Dream Valley Mini Discussion Thread 2

Oh, I love what you did with the tongue haha. I dithered between the too fantasy heads and in the end got the one without the tongue. Love yours

 

So I made a great buy yesterday in a charity shop, a musical instrument (maybe a guitar?) stand. It is perfect for the DV serpent and thought I'd share. It is very sturdy, height adjustable, very stable and not too intrusive. Also as the supporting vertical pole is curved at the top keeps away from the snake body and can carry the stand with naga in it holding at the top of the curve. So pleased!

High holding, still extremely stable


And lower

Spoiler: More pics

The size which works spot on is

 

Yeah, I noticed this about Jian too. I think DV might have two sculptors (or sculpting teams) with different preferences re:head proportions. Of their more recent dolls that I own, Bone Butterfly and Ehecatl have smaller heads, while Maurren has a bigger head and smaller face. At this scale, such small things really make a difference and stand out!

I like the more mature look so I've increasingly been going for small heads and more proportionate faces on the heads. Wish we could buy the shoes and hands separately bc I love them as well but alas...

 

So I learned when I got my boys the tongue actually is it's own part and comes out. I most likely will glue the tongue in place with Orpheus as scared to lose it. I fell hard for his default face up and have no regrets on him the green tongue is like my fav part DV really was top game for the snake boy's face ups.

I'm glad people love Orpheus as much as do. X3
I plan to find him some gothic shirts and make him a utility kilt for when he might want pockets.

As for my solid green snake, he is waiting on a replacement face/head as his face up was hurt in shipping. Soon as that gets here he will get nice pix and with him I might leave the tongue off as the mouth looks just as good without it.

 

I really need to go back to using my DSLR and editing photos on my computer. My phone camera is nice for what it is, but resizing sucks. Anyway, in case anyone wants to see my boys:



More photos here.

Funny thing - I opted for ACBJD's stand offer, assuming these guys would come with an MSD-sized stand. Nope. The one they came with is even taller than the SD-sized one I already owned. Which I guess is great if you want the tail mostly up in the air. I don't. So, I've got them on the MSD- and SD-sized versions I already owned. Also, they came with two different sized pairs of glass eyes, one of which had irises that would completely fill the eye holes, and the other of which were poorly matched, so I ended up throwing a couple sets of temporary acrylics in there instead.
The plan is still to swap torsos, but I'm going to enjoy them as they are for now. They have a couple minor flaws, but overall, I love them!

@kyukyukyu - Oh that's a great solution for a stand too! And you won't have the problem of them sliding around on the acrylic base like I do. Nice find!

 

@Sianserais he looks amazing, love what DV did with the official blushing and the acrylic stand is definitely less intrusive. I got an 'invisible standard 1/3 from ACBJD for this serpent but decided not to use it (as I didn't trust it to hold the dead weight of this bjd ). Tbh the musical instrument stand being £5 made it a no brainer so to speak. But the tripod legs make the stand unusable to place him where I was intending as the foot print is a wide area.

 

NewClover got back to me over the weekend, and my Moth will be shipping soon!

 

Ooh! May I ask when you ordered? Is she blank?

 

I did order blank, and I placed my order last October.

 

That's so exciting!! Please share pictures once she arrives . She's so dang pretty, time to start stalking Denver Doll in the hopes that they have some extras once she arrives lol.

 

Thanks yes I definitely will share pics!!
I ordered her in that dark cocoa brown, and I'm really pumped to see how that looks in person.

 

Oh would love to see the cocobrown I ordered my Moth in normal on the penultimate day of the preorder hoping June delivery, May isn't a great month for me looking forward to seeing all the different Moths.

I keep looking at the blank promo pics and Moth is so gorgeous

 

This is great news! Share some photos please! I can't wait for my own moth, I also ordered her in cocobrown

 

People on xiaohongshu are starting to get their moth girls in (where is mine!! DV please!! ) and there's something I noticed which has also pointed out in a length post by one owner.

The white moth wing head and shoe parts are not actaully very white, and don't seem to be matching the bodies if they were cast in white resin. The fantasy parts are more yellow. I think I have seen one or two posts where the white parts match the white body, but in general this seems to be that the parts are not exactly "wall white" as the one xiaohongshu user pointed out. There isn't much to be done about this, so just a heads up for us to manage our expectations with the colour of our fantasy parts. Hoping we get lucky though!

The coco resin looks so pretty in the few box openings I've seen. Someone put a Peakswoods msd he!d on the body and it also was incredibly cute and fit well, I think!

 

I am not keen myself on white-white resin but exceptions are things like these shoes and headress accessories I have my fingers crossed I am in a later batch thanks for the heads up! Really hoping I don't regret getting 'normal' (I was attempting to have a body I could more easily hybridise) as the other darker resins looked lovely in the samples... and a Peakswood head sounds really cute!

 

Great to know, thank you for sharing!
Would you be willing to share some of those posts? I'd love to see!

 

@Beansproutmomo

peakswoods lady bee on the moth body
romantic lady bee on the body on a blue grey skin? dressed

short vid of NS white moth with custom faceup and custom painted wing parts

WS box opening

coco skin box opening

coco skin box opening with her dressed and posed at the end

 

Thank you for sharing this! The custom head looks amazing—like a flower fairy! And after seeing this I kind of regret not taking her in outfit and with painted wing parts

 

My moth officially shipped from NewCloverSinging today! We'll see how long it takes to arrive~

THANK YOU!!

 

Amazing pics and videos! Stoked for my Moth the moth with the extra wings looked fab and cocobrown looks amazing