Misheru wrote:I think Highlander has more pics of Rio of his computer. I will see if we can post more tomorrow.
Rio is fleshtone, large bust and Rina is white skintone with the regular bust (actually she is sporting a Dollfie Dream medium bust right now). One has the slide joints and the other has the ball-joints, but right at moment...I cannot remember which one is which without looking at them (they are in the bedroom).
We will post more photos tomorrow. They are the newest Obitsu girls in the house, so I am sure they will be happy to pose for pics.
Can you tell we like the anime, "RIO - Rainbow Gate"?
That head is the largest of the Obitsu heads and takes larger eyes (18mm generally). It also takes larger wigs - standard SD and Dollfie Dream sized wigs. It has been easier for her to swap out stuff with all of the Dollfie Dream girls.
More tomorrow!
Both of these girls were rebuilds.
Rina's body was originally a 55 cm male body that just wasn't quite working out. In the flick of an eye, and with a couple of replacement joints, and a new abdomen (white) and Dollfie Dream chest, we had a 60cm female with sliding joints on our hands. Rina actually uses a 60cm slim abdomen (from the slimmer ball joint) which fits much better with the DD chest piece. The head had a face-up already, but Misheru made some major enhancements, and Rina was born, to stand along side Rio.
Rio arrived in pieces without a head and no chest. One of her shoulder joints was apparently frozen (actually it was broken), the inner skeleton T-pieces were cracked and loose - I still need to replace the central piece between them. One of the sockets for the arms in the upper torso joint was very loose and the legs were loose. I already had a large bust, white skintone, but very well blushed - so much so it color matched. I purchased a fleshtone head - decided on the original Obitsu one instead of a Haruka, I couldn't find a fleshtone Gretel. I also purchased replacement shoulder joints and the hip joints to tighten up the legs. I had a white skintone upper torso joint piece, so I didn't purchase a replacement for the existing one. I purchased a normal soft body abdomen in flesh, even though she has the ball jointed legs and arms. It goes better with the large Obitsu bust, the regular slim abdomen for the ball joint girls leaves a very large and obvious gap with a large bust.
So, I took off the hip joints and replaced them only to find that the waist joint that they attach to has a different method of attaching than the new joints. the new ones need the waist joint to have the two grooves on each peg for the legs to attack to, you pop them home. The older kind uses a single groove nearer the 'hub' of the joint, so the new hip joints don't fit - for now. I put the old ones back and made sure to tighten the joints as much as possible before assembly - it's better, but not right. The abdomen and chest fit perfectly with only a little color difference on the neck. The inner skeleton was rebuilt in a patchwork of flesh colored and white pieces - but it works. I used a tension ring from an old damaged joint piece to help the upper torso joint to work better with the arms, it provided just a smidge of additional tightness in the joint (I've done the same thing on another lady with a loose arm now, it helps, but is not perfect). The head has a large circular hole for the neck piece, which is different to the ones I am used to with the Gretel, Haruka, Sheba and Megu heads. For now, I used an old style neck piece that appears to fit well enough, but I'm not 100% sure. Once all her joints were repaired or replaced, and her new abdomen was mated to the chest piece, she took shape.
The funny thing is, that I had the name for her - Rio - before anything else. Misheru did such a great job on the face-up, and her character is still evolving in my head. But she's a fun girl that is concerned more for others than herself. She's one of those people that appears to be care free, but is actually quite concerned about the things going on around her. Her bright eyes maybe permanent, unless I can find another set that appeal more.
Can you tell I enjoy re-making or re-building these ladies to give them new life?
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 6:30 am