{"id":13477,"date":"2020-07-24T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T19:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=13477"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T19:44:18","slug":"alabamas-body-swap-for-greater-realism-and-poseability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2020\/07\/24\/alabamas-body-swap-for-greater-realism-and-poseability\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama&#8217;s body swap for greater realism and poseability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve loved Alabama ever since I got her <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/06\/09\/alabama-and-the-rest-of-my-haul-from-georgia-landaus-castoffs\/\">about 7 years ago.<\/a> However, she has always seemed too large to be a truly 1:6 scale kid to me. Also, while I love her headsculpt, her porcelain lower limbs and wired armature really limited her poseability. I finally transferred her head onto an action figure body to general success. <!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13478\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13478 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3108-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3108-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3108-108x144.jpg 108w, http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3108.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">She was about 10&#8243; tall on her original body [left], which is about 5&#8242; in real life. I moved her onto a Redman Toys kid body that I had previously cut down. She&#8217;s about 9&#8243; tall, or 4&#8242; in real life. Better.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13479\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13479 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3109-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3109-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3109-108x144.jpg 108w, http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3109.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I redressed her in some Mattel Creatable World clothes, though I had to cut down the pants a lot. Her head looks a little too big, especially because her feet are so small, but I can live with the proportions. Guess how I stuck her head on? Well, there was a neck socket, so I filled it with a silicone earplug and stuck her head on it. When the earplug solidified, the connection was complete.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve loved Alabama ever since I got her about 7 years ago. However, she has always seemed too large to be a truly 1:6 scale kid to me. Also, while I love her headsculpt, her porcelain lower limbs and wired armature really limited her poseability. I finally transferred her head onto an action figure body&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2020\/07\/24\/alabamas-body-swap-for-greater-realism-and-poseability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alabama&#8217;s body swap for greater realism and poseability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13480,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13477\/revisions\/13480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}