Getting more used to accidents?

Honestly, I've never been all that paranoid. I am one of those people that firmly believes my dolls are meant to be played with. Inevitably, there will be faceplants and falls. I don't really panic about it, because the point of my dolls is to enjoy them... and if I'm being worried about them all the time, I'm not enjoying it as much. If something breaks, I will be upset, but I will also work to fix it and carry on. When I modded my Juri 06's lips, I nicked him a bit and he has a small scratch on his face. Rather than panicking, I just consider it part of his character. =P

 

My girls seem to like faceplanting and flopping backwards. At this point I only spaz about 50% of the time when they do, just depending upon the surface that they're on and how hard it sounds like they fell *shurg*

 

XD hahah offtopic but funny sig line too :P

 

I find that I'm the same way now. I've had my girl not even two months and her little falls don't worry me too much cause I know her resin can withstand a decent fall. Because she has a two jointed torso which allows her to sit easy, sometimes when I pick her up she flops back and that used to freak me out to no end, but now I'm all "oh rhiannon must you do that? so annoying". Typically when I'm making her clothes she's nude and sitting on a table or bed and she'll fall and I just shake my head, inspect her face, and sit her right back where she was. Right now I'm more paranoid about the sleeves in the dresses I been making her, as her fingers are splayed and can snap easily cause they are so thin.

 

I'm nowhere near that point. XD Poor Aidan was perched on top of my computer last week with Lily, and I took Lily down to mess with her hair, and down Aidan went- at least a four foot drop, right onto his face and left hand. He broke his finger. ;_; I just about cried, then I went about bandaging his little hand until my roommate, who does a lot of work with building models, could glue his little finger back on. (Aidan didn't appreciate having a pen for a hand for a week...) I ended up getting him new hands which, hopefully, won't break if he falls on them again. I also learned my lesson- never put the dollies up on the computer. ^_^;;;

 

I used to think that resin was pretty soft, until I watched the tutorial on how to string a BJD. When I heard the good solid "clunk" as the thigh snapped into the hip socked, I pretty much sighed in relief. xD

So I don't think I'll be too nervous. Still nervous, but not PARANOID. Here I was thinking that I'd have to be very, very careful. Like, not even holding the doll too hard careful. xD

What I REALLY want to do is someday get a junk doll (either a miscast or a very battered, unfixable one), and try to figure out just WHAT resin can stand up to. >3

 

I'm always going to be a little paranoid and careful. I've seen falls and breaks in other dolls and I know they can happen. I've had one face-plant of my own and it scratched her faceup--so it's more of a warning to watch out rather than get me to be more relaxed!!!

I AM a bit less paranoid in general... I know that not every little thing will cause damage, so I'm relaxed to a certain extent, but NOT about my dolls possibly getting damaged! I do NOT want any more damage than necessary...

 

You get used to handling them and you can tell when they're going to fall... your reflexes get faster... but I'm not 'used' to the accidents. I just know how to avoid them better.

 

I'm clumsy and my dolls do take falls, but no one has broken as a result of a fall. my bambicrony RANDOMLY did lose two fingers, but she hadn't taken any falls that day and they just seemed to magically fall off... but not due to a headplant.

my friend is still scared whenever one of her girls take a hit to the face with the floor or table, but I'm very chill about it. o___O;

 

I'm less afraid to handle my dolls. When I got my first doll, his headcap was on really tight and I was afraid to take it off. Restringing for the first time was scary too. Things like that don't bother me anymore. I'm comfortable posing them, handling them, taking them places, cuddling with them. However...

Actual accidents, still kinda freak me out. I'll have a moment of panic, and check to make sure their ok (which they usually are). Frank (Souldoll Paris) makes a point of scaring the crap out of me everytime I try and take pictures of him standing up. He'll be perfectly fine and stable, and then out of nowhere--oopsy daisy! Over he goes (usually on a hard surface), yet the little bugger has sustained no damage. However, if a doll rolls of the sofa onto the nice soft carpet (not a big drop at all), hitting nothing on the way down, there is a good chance some kind of damage will be sustained. What the hell is up with that?!

I just try to find a balance between being carefull and being able to play with them comfortably. 90% of the time that works out.

 

Well the firs few day Loki didnt even fall from anywhere, and then when one day she was sitting on the table, my hand somehow bumped intu her and she fell backwards, and made such a nose, that mom came in to see what happened. She was unharmed, fortunately, but I allmost had a heartattack. Now when we make a photoshot, and she doesent want to stand and faceplants th floor (mostly carpet) I just pat her on the head, check if everythings allright and go back to making photos. So far she didnt loose anything, and I dont think she ever will, well nothing that a little glue cant fix untill I get her a new hand^^"

 

hm.. um from the replies here, i'd like to know if BJDs spontaneously jump about due to their elastic or something? (i only have blythes so i don't really know ^^

 

I'm the other way round D: Each time something happens to my doll I'll get more and more careful with where I stand him or sit him and to not get anything near his face <.>

 

The Obitsu 60 got stained from a shirt that rubbed on him and by now I concider it's going to happen because he's a boy. I can replace the parts but he'll just get them "dirty" again.

When my first resin kissed off part of his lips at his wedding I freaked a bit but I was able to fix him. Haven't had anything break yet, knock on wood, but I figure anything that's not their face can be replaced.

 

I'm definitely becoming less concerned about them. For the first year that Lake was with me he stayed in his box, and I was always scared of changing hands/eyes etc or even moving him too much. However I had him up on a table a year later seeing how well he stood, when he fell off and broke three of his fingers. I was gutted, but I think it helped to stop me from being over cautious. I'm still careful with them, but I'm def much more relaxed.
I'm also super clumsy, I dropped my Soony the first day I got her home D: luckily she didn't break a thing!

 

I think Im only really scared about Faces. Mostly Vincents. The rest of the body can be repaired/rebought but not his face. *whines because he's slowly needing a new face up* And my other boys I've done their faces so I know they can be repainted no prob.

The others Im not so scared about for some reason. My minis I fling around and play with lots, and Trent is built solid like a brick -__-* So I dont have too much concern with him.

Im just protective of my first I guess ^_^*

The only other fear I have is my dolls dammaging OTHER peoples dolls -_-.. Like the "Standing" partys we have at the TO doll meets.. Im always paranoid one of my boys is gunna be clumsy and take a fall and domino other dolls... But so far We've been lucky ^_^ *crosses fingers and prays for continual good luck.*

 

Well, after almost two years with Kazutaka and various periods with the others, I have learned to face up (somewhat, XD), restring, blush, and do various modding work.

So I still worry about falls, but my reflexes are fast enough to catch them and I try not to leave them on a place they would fall from. If something happens, then I can fix it. If I'm not sure how, I come here and look to see what I can do to fix it.

In the odd chance it's unfixable, then it gets tweaked to become part of them. :3 Some spots on Terelyn didn't want to blush correctly because they were scratches in the resin due to wear and tear from shoes and clothing. So they're now 'scars' and 'wounds' because he's known to be far too adventurous and he did fall from a roof when he was a child, after all. XD

 

I wasn't very paranoid about accidents to start with, but I think I feel more confidence when handling my dolls now. I know which ones are prone to suddenly beding their knees, which one likes to hit herself in the face, how to take off the headcaps of each, etc.

Carolyn