IMPL dolls Star, Model & Idol Discussion 16

I emailed them to ask for a quote for 2 bodies, 2 different colours, and included a photo of the heads that would be going on. Because I’d heard of Iron Dog’s experience with getting sent two dolls in the wrong colour before they sent in a paint chip, I insisted on sending in a paint chip for each of them. It was wasted money, because they still made me choose out of their weird little colour swatch page, which they emailed me the link to with all the blues. They sent me an image of my darker blue body, which was way too light, and we argued for a couple days until they agreed to remake him.

They sent the first body without giving me any pictures, without the second body I’d ordered—that’s the star body you’re seeing in my pictures. She matched the head basically perfectly. After a couple more months of emailing, they sent my second body in dark blue, again without showing me pictures. He’s very close to the right colour, but a little greyer where the head is a little bluer. The difference is minimal so I decided not to really argue. Both bodies I ordered can with random heads in the custom colours—I guess in case I changed my mind about the heads I wanted on those bodies. They also gave me a stringing tool and an NS head as an apology for the number of times they promised to ship and didn’t.

 

@Chameleon Oof, that was a rough process for you, I can see why you'd never want to do it again. All that back and forth exchange sounds really stressful and if there's one pet peeve I have about anything, it's wasting a lot of money too. Do you think if you couldn't have sent the paint chip you could have given them the colour code instead? That's what I did with my pins manufacturer, but of course since I never owned a swatch book I'd never be able to tell how accurate the colours came out to be.

 

So the reason I didn’t do that was because Iron Dog tried that, and got not one but two incorrectly coloured dolls. There could be differences in colour balances, monitor to monitor, that make a colour look one way on my end, and another way on theirs, which is why I didn’t want to do that. I’m a little peeved that I spent $40 on shipping those chips only to have them ask me to give them a code out of their swatch book instead—if you’re not going to use my physical samples, tell me so I don’t waste money?

if you were to send them a colour code, once they reopen custom colours, it may be a very positive result and come out close the way my dolls did, or it may be very frustrating, and involve multiple incorrect dolls like Iron Dog’s experience—I can’t know to what extent they used the paint chips versus the colours I identified in the lineup they sent me, just that I am ultimately relatively satisfied with the outcome, but less willing to do it again.

I will also add, the custom colour was $100 per colour—resinsoul charged me $30 to do jet black, and $15 for a light purple, so $100 is a little steep for at least the lighter of the colours (I paid it, because I think the new Star body is beautiful, and I really wanted it for my light blue girl)

 

Talk about a headache! But I know what you mean, those bodies are just so aesthetically pleasing and if they offered custom resin where no other company makes on top of that, why wouldn't you go for it?

btw, IMPLDOLL collectors, how would you rate the poseability of their bodies compared to other doll bodies? Their demonstration videos look really promising but I have no reference for what is considered so-so, good, or excellent poseability in BJD world. How would you compare it to say SartoriaJ's bodies?

 

Here's Imara on the 63 cm Model body.
While I don't have a SartoriaJ body, I have several Iplehouse bodies. Here's a post on the nSID body. I love Iplehouse sculpting, but man, it sometimes feels like war getting that doll to do what you want. Impldoll is sooooo much easier.
Interestingly, I recently got the new 1/3 (62 cm) female body, and I spy with my little eye a wee bit of hot glue?

 

@MaleficentMrsofEvil Thank you so much for all your helpful resources! Really appreciate it

I of course would always prefer a doll I can play with for longer periods and IMPLDOLL sells that really well. And their body sculpts are just perfect for those outfits that show off skin, y'know? Now I'll just have to weigh budgeting vs my doll needs for the next while until I come to a decision

 

Their bodies are incredibly easy to pose, I have a nSID and yeah she's permanently in sitting and looking pretty jail.

I think they wire their dolls automatically and they hot glued mine as I recall. Not that I mind at all

 

Does anyone know what resin match for Iplehouse to Impldoll...eg. Iple real skin and light brown. Just curious...I would likely buy a full doll from Impldoll in any case - I am getting further and further drawn to them. However I do have floating Iplehouse heads so just dreaming...

 

So I would say close, but expect to color-match (i.e., not perfect, but airbrush probably not necessary).
Impldoll peach gold has a distinct yellow undertone, whereas Iplehouse is more red:

Impldoll Vilma x Iplehouse Mari

Impldoll's "real skin" resin appears the be the most versatile (IMHO) - Imara's headcap is in the lap of the Dollmore Zaoll x Dream Valley B56-01 hybrid.

Impldoll "real" headcap in lap
Left to right:
Miracle Doll Melanie on Supiadoll Original 58 normal
April Story Emma on old Soul Doll Vito normal
Dollmore x Dream Valley
Iplehouse Vera, white (I believe), but older and yellowed
Light Limner head on Doll Family-H 68 cm muscular body, white resin

 

Thank you for that! That's good to know. I have an Iplehouse peach gold floating head too so it's nice to know the colour match might not be spot on for that one. I keep saying no more big dolls but Impldoll's latest dolls are very tempting.

 

Is anybody else not overly wowed by the new “muscle” body 63. Like it’s a good looking body, but it’s just the model body with a slightly more defined 6 pack. I was hoping for at least some degree of musculature on the arms and legs, like the old muscle body had! The only piece of her that’s at all different from the model body is the lower torso, and that’s just a little underwhelming to me.

I’d love to see a body that tries to be muscular more than it tries to be feminine—like a thicker torso, and broader shoulders, and big muscular arms and legs. I’d love to see a less hourglass shaped muscle girl body that has some of the exaggerated musculature we see on male bodies all the time. This doesn’t feel like a muscular body, it feels like the body of a model who does lots of core training.

 

@Chameleon I love it since I have an OC suited for it, but as you say, my hope is one day a company has the guts to give us a true muscle lady because my main girl who is ripped af deserves to be shelled!! (and why not make her 68 cm at that too!)

 

I think it's pretty, but the arms are not as buff as the old one for sure. I feel like the sculpting is overall more detailed and at least to me, nicer to look at, but she's not as buff as the old one. But given that she comes with ballerina feet, I think the musculature she has fits with that nicely. I still don't think the lighting in the pictures really shows the details as well as it could either. Like the pictures are nice, but feel more aesthetic than practical for showing sculpting details.

@Chameleon @sageyufi if you're looking for a larger, more heavily muscled girl, devotion doll has a 75cm one that is coming out soon i think.

 

Omigosh!!! The perfect body does exist!! Thank you!!!

 

I agree that the sculpting is more refined/overall nicer, but I think it would have been more aptly titled the dancer body, or the ballerina body, because titling it the muscle body gets people like me expecting something buffer! It’s nice, and I could see it being good for people who want something like the Supia ballerina or the Amadiz angels body, but it doesn’t fill the same niche as the OG muscle star body (even if the small bust doesn’t look that great at all).

For what it’s worth, this is a critique I’ve also had of the Iplehouse HID girl, and the IOS 65cm muscular girl. I’m looking for something a lot more like Bonelace Miss Orc, or miracledoll’s 68cm body.

I will say, linking me to the Devotion Doll body was possibly the highlight of my day. Depending on the price, there may be multiple of those coming home, and the preorder is expected to open in the next few days, so it was very timely! Thank you so much!!

 

Yeah I see in the pictures they're calling the new muscle body "slim" but I don't think that was very clear during the development, unfortunately. Which yeah means people are going to be disappointed.

And you're welcome abut the Devotion Doll girl! It's too big for my needs, but I've been following the development for it and it looks really good for a buff girl!

 

Oh! On their facebook they said they're working on another version too in response to someone asking about this one being the "slim" model! So maybe they will be making a more heavily muscled version afterall!

 

I like the muscle girl for similar reasons bc the character in my mind is secretly buff, and I know it's not a very popular stance. I actually liked her even before they reworked the body. I have a feeling more muscly female bodies will be on the horizon though.

 

I'm planning to mod the body I'm getting (the 68cm female one) into a more muscular body. I'm mostly going to be adding to the arms and lower legs--the lower legs are sooo skinny. I did see that the new muscular body was labeled "slim" so it'll be cool if they release one that is a bit more filled in with the limbs actually being, like, wider.

 

I hope you’re right about that, because I can never have too many buff girls in my collection! I’m slowly coming around to the new body as being a very pretty body for a character who isn’t supposed to appear as strong as they are.

If you do a project journal for that mod, please tag me. I would absolutely love to see how you go about adding muscle. I’ll be doing a project journal on resculpting the OG muscle girl’s bust to look less unfinished so that I can use that body for a character.