Mini-Project: High heel feet modification

Yea so it’s taken me a bit longer than the promised week–but here is the outcome (and a few photos along the way). ^_^

First, I started with a pair of legs from a barbie with the jointed knees & a pair of knee joints from volks beauty body.

Cut the legs off just above the knee joint using a small handsaw. Pry the rest of the knee joint off and you’ll need to use a pair of wire cutters to remove the knobbly bit left (sorry no pics while I was doing this part by that time I just wanted to get it done and I’m still having camera issues  :p   )

You’ll end up with it like this after:

If you look at the white arrow in the 2nd pic it shows where you’ll need to start dremmeling out the inside of the barbie leg to attach the volks lower knee peg. Make sure you note that you are dremmeling to fit the larger (lower) peg-part rather than the smaller—otherwise you’ll need to keep at it. I recommend doing it slowly and a little at a time to avoid making the hole too large.

Poke the pegs into the appropriate slots and then stick them onto the doll who’ll be getting high heels to wear.

Here you can see the completed foot/leg mod:

As you can see the doll can still be balanced to stand un-assisted. (shown on a volks beauty b-body). I don’t think it looks too bad, considering!

And although this isn’t a very good shot you can see that the modified legs also work/fit  on the regular volks excellent B body(although the appearance of the knee joint isn’t as smooth).

Ok, so that’s about it. It’s a pretty simple modification and I might end up doing it again in the future. Any questions feel free to ask!