So I have a GIANT project in every single way the word can be defined. His name is Ferrous. First, Ferrous should not exist. He was bought for me and was second hand on ebay. The listing was vague but I know that face anywhere. The pictures were worse. He looked like a normal yellow on a really gloomy day in fluorescent lighting that was flickering. Then I opened the box. HE is dark tan, warm, he is just the most amazing tan that you could find. The first thing that I found was shin... then the package of his hands. Oh my his hands.... you'll see. Then I just kept digging until I found that most of him was still strung. I pulled him out and pulled th wrapping away and noticed a piece of resin fell out into my lap. It was a part of his ribs. it was about an inch or so long and a half inch deep, just broken off. He was still, just so beautiful. So I trotted over to the computer to see exactly what I had and went straight to the dream of doll site... then opened the den. There is no such thing as a dark tan ducan with elf ears. There is one that has fangs and elf ears... one... only one ever. At first I figured, eh... It's ok I'll figure it out. We didn't know and we will report the seller so that it doesn't happen again. Then I unstrung him and discovered a three inch crack up his back. Now I can't report the seller because I need to claim on the insurance... but I can find the recast site and send it to DoD, formally apologize, and offer to compensate them for use of their sculpt. I didn't know. We had no way of knowing even what color he was with the pictures and the listing was, well now we know to be suspicious when it is that vague, less than wordy... like it said it was a ducan and that's it. So that aside I now have a dark tan elf ducan, who received the ok to exist from dream of doll themselves, who had a big chunk out of his ribs and a huge crack up his back.... with the worst case of seamlineitus ever. Now I have a DoD Luke and his seamlines were pretty bad too... and my fairyland, goodness. Companies, clean up your kids before you ship them out. My cheap dolls come cleaner! So this is where we begin:
I didn't take a picture of the damage to his Neck. My girlfriend has it for the claim. You can see though... he is pretty jacked up. Ya know what though... I fought too hard for him to be as legit as I could and the ducan was the first doll that I ever saw. It is that sculpts fault that I got D and that I started to sculpt at all. I saw him and I thought... I can make my characters real. People will be able to see them the way I do, even the bad parts. I love this little guy too much to let him moulder as a broken almost. Ferrous is getting a music box movement installed in his chest. It plays the song Lilium from Elfin lied. The character is mute. The winding key for the music box goes where his heart should be or is on a chain around his neck. Because of this he has all sorts of carved out sections so when the music box movement plays, you can see it moving inside of him. There will be other gears here and there inside his body that turn and work as they should. To fix the crack up his back I am going to reinforce the lower part of that area with a raised design made from industrial grade epoxy. I will cut t he crack out and will sculpt his exposed spinal column so I can use it to hide the elastics and offer the remaining resin stability. there will be another area up higher that will also have an exposed portion of his spinal column. He has both additive and subtractive patterns across his entire torso which tie in to the cut throughs that expose the movement in his chest. I have started the mods and drawn in the patterns where I intend to add or grind away.
and... because I love him so much this is what his face looked like before I stripped it... and his beautiful hand holding tha hand of a DZ normal skin doll so you can see the color.
