Soom Super Gem Discussion (Basic, Limited & Special Order) - Part 13

I’m going to be getting peony white because I can’t afford the bronze and only the surprise head but still… the opportunity to get SARD, I cannot pass it up!

 

I ended up getting the bronze fantasy set (of course) with regular head, I really had a difficult with deciding on color though since I have a grey Heliot already. The contrast between the grey Heliot and a white Sard would have been nice, but overall; I prefer bronze.

I also could NOT buy both heads or else I would be scouring the marketplace looking for another bronze body within the following months, since the extra head would also need a body.

 

So nice to hear others getting bronze! It's a bit too red toned for me, but I like how it looks on him. It's fitting. I think I might go with peony white (even if I prefer the cream white) because I don't think I can afford the bronze either xD He looks so good in both.

 

That's interesting that you're saying it's red toned. I was wondering if it would end up that way, as some of the darker "tanned" dolls seem to.
I personally have never seen Soom's bronze color, and I was honestly hoping he'd be tawny because of other company's red undertones. But maybe it won't be so bad?

I wish I hadn't missed out on the gray Midsummer night Sard, his horn jewelry keeps me up at night just to taunt me.

 

I did peony white, and I’m excited for him! I needed him to match-ish with his sibling, who is on an old CW ID68 body.

I’ve had a bronze doll before, and it was a really nice colour, but definitely a pretty warm-toned one.

this doll was from ~2010-2012 ish in bronze (head is ringdoll tan) torso is Soom bronze)

Vesuvia by demon.chameleon, on Flickr

 

Ah! Thank you for this!!
That's a pretty color, I was concerned that it would be something closer to Impldoll's tan color. That was the reddest tan I think I had ever seen.
No hate to anyone that has one, but it wasn't for me.

 

One of my friends has a tawny Soom tiny (I forget which sculpt but he has hooves) and he's very definitely on the red end of the tan scale. She also has another Soom tawny (Ender) and he's more of a lovely butterscotch tan. Soom has ideas about colours and consistency between batches. I have 3 Soom grey dolls and none of them are the same shade/tone of grey even when you account for mellowing. But they're all "Soom grey".

 

I love red-toned tan/brown resin because as the resin ages and yellows it will balance out, whereas resin that starts off with less red ends up with a yellow/green undertone as it ages (which I don't like). I have a Bronze Sard that I got secondhand (made in 2012) and he's still a beautiful color! TBH I don't really get the point of Tawny because it's practically the same as "normal skin"? At least the Tawny I got was not tan at all. It was almost a perfect match for Fairyland's NS.

 

The bronze just isn't for me. I don't tend to like that type of tan and I find it more difficult to match colors on for my taste. I'm never really personally concerned with how resin ages (unless it's especially bad, like greens). But then again I've only had one experience with bronze and it wasn't the best. It was an Idealian from 2020 or something, but I got a separate bronze piece for him made in the same year and it was way different. Soom's resin is wild, but this isn't new to me lol. The experience set me off from bronze though because this boy was pretty dang red, but his replacement piece looked much different and a nicer shade of what I'd expect bronze to be. And it wasn't an issue of yellowing/mellowing.

The funny thing is tawny is my favorite shade for Soom tan, but the tawny I've experienced has varied WIDELY because, you know, it's Soom. The tawny Nor I have is nice and lightly tanned an warm, but I like it personally. He's noticeably different from NS.

But, I got a recently made bronze boy and he looks significantly different from the bronze I had before (and a really nice shade tbh) so I don't know xD I really wish Soom would offer hand options in the current color for sale.

 

I am very tempted to get a Sard just because I tend to collect Soom Elf-eared heads. But I don't really have a place for him or a character.

 

Here's a comparison of tawny and bronze if anyone is curious! Though, be warned, SOOM's colours vary quite a bit between batches.

 

Yeah, I guess the main problem here is that Soom's resin varies soooo much between batches!! So you form one opinion based on a doll you got, when someone else might have the same doll and it's a very different color!? I did tons of research on Tawny before ordering it and was STILL disappointed, lol. Here's my pic of it- Midsummer Night's Dream Sard in Tawny. Doesn't read as tan at all IMO. Gorgeous head though, just a lil nudge for anyone who was on the fence about ordering him



@Arekushia's photo is accurate to my experience with Tawny and Bronze too. For me Tawny didn't look tan, whereas Bronze is a light tan color. And then you have Brown Tan which is straight up not tan at all and just Brown, really. I forget if Soom has any other colors in the tan-brown range?

 

How similar is the Sard sculpt to Dia? Because I have an Elf Dia and I do love Soom sculpts but I like the variety in their sculpts (like I have a Corun, an Albin, a Quartz, a Heliot - none of them look exactly the same). Are they essentially the same sculpt with different ears? Or is their more that sets them apart? I don't know if I would go with this particular order because the bronze's extra cost is a lot and I am not sure I want peony white (I am a fan of the old cream white).

 

overlordu, wow, he so gorgeous

jessholy, Sard have more chiseled facial features, Dia's head little bigger and he more rounded facial features. Somewhere was comparison with Dia and Sard head (it was on green background)

 

They are essentially the same sculpt with different ears, but there are very subtle differences as noted above. Sard/Dia is tied for first as my favorite doll sculpt, and I consider them interchangeable, if that tells you anything.

 

Thanks for all the information @Riku LIN and @overlordu . I will think on it some more - mostly do I want Sard to be a girl or boy and what color...at least Soom does layaway haha!

 

That’s such a gorgeous faceup!! Makes me so glad I have the surprise head to play with!!

 

I have some 2012 bronze and 2022 tawny, and they’re fairly similar. The bronze is a little darker, the tawny reminds me of Iple’s peach gold. Close enough that you could easily blush a tawny head to match that bronze. I don’t have Soom normal to compare, but it’s very noticeably different compared to Luts and Volks. I was actually a little worried about ordering my Chalco in tawny, because I didn’t want him too light (I would have preferred bronze) but I like the colour he arrived in, so it worked out.

 

@overlordu
Your Sard (special head) face-up is so beautiful and is exactly why I am currently considering whether I would like to have this doll as well.
(I had seen your head in the DoA Marketplace a long time ago, but wasn't quick enough to buy it right away.)

 

I was able to sell a bunch of stuff to afford both heads, so he's officially on layaway! Peony white fantasy body with both heads. I'm SO excited!

Now I just gotta... find something for him to wear.