Four sections to this post: 1) Box Opening 2) Belated Box Opening 3) Extremely Belated Box Opening 4) Updates!
1) Box Opening: Dollshe Saint
Shipping box! (Noteworthy as this one is a rare survivor of UK customs rather overzealous examinations...)
Cute logo! (Have Dollshe ever made chubby little dolls like these??)
Posh looking doll box
Foooaaaaaammmmm...
Eek! So many things!
Cert of Authenticity and elastic (Really really hope it's spare rather than needing installation)
So many joints...
Help! Suffocating!
He stands! (Or leans casually...)
Buttocks!
Brain!
2) Belated Box Opening: Dollshe Heads
Boxes!
Weirdly the Certs of Authenticity that came with the heads are black rather than white, I think the little circular thingies are supposed to be used instead of s-hooks?
LoveLoveLove Van! Adore his sculpt but no idea who he is yet!
Place for a hook to attach???
His head is bigger than it looks
...I'd completey forgotten that I'd ordered an SA Saint... I had to doublecheck the order
This SA Saint looks far more grumpy than sleepy, which is quite different to his SA Facelplate counterpart. I'm quite glad the sculpts are slightly different actually, it'll help to make them look like two characters who look uncannily similar rather than identical!
Face-plates vs. heads the "Old" vs new Saints are subtly different
3) Extremely Belated Box Opening: Soom Sabik
GIANT BOX!! (Poor Nick I suspect he's finding this whole series of photos a bit humiliating!) This shipping box did not survive UK customs... They've ripped out all of the staples holding it together, though luckily the doll box remained intact!
Soom Logo! (Apparently the post office gave a very weird look when he was delivering the box... I can only imagine what sort of doll he thought was being delivered...)
Loads of paperwork! And jointed hands kit! (The pig-english on the "instructions" is hilarious)
Free-stuff!!
MA Sabik size comparison to SG Sabik ...Look how pink he is! Eek!
Yeah you can see how SuperGem Sabik really really doesn't match the body he was intended for... (Neither does Nick really but eh the body has entirely the wrong attitude for Jerome)
4) Spam Updates!
Elrana has been a little unloved these past few months, purely down to the difficulty in finding clothes that will fit her! I've finally managed to find things that both match my idea for her style, and actually fit. It's supposed to be a pseudo-gypsy look with the black leotard thing being a disguised cat suit for easy cat burgling! She still needs suitable combat boots and maybe wrist guards... But the corset & skirt are perfect for her "I'm a harmless woman, no really!" outfit
Nyta has a slightly updated face-up (...which may be wiped soonish) but still no cyberpunk stuff to wear - hence she's borrowing Elrana's dress, which actually fits Nyta better than Elrana (which Elrana is understandably cross about...)
His Lordship is mostly put together, I just need a suitable outer robe for him, his cane, some daggers, and to restyle his rather bouffant wig...
Currently looks a bit like Elvis!
With the Official Portrait
...Garan, having gone through the entire wardrobe offered to him for a "night-out" with Drax and Jerome, settled on the item that seemed the most similar to his own clothes... Some metallic man-leggings; after Drax's comments about "sex on legs" and various people groping his "delicious arse" in the club he's feeling understandably nervous...
Nick looking grumpy about turning into an accidental hipster...
Poor Nick... Since his body was supposed to be for SG Sabik he has no clothes of his own, so he's borrowing one of His Lordship's spare jumpers...
Height comparisons! Very pleased with just how much shorter Nick Rush is compared to all of the other male dolls, and even the female ones... And with the way Jareth (MA Sabik) is simply built to a bigger scale than everyone else, with slightly odd proportions - v. sidhe methinks...
The Usual Suspects (blurryness due to Sabik's inability to stand for more than 20 seconds...)
He's only taller than the 2 super-short characters, an elf and a nekomimi...
Still waiting for Drax's body to arrive (and Freddy-2) but I think this will have been a truly exceptional year for dollieh stuff, since real life is going to take over again!