Orientdoll Mini Discussion Thread

I have FIVE CLines on layaway with DDE. Nope, you're preaching to the choir!

If you ever want to follow up on that offer, let me know. I bought the hands to play with boiling and repositioning - that way I'd still have a 'good' doll body even if I F*ed them up!

 

Kinda thought so *laughs*.

Thank you for the offer. I will keep it in mind should I ever reach the screaming frustration point. Right now, it's more of a... mutter darkly to myself thing when I want to pose him. Fortunately, I can lean/support him on his partner, Dakvir (Doll-Love), who stands like a rock.

This be them and I think I did rely on Dak to keep Tyh standing in this pic. Some days he stands well and others... preaching to the choir again I assume.

 

That's funny Iron_Dog! In the Cline thread all the pics of an Orientdoll had the same thing... Clines supporting the OD.

I just tightened the Mirodoll body... a bit too much to get the Tae head back on. THEN I noticed I had the feet on backwards and their S hooks are NOT the easiest to get the elastic over.

I just stepped awaaaaay from the dollieh and got a glass of wine. He'll still be there tomorrow.

 

Yep. Sometimes stepping away and not making eye contact is the best plan of action.

I really do like the looks of the CLine but then I run smack into that whole money thing again *sigh*. There have been a few times where I wonder if I should re-shell Tyh into a less troublesome sculpt (he'd go into a Doll Leaves W), but I just can't bring myself to do it. The second I saw the Tae Vampire, I knew that was Tyh and I'd sighed regretfully at the time since he's been sold out since forever on the site. But the MP is a wondrous (dangerous?) place and I put up with the wonky kneed body because I love the sculpt and haven't found another body I'd be happy with/have the funds for.

 

Hallo everyone! I have two dolls from orientdoll. And let them introduce))
The guy name is Ricky (Il mold) and girl - Misa (Hong) Both normal skins, but girl I've got a year and a half, and the guy just two months

 

Poking a quiet thread with a little spam. This is Tyhlian (Tae Vampire)

 

Bumping a really old thread- Leekeworld is taking preorders for Orientdolls til Nov28th! If you were kicking yourself for missing out before they were discontinued, now is your chance to grab one.

 

I've just ordered an Il vampire, blank, in snow skin. He's going to be partner to Shae-Lin (DearMine Oskar) and his name is Zehuti-sen. I think I'm a little crazy to order him when Tyh's (Tae vampire) knees drive me so freaking crazy with their Collapse O-matic feature *grumbles*, but I stood Tyh next to Shae-Lin and they look awesome together so I'm going to overlook the Knees O'doom (tm). Besides, Shae-Lin stands like a rock so Zehuti-sen can just lean on him for support much like Tyh does with his partner, Dak.

Zehuti-sen also has a 3rd eye so I'm going to get the head modded to have one. I'm pretty excited to get this doll and get him modded. And because I already have an OD in-house, I don't need to drive myself crazy making yet another batch of entirely new patterns from scratch to fit the odd sized dolls I keep bring home.

 

Guys, Leeke just sent me an email that they've shipped my Il! Holy moly that was fast. My Xmas doll could very well be an actual Xmas doll (depending on how long Customs holds him hostage *gives Customs evil-eye*). I haven't even purchased his eyes or wig yet as I thought I wouldn't be seeing him until early February at the soonest and had lots of time to do that. I want to get him a Monique wig (Jade in the Panda style: http://store.monique.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=monique&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MT415) and I was thinking the 5/6 size. If anybody could let me know if that is the size to get and how you've found the fit to be, that would be awesome. I've never bought a Monique wig so I've no idea of the fit (loose/tight/stretchy/etc.) and I'd like to get it right the first time.

Tyh (my OD Tae) has a custom wig by Tinybear and I didn't need to do any sizing for it as she has/had an OD herself so just made it to fit her boy *grins*. In the time between Tyh getting his wig, I'd made him a temp one and I don't really know what size it is, just that it fits his tiny noggin (and is likely what Zehuti-sen will wear in the interim).

 

Sorry, how did you do it?! The dolls more than one year are "sold-out". About size: I doubt what you need, 4-5 or 5-6. Doll head size is 5.3, and the edges of the wig is well stretched. My doll has not a full Monique wig, but the pad, which rests on the drop of glue.

 

Leeke had a 1 week order period open in the last week of November and I ordered him then. The dolls have been "sold out" far longer than a year. My other OD was purchased off the MP here on DoA and I can't remember Leeke having an OD sale before and I've been in the hobby for 6 years.

As far as wigs go, he'll be wearing the whole wig. As I've never bought a Monique wig, I was hoping for some help on the general size of them. If I could make the wig myself, I'd do it, but he needs the Jade wig in the panda colour for his character. I'd be a pain in the butt to take the wig in, but I have sized down a 7/8 to a straight up 6 as well as modified the wig to fit over the huge ears of the doll as well as fully dyed said wig blue. I can alter a wig, I'd just prefer not to have to do it.

 

Leeke has had an OD sale as part of the year end events before. I ordered several at the end of 2010. They may have been available other years also. It easy to miss this event.

I also ordered and IL head in May of 2012, so watch Leeke's events!

 

Thank you, thank you, this is VERY good news.

Oh and another one photo of my boy.

 

I tried out a 4-5 Monique for you Iron_dog.
It does fit, but it's a tight fit. It falls off easily when you fiddle with the hair. But it doesn't look too bulky in my opinion. Maybe it can be fixed with something underneath, but I don't know if it will still fit then. So I'm guessing a 5-6 is a better option.

 

Tezuko, That's a very nice picture of your boy. I like his outfit.

 

Seems like Leeke likes to sneak in the sales. And if the others were like the most recent one and only a week long, it's dead easy to miss them. I'm a little on tenter hooks as the "slip number" they included in the package shipped email doesn't work so I can't track my boy. But, given the holiday season with both Xmas and New Year and Canada Customs delight in holding packages hostage, I'd be stunned to get him before the year rolls into 2015. Hopeful that I get him in the last few days of 2014, but I'm not holding my breath.

Toxic_Nightmist: Thanks for the info. I was guessing a 5/6 was going to be the better bet but it's nice to have confirmation. I've dealt with a wig or two that tended to pop off if you looked at it sideways and that always annoyed the crap out of me and resulted in buying another wig that fit better.

 

hey guys, Zehuti-sen (my Il vampire), arrived today. Waaaaay ahead of schedule, but that's good, right? The Il sculpt in person is just lovely and I'm very pleased with his sculpt. The eyes that Leeke sent are really nice (and OMG! they're not blue!) and I might keep them as his defaults. Putting him next to Tyh was interesting. Zehuti-sen is WS and Tyh is... probably NS? Tyh is MUCH darker than Zehuti-sen (Tyh almost looks tan next to Zehuti-sen) so I'm guessing that he's mellowed quite a bit (Tyh was purchased off the MP here several years back and I'm his 4th? 5th? owner).

But....

I have a problem. While I was prepared to deal with the knees o'doom that Tyh has (and which others have said they experience with their dolls), Zehuti-sen's knees actually seem to be okay. It's his ankles/feet that are the issue. There is minimal movement in his ankle joints and his feet can't be placed at a 90 degree angle to his legs. He literally cannot stand upright. It's like he has heeled feet but instead of the heel being raised, it's the toes, so if his feet are placed flat on the floor, he leans forward at roughly an 80 degree angle.

Does anyone else have this issue and if you do/did, how did you fix it?

 

I never had a problem with the ankles on any of mine. Could they have used s-hooks that are too large when they assembled him?

 

They look to be the same size as the ones Tyh has in his feet and, collapse o-matic knees aside, he can stand perfectly upright just fine. There's almost zero movement in Zehuti-sen's ankles. I'll try and take a picture over the next couple of days to show what I mean. Even if the hooks are a tad large, there's no way for me to swap them with smaller hooks as they are embedded in the resin of his feet.

I don't know if I should message Leeke or not as there's nothing broken on him, but he most definitely cannot stand at all. He is strung fairly tight but I have others who are strung tight as well and it never affected their foot movement to the point where they couldn't stand. Although, to be fair, the doll I'm thinking of has a ball joint in his ankle where the OD boys don't.

I'm not sure if loosening his stringing in his legs would help at all. But, on the upside, it would allow me to get rid of the gigantically huge knot in his head. I can't even take his head off right now without unstringing him because of the monstrous knot.

 

This is something new. You can make a few detailed photos of the problem?