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Hopefully this is in the correct area to post this...? Mere hours before the new year, I took Miku to a friend's house so we could watch anime, eat fast food and then watch the ball drop on TV. I have one of the clear small dog/cat backpack that I had put Miku in so I could transport her safely. While taking her out of the cat backpack, I noticed her left leg seemed loose. When I lifted her out, her leg literally fell off. Apparently, stupid me forgot poor Miku is not a easily poseable BJD with ball joints and internal stringing, and can not sit crosslegged. Oof. I'm not terribly worried, I'm more mad at myself for breaking poor Miku! I know she's made to be able to have her parts easily replaced, but it still hurts me that I hurt my Miku. I've checked Cool Cat for hip and shoulder metal sheath sets, any idea which ones I should get for her DD III body? I also want to get the neck joint, parts that I've wanted to get anyways. I was hoping that I could get them quite a bit later in 2024, but oh well. Also, is there a tutorial or video that shows how to replace that hip, or better yet, add all of these parts to poor Miku? Welp, she was home for a year and four days before any damage occurred, I guess that's a good thing. Miku's broken leg by Ryuichi Sakuma, on Flickr Miku's broken leg by Ryuichi Sakuma, on Flickr Miku's broken leg by Ryuichi Sakuma, on Flickr Ryu
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Misc. questions about DD-f3 body/articulation, plus doll head questions
ZashKiIzzivash posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hi folks! Been reading the forum as a guest for a few weeks as I'm building up my first doll (after years of wanting one!) and I have a couple questions about the DD-f3 body before I make the jump and potentially buy one. I bought a standalone custom DD head to start off with (the head was what started all of this, really...) and I don't want it to float around body-less longer than it has to lol. I was originally looking at a Obitsu body for my doll since I read about how the 47/48 cm bodies had amazing articulation/range of movement, but after reading up on the DD-f3 body, it seems pretty much on par with Obitsu articulation. (I had read that the DD bodies were limited in some areas compared to Obitsu. This post I found a while back gives you an idea of what I was looking at, though it compares the older DDII [rather than DDIII] to Obitsu, so I imagine it's a bit outdated.) Can anyone who owns/has handled both compare and tell me which one is the better of the two in that regard? I want to use my doll for photography so I want to be able to move them around pretty freely. My big concern (if I can word it that way) is the knee joint - apparently larger Obitsus (50 cm+) can't bend it all that far, so I'm wondering where DD stands on that front. Aesthetics of the body itself aren't an issue for me. I'm also a figure collector, so visible joints and etc. don't bother me much. I mostly just want to know if the extra cost of a DD-f3 is worth it - there's quite a big jump in price between the two bodies, after all. Also, do the chest/bust parts on the Volks site all fit the DD-f3 body just fine or were they made for the DDIII body? The character I'm making a doll of is supposed to be really flat chested, so I was looking at getting a S bust or even smaller, but I want to make sure it all fits. The head I got is a DDH-03, which I've read is one of the smaller DD heads Volks makes. Does that mean it would look out of proportion on a standard DD body? Should I be looking at a smaller body instead? On that note, what wig size does this head require? I'll need to make my own wig for my doll, and while I've found a place to buy hair wefts and such, I'm not sure what size of wig caps I should get for this head. Sorry if these are dumb questions, but since I don't own any dolls yet I don't have much to compare to/much first-hand experience with them. I appreciate any help you can offer. Thank you! -
obitsu Obitsu 27 cm Nagato Yuki waist joint issue - How do I put it back in her torso?
luisjavier_osorio posted a topic in General Discussions
Hello all! I have a small doll collection (a couple of Takara dolls, a Moxie Girlz and several EAH). And one of my first dolls was an Azone Hybrid figure of Nagato Yuki. Here she is wearing her uniform and some lingerie (don't know if doll nudity is allowed in this forum). She has a soft butst 27BD-F05N obitsu body. I posted her pictures in lingerie so I can ilustrate my problem a bit better before going into more detail. Yuki has been with me for 4+ until the other day her legs fell apart during a modeling session. The problem was a broken hip joint. I managed to take the broken pieces out of her torso and glue them back together. Here is the result of the operation: Despite the look of the pieces, they are pretty solid and I tested putting back them along with the legs, but without reassembling the doll. The legs and the joint seem to work. But there is a problem: How do I put the hip joint back in the torso?
