Dollieh Sanctuary

The third (and possibly final) critter in my bjd pet ball series. It's not done yet here, I have more stuff to add, and the horns should be attached, but this gives the general idea of what it's going to be like.

He's nearly done! Mostly I just have to work on the joints, which I am not so great at. I tried him out with the plain acrylic half-dome eyes I've been using as the default for all of these, but I also put in some 16mm eyes that I had lying around.

I like him with the 16mm eyes, he has a great expression with them!

He's awesome.

Thanks you guys!

I did a little mold making and got a couple of test casts today, so I can do a prototype. Alas I think I'll have to try again, because these are pretty bad even for me. This shows why I send these off to get cast when they're done, rather than trying to cast them myself.

A black resin test cast. :3 Working with black resin is even more of a pain than the white stuff. But I really wanted to see this guy in black. So I did a black test cast, and though it’s still not perfect, it’s pretty darn awesome!

Finally, a pic of the whole doll! Still very much a test cast, it's a bit of a mess still and there's lots of work to do, but all the pieces are together at least.

Here's the black and white test casts, all finished. They're also showing off the two different kind of eyes, solid flat-backed acrylics and realistic glass.

I am SO frigging excited for these. I want to start the kickstarter now! But I really should finish the unicorns first, and I need to test out some colors on these guys, I have a shiny new set of pastels to try.

(These do also show why I'm having them cast by somebody else. The black dragon in particular has a lot of problems, but the white isn't perfect either.)

Thank you!

I just finished painting the test casts. They came out AWESOME! I'm really excited to get to the kickstarter campaign to get these cast, though I still have lots to do before I can launch it.

Here's some pics of the painted test casts, including one with the fennec that was my first pet ball, which shows that these are a little bit larger.

Those are fantastic~ What did you use on the copper one to get the metallic sheen? Is that pearl ex?