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Wiishu's First Christmas: Part 4Wiishu’s Christmas Eve / Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four As the morning draws to a close, Wiishu discovers…competition! (Note: A…singularly appropriate caption has been added to the final image. You may need to clear your browser cache to catch it…) 62 comments to Wiishu’s First Christmas: Part 4Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. |
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And a moment of PEACE broke out in the household. Oh Joy!
I cannot WAIT for the ‘competition’ to get there. Hee!
Agreed. Can hardly wait for the Adventures of Thing1 and Thing2. A neko-chan is just what Wiishu needs to keep him on his toes, and the rascally quotient of the house will go through the roof!
Ahhh, peace and quiet, or as Elmer Fudd would say, “West and wewaxation at wast!”
Wasn’t that right before the mice started trying to do him in?
Such rosy cheeks on that sleeping face – so healthy – I’m afraid Wiishu will be even more energetic after a long winter’s nap! LOL!
Silly Wiishu thinking a sleeping face would bite. Probably suck his thumb, but bite? Nah.
Will Pukisha be a boy or a girl? Sometimes a genderless doll will surprise you – just sayin’. I had one I thought would be a girl but ‘she’ kept fighting the girl clothes I put ‘her’ in. Finally, ‘she’ dive-bombed into a friend’s cleavage and ‘she’ became a ‘he’.
*claps happily* Thank you for a wonderful story!
I tell you, he’s becoming a bona fide drama queen!
Wellllll….
He DOES have ‘shu’ in his name, and we all know about a certain pink-haired drama queen with that in his name, too.
So it doesn’t surprise a little bit of pink Shu shows up in Mr. W.
I couldn’t help laughing about Wiishu’s answer to, “What did you get for Christmas, little boy?”
“A box of hands and a face.” — LOL!
Onna: That little sleeping face is one I got off the marketplace for far less than the blank I got from Fairyland! Isn’t a beautiful little thing? Not quite as rosy in person, but definitely more colorful than his waking face. One wonders what sort of dreams he’s having…And now I can mod the blank into a “looking down” face.
I didn’t even know s/he was genderless. Just thought it was a little boy. OTOH…I did create Dancer….Mostly, from the pre-arrival hints I’ve been getting, I think s/he is a little troublemaker…in a sweet way.
WOL: There’s a long thread over on Den of Angels about strange BJD-related quotes. Things like: what’s in the box? (at the PO) Answer: eyeballs.
I’ll have to add this one.
The waking face in the box just looks kind of spooky. Like a vision rising from a misty cloud to speak pronouncements of doom and destruction…..
OTOH, the sleeping little elf looks so peaceful. Again, your creativity in posing him amazes me.
Yes, the PukiPuki and PukiFee dolls are both genderless, which bugs me because other companies making those sizes DO have genders. I still want to ‘build a bit’ for my PukiFee Shiwoo and add some to my Yuki doll, who has an inferiority complex. Dream of Doll sculptors don’t know male anatomy and put bits in the weirdest places.
And just think…if it looked like you! Eeeewwww! But I think he is SO cute with the sleeping fact on. I can’t quite understand the people who put them on and leave them on while posing the doll as if it’s walking around. That’s…weird…even for me.
Re: posing. Thank you! But in actual fact, so much of it is the doll. M&V are very posable, but in an…ethereal way. He’s just so down to earth spunky and sweet. I think the little pukisha is going to be an adorable match for him.
I think some people use the sleeping faces as ‘looking down’ faces. Others I know use them as blind characters. Some people just like the sleeping faces as the default.
Wiishu IS cute with the sleeping face so perhaps that may be the reason why some people leave on the sleeping plates.
There’s sort of an Addams Family quality going on, like the hand, Thing, with the telephone.
Or maybe that Billy Idol song, Eyes Without a Face.
Heheh, love the comment about, what did you get for Christmas, little boy?
Snicker. Definitely worth a double take.
Wiishu looks very peaceful with the sleeping face. All very new to me.
I’m curious about the pukisha. Pushika?
The pukisha is a little kitty-faced pukipuki sized doll from Fairyland:
http://dollfairyland.com/shop/step0.php?b_code=B20071101105202&c_code=C20071220075138
Last one on the page.
Onna: I can’t believe I didn’t bookmark it! Where’s that adorable photostory with Talon climbing all over people….
Oh dear – Talon climbs all over LOTS of people! LOL! Let me think…
Was it the one where at one point he’s riding in a hoodie hood and waving, with pink-haired Shindo (the Minifee Shiwoo elf)?
That’s the one I was thinking of, but thanks for the others!
And if Wiishu is a house elf…the pukipuki is a pixy. You may imagine.
Pixy Pukisha – works for me!
According to Wikipedia, “Pixies are drawn to horses, riding them for pleasure [like someone else we know] and making tangled ringlets in the manes of those horses they ride.” Also, they have “a sort of weakness for finery exists among them, and a piece of ribbon appears to be … highly prized by them.” So it’s prolly good that Jane has a new sewing machine. . .
Ah, “pukisha” it is, then. Cute, too.
Part one: http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/132914.html
Part two: http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/147092.html
Part three: http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/158049.html
Traveling: http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/170047.html
Rheumatologist: http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/161325.html
Thanks for the links, Onna! I do not know why I can’t find stuff on that LJ site. Sheesh. I LOVE the waiting room sequence. Going to take at least one of my guys and a camera to every appointment I ever have from now on! I hate waiting!
question: Do the ears hold right through the wig or do you need to cut holes in the wig for them? And where did you get his wig? Did you have to modify it to fit him? (Love it but I think my little guy is going to be white, so he’ll be on a completely different palette.) I have a bunch of different fur samples so will be able to try some different looks.
Wonder what color eyes he’ll have… 8mm, right?
First things first – here is the tag list link for future reference:
http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/tag/
I usually do multiple tags for entries using their character names and sculpts but I miss sometimes. I had planned on going in and working on lots of doll stuff during this holiday but I have been sleeping a lot.
Dolls at the doctor are fun. I took one of the large guys to meet my dental surgeon and he went into his office and brought out a small skull that could have been put on the body if the skull would have had a hole to do it.
About the Pukisha ears: they will lay pretty flush to the bald head. To get them to work with Talon’s wig I added a magnet to each ear to create a ‘magnetic post’. Doubling the magnets double the strength. I pushed the wig hair away from the where the ear magnet post would touch the wig and connect with the head magnet.
Yes, it was my understanding you will be getting a white Pukisha.
I bought the wig a long time ago from someone who no longer makes wigs. One of my Pukis wears a beachgirlnikita wig I got on eBay:
http://stores.ebay.com/Beachgirlnikitas-Guys-and-Dolls/3-4-Puki-27-cm-Dollfie-wigs-/_i.html?_fsub=710544018&_sid=143464438&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322
The ears will still fall off if knocked, just like the human hands.
Yes, the eyes are 8mm and FL uses a variety of different colours in their dolls, which is nice. I recently ordered a new Yo-sized doll from a lesser known company (Little Monica) and they only put in blue or brown eyes.
You can find lots of different colours in 8mm if you are looking for something unusual. I like Safrin Doll’s acrylics for beautiful eyes.
There are tutorials at Den of Angels on how to make Anthro wigs for dolls with attached ears, but I think the pukisha ears are magnetic and just go on over the wig.
There are tiny ears on the faceplate that are usually hidden by the wig. If you got the following ‘add ons’ you get the big magnetic ears:
http://dollfairyland.com/shop/step1.php?number=47
I thought the full set of add-ons included a tail? Unless you want a bobtail Neko>/i>?
I’ve got the full feet and ears set coming. And I’m pretty sure the ears are magnetic, (Even Wiishu has ear-magnets) but I just wondered if the magnets were strong enough to hold the ears on through the fabric of the wig. I’m going to make him a couple of interim wigs from the online specs for his arrival, but I sure don’t want to lose an ear to carelessness.
Chondrite: I don’t thing a tail is involved. Not sure he’s even got a magnetic tush!
I know Wiishu hasn’t. Yipes I take it back. It is an option: http://dollfairyland.com/shop/step1.php?number=589 I wonder if that’s what CJ ordered! No…wait again…that’s for the pukiFee, which is a little larger (a whole 4.5 cm taller!) than the Pukipuki. This is so confusing at times….:D But the PukiFee tail looks really tiny. The magnet pretty much fills the resin, so if they were to do one for the pukipukisha, I think they’d have to make it a big fluffy tail! 
They’re rare earth magnets and definitely strong enough, even through a thick faux fur wig!
Wiishu + tail? If he doesn’t have a built in tail magnet, as long as his pants are sturdy you can put a tail on with a loose magnet inside the pants and it works just fine. I made a tail for my Chicline cat fae Felicity using the same faux fur as her wig, glued over a pipe cleaner and then glued a strong RE magnet onto the end (Clines come with tail, wing and ear/horn magnets already in place):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhawktx/5991636633/in/set-72157632084196130
I have the Pukifee ears and tail somewhere, if you’re interested in seeing it attached to different sizes. I’ll have to hunt them up.
I think I’ve found Tinkerboutit’s eyes!
This is the site: http://ersaflora.ipower.com/
I could go seriously crazy here.
I like the new name, that’s perfect.
That eye…that’s awesome.
Must confess the convo is a little surreal. Costuming, crafts, cosplay, anthros and furries, neat glimpse into things.
BlueCatShip – doll meet and work meet conversations can sound surreal to the novice. You will hear things like hot-gluing joints, restringing bodies, scrubbing off faces, sanding off ‘bits’, making wigs and clothes, painting tattoos, adding piercings and studs, adding scars, and other things you might hear in a horror movie.
It’s just taking a little getting used to, but interesting.
…Help, I’ve been glommed by my cat! LOL, Goober decided he needs some people time, so he’s curled up on my arm. Could make typing difficult… Goofy sweet cat.
Actually…you haven’t met Tink yet. Tomorrow! He joined us last month but I haven’t been able to work in his box-opening slideshow with proper pomp yet. We didn’t know he was coming, so no fanfare. I think you’ll like him.
Glow in the dark eyes? Cooool….
http://ersaflora.ipower.com/?p=47
dhawk: have you tried beveling the CLIne eye sockets? The eyes sit back in the socket farther than I particularly like, and I’m wondering if I can ease them forward fractionally.
I bought a set of bevelers and have actually taken Felicity from a size 6 mm to a size 8 mm, so, yeah, you can change it! But look at it closely. What you MAY be seeing is simply that the eyelids are closed so much that no light gets in to make the eyes show up. If you look from the side and the clear acrylic of the eye is up against the inside of the eyelids, you will have to either get low dome eyes or thin the eyewells at the lids and take a chance on damaging them if you go too far – resin becomes very iffy if you get it too thin, likely to fail just from having eyes shoved in too hard.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhawktx/5497629619/in/set-72157632084196130
dhawktx: I remember you showing some shaped sanding sticks at a panel and you said you used them to open your cat girl faceplate’s eyes. I want to open Onza now so can you point me to where you purchased them? Thanks!!!
Jane, if you want good coverage of intense colour for Tink, I have discovered Liquitex Professional Acrylic Ink can’t be beat.
“Acrylic Ink” ? How’s it used? A brush or other tip, instead of a pen nib? Or is there a dispenser pen? I’ll have to look for it. Thanks, Onna.
I’m painting the black on with a big brush for the large areas and a detail brush to keep parts of the white resin still white but have the black fur strokes on it.
I think I am going to look for some white so it is as glossy as the black, then tone the shine down with the sealant.
I saw a faceup video and the girl used acrylic ink to get the black thin details I have been wanting for my own, like inside the eye sockets and around the eye holes for eyeliner. It’s much better than layers and layers of watercolour pencil.
I used the black Pan Pastel for a recent faceup of a bunny. It was dark grey and worked well with the medium brown tones of the faceup.
Jane, you may get different colours on the cat’s parts when you dye and you will have to unstring and restring Tink to do it. If you dye with the elastic you will have to restring anyway.
FYI: I have been painting with the cat strung, using the techniques I learned from the Mushroom Peddler.
Re: acrylic ink.
BCS: it’s just a nice, thin, ready for airbrush viscosity acrylic. I’ve never used it, but I doubt you could use a pen with it. Blick has a video:
http://www.dickblick.com/products/liquitex-professional-acrylic-ink/#videos
Onna: Is that what you used on your mom’s black kitteh? I’m just about ready to put up Tinkerboutit’s box opening (Tomorrow) and it ends with the “painting plan.” I think, actually, I want a softer base tone…was going to try dying him. I didn’t have to sand any seams or do any modding of any kind, so I think he might take the dye quite well. It should give me a nice, soft base tone to blush with deeper/brighter color.
If I had a working airbrush, I’d get these in a heartbeat! But I don’t have my compressor any more and haven’t used the airbrush in 20 years! It’s a good Iwata so probably still works…. Whether or not I can make it behave…that’s a different story! We’ll probably see this spring/summer.
I’m bummed to discover liquitex has discontinued their heavy body acrylics. (sigh)
Acrylics:
Golden has both heavy bodied acrylics, airbrush, AND fluid acrylics that are excellent. For dolls, especially at the LTF or Pukipuki size, you will get serious brush strokes if you use anything thicker than the fluid acrylics. Both airbrush and fluid have the same pigment load as the heavy body, they simply have a much lower viscosity carrier. You can get all sorts of good info on them at the company’s website:
http://www.goldenpaints.com/
Dyes: Resin is remarkably porous and takes dyes readily. As such, if you are wanting to get a TINT rather than a solid dark color, you have to work harder at it. On Den of Angels member, Cymorill, has posted a tutorial for pinking up ‘yellowed’ resin that should help you a great deal. (sorry folks, you have to be a member to follow the link)
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?470738-De-zombification-Serum-Resin-Color-Restoration
Beveling/sanding sticks: Onna, I got those via a now defunct reborn dolls site and the owner/manufacturer in Louisiana seems to have fallen off the Net.
Jane and Dhawktx, thanks, I’ll remember to look for their acrylic ink next time I order art supplies.
Golden is what I used to use. Liked them better than liquitex. More intense pigmentation.
I’ll check out the thread. I’ve already done some research, but all input is useful. Don’t want to make a mistake on my Tink!
Since his base color is going to be teal….
OTOH, this is pretty much what I intended from other things I read. The best tutorial I read suggested tying threads around each piece (through the holes so there’s nothing touching the surface) so that you can dip them without touching the surface. Won’t work with his little paws, but small irregularities in color won’t matter much as there will be blushing over pretty much every part of his body. Ooo….slideshow tomorrow. If I can only make him turn out anything like the mockup….
If they’re magnetic, just use a pipe cleaner or some such to suspend them!
What about these:
http://stores.ebay.com/B-JS-BABES-Porcelain-Doll-Studio/Master-Eye-Beveler-/_i.html?_fsub=1272983015&_sid=9542175&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322
Will they do?
Bingo! Jane, you want the ROUND ones. In my case I got all of the sizes I could that I’d ever use, even on friends’ dolls. In your case you’d want to get both the correct sizes for the dolls you have AND one size larger than the largest eyes – because sometimes, as in realistic cats, you want the pupil to fill the visible eyehole and that requires an ‘oversized’ eye. The reason to get all the sizes is that sometimes you get a deal on a doll you’ve wanted and the eyewells are cut wonky. These tools allow you to even them out and make the eyes sit properly.
Since the current manufacturer (who bought out the original creator about five years ago) seems to be getting a bit flaky, get ‘em while you can!
BCS, I just noticed that ‘furries’ in the comment. Bite your tongue! The Furries are TOTALLY different from BJDs! Now, Furries may OWN BJDs, just like anyone else, but owning BJDs, Anthro or otherwise, is totally separate from the Furries community.
Can’t buy bevelers this month. I need to start paying off the latest brats.
Too bad they’re not in sets. I guess we all have to make bevel dates with Donna!
I thought I saw a set somewhere, but couldn’t get back to it. I need to do a better job of bookmarking… I’m also looking with some interest at the other modding tools offered on that site.
Re: Furries. We HAVE been talking a lot about furry wigs! And Wiishu’s Halloween prezzies to Chi and Ki are furry cosplay, so you gotta admit a heavy-duty crossover, at least on this blog!
The distinction is good to make because unfortunately some people do take offense if you use the terms “wrong”…rather like trekkers and trekkies. Talk about one of the dumber distinctions in fandom….
OTOH, one of the three best conventions I’ve been to in the last twenty years was a furry con down in the Bay area. The writing panels were fantastically well-attended, the audiences were respectful but really responsive and interested, and the costumes unbelievable. Also, the best “waiting in line” conversation with strangers I’ve had since my first few conventions. All in all, except for the rather strange artshow, it was very much like an old-fashioned, readers-oriented SF con. Met a lot of people from the SF cons that I hadn’t seen in years…because they’d migrated to the furry cons.
I have no others to compare it with, but if this was “normal” it’s a pretty cool group.
That’s nice to know Jane. The only Furries I’ve met conversationally so far were all rather on the extreme end of the Furry Fetish (that extreme end is a bit eeeeuuuuwwww to me but to be fair they were at least ‘nice’ to each other). Apologies if I over-reacted!
These prices are a little higher, but there’s a pretty complete selection:
http://www.tracystreasures.com/tools%20and%20brushes.htm
Before I bought my set I tried buying just the heads but no dice. Couldn’t find them anywhere, especially in the metric sizes that eyes come in. Luckily I was able to contact the Manufacturer in LA and got a set at about a 10% savings over the cost of individual pieces.
I guess I was thinking of Furries in the sense of the dolls being dressed as or becoming Furries, but I’m probably still bending the term and the crossover more than they’re meant to be. I’m probably still misusing the term.
Heh, if folks want to be Furries, cool. Not too much different than scifi cosplayers. I can kinda see the attraction and fun of it. Those costumes must be super hot in summer, though.
A few months ago, I was doing an image search for a mascot costume, typed in things like furry, cat, neko, boy, girl, and got a real surprise, small world. One pic I found, I’d swear was a college kid I used to know. Either he was going along with friends, or he’s a Furry and I had no idea. LOL. Only I felt like I was intruding, seeing the photo. Very ordinary photo, just felt funny, wondering if he’s really into Furry fandom. More power to him if so.
BCS, agreed about Furries equivalent to SciFi cosplayers…just a different specialty. After Jane’s comment I feel like I need to day trip a Furry Con just to give them ‘equal time’. I know for sure that my least favorite cosplayers I’ve been around are Anime – for too many reasons.