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My MYou Bettina male, mature tiny BJD, with his new eye mods! I had to redo those sooner than I had hoped, because I learned that the plastic putty is not a permanent solution for modding tiny heads, sadly for me. I got a new batch of Aves Apoxie Sculpt, so I want to use as much of it as I can, before it gets too old to work with. Hopefully, I will remember to put it in the freezer this time, before it does go beyond saving. DX

I am supper happy with how these mods turned out. I still could have smoothed out a lot of the shape as a whole, particularly at the corners of either side of both eyes. However, working on tiny heads, even with opened eyes, that are much larger than true 1:6 scale action figures. Is still a huge pain in the lower back! I love this tiny dude regardless; I love him so much more each time I work on him some more! I look forward to completing something else, based on Ken Kaneki for him, since he is my fan-art doll based on him. I just want to keep on taking photos of him, even in crappy clothes, or no clothes! Lol! I find him incredibly beautiful, even with my crap-fest of a repaint job and mods! (:

I took a whole bunch of equally crappy photos, because I am super in-love with this tiny doll! I already loved him enough to purchase him, but now I am over the moon! I know I love narrower eye shapes the best, but I kind of thought Bettina already had narrower eyes. I am still wondering if I should have gone with Alan, despite me loving Bettina's mouth shape better.... >___<;;; Not regretting going with Bettina, just wondering. n_n;;

He's wearing the same top I can't recall who I made it for, but I feel it was for my MH Invisi Billy custom. It's a great fit on him, and I quite like it. He's also wearing the five wigs I've made for him so far, and I'll probably need to try to make yet another one, that's more anime-accurate. Try, is the keyword.

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My very first BJD crown!!!!

I've been wanting to make doll crowns for a long time, but I've always held back because I was too nervous about messing up and not being able to share since my photography skills are severely lacking. Well, I finally took the plunge!! It's not perfect and I'm still experimenting with different techniques, but I'm pretty pleased ❤️ I have so many ideas and I can't wait for the rest of my supplies to come in!!!

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Myou Zuzana SP BJD

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The girls without their wigs. Both wear 8-9 wig size ! #supiabjd #Supiadoll #myoubjd #myoudoll #HeadSize #MyouDollGrace #SupiaDollHael #SD13 #SD10 #abjd #bjd

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My Myou Bettina, wearing the first outfit I complete for him, based on Ken Kaneki, who he is supposed to be. He's a 28cm tall doll, and I am not skilled at sewing. So, I should have known making clothes for him, let alone based on anime characters, was going to be next level nightmare. I chose to recreate this one first, not because I keep forgetting to purchase size #4/#3 zippers white nylon zippers, but because I know the struggle is going to be real once I start making that outfit for him. I already made a few pieces of clothing for this doll, but finding patters that fit well is an ordeal. I also made a cloth/foam manikin, that didn't go too well. And also, an initial pattern for his awakened/battle outfit, but I am not sure it's going to go well either. I know I suck at sewing, and this doll is extremely stylized. His body is willowy and very close to skeletal-like (kind of like me, yay! Lol!). So, making anything from pre-existing fashion doll patterns needs a lot of alterations, and me making my own is an ordeal on its own.

Regardless, I am supper happy with him and how he looks with his smaller eyes! I am also liking very much how he looks as my Ken Kaneki! I knew I loved the doll, but now I love him so much more, that I know he can pull off the look, even if not anime/manga accurate (I feel maybe the manga version is more stylized, and has a larger head, but my personal preference is the anime with the smaller head, and not stubby proportions).

Unfortunately, and as I had feared. The mods I did on him are not permanent! I was fearing so, when I learned that people usually clean up mistakes when using the Vajello Plastic putty, using alcohol. I feared taht meant the product is not meant to have any kind of solvents applied to it. My fears were true. Alcohol will melt the putty right off! I was cleaning my 3D artist Leon head, and the mods came right off with the paint apps! DX Looks like I'll have to get some Aves Apoxie Sculpt Afterall! Oh, well! Live and learn, is what I keep on saying! I was actually excited about the plastic putty working for permanent mods, because I tend to not love my repaint work and rework/redo those repaints like there's no tomorrow! Now, I know! There's no substitute for Aves' Apoxie Sculpt! I kind of want to cry a little, even if it was kind of cool to find what I can and can't do, with the Vallejo filler stuff. T____T;;;

The super washed out looking photos were taken with my super old cell phone. I think I like the way that one works a bit more, but I don't like the hazy/blurriness of it all.

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A few extra-repetitive photos of my MYou Bettina male, who's my fan-art version of Ken Kaneki. He's a 28cm-ish doll. I took a few shots of him and my BanDai Japanese bath-bombs trading figures. I got the full set of the Naruto Shippuden ones, thankfully that meant getting one Sasuke. Unfortunately, I got doubles of Sakura and Naruto... >_>;;

I also got doubles in the Sanrio versions, and two of those were doubles of the two bags I got from the same set. Luckily for me, it was Kuromi. Lol! I did get the ones I wanted the most from each set (like Pochacco), but doubles of all! It kind of sucks, but that is the nature of trading toys. Which leaves me thinking that I might get more of these bath bombs trading toys, unless they are from licenses I absolutely must get (like based on anime ones, or game ones, which I seriously doubt they'll do).

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I am thinking about repainting this tiny, little dude. However, I am trying to figure out if I just want to “improve”, or at least attempt doing a better job. Or, if I want to paint him a bit differently. So, I was looking at old photos I’ve taken of him and found these. I never posted these, because they were in their majority, blurry as the dickens. I took more the day after, and those I did share on a few different places. But these I felt so disappointed with, I just left them be. 

A bit less than a year later, I feel less passionate about how much they suck! Lol! So, I decided to share them! DX These were taking in July 2022, so I had the fan blasting on, while taking them. I feel that might be why some of them are terribly blurry; you can kind of see the wind movement on the sleeves on some of them. The (cell phone’s) camera kept trying to focus on everything but the doll. My fault I know, but I hate, loathe with a passion, summer weather. I am a fan of winter, fall and a don’t mind spring. I absolutely love, love snow and rain! I wish I could have rain and snow all year round! Hate that wildfires are the norm now, thanks to us not giving a rotten peanut about anything but ourselves. >__>;;

I am still thinking about how to tackle his awakened outfit and also trying to make a few more wigs for him (because three are obviously not enough!), but attempting soft loose wavy curls on a tiny wig is a royal pain in the gut hole, no matter which technique I attempt. I might have to give up on that idea, and just give him boring straight hair all the time (which I love on myself, naturally straight hair, because I am lazy and don’t have to bother mainlining it but would love at least one of my tiny dolls with an optional slightly wavy wig).

I also need to get a tiny white zipper for his outfit and figure out what I want to do with his face for sure. I know that I would be okay, if my lashes weren’t crap, but maybe I might try something different! Maybe not the 1:6 action figure painting technique, because he’s based on an anime character and doesn’t need any level of realism. However, I am a bit curious, so who knows...DX

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I repainted my fan-art Ken Kaneki (MYou Bettina male) for the second time. I had enhanced the 1st face up I gave him previously. However, I decided to attempt painting him the way I learned to do 1:6 sculpts, form that one (15 episodes) tutorial I watched. I was impatient however, which I regret to no tomorrow. So, I was able to get most of the pigmented skin texture on there with mostly acrylics. Then I grew impatient, because I was taking too long (it was dumb of me, terribly so!). 

I am still super happy with how he looks despite using pastels and ruining the beautiful subtleness I had going on. I did take progress photos, but they ar more awful than these. I am of course heavily disappointed in my hair strokes -- my eyebrows and eyelashes are horrid. However, I am happy with how much more mature he appears, due to the heavy dark brows, so I’ll probably be keeping them for a while (before I start obsessing and repaint him again!). 

I need to get a new pointy brush, because I managed to already ruin the one I was using to paint my Sephiroth and Leon 1:6 head sculpts. Bettina has much, much larger eyes, and I was still not able to get not-so-clean, but kind of sharp lines like on Sephy. I wasn’t able to do a better job on Leon either, but he has tinier eyes and they were sculpted way off, so I kind of have to cheat with the way I shade his lower eyelid to make it look like they are a more accurate shape. Leaving me to having to pain the lashes on an area that is hard to do so (and yes, I also suck, so there’s that too!). 

Still, I am super happy with my Kaneki fan-art doll so far. I wish he had broader shoulders, and overall, more lean-young-male body proportions, like Kaneki has in the anime. Instead of noodle arms and child-bearing-hips. Besides the proportions, I am in-love with this tiny face! He’s so pretty and has great lips, as he as intended to be female, but can be a very versatile sculpt! (: Now I just need to start making some actual Kaneki inspired clothes and maybe a more accurate wig, as painful as that will be. I was thinking of this wig as his default one, but it makes him look cone-headed. Lol! DX

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I ended up not repainting my Myou Bettina male, but instead I “enhanced” his face a bit.  After staring at him in Photoshop for what seemed like years and doing a bunch of mock-ups. I decided that I wanted to try making him look more mature, by just shading him a bit heavy-handed and just add to the gloom. I love that he looks constantly pissed, petulant, somber all the time, but now it’s at another level, and I am really loving it!  I probably make all my dolls look that way, due to my eternal love of angry brows. However, they all work in the end, because of the characters I choose to recreate in doll form. 

I am still hoping to improve on my hair strokes one day, but this time I just wanted to add to his face. Instead of repainting him completely. I kind of tried adding two pairs of eyelashes to his tiny eye openings, so I need to fix those. I do enjoy the thick, full-lash-line. That’s what I always hope for with my dolls with applied top lashes. However, these don’t look that nice and one of them looks further messier than the other. Maybe I wouldn’t mind it, if both were about equally messy/clean, but I do mind this level of asymmetry. I had to trim some of the lash hairs, and now I am dreading finding if I ruined his “default” pair, because those were really nice lashes. I hope I didn’t damage those int he processes. 

I am happy with the way he looks overall; I can always try repainting him again fully, from zero next time! He is a beautiful doll, I only wish I was more talented (or had steadier hands!), to at least give the sculpt a tiny bit more justice. These turned out granier than ever, I am not sure what went wrong. My cell phone was at full charge, and I had the light blasting right on his face (if I put the light anywhere further, the photos become darkness themselves).  I suck! DX

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My failed Ruvik cosplay. I was trying to finish this before Halloween. I have plans for a 1:6 custom doll based on Ruvik, but I keep pushing that back (due to me being a lazy bum, who procrastinates too much!). So I decided, I wanted my tiny, baby-faced Bettina male to cosplay as him for now. I thought what could possibly go wrong? Lol! I am still happy I made the hooded robe and the pants. I am now certain I can make better fitted pants for this tiny guy. And I don’t mind the look of the robe, although I could have done a million times a better job, if I knew what I was doing (pattern making and sewing are things I am not slightly good at!). However, at the very least, they fit well, and I am into the worn and bloody look, these pieces have. Kaneki is a ghoul, after all, so what better than these type/style of clothes for him to wear. I am definitely going to give these some use after this.

I made many mistakes with the full body suit, to mimic the burn scars that Ruvik has, and I did make a mask for him to wear. That unfortunately, turned out insanely absurd -- because I am dumb as heck and didn’t take many issues into consideration, until it was already too late. I was thinking about not sharing these anywhere, but I did take a freaking long-time painting everything, not to spam these anywhere! Lol! DX I Photoshoped the 1st image, but I forgot to remove his eyebrow out, so I just left it there.

Not my best work by any means, but I am hoping that when I do get to making my custom 1:6 Ruvik doll, he will turnout at least half accurate, or at the very least not as half-6ssed as this. (:

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I made some black vinyl pants for my mature tiny Myou Bettina on a male body, BJD. I used a pattern meant for Taeyang, because I hate making pants patterns myself. It is a bit too loose at the legs, but fits really well around the waist. I prefer slightly tighter vinyl pants, so I will try again later. He is wearing a top I made for either my MH Invisibilly repaint, or my Triad Toys, Volks hybrid action male doll. I don’t recall now. I know I have lost the pattern, so I can’t even attempt making more.. and I am actually pretty happy with how that shirt turned out. T__T;;

It fits really well on him, so I feel I might try making more shirts in this style for him. I was thinking, or hoping, probably. That it would be easier to make clothes for him because he is tiny, but I kind of forgot I suck at sewing, and considerably worse at creating patterns. Lol! I guess it’s a good thing, he’s so tiny (less waste of fabric). DX

I love how the tinier irises on Alan’s eyes make him look a bit more mature. I just wish he had a face plate instead of a head with a head cap. It makes it hard to position his eyes just right -- it doesn’t help that I have terribly shaky hands, and that his S hook gets in the way. ^-^;; I dread fixing his eyelashes for that same reason. There’s barely any space there, to do much, and I have terrible shaky hands! Even if I remove the head from the body, there’s just so much space in there...

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Crappy photos of my progress on my fan-art doll based on Tokyo Ghoul Ken Kaneki. I suck, so these are terrible. I thought about making the mask out of black PVC fabric, since I own heaps of it. It was rough, I failed many times. This is the fourth or fifth attempt at it. I used four-way stretch lycra fabric. I am not sure I am happy with it so far. There’s a lot of texture due to the nature of the fabric. Ken’s mask appears to be rubber or mold formed rubbery plastic of some sort. I don’t recall them explaining what it is, in the anime -- I don’t read maga, so have not a clue if it is stated what the mask is made out of. However, it looks seamless and hyper-shiny and smooth in the anime, apart from the obvious shaped nose and smile lines around the mouth, which appears to also be formed or sculpted to be 3D.

I was super confident that the black vinyl would work, I was already planning on getting a 1mm teeth-sized zipper off Ali. I have no clue why I thought that would be doable at the size or proportions of this doll’s face. DX 

The teeth are individual pieces of cut foam, and the “zipper’ is a piece of black vinyl fabric painted metallic silver, then stretched for added texture. I might try again, if I fail to get rid of the fabric’s texture, once I am done sewing a snap on the back and painting and hyper-glossing this thing to h3ll and back. I hope it works. I might have to sculpt the thing, out of clay, and I don’t see that working too well either. I know the front part would look nicer than this, but how would I make it soft on the back without any seams? The sh1t I put myself through, for being stubborn about fan-art dolls, I shouldn’t be attempting to make. Lol! (;

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I’m on a drive-by-posting-spree today, it seems! I received (finally, after a million years! lol!), the extra eyes I purchased for my Myou Bettina male BJD (Ken Kaneki-fanart-doll). Plus, the correct “small iris” eyes I originally purchased for him, as well. As can be clearly seen in the crappy comparison eye photo I took, the AC “small” iris eyes are not small iris, and the image they have for their listing of them is quite deceiving by comparison. All the Myou glass eyes have small irises, but the AC ones don’t, not even if you hold your breath and squint really hard. They are average sized iris doll eyes, by far and beyond. 

I was hoping Alan’s eyes would be blue, because in some of Myou’s promo photos of him they look blue-ish, however, they appear to be grey in real life. Also, because these are hand-made glass eyes and not mold-made-cookie-cutter-other-type-of-eyes, one of my Alan’s eyes is slightly smaller (the iris part) and a bit warmer grey than the other. The one my Bettina has in his left eye is the cooler grey and the one in the right eye is the warmer (toned), smaller grey. I don’t mind, I was just hoping they would be icier blue, like Alice’s eyes I purchased. Sadly, those are huge-iris (normal, standard, average-doll-iris-sizes!), and not small like I wanted (or they advertised as, the Myou are also 9mm, and the AC ones are 8mm, in case anyone cares). 

The Reid ones are also grey, but on the warmer side of grey. Definitely leaning more toward beige, but not as small irised as Alan’s and yet not as large as Bettina’s default eyes. None of these are large iris by any means, just by relation to each other, and definitely small iris compared to AC’s “small” iris eyes. 

I’m tempted to get Rod eyes now, because his appear to be a dark blue in Myou’s promos. However, I’m scared they are just another shade of grey.  I don’t believe anyone has him yet, and even if anyone did, I doubt they would bother to tell me his eye color (I asked about Alan’s eye color on DoA once before I settled on getting my Bettina, but I never got a reply ^.^;;.). I kind of also want to get Gina’s eyes because they are so cool looking, but I wouldn’t really have a use for them -- I just like hoarding things. I feel like Vieruodis’ eyes are grey too, and probably have larger irises like Bettina’s. I am keeping Alan’s eyes in my Kaneki for now, I enjoy him looking a bit insane/confused. I might have to switch to Reid’s once I make a ghoul eye for him. I’m a bit disappointed that my Kaneki won’t have blue eyes, but glad Myou’s are tiny iris eyes, even at their largest! Maybe one day they’ll release a mature tiny doll with icy-blue eyes as default, and I can then surely get blue ones for my fan-art version of Kaneki.  (:

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Myou Zuzana SP BJD