EOSdoll (formerly Limhwa) Discussion

Just checking in to see if you've gotten a reply? Were you able to make your order?

 

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve taken pictures of Holly, my Nina. She recently got new eyes!

 

@IzabethS She's beautiful. I love her vibrant colors. The eyes seem nice but they do not show up so well on my monitor, are they blue/brown or something like it?

 

Thank you! Her eyes are a grey-green color. Here’s a better picture of them:

 

Oh yes, I see. Very natural and they have an interestingly patterned iris. Nice contrast with her hair, too. Thank you for the extra photo!^^

 

I emailed eosdoll at hanmail dot net last night and they responded within an hour. They said "From June 20th to June 26th, we will be taking orders."

So woo hoo! I will be ordering a To.L as fast as humanly possible on opening day.

I also asked if tan would be available and they said "Tanning can be withheld by a large price increase." I'm not exactly sure what that means. But I am going to attempt to order in tan. I'll report back here what happens, how much it might cost, etc., when I'm able to order in a couple weeks.

I'm so excited!

 

I'm ASSUMING they mean it's available but expensive.
I wish I spoke korean so I could understand where the phrasing/mistake comes from!

I need a tan body for my floating head. I don't think I'll be able to make it in this preorder period, but we'll see!

 

@sahoma I always write the email in English with my best machine assisted Korean translation under but they always reply in only English ^^; So I can't even put an original Korean text here for anyone else to translate. That would be really helpful.

 

I'm sorry to update that To.L will not be available to order after all. They just emailed me to apologized multiple times, that they read my inquiry incorrectly as To.M, but To.L is still discontinued. I'm so crushed.

 

That's quite disappointing for you. I think To.L had been discontinued for years at this point though? I don't think he ever made it to Eosdoll, technically.
but there's on the MP right now.

 

So sorry to hear that. I was excited to think there would be another tan To-L on the board, after he had been dicontinued for so long. The newer tan is very nice, too, mine still came in that carrot tan, though he mellowed out a little over the years. (One of the rare occasions to rejoice at the untimely decay of red pigments in resin...^^) I hope you will find another sculpt to love, or another way to get To-L

 

AH! I had - she'd said to try in June and here we are in June and I still haven't gone back to try - thanks for the reminder!

 

@sahoma Yes, but there was that single instance of the "To.L Come Back" sale and I've been helplessly hopeful ever since. I've been watching that lone sales thread for years ;;; I just really really dislike aged french resin and kept hoping I could get him in tan

@Mandagore I have been wondering how those odd batches of too-orange tan have fared over the years. I was always hopeful that the red would mellow out as you mentioned! How does yours look now?

@Teruchan Best of luck.

I am still waffling over trying to order a tan To.M to steal his body ... because I did finally buy that French resin To.L that was on the marketplace. I've only been watching him for three years ^^; But I thought perhaps I could color match the head and put him on the tan To.M body. But then I know I would want a tan body for To.M as well ^^; Musical chairs bodies

Anyway, thanks to some really great sellers I now have all three Limhwa boys. Here's a comparison shot in case anyone else is interested:

Limhwa Mano, To.L, and To.M by t4124, on Flickr

BJD Comparison Left Limhwa To.L Right Mano by t4124, on Flickr

 

T4124, thank you for sharing comparison photos of your Limhwa/EOS boys. I always knew Mano had a giant noggin, but flipping-heck, he's huge compared to the other two boys. I wish there was a way to shrink resin, the way vinyl can be shrunken. They are beautiful head sculpts nonetheless, I just prefer smaller headed-dolls, since I can't do squat about my personal human-proportions.

I at least wish my Mano didn't have a giant head, though I have slimmed his face a bit, and I'm tempted to reduce the height of his cranium, he's till too melon-headed for my taste. DX I was looking forward to Miss Jung Ji Youn updated body for To.M, but then she replied to a question I asked her on Flickr, that it would be a smaller body. So, my hopes of having my Mano not looking bobble headed on a Limhwa/EOS body crumbled to pieces.


I'm going to be modifying him again this year (I hope!), I always regretted not getting a second one, but I am a germaphobe and Miss Jung never sold heads separately (for me to justify getting another entire doll just for the head).

This is an older than dust (2018) photo of his, but I haven't taken any recently. I will try to mod him again before it gets hotter than h3ll here, but I'm older and lazier now. We'll see how that goes...

 

@T4124 Thank you for the comparison shots! I don't think I've seen something like this before and I find it very interesting. Also, congrats on getting the To.L head! But what a quandary. I think it is a good plan to try to colour match the head to To.M's body, it sounds doable - but I also understand you want to keep To.M intact.

As for my boy's carrot days - he has lost some of his yellow/orange tint, but he is still a tan with red undertones, as opposed to the cooler tan colours around. I found a picture I took upon his arrival in 2009, where he has an 2008 Iplehouse real skin hand in his lap, a Domuya tan skin doll on his right hand side and is holding hands with a Dollshe dark tan doll. I always found that this was the one picture that represented his colour the best, especially in contrast to the Dollshe tan. For comparison I include a quick and dirty recent pic of my To.L. Keep in mind hands and face are blushed, but the neck is not. I hope it shows up right on your monitor, on mine it looks quite correct^^

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@Enzyme I am excited to hear your boy Mano's journey is still going on! I remember seeing him here over the years in his various manifestations. He's come quite a way.

 

@Enzyme Good luck with continuing the mod journey. I love your work on him tremendously. I suppose it's always possible that the creator will make a larger updated body in the future!

@Mandagore Thank you for the pictures! I can definitely see red undertones still, but not BRIGHT like it used to be. Your doll looks lovely

 

@Mandagore, thank you for your photos of your tanned Mano. I don't own any tanned resins myself, but I heard of the weird tanned resin shades Limwha had at some points. I believe some were due to her changing her casting company, but I don't recall seeing any actual photos of them. Yours looks lovely however, from what I can see on my monitor, nothing like a carrot nor orange at all. Thank you for your comments on my mod-journey, I hope I'm done soon, it's been too long. n__n


@T4124, thank you very much for your kind words! I hope she does decide to make a larger body someday, before I'm too old to care about it anymore. (:

 

@Enzyme Yep, these were the times!^^ I remember a lot of owners were so disappointed in that tan which was sadly really quite carrot colored in person and not even remotely similar to any skin colour known to mankind (except for the worst kind of 90s spray tan perhaps). A lot of dolls were immediately re-sold at that time. The biggest problem was that Limhwa's tan had been quite different up to that point and people thought that was what they had ordered. I always thought it was sad. Limhwa never even recognised the issue, saying the colour was fine, but then, what could she have done about it? (And psht, but mine's a To.L And he has a giant noggin as well! )
Say hello to your Mano for me. Tell him Panta rei: life is always change!^^

@T4124 Thank you, dear!^^

 

@Mandagore, I didn't even notice the differences and should have been obvious, just by looking t the lips your guy is not a Mano! He's gorgeous nonetheless! Life is indeed always changing, even if some of us hoped it would stay still for just for a second. It's probably just my old-age. Lo!(:

 

@Enzyme Never mind. I myself had difficulties telling them apart at first, that is why I found T1424's comparison shot so interesting. It shows all the subtle differences, they all have their own character. Your Mano, of course has become his very own man meanwhile, he is truely OOAK. (Don't I know it. I'm not exactly young either )