Long, long, long overdue! Tink arrived back in October, but I just hadn’t had time to fit it in. So: enjoy the first real Wiishu slideshow of 2013!
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That’s a lot of detail in a small package, looking at Tink’s paws. Do you plan to do any “decorating” on Tink?
The final panel is the painting “plan.” He’s a ‘Net space-kitteh!
That is so cute! I want them both!
The elf got the Head-Butt of Approval!
You’re welcome, Wiishu! I Tink will be very pretty!
I thought I had posted this last year but I hadn’t, so I did last night, knowing you would be posting Tink’s box opening. This is my Hujoo Dorothy (company and sculpt, which is no longer available through Hujoo), Persian version (referring to the paint job): http://onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com/303019.html
So cute! I love the little purse, but didn’t really have any need of it, so it became the container for all the accoutrements for my sister’s Kindle! I love Lotus’ two-colored eyes. Get her and Tink together and who knows what kind of eyes we’ll get! (They really should make itty bitties with just jointed legs…)
I don’t quite understand why they call her a Persian. She’s utterly adorable (So’s the little Siamese they did) but she’s got no hair!
Tink doesn’t even have hair. He’s slick to move in and out of N-Space without generating static electricity!
I’m a little worried about dying Tink because of the restringing problem. I can’t see how I could possibly use the same elastic (Do you ever, once you’ve unstrung something?) and he didn’t come with a stringing diagram. I assume just from examination that the two strands in his head are one for each leg and the tail is a separate small piece.
I assume also there are different weight elastics. Did you get any instructions with Lotus? Do they say what weight to use?
Anyway…I don’t want to take him apart until I’m sure I can put him back together, but I’m getting kind of excited about dying him.
First, however, I have to make Wiishu a winter/fall outfit for the Project Runway on DoA.
Of course, I just finished the little jacket and hat and jeans he wore to Patty’s, but that was a really fast job. I want to make him some little black cargo pants with straps, then I’ll do a coat that actually opens completely. (He has to step into the one he wore to Patty’s.)
Oops…just realized I posted this on DoA and not here. This is Wiishu meeting Magic (the bay) and Brazen (the chestnut):
I’ll get the others from the party up soon.
I don’t know why Lotus is called a Persian, either. I guess it’s better than ‘white’.
HOW did Wiishu attach himself to horse muzzles? Is this the magic known as the Cloning Tool?
Tee hee hee! Yeah. Course it is, and not a very good job either. Had to do it in a hurry to catch the “m” spot on ABCs for BJDs on DoA. (M is for Magical Moment)
Magic (the bay) absolutely refused to come near me, even bearing smoochies, until I went out with Mr W. He was quite fascinated.
Did you ever see any of the old Popeye (movie) cartoons, the really old ones from the late 1930′s and early 1940′s?? They used to run all the old movie cartoons for “after school” on our local TV stations. At some point, Popeye acquired a pet called “Eugene the Jeep” (actually, I think it was the other way around!) who made “jeep! jeep!” noises. He could disappear and reappear, walk through walls, etc. Those “meep! meep!” noises reminded me of it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYK66ysrhiY)
I like the color scheme for Tinkerbelle. Go for it!
I’ve always LOVED Sweetpea and Jeep! But you know, haven’t watched Popeye in decades and those old BnWs were incredibly clever. One has to wonder how much of his mumbling was ad lib on the part of…gee, would it have been Jack Mercer or Billy West?
Interesting article…REALLY interesting…on how Jack Mercer created Popeye’s voice (with link to actual Billy West interview.)
http://boingboing.net/2010/07/16/voice-actor-billy-we.html
Hah, I loved Popeye cartoons, growing up. Though I liked spinach, it didn’t have anything to do with Popeye. So yes, I remember Jeep and Sweetpea, though I’ve forgotten the name of the women on that island…. Jeep was great.
That photo of Wiishu with the horses is really cute. Perfect outfit for him, very ranch-friendly. The horses look wonderful.
Oh! A certain feline pair say I have neglected the main business of the household, i.e., their supper.
Back in a bit to ogle the slideshow properly.
Back, and all is well. People food in oven (spring rolls, yum!) cat food in bowls met with approval.
(I didn’t look at my list, so I forgot tamales for the *third* time in a row. Geez…. Also went by the chocolate and forgot I was almost out. Dagnabit. Oh well, next week.)
The slideshow:
Uh-oh! Somebody’s being difficult, aren’t they?
Good thing he didn’t pull harder on that tail….
Oh wow, that is a wonderful kitty!
Given my avatar, I couldn’t say anything negative about the paint plan, even if I wanted to.
Besides, I really liked the intro of the cat in GroundTies. But then, I’m partial. (I also loved Andre Norton’s cat heroes, growing up.)
Welcome in, Tinkerboutit. — Great name.
Two paws up.
The cats are busy, or they’d say something. One’s in the window, ogling the neighbors. The other, ohhh, Smokey, Eushu’s virtual cousin, has decided he needs some attention…oh, no, on second thought, he needs a second helping of his supper. LOL. He just passed me on the way back to his food bowl. Well, guess I know where I rate. :LOL:
zette, if you want a kitty, Aileen Doll still has grey ones available. I just purchased one so my white kitty has a friend. http://aileendoll.com/
Jane, I still suggest you keeping the kitty together and using pastel instead of the dye. I have zero clue how they are strung and honestly, I’m intimidated by trying to take one of those apart. It looks like the legs are strung on the same elastic, which go to the head loop and the tail elastic is the other loop in the head.
And to answer your restringing question – yes, people use the same elastic to restring a doll, especially if the doll has been strung weird or the knots are in strange places inside. However, wet elastic will be shot if you dip the doll all together.
Because the elastic is so narrow, it will help to have some clamps and yarn needles to help with the restringing.
They even have foxes — Nine Tail Fox FTW!
Ooooo….Where did you see that!?!
I went through the drop down menu that says ‘pet dolls’. Here is the link to the fox (which is not actually a Nine-Tailed Fox, but could probably be customized if desired):
http://aileendoll.com/product/%ED%8E%98%EB%8B%88/SFSELFAA0000067/?main_cate_no=AE000000&display_group=+1
This one is a paler fox, they call it a fennec. There is a more ruddy Reynard as well. I even saw dragonets, in several colors!
They have a fox but it doesn’t have nine tails. You could easily make more tails with Sculpty!
My feeling is, somebody got him together once, so I ought to be able to get him back together!
I’ve been studying Tink more carefully and it’s pretty clear that the tail is a completely separate loop that just runs through the little pelvis and back to the knot on the hook in the main tail.
I can’t remember what the inside of his head looks like…right now it’s all taken up with the backs of the eyeballs and putty. I didn’t realize you could just snap those backs off the eyes! My new eyes will be flat backed… Anyway, I know there’s not a metal hook. Is the resin loop actually a hook? That w/b easier. I was afraid I’d have to cut the elastic and it’s not long enough to retie. But I’m going to have to untie it anyway! ARGH.
White is so strong…and pastels are granular, so there’s going to be white that will reflect strongly in photos (it’s a problem even with densely applied pastels on pastel paintings. It’s one reason to start with a colored sheet of paper and why pastel paper comes in so many colors.) If I can mute the background color, he should photograph more “true.” I’d try the acrylic ink and brushing it on, but never having worked on the resin before, I don’t trust how evenly the surface is going to take it. Gawd knows I became an expert at smoothing out watercolors on unsized paper when I was doing the graphic, but I’d really rather start with a nice, relatively even, mid tone.
I know repeatedly wetting strung elastic is going to ruin it, but I wonder if just taking the tension off, i.e. taking them off the hooks but not untying, and then dying the pieces with the loose elastic still on them might not work. I mean…if it doesn’t, I can always buy new elastic and restring him, but I see photos of dolls wet and in water all the time, so a dunking or two can’t ruin the elastic.
And elastic survives washing all the time. It’s just not under tension. I wonder if anyone’s tried it… Time to see if I can find threads on DoA, I guess.
When you see dolls in water the person is getting ready to restring the doll and decided to do a water shoot before they do it. At least that is what I have read in the past.
Perhaps you can figure out a way to wrap the inside elastic with something that would be flexible yet waterproof. When I can’t get a head off a doll (usually because the S hook is too large) I wrap the body in foil, spray a base coat and start painting.
Onna! I was just out on DoA and they said something about Hujoos being made of ABS plastic. Is Tink resin or plastic?
Tink is RESIN.
A few Hujoo human dolls have been made of resin in the past – they were special editions – but I haven’t seen them in a long while.
All the animals they sold were resin, and now that the animal maker(s) split off to form a new company the animals have been slightly redesigned in a way so the parts will not work with the Hujoo petdolls, at least that’s what the blurb on Aileen Doll’s website says. It’s one of the reasons I decided to get the Russian Blue Bubi – to compare. Another reason is their sculpts sell out and it looks like they don’t make any more of them and I have wanted a grey cat for a long time.
Would a light sanding help with dye uptake? Or would it help to spray on an undercoat, then dye or paint? Yes, I’m throwing out ideas in the dark, but it might spark another idea.
I was curious and followed one of the links Onna gave. Those are some neat figures. Cats, foxes, and the “Brandon” doll is really neat. Not really thinking of buying, but admiring anyway.
Spraying an undercoat before the dye is what my doll dye friend says to do. I think I need to get her in on this convo.
Nothing wrong with looking, BlueChatShip. A photo of a doll may spark a new character for a book!
Off-Topic: In a week or less, I plan to buy Fontographer 5 for Mac. I’m a registered user of old Fontographer 4.2 Mac. I just wish I had my old source files, but afaik, those are “lost” on obsolete media backups. I’d be thrilled no end if I found a backup I could use of my old files. Anyway, starting over from scratch might be a good thing in the long run.
I thought I’d let you know, since you might be interested. Font design is about like writing: Long period of work, burst of payoff, then whatever comes in from purchases and royalties after. Feast or famine.
I still have a good, clear idea of the font designs I had going, so maybe it won’t be too long. I know which will be first on the drawing board.
I looked at MyFonts.com and was happy with what I saw there for new designers. How things work in actual practice, we’ll see.
I’m still looking for a good vector-based drawing program, not Acostly Illustrator. It looks like Inkscape will be available in a later upgrade for Mac without needing X11.
Looking forward to getting into fonts again. Yippee!
Too cool! I love fonts! I had to restrain myself from putting all the fonts of a purchased CD on my computer and picked only about 100 out of the mass.
I love P22 Type Foundry for fonts. (http://www.p22.com/products/index.html) I bought their Kells set LONG TIME AGO. Also got the free snowflake font. I use the snowflake font a lot during the holidays.
P22 does good work. I have P22 Sparrow on a friend’s recommendation. — I’ll look at their Kells set.
Onna, thanks again. I have mostly seen P22 back long ago, then via MyFonts.com. But going to their site, they have several bargains I hadn’t seen, and more fonts. Coolness!
* Jaw drops * — I just got a quick reply from Michael Everson re a Fontographer question. Fanboy squee, there. I would not have expected a reply today, even. Wow. Speechless. (Yes, fanboy moment, sorry, lol.)
Am resisting getting into designing fonts. I’d have a hard time charging for them once I had them. I have a nice little freebie, type light 3.2 that’s allowed me to do what I need for the books…basically I do just what I need for the note involved. It’s limited, for instance I can’t import a jpg and turn it into a letter, but it does what I need for the rough handwriting fonts.
Well, if you ever do decide to do fonts, remember people are willing to pay for ‘em.
And if your free-spirited, open info side prefers, there are good sites like FontSquirrel.com and daFont.com that offer free fonts. Either way is good. — And you certainly have the design artistic and craftsmanship sense to do good font work. 
Actually, there is a nine-tail! Look at this: Includes box opening:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66673083@N07/6319036962
Wish I knew the company. Too cute!
Oh, my. Oh, my…it’s Camellia Dynasty and they have a kitteh I REALLY want. I think he’s bigger than Tink.
http://www.camelliadynasty.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=95
I have the old Camellia Dynasty black cat (with a terrible faceup/body blush that immediately started scraping off the doll) and they are slightly smaller than the Hujoo cat and more in proportion.
I want to eventually get the new black cat that has less paint.
I just posted and tagged a photo on FB so you can see the two kitties side-by-side.