Do you trust your doll to stand?

nope. I don't trust my dolls because I live with cats, plus anything can happen while you're not watching. if they did happen to fall then they could easily chip their face, or paint, or put a crack in the resin. Mine usually sit or lean against something in a way that I know they won't fall. (Or they hide in their boxes)

Considering how pricey this hobby is, I would hate to risk it. But that's my opinion (also my dolls don't tend to stand the best haha)

 

I don't have any stands myself, but I would be inclined to trust them (as long as my doll was deep within my shelf so they wouldn't fall off the shelf... But I'm a paranoid person haha)

I've been tempted to buy some of these stands from Alice's Collections but I just need to stop spending all my money on dolls so I have enough cash to spare haha.

 

My doll doesn't stand at all ^^ I don't know if he's kinda defective because of being from an affordable company or I never strung him correctly... He is always sitting down in one of the furnitures of my bedroom or in my bed

 

I keep all my dolls sitting! Admittedly, this is because a couple of them definitely need some restringing because they do not stand well at all, but I also worry about what could happen while I'm not there. I buy a lot of doll furniture, so I sit them down and do a little posing so they look more natural.

It's not that I have pets, or that people come into my room a lot, but. Well, you know how sometimes things just fall without anyone touching them or doing anything? That happens a lot around me, and when I think about it happening to my dolls...

 

Currently I keep all my dolls sitting either on a shelf or in my doll cupboard! Mine are all definitely too wobbly to trust standing, and I'm pretty paranoid about them falling. I'm waiting on a doll stand though, so I might be able to trust them standing once I have that! I'm not entirely sure how sturdy those are though, but I think they're pretty good.

 

Oh man, absolutely not. He's always been a little floppy, and being 70cm doesn't help at all. He stays tucked away on his butt in the closet until the day I have the time (and the guts!) to restring him.

 

That depends. The larger ones I leave standing, but leaning against the wall. I'll also add that they stand on the floor so if they did fall, they wouldn't be falling a great distance. No one has toppled out of their place yet. I do worry a bit about the cat, but she's old and fat and not very interested in resin, plus there's currently a small storage box in front of them with a couple of projects I've been working on, so that makes it impossible for the cat to get to them right now.
My 1/4 doll always sits because she's really bad at standing.
The 1/6 dolls can stand, but they're cute sitting in one of the shelves on my desk hutch so that's where they are.

 

It's not the dolls that deserve your mistrust. It's the cat. I have one too and she has worked out the dolls get about 1/3rd of my total attention and she wants that 1/3rd for herself, in addition to the 3rd she normally gets. She's already responsible for knocking a doll to the floor when I had it standing on my project bench unattended for ~30 seconds; so my dolls live in a glass cabinet where no furry little floor creature can get them. The glass cabinet also offers a bonus feature in that if a doll should ever fall over, it'll only ever go as far as the glass pane.

Despite best efforts, still get cat hair inside the cabinet and all over my doll's clothing, though. :/

 

I leave my SD's standing, but they're usually in cabinets so, unless they fall forward, out of the open front, there's not far to go, and there are so many crammed in there really isn't much space to move at all:
http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a614/clothsprogs/Dolls/IMG_3871_zpsk0s5klh1.jpg
Some of them have stands, but not enough to go 'round.

Some of my tinys stand too:
http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a614/clothsprogs/Dolls/IMG_3868_zpsvdkzbvrw.jpg

Teddy

 

I don't trust mine to stand, though I've heard Ringdolls are good standers. I think it's a combination of his stringing and his incredibly impractical outfit.... He does stand well with a doll stand, though!

 

Has anyone used the Alice Collection stands? I'm awfully curious about them.

I keep my dolls in a closed off room away from kitties, so sometimes I'll leave one or two standing. Most of them are sitting though

 

Not all of them, no. My MSD-sized are both quite sturdy and can stand well with their feet shoulder-width apart. My DoD dolls, however, absolutely do not stand unless they have shoes on, and even then I think they have to be wearing boots (because their ankle joints are such that they just fall over right away orz).

My Volks SD13 girl also won't stand on her own but that's less because of the sculpt and more because of her outfit!

 

The only two- legged, human-type dolls in my crew that I keep posed standing are the "big people" (My EIDs and Spirit Doll pair-), and even then that's only because they're kept behind glass and (very) snugly posed in a way that gives them support not only from the cabinet walls but also each other. Everyone else is kept sitting or kneeling because I don't trust ANY of them to stay up indefinitely. Even a wired and plivered doll with perfect stringing can still tip over, so better safe than sorry in my opinion.

 

Not at all because mine just crumbles. Sueding might help, but even then I wouldn't trust while I wasn't there. Not unless she was in a display case or something.

 

I haven't tried one myself, but just looking at the construction and guessing the weight of those stands, I suspect an EID would pull one right over. The thin, plastic base and flexible post would be hard-pressed to support the bulk of something that size, even if the clamp would fit around them.

 

Mine can stand, but I prefer to display them safely in a seated position in their glass fronted cases, on realistic in-scale chairs and a vintage bench. A couple of my crew are seated on the top of one of our bookshelves, with one occasionally lounging on our dresser. We have cats, so safer that way - both for the resins, and for the felines. : ) I do have one large doll stand for the rare occasions I want to display someone in an upright pose (usually for purposes of a photo shoot).