Repro stuff and FF Gillian...

[Kd_Bunchanumbers]

Gillian was a yardsale find. Her lips were painted with a tacky nail polish and her hair was... huge. Strangely enough, Gillian was more of a subtractive custom than an additive one. I removed her lip, freckle and eye make up paint, leaving the eyes intact and redone the freckles. The polish stained her lips but it's not a horrid colour so I left it. Her hair I cut and styled because it was too unmanageable otherwise.






Also my local toystore had the repro wedding day giftsety marked down so I bought them and put all their fancy crud back in the box. Woo.


Barbs had the oldstyle neck connection so I hollowed it out and stuck her on a Liv body. Ken on the other hand has a neck HALF the size of his modern counterparts so... It'll be awhile before I find a body with a suitable neck connection.

Other things, both bodies they came on are hard plastic. It's like evolution into the model muse body except the whole "getting better part".


I suppose this barbs won't be on the good side of my retro girl squad. She just looks undeniably like a haunty, stuck up, snobby bitch that makes makes about how much she affords in any conversation. I don't believe Mattel that this face was one of the average Wisconsin 16 year old girl. Nor that Ken is her boyfriend. Son maybe, but not an equal. Lol, Cougar!Barbie.


Is every vintage male doll I own doomed to be dumb looking? Poor Spud looks like the only vintage smart guy I own... Ken looks more to be the easily swayed minion of Cougar!Barbie rather than a fullblown villain like Barbs up there. Lols, damn.

I like vintage Barbs and Ken, they just don't hold a candle to Midge and Allan.

[nashira]

Oh, Gillian is quite pretty! She looks lovely, I don't think I've ever seen one of those dolls before but she looks very sweet.

Retro Barb looks like she wants to stab someone a little.

[Kd_Bunchanumbers]

Not my pic but a before pic of Gillian

She has a big head but since I decided to add 56537635453 different kinda dolls she doesn't stand out too much.


And yeah, she's all "Touch me and you're stabbed" vibe.

[DollyKim]

The repro Barbie has a Natasha look (Boris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle) Could be their daughter and the Ken is a love struck henchman who's rotten but not that rotten.

Makes me think about doing a head swap on the retro I have

[Geektopian]

Gillian turned out really nice John. Much more subtle than the stock version.

That vintage repro Barbie looks very much like my sister Linda's original. And just like the original, I find something unsettling about the face on this one. Definitely NOT "sweetness and light" and if this is how she looks at 16, imagine the ball crusher she'll be at 30! No wonder my GI Joes stayed away from her when I was a kid!

[Kirahfaye]

Yeah, I was getting the Natasha vibe from the Barbs too. LOL - giving ages away again, huh?

[nashira]

Not my pic but a before pic of Gillian

She has a big head but since I decided to add 56537635453 different kinda dolls she doesn't stand out too much.


And yeah, she's all "Touch me and you're stabbed" vibe.

Ooh, thanks. Hrm no, I don't think I had ever seen her before, which isn't much of a surprise... I'd mostly avoided barbies for years and if it's not blonde or a princess doll it's not likely anywhere around here has it anyway.

Your girl's face up is a lot prettier than the stock, though. Soft.

[Mary Kathryn]

Repro Barbie? Ya, totally Natasha. With a bunch of tiny stabbity knives and bottle of poison.

I have that Gillian - she's on a model muse body. I love what you've done with her. Goddess mold FTW!!!

[OutBriefCandle]

Gillian does look beautiful! And I have to agree with everyone else that Barbie there does look about ready to go hunting for Moose and Squirrel. XD

[victoriavictrix]

Barbie was Millicent Rogers' daughter? Cough. BS!

The doll is an almost direct copy of a "naughty gentleman's doll" from Germany, Bild Lilli



Bild Lilli on left, Babs on right.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll

Bild Lilli was based on a naughty comic strip "Lilli" which was much like Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny"