Timonium's pissing me off.

I mostly blame his faery feets.

• Of course, he can't stand unaided because of them, but I'm resigned to that.
• I can't wire them all the way through, as the S hooks attach to bars inside the tops of his calves. Therefore, his legs don't want to stay straight, which makes any balancing that I try to do with him, even with the help of a stand, nearly impossible. I need to core out some of the resin down in his calves so I can jam wire in there.
• Furthermore, he's looking very stiff compared to Flower and Mellifer. I think I need to rewire his torso joints.
• His resin has this fascinating translucent quality that reminds me of alabaster. It also makes him hard to photograph because he instantly washes out. This is a temporary problem that will be rectified when he gets a faceup and some hair, but I still reserve the right to be annoyed.
• And his skirt is too big and needs to have its waistband adjusted.

That said, I know he'll be very nifty-looking when I do some work on him. I have ordered a 36-color Prismacolor watercolor pencil set. I've also ordered some longish silver grey faux fur for his wig, and I plan to do his faceup in shades of grey [possibly 50 of them :p ]. He'll be a muted greyscale doll, a change from my usual bright palettes.

Uh, anyway, I took a few pictures of him tonight. Not very well shown is the articulated Obitsu stand that I spent 1.5 hours putting together, only to have it fail on me because Mr. Wobbly can't keep his legs straight so that his en pointe feets can serve as load-bearing points. >:( ( Read more... )