How Did You Decide Size?

I guess to me 60cm+ = teen to adult, 43cm+ = child, tinies [like BC/Leeke etc] = child around 4 and under.

so since most of my characters are teens to adult, 60cm is what I do best with. Hesue was easily a MNF size since he's supposed to be a kid around 9-12, for my daughter - her first two are supposed to be around 7 and 8 so choosing MSDs was easy since the chubby features make them look around this age.

I bond better with the full sized dorries, but there are a few minis/tinies I seem to have no problem with at all in those same terms. I guess it depends on the dorrie itself when it comes down to it @_@

 

Well, CP decided.
They only made El in SD size.
Yep.

I guess... my characters were teen/adult... so SD seemed logical to that point. When I get a child character, I'll get a child doll.
For me, putting an older character into a child doll makes me a bit iffy. I've sold a doll for that reason.

And don't go on about MNF El. They're not the same :p

 

I have the same problem as you. When I get my doll, I also want to make clothes for it. Big dolls take way more fabric, which makes them much more expensive to own and take more space aswell, but small dolls are much trickier to make clothes for.
Perhaps you should see what doll you want before thinking about the size.

 

Well cp lishe was the perfect doll for me though and though and i had to have her it was about size it was about the doll(agreed mnf are sooo not the same)
Also i adore the weight they give, im only 5 3" something like that and its like a mini person in my arms in there size.

 

I'm waiting for the next Unoa preorder to order my first doll. I orginally got into the hobby through reading a blog of someone else who was collecting BJDs. And she had only MSDs. So I thought I was never going to get one of those huge 60cm dolls.

God, how I have progressed. I have a huge wistlist, and a majority of the them are SD sized. I started to look at all the dolls, and fell in love with the looks of so many 60cm dolls, that I gave up my 'mini only' decision.

But I still love Minis. I prefer the mature ones. I also love me some tinies. I just pick the doll based on it's look, not on it's size.

And Sist stole my heart.

 

Someone suggested to me when I was first looking at dolls to buy that I go for an MSD as my first (I guess cause they're less expensive). I really liked Chiwoo, and I nice woman at a doll meet let me hold her minifee Chiwoo to see if I liked him as much in person as I did on the site. But he lacked something.

I realized then it was the weight of the SDs that appealed to me so much. I really like how solid and substancial they feel in my arms. It does get tiring though

It's also kinda cool having a doll that's almost half my height, being that I'm just barely 5' :3

 

At first I was afraid to get an SD- I was afraid it would be too big for me (I'm 5'1", so that's probably where that fear came from). I went to a dollmeet after having my first MSD for only a few months, and I was in awe at how big the SDs were.
After I orderd my second doll, an SD, I was freaking out because I figured out that he would go halfway up my thigh if we stood next to each other.
I've gotten over it, for the most part, but I still love MSD size the best. XD

 

My first was MSD sized and I swore that's all I was gonna have. Then I got Hound, and he changed everything. Now I have 6 Amazon sized dolls (Dollshe and Models) and two SD sized (Narin and Narae) which actually seem sort of small to me now. LOL

 

As long as a doll is pretty enough for me to like it, its size does not matter!

 

There were so many doll to chose from I found it helpful to decide what I wanted the doll to be first. After that... well. My only one right now is a Kid delf, but next one will be SD sized and there is a DM Model doll on my list as well. Oh and I'm 5'3", the 70 cm dolls come up to my hip! But Bonnie is just perfect for the character I have planned for her so, meh.

I would, like a couple of people suggested, try to go to a dollmeet in your area if you can. I had met a SD sized doll prior to buying and seeing him in person really helped me understand how big the others would be.

 

I pick mostly MSD size dolls because they just easier and cheaper to buy for and their sculpts appeal to me. I would like to get an SD size eventually but for now I love my minis

 

I actually started with a mini, but after getting a larger one decided I liked them better. After a few tries though (selling those I didn't care for), I have a great mix of the big and little ones (they make great family shots).

 

I had really wanted a MSD for my first doll >_> Because the SD size scared me. But I had my little heart set on Lishe and for some reason, the MSD lishe never appealed to me. ._. So I got a SD Lishe. I'm actually excited now, we'll see how I end up liking the size. XD I think I want one MSD for sure.

 

I still haven't decided on size. I love love love both the sd and the msd size dolls. The only problem is that i like the variety i've been able to find in the sd size (i loooooe gena from soom), but i like the price of the msd size better, and i really love the doc dolls..... what is a girl to do!?

plus i agree that the sd size scares me a little bit. They seem like i would think they were too big....

 

Since nobody else seems to have said it yet... 1/4 scale dolls ("mature minis" like the 43cm Naraes) do not look like little Barbie dolls. (Barbie is 1/6 scale.) If you're not used to gigantic 1/3 scale BJDs, they seem like big dolls, not "minis."

As a sculptor, I'm going with 1/4 scale because it's big enough to allow for a lot of detail, but not so big as to require massive amounts of material. As a collector, I'd still go with 1/4 scale, for similar reasons -- big enough to be interesting, small enough to be manageable -- and because I 43cm Narae. (The 60cm face sculpt is also lovely, but very different.)

 

I had decided to get a Volks and was trying to talk myself into getting a MSD, partly to save money. But when I went to Volks LA and saw them in person then held my friend's Kohya SD-13 boy on the two hour drive back home, I was hooked. I love the larger size and feel and ended up buying a SD-10 Kun.

 

I started with SD's (big and cool) but ended up selling all of them, I find mini's cutter, more practical, (and cheaper that might be important) Also my dolls characters are kids, so msd are more logical, for adults its easier to go with sd's. Also I'm exactly like you, I like my dolls to be the same size

 

When I was looking for my first BJD I can't say I was that fussed about size, I'd done enough research to know the difference but wasn't really swayed either way. In the end I went for an MSD after seeing her on ebay and just plain falling in love. If I'd have seen an SD sized doll and fallen in love with that first then I would've bought that.

Lailah wasn't really based on any of my pre-existing characters so it didn't matter how mature she looked but with Adrian and the doll I'm planning after him they're supposed to be in their twenties, so it had to be SD...

 

My very first doll was a dollfie dream. At that time I was just experiencing dollfies and SD, MSD,Dollfie Plus, was so foreign to me. I checked out the Volks page, fell in love with A dollfie dream and now I'm hooked on them all. I have two SD girls, Ruru was my second and looking for number three. I'm saving up for a SD with elf ears, which one, don't know yet. but when I find her, I'll know. It might even be the MSD Petsha, she's quite adorable. I'll be sure to post pictures, whoever she may be.

 

I really wanted my first doll to be an SD, but I couldn't find the mold that I totally fell in love with until I saw DOD Kirill, which is a MSD. I was kind of hesitant, but decided to order him since I fell in total love with him.
I don't really base dolls off of their size, if I like them, I like them no matter what size.