Ok, maybe nothing as dramatic as The Invasion of the Body Snatchers… but still….
I’ve had Fashion Royalty “Miracle Child Ayumi” for a while.
She is without a doubt one of my all-time favorite face molds but due to the crappy Fashion Royalty body she comes with I haven’t done much with her. In fact, to date I have a developed background but that’s about it. I find her a character that I want to use–but– It’s hard to get all excited and jazzed up thinking of stories & plotlines to put her into when I know that her ability to pose (or gods forbid stand) is just above zero. I really like her. She’s nifty (and probably in line for a repaint in the future)
Which means either I have to:
1) accept the fact and find creative ways to shoot her in scenes that minimize the lack of posability (which might not sound like a lot of work except for the fact that I am spoiled and really hate fiddling around with figures that won’t stand on their own. (this is especially so since these days my work room is on a serious slope due to the house’s subsidence into the ground)
OR
2) I can find a replacement body
I’ve been looking for more than a year now, trying to find something I could use and be happy with. I haven’t had a lot of luck. Finding a matching skin-tone body has been a complete wash. There was a possibility that the skin tone might be a match–but frankly, considering the POS that the otaku is, you couldn’t pay me to use one. Not to mention the posability is actually not that much better than the FR body!!!
What can I do?
Only one option I can think of–Find a body and repaint it to be a closer match to the skintone. So with that in mind I looked at what I have on hand that might be usable. I came up with a Volks Dollfie excellent base body & a cy girl 2.0 body.
- They’re both very poseable and are a definite improvement.
- Both bodies would require sanding and probably either chalking & sealing or spraying to be a better match. I’m leaning towards using the Midori 2.0 body as is one of the palest Cy girl bodies and is closest to Ayumi’s skintone.
This is what she looks like on either body:
So… The question now is… Am I going to be able to get the skin tone close enough? I’m seriously leaning toward the CY 2.o since I think it is just a better fit. Plus the girl looks good with some meat on her bones!
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