Merry Doll Round

Is anyone else waiting on a Zuri from the Autumn Preorder?

I took some pics of Ize (my fang). I'm really looking forward to getting her painted. She and my Zuri will go to the spa together.

 

Recently finished up my layaway, so yup, I'm excitedly waiting for a Zuri. I ordered one in Chocolate Milk, though I still wonder if I should've gotten a darker tone, they look so incredible in Chocolate and Dark Cocoa. Either way, can't wait for her!

 

@Lefrin yes, getting the update tomorrow that she should be late March is just so exciting.
I love all three tones, but I had to have her in chocolate. I have jewelry being made for her as I type this reply..lol

 

Congrats!

And congrats to you too

Teddy

 

Aaaaah scrolling through this thread has me wanting a MDR even more.

My grail is a cookie skin Olathe, so I'm really really hoping she's gonna do a preorder for her this year since it's been a while since the last one.

All your dolls are absolutely beautiful by the way! Much love

 

I hope you will be able to get one. I love mine sooo much! She's my favourite (don't tell the others haha)

 

Well, I finally bit the bullet and wiped my Merry's faceup to see if I could deal with the greening problem and stop her looking like Zombie-Girl.

I don't know what it was sealed with because usually MSC comes off a lot easier and this was a real bugger to shift.

And... well I suspect the head may have been closer to whiteskin than normalskin in colour and was blushed to make it closer to normal skin, anda that it's the colour of the blushing that has faded out and the white skintone has greened in that "beauty-green" way that the old Luts CP Del whiteskin resin used to, because the whole head is very pale and doesn't look like it could have been normal skin to begin with.

I have the soaking in a bath of Polident prosthetic cleaner, to see if that will reduce the greening, and I have the (yellowed) Luts body the ehad was on soaking too. So fr it looks like the body is going pink and the head is going paler/whiter...

EDITED TO ADD: Here's a picture of the head and body soaking in Polident. The body has gone pink, the head (and headcap), looks a lot paler/whiter


EDITED TO ADD: After washing off and rinsing


I think the head must have originally been Freshskin (rather than Orientalskin) and blushed to make it match nomalskin a bit better. It's a little pinker at the back of the neck and in the headcap, but the face has faded to a very pale colour with a greyish tinge (almost greenish in pictures) so it will probably need dying if I'm to have any hope of continuing to use this body for poor Meri.

I must say, I'm very impressed with how much the Polident bath has reduced the yellowing in the body, it isn't bck to the colour it was when new, of course, but it's very much closer to it than it was before.

Teddy

 

Great job doing all that cleaning work!! I'd be daunted by the prospect.
Hope you can get her back to a nice resin tone! Do you think you'll dye her or send her off to a dyer?

 

As I don't know anyone who takes on dying, and I have bottles of dye, I'll have a go at it myself and hope it comes out bettert than my last attempt to dye a doll tan (the first attempt got a lovley even "sunburned" shade)

Teddy

 

but the important part of that attempt is that it came out even I've got a similar project waiting in the wings for a OT doll, if the body ever actually gets delivered... it was shipped from within the US 3/15! I'm really interested to see how your girl's dye job turns out
(the eyes I ordered from Soul in a Box were shipped from Greece on 2/25 and are also languishing somewhere in USPS' gullet)

 

The USPS is really in a mess these days, isn't it? I've had a package sit for over a month at Fort Lauderdale waiting to be sorted for sending over to England. Once it was out of the U.S. it took less than three days to reach me. I hope you don't have to wait much longer.

You might Have a similarly long wait to see how my girl turns out as I'n not the best at getting around to doing things.

Teddy

 

Update on my Merry head

I decided to try a simpler solution than mixing the right shade with Ritt, and give the head a nice long loak in a very strong cup of hot black tea. @Gothic Pixie reminded me that we'd darkened up one of her doll head's a few years ago wiut this method (I'd entirely forgotten) to make it a better match for the body - and it doesn't seem to have faded in the intervening years, so it was worth a try.

The "orange" colour in the tea seems to have counteracted the greenish/greyish tinge the rein had taken on, and it's a darker colur too. Still lighter than the body, but less obviously white. It;s not completely even, but it's not obviously patchy (nothign that couldn't be dealt with by shading and blushing during faceup). Once I've seen it in Natural light tomorrow, I might give it another soak in a fresh cup of tea to see if I can darken it up a shade or two more.


Teddy

 

Clever!

 

It's that whole necessity/invention thing. I'd completely forgotten I'd suggested it to @Gothic Pixie all those years back, to be honest.

Teddy

 

So fang is still bodiless and i got my Zuri shipping notice. I cant wait! her dolls are such treasures!

 

Are you actively hunting for a body for the fang, or hoping that inspiration will strike? I'm glad the head eventually turned up after all that worry of the delayed package.

My Merry still has a lovely clean body waiting for her, but it's been two-steps-forward-one-step-back with the head. I gave her a quick dunk in a weak pink dye solution to try and get the tea-dyed colour closer to the body tone, and had to wipe it back because it was TOO pink. A smidge of yellow and less pink in the next attempt, I think.

Teddy

 

I bought a Fang head!! I want for years! I'm very happy! But I have dobuts about the color skin. I bought in strawberry skin. My intention is buy a DT body... i love this body for she, but I'm not sure about match

I see that oasisdoll is a good match
Do you know other good matches?

Thanks!!

 

Pictures of Strawberry look a bit too pink to match any of the DT colours, but I haven't seen it in person, only on photographs.

Hopefully, somebody else can give you a more accurate assessment

Teddy

 

I can't speak to the resin match with strawberry skin, but I've got my Olathe on a Supiadoll 60cm ballerina body (she was previously on a Supia double jointed body).


I'm annoyed MRD scaled her heads down, the bulk of my dolls are 65cm+ and the smaller head size means they'll either look pinheaded or need bodies that are too short for my crew I guess it's good for my wallet, but damn I like Fang...
@Teddy - small setback, but your Merry will be ready for the limelight before much longer

 

I'm the opposite. My crew is 65 and below. The change is what convinced me I want a Fang.