IMPL dolls Star, Model and Idol Discussion thread 15

@Havra thanks! Her sandals were made by katushka_nitok and her outfit is from Dollremi. I’m playing Nia in D&D now and am contemplating modding her doll form’s ears to match her current incarnation as an elf.

Speaking of elves, my Azalea who has been in shipping limbo since early November finally made it home!

 

yayyyy secondary market! I've got a Garza and Aurora head on the way-- both I'll probably mod; Garza so he has less of a furrowed brow, and Aurora so her eyes are smaller and she looks more realistic overall. I also am weirdly tempted to "cut off their faces", so to speak, and make them new headbacks so they're both faceplate-style heads because I feel like that looks better and is easier to work with in the long run. but we'll see.

I'm getting so tempted by Dabria too, but I'm trying to slow down on my buying spree

also Impldoll is one of the only companies I know of that offers 70cm female bodies at all-- let alone at a price I may one day actually be able to afford. I know Miracle Doll, Dollmore, and Doll Family-A all have ~68cm female bodies, but none are as inexpensive as Impldoll's, and I've heard better things about Impl's posing than I have about Dollmore's; the next least-expensive 68cm female body that I know of. Aesthetically, Impl has very nice bodies too. they're not as realistic as, say, an Amadiz Angels body, but they're generally visually pleasant anatomically speaking. So it's nice that I'll probably be able to get these floating heads some impl bodies down the line too, instead of having to try and hybrid.

 

and unlike with Amadiz, you'll actually get what you paid for

 

my Garza arrived!! he's AMAZING. and much better in person than in photos-- he just doesn't seem to photograph well, poor guy but he's so beautiful. I'm so happy; I love him. perfect first SD for me!

his lips are my favorite feature, followed closely by his gorgeous cheekbones. Impldoll really is good at those two features.

now I impatiently await my beautiful Aurora...

 

Aurora came. I think her and Garza look nice together. I definitely prefer him to her though, which surprised me because I feel like she looked better in her promo photos than he did. once my apoxie sculpt arrives I'll mod them both into how I want them to look they're lovely dolls for sure.

Garza is in Impldoll's new real skin, which is super pale, and Aurora is in pink skin, I think. her CoA doesn't say her resin tone on it unfortunately.

 

Oh my gosh, since November? Well, thank goodness she made it! Congratulations!

Oh man that's the first owner pic I've seen of Garza! I still need him some day @mohnblumendolls , congrats on him and Aurora, I have her too

 

@mohnblumendolls

They do look great together! I'm curious to see your mods. I have a an Aurora and she wears the hell out of a faceup. You'll love her when you've worked on her.

 

I have the strangest Aurora. Her cheek bones are so strong, I thought for sure she'd be a dominating woman, but then I put freckles on her and she became something entirely different! I've left her that way because I think she's so unusual that way:
Impldoll Aurora by ingiebee, on Flickr

I think it's also where I put the blush, gives her a totally different look. Unfortunately, I'm not a great artist or anything, LOL I think her jaw looks a bit like jowls the way I painted her!

 

wow, she is SO gorgeous!!!

 

Howdy, everyone! I know I haven't posted here for in a while (Real Life stuff prevented me from tinkering too much with the dolls) so I'd have to do a lot of backreading.

Anyhoo, I quite missed taking photos of the dolls, especially since a major member of the crew had gotten reshelled from head to toe. It still hits me that a height difference of 10cm is quite a lot when you're a BJD, but thankfully, the Impldoll MGB doesn't look too bad when paired with Granado's hulking 75Adagio. Adhara, on the right, is actually balancing on her heeled feet (give-or-take, she's probably 66cm in the photo). With the right heels, she could hit 69cm, nicely to-scale with reshelled Guórén.


Matching 02 by Yela Gatchalian-David, on Flickr

 

I love their height difference! But then I'm a little biased, since that's around the height difference I've got in multiple resin couples (and between the Hus and myself, lol)

 

I think they look really good together. I have multiple significant height differences in couples.
Moswen/Kijika: 46cm/57cm
Tohan/Dakvir: 40cm/46cm
Kulfi/Rhyia/Akusuo: 58cm/66cm/69cm
Fei-Lau/Sleet/Khale: 69cm/30cm/69cm

 

@Girrl Hubby and I also have a comparable height diff, except we don't have the vah-vah-voom bodies the dolls possess.

@Iron_Dog That's really interesting, thank you for sharing! Glad to know I'm not the only one who have dolls whose companions are of drastically different heights.

(Adhara and Guórén are actually two of a triad, and the third member is at 59cm -- I'd really like the last one to be reshelled into a slightly taller doll eventually.)

 

@AntarelNefertili I seem to have a bit of a thing for large height differences in my characters. I try to get as close as I can with the dolls but sometimes I have to settle for close enough.

Moswen is 6' tall while Kijika is 6'-9". Tohan is 5'-10" and Dakvir is 6'-6". Kulfi is 5'-4", Rhyia is 6' and Akusuo is 6'-1" (I think I have an incorrect measurement for Rhyia when he's wearing his default bird feet as him and Akusuo are almost the same height; Soom Euclase & Dollshe Hound). Fei-Lau and Khale are 6' and Sleet is 3'. I think I did decently well in matching their doll heights to their character heights.

 

got my Crystal head today and i'm happy to say she's just as cute in person and just as perfect for the character i want to make with her as i hoped she would be from looking at the sales pics on Impl's website. i was a little nervous because dolls can sometimes turn out to look somewhat different in person, and Crystal is incredibly hard to find any pics of other than Impl's. but she's great, her little fangs are super cute and so are her half-pointed ears

it'll probably be a little while before i manage to get her a body, but once i do Crystal will no longer be a hard Impl sculpt to find owner pics of

 

They sent me a full head when I asked for a sample of brown and I have no clue what sculpt he is, but he's real cute.



Possibly Claude? I can't find a blank picture of him though.


I knew I was getting the Plaice head, but seeing two heads in the box was a pleasant surprise.

 

Malachite has arrived home!!!! The green colour is perfect and matches exactly the physical sample I sent them. They also included a head puller and an outfit for him. He suffered a chip in the right wrist during shipping and I have no idea where the chip is/went (I saw the chip wrist before I removed him from the box). I thoroughly searched the shipper and inner box and it's like it vanished/never was there. I notified Impl about it but I don't know what could be done as he's a custom green and matching that with a new part would likely be difficult.

Oddly, his body is different than the other 2 Ziv's I received. This version of the Model body has single jointed knees and no thigh mobility joint. He may also be a teeny bit shorter (maybe 0.5cm-1cm) than the other Ziv's but I haven't measured them to say for sure.

I had purchased a mohair wig for him ages ago (before the first wrong colour Ziv arrived in January 2020) and naturally he really didn't like it when I tried it on him *sigh*. I kind of thought he wouldn't and had picked out another wig for him but held off on ordering it. I dug through my wig stash and tried various wigs on him (and received multiple death glares). I popped an ivory Monique 7/8 on him just for giggles (I never pictured him with that colour hair. Ever.) and wouldn't you know, it went on like butter and he likes it.

I'm not sure what to do wig wise as ivory hair was not a look I planned for him. Like at all. I'm not a fan of blond hair in real life or with my dolls/characters (I often make a bad guy in my novels a blond because I generally dislike it that much) but he's rather pleased with this wig contrary to what I planned for him. I tried a black wig on him (the one I was going to buy is black and teal) and he looked a rather peeved.

Pictures will eventually come but I need to go digging for his clothes, which are currently sectioned off behind a 5' tall wall of boxes that we're slowly unpacking.

 

All I can say is congratulations!
As far as blond/blondes, I feel the same but because my characters are Korean and many are kpop boys, they often demand blond wigs. So I have a collection now. Yesterday I put together a tan hybrid and she wanted the most flamboyant blonde wig of all with curls galore. Not at all the plan. But I will only tolerate this whim now and then!

 

@Mahgiep Thanks! I heard back from Impl and they said getting a replacement part may not be possible because he is a custom colour. I'd more or less assumed that but wanted to let them know about the shipping damage as a courtesy. They said they'd ask the casting place though.

I don't often bow to the whims of the dolls. But sometimes it just seems unavoidable. There were a couple of wigs that he tolerated but they were also very obviously not him (and they're lovely wigs, too). I can't complain too hard about the ivory wig as it is lovely and insanely soft and wonderfully compliments his dark green resin. I don't want to deal with a sulky doll either so....

 

It looks to me like he's chosen and you'll just have to deal with the ivory xD Might as well get used to it lol