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Purposefully incomplete - going from full doll to floating head?

Feb 18, 2013

    1. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has ever thought of or done this, but I don't think I've ever heard it talked about - usually hobbyists are wanting/saving/waiting for a body to complete their doll, not the other way around.

      • Have you ever had a complete doll and decided you preferred it as just a floating head? What reasons did you have?
      • If you've only thought about it -under what circumstances do you think you would choose to turn a full doll into a floating head?
      • If you've never thought about it - would you? And why?

      In my case... I bought a doll that came with 2 heads, and the first thing I did was get a body for the spare, thinking they would be siblings or something of the sort. I've never been quite as invested in the spare head as I was in the other doll (who is a favorite). I'm aware that a big part of my current dissatisfaction is that I've let my list of doll projects get rather large and both of them are on my work table and I won't be able to finish them until the weather gets warmer. Part of me thinks it would be a bit of a relief to have one less doll to worry about painting - because I've always felt more "obligated" to paint him and less that I paint him for fun.

      I originally bought him a body because I didn't like the idea of having floating heads or parts that weren't being used... but that has changed recently because I now own a head that will never have a body. (I bought a full doll to match an older head, but decided I was better off keeping the original head.) I would keep just his head, because he is part of a set, and I wouldn't feel right getting rid of him.
       
      #1 Kymera, Feb 18, 2013
    2. Oh, I need to point my sister in the direction of this thread! :) She just sold a whole bunch of bodies, and now three or four or more heads share a body. She said it was so they'd take up less room.
       
      #2 Susannah, Feb 19, 2013
    3. My DZ Mo-2 will be forever floating! He was my 2nd doll, and I ended up upgrading the character to SD. I couldn't bear to part with the head, even if I have no plans to do anything with him ever again. He's SO yellowed and has damage, he's not worth much of anything. So I'll keep him, but I never liked his old body, nor did I have room to keep it, so that left, and I kept his head in memory of his "childhood". lol
       
      #3 CloakedSchemer, Feb 19, 2013
    4. I have one. My very first doll, a BBB Tony. His character has since grown up and upgraded to SD, but he was my first and I couldn't part with him. However, his body has been commandeered by one of the other floating heads I had. So, he's forever floating now, my little keepsake.
       
      #4 Ivory Stardust, Feb 19, 2013
    5. I do, indeed, have one little guy who's never had a body and never will.

      Manny is a Junga D-Skull, and he was always intended to be... well, exactly that. A disembodied skull. He's the necromantic pet/familiar/side-kick of one of my other dolls... Something sort-of along the lines of a more calavera-like "Bob" to Mystic's "Dresden", if you're familiar with those two characters. Having a body for him would just be weird. :lol:
       
      #5 Brightfires, Feb 19, 2013