Rickmaniac on the loose

Resin addicted, too.

Since I last posted I've got me another doll, the long awaited Chibi!Snape.

And since I haven't posted here in like forever, I thought I should do it properly.

So... under this cut is both the Arrival of Chibi Snape AND some random doll pics.

( WARNING! LOTS of pictures! Open at your own risk on slower connections )

I guess there isn't many people reading my IJ anymore. Well I can't blame them I guess.. I've been away for a long time, and when I finally post, it's all about dolls.

And so is this post. It's about the arrival of my newest doll, Okoru Onikami...

See, I had a VERY PLEASANT surprise today: The postman rang my door with a parcel from Korea. Now... I knew my next doll had been shipped, and I'd hoped.. but here it was - and the best part: It had evaded the vultures at Customs! So he was just delivered at no extra fees! WOOT! It's the first doll I've had that has slipped under the radar, but money saved is money gained... so...

Anyway, under the cut are pictures from his arrival. It's a small doll once more, one of the 4" ones, same as my Aisho.
( Lotsa pics under this cut )

OK.. it's been a while and then some since I last posted anything here. But well.. I've been busy with my dolls. Playing with them, buying more. Buying things for them... There's a reason why these dolls in collector-circles are known as Resin Crack.. Once you've tried them, you're hooked and want more. And more.

And my latest doll is a very very small one. She makes even Egon seem large. She's 4½ inches tall. And she's got personality the size of a house!

And speaking of house.. I was shopping today, in the local Doll House store (good thing about these tiny dolls: They look fine with the 1:12 doll house stuff) and bought her a bed, a mirror and a book shelf.

And then I realized I needed a place to PUT that - along with whatever I had already bought for her over the past month or so... So I found an almost antique (quite seriously) cardboard box that had once contained apples, cut off one side and started decorating it. Admittedly my patience in such matters are close to zero, and it shows - but at least there is some walls with a kind of wall paper, carpeted floors and - the tiny STUFF!

( and the pictures are all here, under the cut )
Oh and for those who's afraid I've turned totally pink and cutesy... I HAVE ordered a similar tiny doll whom I'm going to turn into a little angry chibi!Snape... And he will have his own little dungeon and all!

Egon helped me pick some of the various ripe berries today. Though.. he wasnt' as much of a help as he seemed to think ;)

( The photostory is under this cut. WARNING: PICTURE HEAVY )

I've had this planned ever since I got my Alan Rickman Minimee doll. And yesterday I finally got this wig. It's not perfect, but.. well..

I have some more ideas regarding my dear Interrogator!Alan and some of them oncompasses another doll as well... But I need to make more props then. And clothes for the girl. So.. not yet :)

BUT.. I've had "fun" turning my Alan Rickman doll into The Interrogator. From the movie Closet Land.

And if you don't know that movie, these pictures will make absolutely NO SENSE at all, I'm afraid...

so...
( take a look... )

Apologies in advance to those who think he's creepy or scary or whatever ;)

I love my little resin friend. And today I went downtown and got some fur, which I made into a tiny wig for him... as well as some lacquer-fabric that was used to make him a pair of pants and a vest... That little guy dresses better than me by now ;)

Anyway.. one thing led to another. And seeing a squirrel in lacquer led to BEER...

So here he is...
( Right under this cut )

I just had to show this one off!

Bento # 350 Hello Kitty-shaped egg. Oblong cherry tomatoes. Kitty-shaped melon bits. Fried mixed vegetables. Fish sticks in bits.

oh and speaking of showing off...
( A squirrel with an attitude )

Uhm yeah.. I've got myself another doll today. And NOT a Potter-themed one even... Well I saw this squirrel (and yes it's a squirrel and not a chipmunk, and no it's name is NOT Alvin...) and immediately when I saw it, I knew I HAD to own it - even if it's so far from my other dolls in style... and even if I until this moment couldn't see the idea in anthro-dolls at all...

So..er.. well... Without further ado.. say hello to Egon(e) - I'm not QUITE sure if it's a he or a she just yet...

Meet Egon, my newest doll <3
(his name, Egon, is a lame pun on the danish word for squirrel, Egern btw)


Behold! Teh Box!
(  and what's IN the box? Click here to see... )

OK first of all.. WHY Hermione of all people? Well.. Mostly because I wanted a girl-doll I could sew girly stuff for. And I thought I might as well stick to the Potterverse... and then... Hermione is, all things considered, the most tolerable girl in that pantheon. (unfortunately, that's not saying much)

( but anyway... here's my newest doll :) )

I've found that these dolls are good excercise for my creativity bone... I spent some of the afternoon making a recliner for Snape (out of styrofoam mostly) and then a small chess table to go with it. And then it evolved into
( this: )

We have an open air museum where I live. With old houses collected from all over the country. Great place for photos. My biggest problem was actually that the whole place is covered in cobblestones, and dolls do NOT want to stand on cobblestones. So there isn't as many pictures as I would have liked, but a few anyway. With Severus' comments...
( Click here for the pictures )

This afternoon hubby and I went to the local Botanica Garden, where they have a large hothouse for all kinds of tropical plants. And since I'd been wanting to take some pictures of Harry for a while, I brought him along, much to the gardeners' amazement *L*



You can almost hear the other visitors think
( "What in the world is going on here?!", )

Just for the "aww"-factor this time ;)

Nothing serious or anything. Just a few pics I snapped of Harry and Basil. And a bonus silly pic from a picture-challenge thread at Resin Garden...


( More pics under the cut... )

Er.. uhm. So.. Harry got his eyes today!

And they're green! A very lovely, glittery green. They're also very dark, so it's a little hard to see. But they're there, they're green and I love them to bits *L*

Soooo I had to take some pictures of Harry, now that he's officially "finished" - and.. well, since the whole idea of getting a Harry in the first place was to get Snape some..er.. company.. Well...

Oh and don't worry. IMO the pictures are totally worksafe. But someone with better knowledge of the new draconian rules of LJ.. please tell me if they would be forbidden to post "over there" - because I frankly can't make heads or tails of their rules, and I'm just not going to risk a total deletion of my LJ. As much as I dislike places with such "we'll tell you what to think" mentality... I still have a lot of nice comments and such I'd hate to lose.

But anyway, I hope I can safely post them here, so...
( Click here for the pictures )

Just because.. Snape isn't my only doll so here's a little bit of Harry pics...

Today I got the glasses I'd ordered for my Harry. And I was out shopping for fabric so I could sew him a robe and a (somewhat) proper Gryffindork tie.

So yes, I've been busy. And of course I had to take some pics of the finished result. Thing is, it had started to get dark so ... well even with a very light sensitive lens I still had to cheat and use the flash. So I photoshopped them a bit to take away the glare and such...

( The pictures are right here, under the cut )

...it's because someone got the brilliant idea to cast Alan Rickman in it ;)

Right.. So I feel a compulsion to take portraits of my beautiful Alan Rickman doll... It's almost (ALMOST, mind you!) as good as the real thing...

So here's a few new pictures of my lovely boy.. no wait. MAN. Definitely a man!

( Here are the pics... )

Right... I had a plan that was to do the faceup tomorrow while visiting snapelike - but.. I couldn't wait. Besides, it's a tad messy to do faceups, what with pastel powder flying everywhere. And I'd like to be able to visit again some other time ;)

So I did the faceup. It took a while to give the head a colour that matched the body, luckily I managed to mix the right colour in first go, and then it was just to blush it on, just like putting facial powder on actually. I DID forget the fact that the MSC sealer spray makes colours a little darker, so he's a tiny bit too dark in the head compared to the neck.. but at least it's the same overall nuance... And the head looks quite ok on the Dollzone body. I've also got an idea of what to do with Sevvie's head. Once I execute it I'll upload it for you to see ;)

Of course I took Harry outside with me, too. I don't want him to feel left out :)

But enough with the talk. Let's get some pictures:

( Click for new doll pics )

OK. So I beheaded my Sevvie doll to see if Alan's head would fit at all. It will. His neck is a little too long, so I'm considering sanding it down some. But for now I'm just disguising it with the collar ;)

And he still hasn't got his faceup done, but the weather was so gorgeous and now that I could actually dress him and everything.. I just HAD to take him outside for a few photos...

( Enjoy )

OK. I'm in love with a resin head! After some confusion at the post office (the idiots had delivered the parcel not on our own post office but one a few miles further away... - luckily I had sent hubby on the Pick-Up task, while I was at work, and he wouldn't risk coming home without my head two days in a row!

( Soooo.. on to the opening: )

As promised, here are a few extra pics of my newest doll, after I made him more convincingly into Harry. He still needs school robes, but judging from his glasses, this is some time before Hogwarts anyway ;)

( So here's Harry, just Harry: )