#27cm hardbust

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Obitsu fixing

First pullip doll I chose to take apart was the closest to me, Renée, the Poison Girl custom (n°5 and unsigned, from way back when she first opened commissions), formerly a Assa that was covered in superglue inside and out. Bad choice because that lead to hours of work LOL. You see, when Assa (now Renée) first arrived, my priority was getting her open as everything including the head cap was melted shut then once I realized I couldn’t save her face up as it’d been eaten by superglue, cleaning the face plate for customization. I reconstructed the broken neck hole and screw notches with two part epoxy and reinforced the cracking plastic where both plates had fused but that’s the extent of it really.

In the years since then I’ve learned so much about plastics and had access to far better tools for repair. Back then I only had access to sandpaper in large sizes via the hardware store and you’d have to buy a pack with max 3 grits, today I can choose between a magic eraser and 8 different grits of sandpaper pasted on a sponge for finger nail care. I have pry tools that mean I won’t break nails or scratch the obitsu, and friendly plastic that holds up far better than crumbling emergency sink-repair epoxy.

It’s amazing just how much you learn over time because when I went to check on Renée’s Obitsu today I  was kind of horrified that she was in such bad condition because OMG I can fix that, I can tidy this, that mod won’t hold up but here’s a better one... you know? So Renée has been a beautiful faceplate on a janky hacked together backplate until now. Now she’s a beautiful face plate on a slightly less janky but still clumsily repaired humpty dumpty of a doll.

aaaanyways, back on topic, the craft foam used in the Obitsu’s has held up and didn’t stain, it just need a little adding to for some dolls. The elastics holding the necks either crumbled or turned into solid plastic blocks so I replaced them with teflon tape. I also tidied all the hastily scraped and sanded Obitsu nipnops for nice smooth boobage.

Renée got lots of sanding, scraping and all 3 screw bits were cracking and got repaired with thermo-plastic. I’m not posting pictures of her gross yellowed glue streaked backplate because they’re kind of ew.

Yellow from wig and glue removed from forehead:

thermo plastic repair of a broken bit (yes I havn’t finished polishing the backplate so it still looks scratchy)

Rida needed the neck anchor reinforcing with teflon tape and also the tiny piece of metal that holds the round part of the anchor so that her head no longer flops.

My Melody had a body that flopped backwards so I added extra foam to the prexisting blue stuff (yellow harder foam at the top and white thinner foam inside) and a plastic spine of sorts at the bottom end.

This is when my camera stopped and wanted recharging so I switched to the phone:

Papin just needed teflon tape, her liv body with a carved neck and homemade washers are holding up great. I used plastic washers for a little more flexibility than metal here. Knees a little weak but not bad considering how heavy Papin is with her big head and rainbow wig.

This is the kind of mod I hope to do with a Barbie made to move curvy body eventually.

(old photo of the current four, soon to be five)