Hello everyone and Merry Belated Christmas! I got Wydowna and a surprise addition to the collection, Honey Swamp!
First up at an up close is Honey Swamp.
Her face paint is just beautiful with her toothy grin. the only thing that slightly bugs me is the line of white that runs around her iris but tiny nit pick. now her body is so freaking cool. I just thought her arms n legs had the vine effect going for them but it goes over her entire body (apologies the bottom two pics aren't so good).
There's also her hands and they are just gorgeous. she has a slight webbing going with the swamp vine thing continuing into them as well (need to fix my phones auto focus x.x)
Then her hair.
Just look at that FLOOF. Mind you I had to tease her hair back out since she had a bad case of flat head from being in the box. Aside from using the brush for getting her hair to floof back out I don't think it'd be a good idea to man handle her hair at all unless you wanna do a reroot.
Next up is her accessories!
Excluding the stand and hair brush she comes with some fun gubbins.
First up is the camera. It's kinda well made but still a little flimsy feeling. The way it was made left the inside hollow and as a result mine was a little squished in at the wider sides. I might give the "lense" and "view port" a bit of paint to make it looks a bit better since it looks weird having it all the same shade of grey, molded that way or not.
Then there's the lil' snappy thing....I don't know the actual name for this thing I'm sorry. ; w ; anyway it's a lot more solid and has a tiny sprin (or feels like it) so it snaps back down on it's own. It also has a "hand hold" for the dolls but it takes a lot of finagiling to get a decent pose with it. works better as a decor item in my opinion.
Her dress I'm not really so fond of....it's mainly the skirt doing it since I'm not too into the "tattered" look of it but I do love the faux fur they used for the ruffle underneath. The dress she came in for me had a bit of the fluff sticking out while stitching though so she has a little furry fluff sticking out the back. Gonna trim or tug it out of the stitching later.
Honey swamp comes with a few accessories to wear as well. The tiny hat is just outright adorable though the belt could probably stand with a little paint to help some of it's detail stick out a bit more. Of course a girl has to have her jewelry too, coming with a pair of pearl earrings with a matching bracelet. Not pictured are her shoes. I can tell you they look like little gators though. I was too lazy to get up from my bed to get them.
Next up is Wydowna Spider and dear lord is she awesome.
First off the obvious, she has a few extra parts in having six eyes and six arms.
The neat bit is that each hand has its own individual sculpt. The only ones that bug me are the last two on the right. I'm not fond of molded on parts or the rock on hand since its a situational gesture. Wish she came with replacement hands too, but ah well.
I think her head makes up for it though and aside for the arms the other reason I'm in love with this doll. The face is just beautiful and well scultped. And her hair style while simple looks really really good. The second one is just me pulling it back enough to show the tiny sponge they used to give her that hair bump in the front. For this one it doesn't show through unless you make it so huzzah!
Getting back to her body for a bit how about showing off the shoulder joints? The arms slightly get in the way when you have them in all one direction for a pose but otherwise they move about very well together and apart. Due to the many arms if someone wants to make clothes for her she's a "special needs" doll. All in the extra arm room/sleeves.
Now onto her clothes and accessories. First up her clothes. Since she debuted at comic con her clothing definitely reflects it. The clothing has a comic or city backdrop scene on it including a comic book esque typography on her batwing shirt.
I'm actually kinda surprised they didn't put more "web" inspired stuff into her design but that'd be A) too easy and B) Starring at a comic con probably threw the wardrobe in it's current direction (thankfully if you ask me). Two of the shoes as far as I can tell are custom while the last boot pair is just ghoulia's shoes color swapped.
Onward to the accssories the iddy bitty accessoriiiies, eee~! Mkay first up is the bag.
I love this little lump of plastic. it opens up and you could put a couple things inside! Not much though since it has it's "connector" bits in there that hold it together in there as well. Least I think that's what it is.
Here it is open and the little "flap" comes off if you try to pull it back too far but it's easy enough to slip back on. But this isn't the point at the moment. Right now its the detail, dear lord the detail.
the bag has a really nice "leather" print into it with lil molded on detailed pockets. Eeee the ittle pockets! <3 I like little pockets >x>;;
Next up are the belts. They don't really have anything that special going on but I do like the silvery bottom one. Might repaint it so it's black with silver "gromets" instead.
Last but not least are the iiitty bitty jewelry pieces. Her earrings are custom to the doll design and like her shoes have webs on them. Her bracelets are just recolored plastic bits from other dolls though I think the lil square ones are special to her. not really sure. And not pictured cause my phone was a derp was a reaaaaaaally small necklace that looked like it was a tiny wrapped chain.
That covers both of the dolls missing images aside (I'll try to add them later. Sorry!). See you guys in the next post where I cover prep for the Cleo doll.
-QG
