General Mecha Angel discussion thread!

Idrisfynn - I would love to see him with his new physique!

 

That's great news idrisfynn! I bought Stille in hopes of doing the same thing for my Sabik. So relieved the NS is fairly close! I'd love to see pics of the resin and proportions too, when you get a chance. What year was your corvi made?

 

Thanks for the info~ I got mine back in 2009 or so before Soom's resin got reeeeeally pink. He actually matches my NS supia and NS Iple really, so he's kind of in between.

 

Just for the record - does hot-glue-sueding make a difference at all with the MA body's "notoriously bad posing"? Or should I be looking into wiring as well? I realize it'll be awhile before my Antares kit arrives and all, but it's good to make mental note of these things in advance, I think. ^^;

 

Sueding helps just about any doll with posing hehe, but only to a point.

 

Ooh, your IOS hybrid sounds intriguing St. James! Personally, the extreme skinniness of the Mecha Angel body is what drew me to it, but I could see others wanting a meatier option.

AceDelta, I have mine wired and glue sueded, and would definitely advise doing both. The sueding helps a bit, but the main issue in getting the body to stand is that the legs are sooo long and thin, and the upper torso is comparatively heavy. I have the thickest wire that would fit in mine...

And here's a silly picture of my Saiph, from while I was working on her customization & outfit

 

Hahaha, she's just a darling flower child.

 

Dirili : Heh, true enough. As does tight-stringing. Or well, tight enough, because "too tight" results in "kickiness".

candygears : XD That would make a wonderful headpiece, though! Seriously, I think it'd be interesting.

Oh wow, yeah, I can see how that'd be troublesome. Not to mention the length of the legs paired with the heavy torso would probably make finding that exact center of gravity to be a little tough. Do you know off-hand what gauge you used for wiring?

 

Woah, what's up with all mecha angel being suddenly sold out? Last week when I checked the soom website, they were still available. Is there a news that they will discontinue the current line-up or are they going to rerelease them in the future? I was hoping to grab a Sabik elf this summer but I fear that might not be possible.

 

MAs are sold out most of the time, outside of very limited time sales(I think it's usually only a week long?) events once every few months. They don't even seem to have a reliable schedule for that anymore either, going from some of what I'd read in-thread here.

It's part of why I had to jump on the Antares MA kit when it became available at Christmas.

 

Yeah, Mechas are only sold for a limited period time (5 days), and SHOULD be for sale every second month. But as AcesDelta said, they might not be reliable with the schedule.. Last year I think there was half a year or so between two ordering periods.

But the next time they're going to sell Mechas is on February. At least that's the answer I got when I asked. Still ended up ordering Bellatrix as a kit from the event since I didn't want to wait

 

I feel like I really scored with Christmas, though. Because buying a fully assembled Antares w/ faceup and a Jointed Hands Kit during the same ordering period to try to ensure a good resin match? Would be EXPENSIVE. .____.;;

 

The amount saved from ordering a kit instead of the assembled version tempted me too XD I didn't get a faceup though, but I still thought it was a great save. And I'm in high hopes that the kits would be shipped faster than assembled dolls... Even though Soom stated that the preparing time would be the same, but who knows.

 

One can always hope!

I was totally suckered into getting a faceup because Antares' default faceup is beautiful. Well, to me anyway. XD;

I normally don't order dolls with faceups? But I make exceptions if a faceup really grabs me. Antares was one of them.

Having never ordered an x-mas kit from Soom before, though, I have to wonder what kind of "vinyl bag" the parts will be shipped in. Is it just a standard shipping bag like you can buy at the post-office/that courier packages sometimes come wrapped in? Or?

 

Oh wow thanks everyone for the fast answers, I didn't knew they worked like that. I'll just have to wait for the next release then! (Yeah for having hope again!)

 

Hopefully you'll be able to get your Sabik Joliepixel! Just keep going to look at the site for updates~

Antares' default faceup does look lovely indeed :3 I've never ordered a faceup for my dolls, at least yet, there has always been more or less something missing from what I'd wanted for my character so I've preferred to do the faceups myself. For Bellatrix I'll be going for a lot darker eye and lip makeup and for a bit pissed off expression XD We'll see how it'll work out, but I'm excited about my plans and hoping that she'll turn out the way I'm planning!

I've never ordered a X-mas kit either.. I do believe (or at least hope..) that the dolls are still shipped in a box of some sort, so that none of the parts break during the shipping, and that the vinyl bag is the bag they're packed in inside the box. Don't know really, but I hope that Soom won't ship them in a bag only without anything else.. That doesn't seem like a safe method @.@

 

Sneaking by with a finished pic of my Saiph! Its so great to finally have her looking like she is supposed to - I've been pining for a Saiph of my own ever since I first painted her for someone in 2009. And she's been laying around blank for way too long



She's the dark faerie queen of my Slantways world. There's a couple more pics on my flickr too! (She's on the Dollstown 18 body, which I think is so perfect for the Mecha Girls...)

 

She is gorgeous