paler, and a bit pinker, but not a garish shade in any way!

 

i'm getting the body for a WM Anjue head from New Clover Singing. The head is SO SMALL it wears a 5-6 wig so i think it would be a perfect fit on the body, i also want to compare it to my MNFs though i'm stumped at what he's gonna wear. I talked to another doll owner and it seems clothes made for iplehouse kid, dollmore narsha and blue fairy jr might work. It'll prolly be a mix and match between slim mini and yo-sd stuff clothes wise.

 

He looks like he's going to be a leggy nearly YoSD size. I thought my tiny collection was done but this one prompted me into buying one! Mine is going to be modded as a girl. I almost never get a factory faceup for a doll. I usually prefer to do them myself. But for this one? That face is just precious. I am super excited for my Tiny Dancer.
PS
afterthought, accounting for shortages and shipping in these weird times we're still getting by in, I kind of expect this doll to arrive in Early December. She'll make a fun little winter holiday "surprise" from past me to future me. I might use the dimensions to make some elastic/loose outfit bits, something snowflakey and sparkly for her to wear and pose in snow, maybe do a bit of The Nutcracker Ballet and make a Clara gown and find a little Nutcracker toy for her.

 

He is so crazy cute! I just go into mini's and I am eyeing that AC sale deadline like it's my job.

I've noticed that a few companies have a ~30cm doll line like Luts so maybe the category is slowly growing?

 

I ordered the girl version. I do have have some 14" clothes/shoes l am going to try to see if they fit.

 

My Xiao Chan body came in and he's darling. I'm modding him to work with LTF heads and am very happy with the result!
I posted a sorta box opening with some pix of him posing


As for clothing, this is the female head (I've decided the body is hermaphrodite, because it needs to double for both this head and a Shiwoo elf!) and the outfit I made for Morgaine's arrival is a nice fit, except for some extra room in chest. I just took a tuck in the back and it worked nicely. No pix yet.

 

took a couple of quick pics to show Yrulani in the dress I mentioned next to LTF Wiishu. I find her frustrating to pose standing. Legs kick all over the place, but I'll figure something to stabilize her.

Sitting, with butts in the same distance from the edge so that hers drop naturally over the edge, Wiishu's calves hit the edge

I think they'll be a lot of fun together. Funny, his head looks larger! He's wearing his lucky/magical robe (backwards for extra luck) because a dear friend is having major surgery.

 

It's a beautiful body! Have you sueded yours? I have a habit of sueding almost all my dolls, but I know not everyone does things that way.

 

I'm going to try kips in the hips and ankles. The other joints are quite solid. I've never actually sueded a doll, or used kips before the Granado guys appeared with them in key joints. My Fairyland dolls never needed them. Do you actually glue the suede into place? The resin is really smooth. Lovely feel, but not much friction in the joints. There's something about the hip joint that I'm trying to figure how to use. It's very sided. It's new to me, but I think, from the pictures, it's typical for the DF-H bodies. He/she poses so well otherwise, I think it might be at least partially user-stupidity.

 

I like kips the best so far. I've used glued in suede, hot glue and moleskin as joint tightening methods and kips are best for me.

 

@Vindalootoo Can you give us measurements of the pointe feet please?

 

I can't find my metric measuring tape, but it was pretty closely 2inches along the top, toes to ball end and 1 3/8 inches toes to back of heel on the bottom, which translates to, what, 5cm and 3.5cm? Width at widest point is 3/4in or 2cm. Her ankle measures 1/2 in or about 1.3cm across. Does that help?