Gem of Doll Discussion

Does Gem of Doll not offer tan anymore? I also saw one of the Milo dolls in green. Do you think it would be possible to email them asking for a doll in one of those colors?

 

You can add colors to your order here, tan and green are both available options.

 

Thank you so much!

 

I'm moving soon but wanted to get out my zodiacs once more before packing up.

Pisces is almost home and Gemini is being made. The new centaur girl will be used for Sagittarius since she was released as a 1/3. I can't wait to order her, I love the enormous tail~ ( ´ ▽ ` )




A few more photos, portraits and face-ups.

 

Canines! Including a fuzzy fellow who I'm very interested in. Really curious to see the official announcement on the 20th, I've been wanting a canine with proper paws in the 1/4 scale for awhile.

 

So beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

 

I'm also very curious about her. I wonder if her torso is the new Grace body? With the added fox features.

 

Pisces arrived this morning~

I don't have her outfit yet because the fullset was sold out when I ordered her but I managed to order it separately later. Kind of silly how that worked out. But I used some sequins to display her for now. She's my first close-eye doll, I love her a lot more than I thought I would.

 

Gem’s faceups are always so perfect! They are beautiful

 

I love fantasy feet for dolls so the paws are very very tempting.

 

Thoughts on Gem's engineering and the dolls' ability to stand? I've been looking for anthro canids in 1/4 scale for awhile, and Orion should scratch that itch, but the weird placement of his ankle has me concerned about stability. Not sure why they did it that way versus the ankle jointing Belinda has.

 

I don't have a 1/4, I have a 1/6, but I'm pretty happy with her stability. I don't know that she has the strongest ankles in the world, but I think they're actually the best of the three dolls that I have. I've gotten her to balance on one leg a few times. Hope this helps!

 

I have one 1/4 doll from Gem, Carlos Tauros. He has cow hooves. He's really well engineered and can stand on one hoof, and is SOLID when I stand him upright.

I had similar concerns about Orion but more concerned with the aesthetics rather than stability. Digitigrade animals don't work like that! He's essentially got a second second ankle. Here's a comparison with a fox skeleton I did.



I guess you could take off the last part of the leg or replace the paws, but it really bothers me too. I like the look of Belinda's body, but not crazy about her face. I am still thinking about getting her and sticking my minifee Ciel Therian on her tho... Also Gem's clothes and having a doll that can fit into them would be worth the hybrid.

 

Glad I'm not the only one who was googling anatomy (wolf skeletons, in my case) and going '...huh. I KNEW that didn't look right...' But I guess if it's fantasy his legs can arguably have two ankles. A wizard did it.

Still debating over him, myself. My gut instinct last night was 'no, wait for DV to make some sort of canine', because I'm also a little iffy on the stylization of his head...and yet I keep wandering back to waffling.

 

Haha same. I'm also not a big fan of his head... yet I keep looking at him and Belinda. I love DV's anthros, but if you're looking for any sort of stockier canine it may be better to go with this dude and mod/replace the paws. We both know that their bodies are skinny legends lol!

Really wish Dollzone/Reduce's feather fox head was slightly smaller so I stick it on one of their bodies, but I think it'd be too bobble-headed. But I guess I'll wander over to the thread to ask...

 

DV is truly in a league of their own. My favorite fantasy sculpts in my collection for sure, they really capture structure and details so well. I'm excited to see GEM trying new things though.

 

Could you not just fuse the second ankle? I mean, looking at the skeleton that bone is fairly long so if you glued the paw piece to the rest of that leg you would remove that second ankle right?
I wonder if they did it because he couldn't stand so well with that joint fused.

I wonder if they'd let you just buy the feet. I'm curious if they'd fit any other body and how they might look. Because I like the sculpting of his feet but his strangely engineered legs are... odd. But I prefer his paws to the girl paws.
so hmmmm.

 

After a lot more staring him, I'm thinking of leg/foot sculpting as him just having very elongated toes, with the fluff with the joint being the heel. (And even if the jointing's weird, I will say that the actual paw sculpting is nice. Why are paws so hard to find?)

Also: what's Gem's average wait time, right now? Skimming the waiting room it looks on the shorter end, but I know stuff changes over time.

 

It's been shorter this past year than the last couple years. Maybe a month to 3 depending on the order.

 

I asked Gem if they would be willing to sell Caul on a human body, and they were! I wasn't planning on another doll so soon but I fell in love with his face ahhh