Fairyland Feeple Discussion

Hello, joining this thread as I am delighted to announce that I have recently purchased and received a lovely but rather yellow F70 Ashley .

She's going through a spa treatment and is all in peices, but im hoping a whitening bath will kill off some of her yellow tones. If not then I will have to learn how to dye a doll

Either way, I am delighted to add her to my collection and work on restoring her colour! I'm besotted with her lovely long legs and can't wait to get her strung together again to see her posing

I hope this little post make inspire you to take your own F70s out! I need more photos for inspiration!

 

Oooh @helenb92 congratulations on your Ashley! She's such an iconic sculpt! I saw an Ashley head for sale last year but I wasn't quick enough and she got snapped up If you haven't seen it already, there's a tutorial for using a very diluted dye bath to restore yellowed dolls to a more natural color. If your spa treatment involved any sanding, you'll want to sand the doll in its entirety before dyeing just to make sure you get an even color. But if you didn't do any sanding you could try it right away!

I keep meaning to take photos of my Cali boy!! He got a bunch of new stuff months ago and is looking very cute. I'm also hoping to make some progress on my Esther boy this summer. It's so nice that other people are still into F70s too hehe

 

@overlordu - thank you! The F70s certainly are rare finds these days. It's a shame they don't make them any more as the body aesthetics are really beautiful jever mind the sculpts! Thank you for the link, I knew I'd seen a tutorial somewhere!

Yes, Ashley has had a full sand down, the only part I haven't sanded is her head as a part of my heart breaks a little bit of face of history being removed. Ultimately it will happen as I'm keen to customise her, but I will enjoy it a little while longer for now. The sanding did help to lighten her a smidge, but the red pigment has really well and truly vanished. I'm still going to try a whitening bath, but I'm not holding high hopes for this magically pulling some pink back into her.

If you have any advice on where to buy clothing, please do let me know? She is by far my biggest doll now

 

@helenb92 I feel you on sanding the head! That's actually why my Esther is still a work in progress. The previous owner started sanding but didn't finish, so I kinda have to finish it or else the head is uneven Sanding the face is so scary! I've been using fine grit sandpaper and while it's much more time consuming than using a coarse grit, I've noticed an improvement in color but not a change in shape. I mean obviously some change must be happening, but since the sandpaper is so fine I think it's easier to avoid over-sanding. It's such a boring process though which is why I haven't finished. Ugh!

I'm not too familiar with the F70 bodies (my F70 heads are on other bodies ), but their torsos are around the same size as Delfs. Here's a page with Delf and Feeple measurements. Delf girls can wear SD13 girl size, and in fact are sometimes a little small for SD13 clothes, so I think an F70 girl could fit into some SD13 clothes, particularly ones without long sleeves or full length pants. SD16s have a fuller bust and smaller waist and hips, so I wouldn't bother with SD16 clothes except for maybe loose-fitting tops. According to the measurements, F70 high heel feet are the same size as SD16 heel feet, but I don't know if the shape is the same. I think the real challenge for F70s are pants, and for that I have no idea what fits!

 

@overlordu - you are a godsend! I'm so happy that there is someone who shares my experience in this!

Yeah, I think I would be extra cautious when it come sto sanding the face as there is so much precious detail there. The hands were also tricky to sand, but hopefully I have done a good enough job for the time being. I probably won't be dying her any time soon, so I can always go back and tough up areas as getting the dye even is important.

I have to say, even with sanding being a bit of a tedious and finger print removing process, that feeling of smooth resin is just the best!

I do have f60 and f65, although not much in the way of f65 clothing. So I guess I will try on so tops and see what fits, perhaps I can attempt to sew somthing. Trousers/ leggings will definitely be more of a challenge but that's half the fun right?

 

Hey there! I have a question, thought itd be most fitting here. I have a feeple shushu head and am not happy with the feeple60 body, it looks so pretty, but man the posing leaves many wishes open. Anyway, I was thinking about putting the head on a dc youth body instead and was just wondering if thats possible/ or if the peoportions will be way off etc. Thoughts?
My plan would be to 3D scan the neck mechanism and print a set for the doll to go on another body, so that shouldnt be a problem, asking more about proportions/possible difficulties, things I havnt considered.
Thanks a lot in advance

 

Which DC youth body would you be looking at? I can basically guarantee, owning their Y-06 body, that a FL head is going to be way too big on its tiny little neck. Maybe the other, bigger DC y bodies would fare better, but the 06 is tiny, and needs a very small head to appear proportionate

 

Thanks! I was thinking about the 03 but I think the problem is still the same