Resinsoul and Bobobie Mini Discussion Thread - Part 33

Got my account back yay!

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Have a Liina, my RS An.

 

Welcome back! I love the colours on Liina, so gorgeous and icy. I think An might be my favourite face sculpt of any company, every time I see it I think "ooo pretty" and then remember I already have one lol.
maybe I should get another <_<

 

Resinsoul is having a discount on some of their dolls! They're not saying until when, but I assume it should run until at least 11/11 since the "global shopping festival" is the reason for the discount.

 

What a very random assortment of things discounted. It's not all dolls and it's not even all dolls within a category. like.. Mei is discounted, but Ju isn't.
Odd.

Unfortunately it looks like only the monkey king boys are discounted of all the male dolls.

The list looks to be:

Ian, Mei, Yousou, Qingqiu, Lina, Ran, Rouxi and both monkey king versions.

I'm tempted, but really I just need bodies and those don't appear to be discounted.

 

Do other people struggle finding eyes for their resinsoul dolls?
It always feels like gambling when I try to get new eyes. I already know high dome eyes mostly don't work, but even flatter ones often don't fit well (the eye are really weirdly shaped on some dolls, very very flat?) and there's a lot of gaping at the side. (I've especially had that problem with my Song and Mai heads)
I've had some luck using flat plastic buttons on which I paint eye designs, but I can't make them look realistic.
So, I'm wondering how other people manage?

 

Oval eyes or eyes with small irises are the solution. If you have some eyes, find ones that fit the eye socket. Then find ones that have the iris size you want and carefully measure the iris. Then look for small iris eyes that match closely. Sartoria has small iris eyes and you can find them on etsy and other doll company sites.

 

A lot of resinsoul's older sculpts are kinda wonky so i've learned to just embrace the jank lol. My song definitely has some gaping with her default eyes but eh. it's not too bad.

But yeah, you could definitely try different styles and shapes. Oval, high done, more pointy domed ones, small iris and so on.
I generally just use standard 14mms and they work for most of them. Though some do still have gaps.

 

As an aside, i'm wanting to get a soom grey matching body for a head I have here and while Resinsouls' OLD light grey is a pretty close match, their newer one apparently isn't. So i'll have to ask them to colour match if possible.
so i'm trying to figure out a good way to disguise mismatching colours.

I'm thinking a neck tat could certainly hide a lot lol. But i'm also considering getting some transparent parts just to make it a bit more funky. I mean, I do enjoy a custom doll and with resinsoul they let you do basically whatever so i'm trying to come up with an idea that I think might work.

I mean those sized up paws and bird feet really inspired me too.

Anyone got any completely mad customs they care to share?

 

I'm in much the same boat. I have a couple of floating heads I'd love bodies for that I'd want custom from Resinsoul...but what? With Resinsoul there's so many possibilities! I want pretty colors and transparent resin and PAWS.

I LOVE the Ming legs with the added thigh peanuts, so that's a good place to start for me.

 

So I've seen people mention on here that Resinsoul has sized up certain parts like the bird/dog feet etc. (including a comment right above!), but has anyone ever asked them to size DOWN one of the SD-sized face sculpts to MSD-size?
I was bored and looking at their SD dolls the other day, which I've never really looked at before because I'm just not that interested in a doll that big, and I stumbled across Rui and oh my word, she is BEAUTIFUL. But I just don't want a 68cm doll. Any idea if it would even be possible to size down a sculpt without it becoming wonky?

 

Yes, I asked Dollmore to downsize a head and they did it! Telesthesia&Dragon has reduced a number of their 68-72cm dolls to about 50cm.

 

Shrinking or enlarging sculpts is likely far more doable if they have digital scans or the original sculpt was digital in the first place. Hand sculpted casts are going to be harder to do. But hey, you lose nothing asking.

I'm thinking of asking if they can match volks grey but have black lower arms and add some paint myself to sort of do this shadowy effect.

I'm also pondering one of their new taller boy bodies for my Doll Leaves Ben who i always felt needed a tall lanky body. His original body just didn't work for his head shape, he looked bobbleheaded. Resinsoul's "normal" should mostly match Doll Leaves, they're both super pale.

But I also am so so tempted by those paws and bird feet. I just don't know what doll i'd use them for you know? I have a myou body here that I always wanted to put bird feet on but i'm not sure how they'd look/fit. And whether it'd be better to do the whole leg, the lower leg or just the foot piece.

also, the peanuts for the Ming legs! I want peanuts! My ming and rong both have terrible trouble standing and if those peanuts make a huge difference to the stability then i'm sorely tempted to set some money aside to upgrade their legs.

Maybe after christmas when i'm flush with cash i'll do a big resinsoul order lol.

 

Regarding head shrinkage-my bestie asked Sun about this back in August 2023, as she was hoping to get some SD heads at a smaller scale herself. At the time, Sun said they couldn't shrink heads, but if enough people asked, that might change. So I guess a key thing might be people showing interest?