Iplehouse Discussion (YID, nYID, SID, EID, HID) Part 14

@Quirked - I love seeing the older sculpts! Your Evan is adorable and it's nice to see him get an updating. I also love Akando (my first Iplehouse doll) and still one of my favorites.

I have an Evan head...he could use some new updating too. But till then, here's a photo of him to keep the love of older Iple sculpts alive.

Sionn by luluna33, on Flickr

 

Hey, new here - this year I finally got my first ever Iplehouse doll! He is to date the most expensive doll I’ve ever bought and he’s totally worth it. Sorry for the crappy night time photo! He’s EID Rex, faceup type B, in peach gold. His name is Dean



For some reason he feels a bit loose to me (but to be fair, I do prefer my dolls tightly strung). And omg his head cap, it keeps popping off at the smallest nudge lol. What do you guys reccomend for keeping his noggin on? Any more and his brain’s going to fall out.

I also have some shoes in the mail for him, god damn his feet are massive!

 

Congratulations on your Rex. He is very handsome! Great face up!! I'm sure you will enjoy him very much

 

@sunhellion - Congratulations on your handsome Rex! He is a great sculpt.

 

@Sianserais - Akando is such a great sculpt! I'm hoping to work on mine soon. The repair needed is to file out the elastic channel in one of his thighs. It looks like when he was originally assembled at Iplehouse, they started to drill in the wrong place and then corrected. It created this little overhang area that the elastic gets stuck into, and then his leg doesn't work right, lol. Just working up the courage to take a file to the resin and contain and dispose of the resulting mess. I'll definitely properly share him once he's back together! Though I do have a picture of his head on my Evan's body. It's a bad resin match, since my Akando is in Light Brown and my Evan is Real Skin.

@luluna - Thank you! Love your Evan, and that wig that's on him!

Akando tax:

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@sunhellion - Congratulations on your first Iplehouse doll! Rex is such a great sculpt. Love the faceup, wig, and outfit you chose for him!

 

Thank you! The face-up on the promo was what made me “have” to have him I am very weak to a well-done beard…

Thank you so much!!

Your Evan is so beautiful, I adore the long wig you put on him! I definitely need a Real skin Iplehouse one day. And thank you

 

Solene returned from the spa last month. I thought I'd drop by and share a photo. I'm so happy to have her.

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She's lovely! Congratulations on her makeover! I love her outfit too.

 

@Quirked - Thanks! Your Akando is lovely...so handsome! Love his big soulful eyes. Akando was my first Iple love and what got me into bjds again.

@Nikki'sNewObsession - Solene is stunning! Who did her wonderful faceup?

While I'm here...I'll share one of my favorite dolls...my RS Akando...Vyktor. His faceup was painted by SDink. This photo has wonky lighting...but it makes him look so real to me.

Vyktor_in_fur by luluna33, on Flickr

 

Thank you. I love the style she's taken on.

Thank you, she's painted by Angel Toast Aesthetics. I've decided to get Soo and planning to have AT paint her too.

 

Hey my Soo is painted by AT too!!

 

Hello again

I recently got my first (albeit snall) SD girl in well over a decade, and was surprised to find that I didn’t think she was ‘too big’ at all, like I feared. The realization opened up my eyes to the possibility of maybe ordering one of my highly-sought-after-but-out-of-reach grail dolls - an Iplehouse SID Mari.

that said, I was hoping someone in here might help shed some light on a few things:
1) compared to other SD’s in the same size range, would you say Iplehouse SID (on the newer body) are good posers?
2) Do they ‘feel’ heavy and clunky (I used to own a Supia Rosy and a Feeple65Dia - Rosy posed really well and my Dia felt like a floppy sack of bricks)
3) I like the aesthetic of the new body type the most, but which would you say is better at handling? The new or the original?
4) Do they fit normal SD clothes/shoes? And which wig and eye size fit them the best?

any other insight you might have would also be appreciated ❤️

 

@Fractal - The ankles on the newer SID body are much nicer. It is probably a better poser as well...but I'm not very good at making challenging poses. There are some aesthetics I still love about the older body. The newer body has a longer neck...and not as nice knees.
Here is a shot on the left is a Stella on the newer SID body and on the right a Stella on an older SID body (I think). The nSID is not this much taller...I can't remember., why she is here...maybe the Stella on the right is on a nYID? LOL

Mare and Lark by luluna33, on Flickr

 

When you say the new body has ‘not as nice knees’, do you mean aesthetically or functionally? Because I quite like the way the look (I prefer them over the old body), but I’m worried about her ability to pose and hold poses

 

My nSID Soo was my very first doll, so I'm sentimental for her, I think I can confidently answer these.
1) I'll be completely honest and say no. The body is pretty, but posing is not a strong suit. I did improve it a little by using thinner elastic, but that is a body where I only expect it to sit and look nice. Also I find my mobility thigh pretty much useless, just stick with the standard thigh.
2) heavy, not especially for me, but then again about the only dolls I feel are heavy are my 75cm boys. Clunky, kind of? I think I would say not super responsive I guess.
3) Haven't handled the original, but I do know they have the resin hooks in the feet which isn't really my fave idea since it means the feet have to be static basically.
4) They absolutely will not fit standard SD clothes, not even SD16. SartoriaJ clothes fit my girl just fine, and I got a secondhand outfit that happens to fit her. If you want a wider selection of clothes, go with their small bust. It still looks nice in clothes Wig wise, no I really should've done a smaller SD wig on my Soo. I was naive and assumed iplehouse's standard 8-9 would fit. It does fit looser than I'd like, but with her bonnet, no one can really tell. Also eyes aren't going to be standard 14mm, I believe my Soo has 12mm eyes.
Sorry about the blathering, but I wanted to answer all of your questions This does remind me I should prolly update her profile pic and my own...
If you have more questions I'm also happy to answer over dm too!

 

I'm still alive, but still only a hobby lurker cos not exactly in the best place to do hobbying at the moment. :P

But here's Okuni, nSID Mari, posing with a mixed-media artwork I made of her two companions, Guórén and Adhara. She's probably the best-posing Iplehouse in the crew right now.


She Who Paints by Yela Gatchalian-David, on Flickr

 

@Fractal - Aesthetically. I couldn't find a photo...but where the knee doesn't fit together to give a full line when straight. (I'm not explaining it well. LOL )

Edited to add:
I found an image of the nSID knees...

nSID knees by luluna33, on Flickr

 

Here are two albums of my new SID bodied girls...

Kali..
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lyannenz/albums/72177720295527421/with/53257269620

Wendy...
Iplehouse Wendy

Iplehouse Kali by LyanneNZ, on Flickr

I find her posing to be good but then I have mostly Iplehouse, one SartoriaJ, Granado, Soom and Fairyland in comparison. I'd love to know which other dolls people feel pose better (I'm considering an Impldoll)

I sew so I can't comment on dressing them. They are the slimmest and smallest out of my 1/3 scale girls. Their feet are Iplehouse wider feet of course. Overall though I love Iplehouse I'm really a fan of their largest HID girls.

 

Impldoll for me are way way better than iplehouse, basically most of my collection are better to me So basically Asleep Eidolon, Xagadoll, Loongsoul, DF-H, Coral Reef, Telesthesia Doll, even Evantasy.

 

This has all been really helpful, thank you so much ❤️

in terms of their ability to pose - so long as they have a better range and control than Fairyland, I’m fine with it I think. Out of my current collection, my Minifees are the worst at posing, but they’re stable and can stand on their own/hold poses well enough.

my biggest concern now is finding affordable clothes for her :c based on measurements, am I right in assuming the SID girls will fit stretchy Feeple65 clothes? Are there other brands and bodies that I can compare them to from stores like Dollmore/similar? I would really prefer to not have to fork out 150-200 just to get her a single outfit with shoes