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Chapter Four: Advanced Customizing
This chapter covers some more advanced customizing that you can do to customize your doll. It is recommended that you have done some simpler mods before attempting any of these: Facial Reshaping, Hand Positioning, adding elf ears, opening or closing eyes, Reducing Foot Size and other miscellaneous mods I can think of that fit here.
The look of a doll can be changed considerably just by using a little fine sandpaper or apoxie. Noses can be shortened and puffy cheeks can be slimmed. If your doll is close to what you want, but just not quite perfect then facial modification might be just what you're looking for!
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If you want a pointy eared elf instead, apoxie might be the route for you to take.
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Just because your doll has eyes that are closed, does not mean that they have to stay that way! You can use an Xacto knife to open them a little or a lot. The same is also true of open eyed dolls; you can close them with apoxie.
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Japanese Tutorial showing Eye opening
It's very simple to use steam or hot water to change the position of the fingers.
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Some dolls have fingers or toes that are so close together that they are one big piece of resin instead of four or five little ones. You can fix this by separating the fingers or toes with an Xacto knife. It also helps to have a little sandpaper and bandaids nearby, in case of slippage.
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Sometimes a doll has huge feet or undetailed hands and you might want to change them. Fine detail can easily be sanded into or sculpted onto an existing piece of resin easily so here's how to: detail the hands, reshape flat feet to heeled feet, reduce the size of the feet, add claws or nails and slim the fingers.
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Links
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showt
http://denofangels.com/forums/showp
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showt
http://denofdemons.org/showthread.p
Click here to read Chapter Five: Professional Customizing
This chapter covers some more advanced customizing that you can do to customize your doll. It is recommended that you have done some simpler mods before attempting any of these: Facial Reshaping, Hand Positioning, adding elf ears, opening or closing eyes, Reducing Foot Size and other miscellaneous mods I can think of that fit here.
Facial Reshaping
The look of a doll can be changed considerably just by using a little fine sandpaper or apoxie. Noses can be shortened and puffy cheeks can be slimmed. If your doll is close to what you want, but just not quite perfect then facial modification might be just what you're looking for!
[insert photos here]
Ear Modification
If you want a pointy eared elf instead, apoxie might be the route for you to take.
[insert photos here]
Eye Modification
Just because your doll has eyes that are closed, does not mean that they have to stay that way! You can use an Xacto knife to open them a little or a lot. The same is also true of open eyed dolls; you can close them with apoxie.
[insert photos here]
Japanese Tutorial showing Eye opening
Modifying Hand Positions with Heat
It's very simple to use steam or hot water to change the position of the fingers.
[insert photos here]
Separating Fingers/Toes
Some dolls have fingers or toes that are so close together that they are one big piece of resin instead of four or five little ones. You can fix this by separating the fingers or toes with an Xacto knife. It also helps to have a little sandpaper and bandaids nearby, in case of slippage.
[insert photos here]
Hand/Foot Reshaping
Sometimes a doll has huge feet or undetailed hands and you might want to change them. Fine detail can easily be sanded into or sculpted onto an existing piece of resin easily so here's how to: detail the hands, reshape flat feet to heeled feet, reduce the size of the feet, add claws or nails and slim the fingers.
[insert photos here]
Links
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showt
http://denofangels.com/forums/showp
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showt
http://denofdemons.org/showthread.p
Click here to read Chapter Five: Professional Customizing
