{"id":6342,"date":"2015-09-14T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2015-09-14T21:29:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:29:55","slug":"a-frustrating-evening-with-digital-and-16-scale-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/09\/14\/a-frustrating-evening-with-digital-and-16-scale-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"A frustrating evening with digital and 1:6 scale dolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had one of those evenings where I felt dissatisfied with all my accomplishments. <\/p>\n

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First I started off on a more realistic digital version of Jareth. I discovered that my custom character morph of David Bowie from the Ziggy Stardust era, which I was using as a base for Jareth [among other morphs], messes up the tongue. It’s not supposed to do that, and I, with my limited skills, tools, and knowledge, cannot figure out how to keep the morph that I worked so hard to create, but revert the shape of the tongue to default. Argh!<\/p>\n

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I moved on to Carter’s faceup. While I’m making acceptable progress on it, I find it annoying because it seems to take forever. I am bored of painting minuscule sideburns, and I just want him to be complete already.<\/p>\n

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My Cutey Honey’s red bob wig arrived today. I wanted to make it lie closer to her head, so I dunked it swiftly in some boiling water, followed by cold to set it. Unfortunately, my tactic took all the spring out of the bob. I can’t figure out how to curl it back under [but with less volume that originally], so I just gave the wig to Isabel.<\/p>\n

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Cutey Honey doesn’t look bad in a faux fur wig. If I had been smart, I would have just made her a faux fur bob instead of buying the synthetic fiber wig that Isabel is wearing. I console myself marginally with the observation that Isabel is rockin’ the red hair. Then again, she rocks pretty much everything.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While plopping one of Isabel’s faux fur wigs on Cutey Honey in the interim, I realized that she is in poorer shape than I thought. I already knew that she suffered from brittle, shedding hair — that’s why I got her the wig. Furthermore, she has some odd glossy patch on her face that I can’t get rid of. Her weak ankles make her prone to shelf diving, and, to top it all off, her stretch vinyl outfit is cracking and degrading. [And her sword snapped the last time I brought her to VTDL.] In other words, she’s showing her age.<\/p>\n

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I hereby officially give up on having a stock Cutey Honey as a desk guardian. I’ll still use her, though, as her head and body remain perfectly functional [minus stock clothes and hair >:( ]. She needs some custom work, however, before appearing on the shelf again.<\/p>\n

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I also worked on Timonium’s legs. I started painting his fairy feet in a dried-blood red this weekend. Everything looked good initially until I tried blending the paint up his calves. My custom mixed color does not want to blend, leaving distinct rings and blotches. I’ve sealed what I have so far, but I really need to hunt up some paint retarder or diluter or whatever it’s called — something to make the pigment smoother, thinner, and more even.<\/p>\n

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On the plus side, the solid red on Timonium’s fairy feet looks great — I achieved a dark, bright, dense color of exactly the shade that I wanted. On the minus side, all the paint above his ankles needs help.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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