Greyhaunt wrote:AHA - so you are why I can never find a second-hand Obitsu at DoA!!!! They used to be frequent, but lately......
That's awesome though - nice to see someone who is potentially giving me and Cirquemom a run for our money on the "most dolliehs" competition. She's winning, by the way, she just wont' admit it.
Rio - my newest was reconstructed, she arrived as a complete set of limbs and a partial body. With some replacement parts, and a new abdomen and head, she soon took shape.
Most of my girls have 'arrived' in this way - partial re-construction or repair. Suzie arrived with an older, very rigid and yellowed three part sliding joint body, some stained hands and a broken waist joint - possibly thanks to the postal service. She now resides on a ball joint body, and her old sliding joint body was reconstructed with replacement parts and a new soft body abdomen to match a Parabox large bust. Mariko received that body as an upgrade since she already had the bust, but it looked wrong on her slimmer ball joint frame. Kira was a used body, we provided the Sheba head. Midori actually has the original body that Mariko came on. Originally Mariko was a retail body set from Parabox, but we moved things around and Midori was born. Shion (50cm Megu) started as a default body set with a Parabox Megu head, but she got a bust upgrade and a replacement (heavily modified) abdomen - 60cm slim abdomen from the ball joint body set. Finally, Kyoko arrived as a complete doll, but her face has undergone some radical change (and improvement in my eyes). She also required some repair upon arrival, I think I replaced her waist joint, but she still requires an upper torso joint replacement as one of the arm sockets looks like it's actually been eaten away by teeth or pliers.
So in the end, out of 7, I have two retail body-sets, the rest were re-constructed. Everyone, except for Midori and Kira have had some kind or modification or replacement to their original structure. I think that working on them in this way somehow makes them that little bit dearer to your heart, because you have put some of your own blood sweat and tears into their existence.
Don't get me wrong, I love all of my girls, but there's just a little something extra special when you've effectively created them from a pile of pieces. Sorry if Misheru and I are soaking up all the secondary market bodies. To be honest, I am surprised by how few there are, especially with the attitude of some of the collectors at places like Den of Angels. All I can say is, we have a number of floating heads now, and I hope more used/project bodies come up, I welcome the race to get them.
