Doll Family A Discussion - part 2

So a while back I ordered some practice heads through Alice’s Collections and they arrived a few weeks ago—finally had a chance to open them today and... they stink. Both of them. Very strong sharp resin/chemical smell kind of like wet paint. Even my husband who was sitting across the room while I opened my mail suddenly looked up and said “what is that SMELL? ”

Has anyone else had this happen? Does it go away? Should I contact Alice’s Collections? I’m afraid to touch these heads with my bare hands...

 

@Havra Not with Doll Family or Alice's Collections, but I have had it happen with a doll head I ordered. I left the head out in open air for a few days and the smell did fade over time, but I can still smell it faintly if I open the head up and smell directly inside. As far as I can tell, the smell hasn't transferred to any of my other dolls.

 

@Audrina Mystique Thank you for your input. I put the heads in the garage overnight, unwrapped, so they could air out. I was pleasantly surprised this morning to discover the smell was gone. I’m thinking it was just new heads sitting wrapped up in an airtight box for weeks before being opened. I think the natural offgassing must have slowed/stopped by now.

 

@Havra I'm glad I could help!

 

Hello, I'm still new to BJDolls so I'm sorry if this is already answered but I could not find a straight one. Felt I could find it here but maybe I'm looking too hard but anyways.
I understand that the Doll Families are the same company but different artists? Do they use the same resin as well or is there some skin tone difference?
I ask because I have a DF-A tan head ("1/6 Little Peach head" ?), that I'm finally looking to use and am leaning toward a DF-H body (Chubby 1/6 body) of course also tan, but I know tan is a real big range to match out in the BJD world. I've looked at several pictures from the two forums but I'm still iffy on it, plus lighting always makes a big difference.
If DF-A's skintone is too different I'll settle for just buying a DF-A body.

 

@PixieVenus DF-A and DF-H are not the same company and I believe (although someone correct me if I'm wrong) that none of their resins match each other perfectly.

 

I have both DFA and DFH dolls and I can confirm that at least their normal pink doesn't match perfectly. They have different resin too, DFH tends to be more shiny while my DFA is more matte.

 

@Cloudedmind Ah okay! I was under the impression they were the same company due to how it's described on the wiki page for it here.
@Rurimas Ok thank you! If their normal colors don't even match than their tan most likely won't.

 

Yeah, both company tans are probably not a match. But I'm sure you can ask for color matching, I saw someone that did it for an hybrid between dfa and dfh. The thing to note is that DFH tan is known to be on the shiny side, while I never heard so for DFA tans

 

@PixieVenus I think they were at one point a single company with two lines as the Wiki says but my understanding is that they split into separate companies many years ago.

DF-A and DF-H were both included on this list of companies which offer resin matching services for an additional fee if you're set on a DF-H body. Not sure if its outdated though! I'd check with the seller you're thinking of buying the body through.
Custom coloured BJD

 

DF-H and DF-A still offer resin matching services.

 

Has anyone tried the newer 65cm male body with the 58-62cm heads?

 

Can anyone compare DF-A normal pink and volks normal skin?

 

also interested in this for Merlin

 

I have a Dollzone Snow at home I can try on my 65cm DF-A body if you like? He’s intended for 62cm bodies

 

@IzabethS Sure that would be great, thank you.

 

I would also be super interested in seeing this !
Thank you in advance.

 

Hello! I have been wanting to make a hybrid body match for my Switch milk tea rose 65cm head. I want a body that is slightly shorter than their 65 boy. I like both the Doll Family H 62cm body and the Dollzone 62cm body.
However, I'm having a really hard time finding color comparisons for ANYTHING to the milk tea rose.
What do you guys think? Would the DZ pink skin or the Doll Family H pink skin be close enough to blush match?

 

@Gypsum DFH does resin matching so you could get the body resin matched to milk tea rose. I don't think DZ's pink or DFH's own pink resin is a close match to milk tea rose. Also, what head are you thinking of putting on the bodies? I have a DFH 62cm body and a few Switch heads.

 

@Gypsum - As stated DFH can just make the body matched to milktea rose. Regarding your question I have a Switch milktea rose head and a DFH normal pink body and the milktea rose is darker than the normal pink, the head can not be blushed to match unless you paint over the entire thing.