Dollstown Mini discussion part 6

Sounds like a lovely project. She'll need a little cardboard box with her gas mask in it.

My mother had a lot of stories of her time as an evacuee. She and her sisters were evcuated multiple times to different places bcecause my grandmother kept regretting the decision to let them go, and saving up to go collect them and bring them home to London again. Some of their billets were nice, some were terrible.

Teddy

 

Some of the unsavoury aspects of some of the situations my mother and her sisters were in make that understandable. Their situations were bad enough but she knew there were kids who had it worse.

I'd have thougth that 1/3 would be the right scale given that 1/3 assumes an SD sized adult which makes a DT 7Year pretty much the right size-range for being a 1/3 sized child.

Teddy

 

{nods} Poop! that's a shame.

Teddy

 

Megan does look sweet as an evacuee, @Jane

I hope you find a pattern that works with your plan, @ravendolls

Today I took Polly (RML K-01/DollsTown 5Year) in to work with me. He's a jolly little chap to keep me company on my desk:


Teddy

 

It is nice to be able to take a doll or two in with me. In pre-covid days people used to swing by the department to see what doll(s) I had brought in each day.

Teddy

 

I really hadn't realized it for the first few weeks.

I suppose it had to happen eventually that one of my dolls ended up dressed like me - and my hair is even the same colour at the moment ("Intense Copper" on the box, Bright Orange on the hair).

Teddy

 

I have a Ninodoll Shampoo head on the 7Year body:


I also have an couple of old (no longer made) RML R-01 heads on the 5Year body and the Elf body that I know also work on the 7Year body, but you'd have to track one of those down on the secondary market so that's not much help to you.

I used to have a Leeke Leina head on the 5Year body that would also have worked on the 7Year body too - so you might want to look at some of the other 1/4 Leeke heads:


Hope this helps

Teddy

 

To be honest, I mostly don't sweat those details.

If there's a sculpt I like I set about looking for a body I like in that size range for it to go on. If I have a body I like then I keep it in mind until I see a head I like that might work on it. If Ihave a spare body because I got it at a reasonable price, but didnt like th head it came with, or the head I had on it didn't work for me, or whatever, agin I hang on to it until I see a head I liek that's in that size range.

Only twice, in sixteen years of having BJD's has it backfired on me.

1) I have a fondness for the heads that RML made, back in the day, so tend to snap them up if they come up on the second hand market - one of them I got was a sleeping sculpt, whihc I don't have any use for, so it hung around in a box unitl I'd accumulated a fair few floating heads (the rest open-eyed) and the same number of headless bodies, then I sent them off to be face-upped, and, in the case of the sleeping head, modded to open-eyed, then face-upped. They all came back to me, and I started trying eyes in them, then putting thet heads on bodies.... and found that the former-sleeping head, while for an SD sized body, had a very small neck socket and was too small to fit on the necks of any of the SD bodies I had available.

In the end she borrowed the particularly slim-necked body from another of my hybrid girls who was awaiting having some work done... and I shopped around (for about 6 months) for an old Luts or Custom House Ai body with a slim enough neck for the new head. It arrived last week.

2) I bought a Baby Delf when they were first released, in the hopes of finding a head I preferred to either of the two sculpts offered by Luts, but my first try looked the right age but was proportionally too big to work (I foudn a better body for that one) and showed me I had to restrict my search to the smaller end of the SD-sized head range. That body sat in a box for a couple of years until a friend passed on an old Customhouse Ai Miya, which was the perfect combination of small enough to work on the Baby Delf body, and looked young enough to work as a toddler.

Otherwise, though, I've had no trouble with hybrid dolls working once the head and body were married up, athough, from now on, I will check neck measurements and socket size when on the lookout for a body for a head I already have in hand.

Honestly, I think that if you do want to hybrid another head onto a 7Year body, you just need to look at the larger end of the MSD range of head sculpts, and you'd be pretty much OK for one that would work proportionally. The 7Year body has a slim neck for the size of doll, so tht shouldn't cause a fit issue and if you stick to head sizes that correspond fairly closely ot the DollsTown 7year/5year/Elf sizes, you should be fine.

Teddy