Dollzone Discussion ~ 60 and 70cm ~ Part VIII

The eyes are gorgeous! One thing I've heard about sharing images on DoA is to keep them under 2MB in size, or they'll end up broken. I don't know how much that really applies, as my small images (800x600px and under 1MB in size) still wind up as broken images...

Edit:

I realized that I may not have posted Emilia's new faceup, she's my April elf and I finally like her faceup!


Let's see if the image breaks or not!

 

@IzabethS ohhh I like your Emilia so much, her faceup is wonderful! Actually, I've almost snatched an April myself during discontinuation event but finally decided not to.

 

@Zacarias They're both stunning but yeah, definitely on the short side. It works out for me though as the character I'm shelling is shorter. Haha

 

Thank you! Despite having her already I have been stupidly tempted by purple ones on the secondhand market. She just looks so pretty in purple, but I have no need to have her double…
I really like her body as well, and that she still has the Dollzone vibes. I really need to do a comparison of her to my wife’s original April on the first generation 58cm body from way back when!

 

@Zacarias - Ooooh those eyes are gorgeous!!

@IzabethS - She's so beautiful! You've done a stunning job with her face up!

 

Ah yeah, the purple is really tempting, but I don't think I can spend that much money now... I was actually going to go for a fullset option but recently Dollzone faceups and fullsets have been turning out different in reality than in promo pictures so I was afraid I'd be disappointed.
Ohhh, it would be really interesting to see! To be honest, I didn't even know there was another version of April!

 

@Quiet and Insane - thank you! It only took me 4 tries to get her to a point where I’m satisfied with the Faceup

@elsie_f - yeah I’ve heard that too, though I am not interested in company faceups or full sets as i need to paint my dolls myself to bond with them. The original April looks nothing like the current one, i think they just reused the name honestly. I can snap a picture of her if you like? I can’t do a comparison until I get Emilia’s body back, but at least I can do that

 

@IzabethS - I wish I had the patience/time to paint a faceup lol. But the lady who painted my DZ Helen as well as my RS Ling...is just top notch. Like idk how she gets the skin to look so real...the pictures just don't do her justice. So I'll happily pay her whatever she wants to have her do paint all my dolls lol. I'm honestly considering wiping some of my company faceups and sending them to her. I used to paint wargame minis (think Warhammer...the guys Henry Cavil always talks about) but something about painting a face, I just cant do it. Plus I don't wear makeup in real life so idk it just doesn't click in my mind lol.

 

IzabethS, your Emilia is so beautiful and ethereal looking. She’s perfect!

 

@IzabethS - I get it, although for me it's vice versa: most of the time I can't see the potential of the blanc sculpt and I fall in love with a certain faceup, be it a company one or a custom on the second-hand market; and I'm at a very beginner level of painting dolls myself.
So, about expectation-reality thing: I was fascinated by Gray's fullset - but when he came, his faceup turned out to be much more intense and the costume was far simpler... So Gray's personality became different from what I had imagined, and I ended up giving most parts of the costume to another doll. I love him anyway! But I don't trust Dollzone's promo photos anymore
Yeah, it would be interesting to see who they used to call April before this one!

 

I'm glad you have a good faceup artist to work with! I find painting BJDs more relaxing than tabletop minis, and with my shaky hands doing those itty bitty details would be a nightmare for me. But I do love painting BJDs of all sizes, the smallest one I've painted so far was only 5cm big, with the head roughly the size of my thumbnail.
I am in full support of you wiping the company faceups and getting your faceup artist to repaint your dolls, there's just something magical about being able to get exactly what you want.

Thank you!! I really love her even if she was an impulse purchase back in 2018 I think? I really wanted the Daomiao event doll (but on a girl body) so I had to come up with enough items to buy to qualify for it!

That's okay too, not everyone can look at a blank sculpt and see the different possibilites in it. I still remember when I got my DC Snow Nymph, she looked like an alien all blank and stuff! But I could still see my OC Melody in her, and she's now the most human looking Snow Nymph around.
Let me grab a picture of my wife's April, and I will edit the post then!

 

Whoops, I wandered off and forgot to take a picture of the OG April, so I snapped it just now and here she is!


Her Faceup is a modified default (I added freckles). She was a first anniversary gift from me to my wife (back then girlfriend), but she’d been in stock a while as a full set at Mint on Card. We sold the full set outfit as once my wife realized what character she was, she had no more use for the poofy outfit she came with.

 

@IzabethS - it's a great ability to see a future OC in a blank sculpt like that! I usually accumulate a lot of others' images in my head and then gain a vision of how I want this sculpt to look like... and see it blank and think "what are you" Although once I was completely stunned by a blank sculpt (it was a DIM Annabeth, I still have them blank but I want to paint them myself)

Thank you for the photo of original April! She looks so sweet, and I like the freckles and her outfit and the bird! What's her name? Also, it's so cute to give a doll as an anniversary gift (my relationship goals hehe).

 

What a darling sculpt! I love her freckles!

 

Did everyone see the new dog and cat dolls?

DZ Limited : BJD - Alice's Collections - BJD Dolls, BJD Accessories

 

Oh curious. Are they re-releases of the previous Egyptian themed dolls? They look like very similar sculpts to me.

 

They are pretty cool, but they are too big for me. 70-71cm is my maximum height now.

I agree with Quiet and Insane, they do look familiar.

 

I suspect so, except on slightly bigger bodies (I think the previous Egyptian themed dolls were on the 68cm bodies?)

 

I agree, they are the same heads, but looks like more resin colour choices too, and you can still choose either the B-68 or the B-70
i am waiting to hear if they only offer the head or if the body can be cast in black resin.

 

Ooh a full black resin doll would be incredible (but difficult to work with potentially?)