Dollieh Sanctuary

Since Volks only tan girl is Kanu and is very hard to obtain I might as well just find ways to make my own tan dd. I remember seeing a post somewhere were a person dyed their dd a very tan color. I would love to know if anyone has a tutorial on how to do that. I'm thinking of having her be a nice cappuccino color.

ShyMangaka wrote:Since Volks only tan girl is Kanu and is very hard to obtain I might as well just find ways to make my own tan dd. I remember seeing a post somewhere were a person dyed their dd a very tan color. I would love to know if anyone has a tutorial on how to do that. I'm thinking of having her be a nice cappuccino color.

Vinyl takes dye very well because it is relatively porous, which is why the buggers stain like nobody's business. The big problem with staining an entire DD will be the visible hard plastic parts at the various joints. These parts are nowhere near as porous as the soft vinyl of the rest of the body and will not take the dye very well. Painting these parts to match is not hard but you will encounter problems keeping the paint in place as the paint is constantly abraded when the joints are moved.
I'm not saying don't try to do it, I just want you to be aware of some of the problems going into the project.

ShyMangaka wrote:Since Volks only tan girl is Kanu and is very hard to obtain I might as well just find ways to make my own tan dd. I remember seeing a post somewhere were a person dyed their dd a very tan color. I would love to know if anyone has a tutorial on how to do that. I'm thinking of having her be a nice cappuccino color.

Are you referring to this girl? There was one more, I think... Her thread is here.

IMG_6826 by semienigma, on Flickr

Here's a cute tan vinyl girl. No dying necessary. ^____^

1/3 vmf50 Head & Body Type E Brown (Neutral) 50cm by Yamato

kiki-chan78 wrote:Here's a cute tan vinyl girl. No dying necessary. ^____^

1/3 vmf50 Head & Body Type E Brown (Neutral) 50cm by Yamato

And the $285.92 price tag is a great price.
Here's a picture of Obitsu white skin (on the left) and the Type E (on the right). This Type E has the Haruka head in Obitsu fleshtone, which is a shade or two lighter than the tan of her body.


While it's lighter than the "cappuccino" color mentioned, it is distinctly tan.

This is one of the tan VMF dolls (in red) next to a white skin obitsu

Yamato vmf50... that sounds very familiar ill have to search them up