Madison Fear: Hair Day

In returning to catching up on this blog it was time for the reroot for Madison! I used Amethyst and Sea Nymph nylon hair from dolly hair.

I'm a bit too cheap to buy a rerooting tool so I'm using an improvised one of my exacto and a sewing needle clipped to fit. Also a little bit of craft foam helps keep the needle in place so it doesn't wiggle and break as often.

I ran a little bit short on the amethyst but the added hair still looks great to me. Not seen is the fabric glue in her head to help hold the hair in.

Now for reattachment and I was a fair bit nervous she'd get the dreaded bobble head.

Thankfully that didn't happen though and you'd never guess she'd had the thing ripped off. Now for some minor styling.

Some light conditioner in a twisted towel and bam, wavy lovely hair. She still needs a face and her legs restrung since I got some springs for it. Just keeping the springs from wearing apart while I string her is the issue. ; 3 ;

Madison Fear: Body Touch up

After spraying I kinda noticed I got more on the body than I really wanted (what I get for aiming a smidge too high). There was only one thing to do and that was bust the acetone back out.

Since acetone does melt plastic I watered it down with, well, water and scrubbed. Took a bit longer but for little to no damage the extra work was worth it.

There's a bit of staining still from the paint along with it being stuck in her model number but I can live with it. It was time for another round of paint, this time for her hands. The color is a mix of sienna and white to get it close as I could to Cleo's skin tone.

I didn't bother painting the joint this time but they look pretty good to me. Now for the tooth picks. Since the gorgon legs came from a CAM set they aren't really meant for the regular bodies.

 That's where the tooth pick there comes in. After breaking off the ends I hot glued it into the peg wells of the hips.There's something to be said as well for really pointy end tweezers.

I used elastic cord to at least keep the legs on her until I can figure out a better way to string them.

Next post, giving her hair.

Madison Fear: Leg paint

First up in some over due posts I was working on Madison Fear a fair bit.

The gorgon legs came and all I had to do was remove Cleo's legs, paint the legs, then string them.

Since the Cleo I'm modifying is a newer one, with the legs held by plastic, I had to break them off. There was still some plastic so I drilled a hole through the joint space for stringing later.

Next up was paint. After some online digging Krylon seemed to be the best option. Ignore that glitter one though. Thanks to that thing I have to repaint the legs again still. Live and learn. I also decided to add a lil paint to the body as well for a fade effect, but we'll see that next post.

Here are the legs painted in their light blue glory. Even with needing the touch up I love the color and it matches pretty close to Madison's color. Just wish the sparkle paint would have worked out for added effect. Oh well.

Current shots of Cleo's head. Dehairing finally complete with minimal damage thankfully. I used a mix of acetone and water (not at the same time though) to get rid of left over paint and glue on the inside and outside of her head. Letting water run in then squeezing it back out like a water toy. I did have a little trouble getting the extra out though.

Since she has dozens of little holes now I just blew through the neck hole to get the extra out over a sink. Only do it with water though after making sure all the acetone is rinsed off.

In other news the spare lagoona hands showed up, yay! I can't use the acetone on them though so I'm just gonna repaint them. And I wanna do a mini shout out kinda thing.

I like shopping the ebays for spare parts and accessories for the dolls. Finding glasses however can be a different story since most of the MH ones are either sunglasses or completely opaque in a couple instances. On top of that the jackson jeckyll and ghoulia ones are hecka expensive (or at least the ones I've seen). I got mine from Minikitty Dollshop HERE. They aren't a perfect fit but beggars can't be choosers and I still love the pair I got. They're currently set as "away" for ebay so it may be a bit for orders to show up. Any how that's all I got for now, TTFN

-QG

Hello everyone! Last night I started work on prepping cleo for her transformation. Her face paint is already cleaned off and most of her hair is tugged out.

I'm using Cutex's pure acetone for this project, a little chair I got from AC Moore I used to cradle the head while it sat with acetone in it to loosen the glue a bit. And another reminder even though everyone has said it, be very careful with acetone. Turns out it melts plastic. Learned that the hard way myself thinking that it wouldn't melt a plastic cup then get everywhere.

And this is the result. So yeah, lesson learned; using a proper mug now.

I used my space heater on a low setting and plopped her in front of it for a bit to heat her up enough I could get her head off easily. Still caught a slight snag but the larger part of the hole didn't tear thankfully. After soaking with the acetone till it started leaking out through the plug holes it became so much easier to remove the glue and hair.

I have a lot more than this pulled out but those are pictures for later. For now time for work so I'll see you guys later. TTFN

-QG