A bjd, to be sure. To get perspective on those photos, that face is less than 2″ long. And the nature of resin is that you can take it away and add to it…
She’s doing a great job.
The doll was bought because it has good proportions, and can be made into what Jane wants. The process now involves working with the face in a bowl of water to avoid resin dust.
OT: Reminiscent of the fights between males in Pride of Chanur
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2446420
From a “genetic preservation” point of view, the lionesses are most likely [half?] sisters, the supposedly “young” maneless lion is certainly one of their cubs, carrying their genes. The maned male is unrelated and has none. It is definitely to the advantage of preserving their genes to support the maneless lion.
That the lionesses supported the maneless lion is probably all the evidence needed that he was indeed a pride “cub”. However, just to make a point, not all lions are maned. The famous man-eaters that plagued the railroad in Kenya, “The Ghost and the Darkness”, were maneless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters
I’ve been following Jane’s adventures in modding Morgaine and other crafty goings-on, and it’s neat to see what she’s doing.
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Hey, hey! I have a Workbench Slideshow up, showing my first-ever attempt at putting in eyes and…and stuff!
It also shows I’m not used to taking photos that close up of things that small. Heheh. Learning, though.
Go see! http://www.shinyfiction.com/toybox/workbench/wb001/
Also, there’s new stuff at the whole Toy Box Tales site.
Go see! http://www.shinyfiction.com/toybox/
You might notice a familiar guest visiting there too.
Have you ever seen the psych studies where they showed 10 random faces, and asked the subjects to rate them in terms of “beauty”, then overlayed the faces with 90% transparency? The composite is always judged more beautiful. 100 faces with 99% transparency becomes even more beautiful. The more averaging you do, the more beautiful, though it does get to a point of decreasing returns.
It seems what we’re instinctively looking for, what we’re “programmed with”, is a genetic norm of our species. “Don’t mate with the outliers. They don’t have the best genes.” seems to be the genetic imperative.
What prompted that recollection is the composite images tend to resemble Jane’s doll’s face–individually identifying characteristics tend to wash out on the average.
Uhmmm, none of my business really, but might Morgaine be using the Gates as birth control?
Adoptions, seeding time and space? Huh, ya never know. Interesting science fiction idea, too.
Mmm. Morgaine set those gates to keep herself and Vanye un-dinged and forever young. And unpregnant.
Long days ago very
From Rit Dye requested
A lovely red cherry
Its tie-ring was guested
Paused at Texas, Grand Prairie
Has not arrived post quested
At my home for to tarry
(Meter? What meter? At least I got it to rhyme — a bit forced with the aid of a sledge hammer.)
I ordered dye to try dyeing a doll, a grand experiment, mad scientist home chemistry set style.
Then I got ambitious, enthusiastic, and curious, and ordered other dye colors. It looked like cheap fun with useful and pretty results.
The cocoa brown to use on the BJD doll was the first ordered and arrived midway through. Now all but the Cherry Red and the Wine (dye, that is) have arrived. They’ve wended their slow way to Texas, but are not yet so near my home.
Yes, the Cherry Red was both for the color and the Cherryh reference. One notes cognates Cérise in French and Kirsch in German. One does not recall the Spanish cognate.
One notes that taupe, borrowed from French from the unglamorous mole, is “gris topi” (mole or taupe grey) in Spanish. Wine (the color) is “bordo” in Spanish, cognate to the Bordeaux wine region in France, much like English borrowed Burgundy (the color) from the wine region of Bourgogne in France.
One knows one can achieve a nice cherry liqueur, Kirschwasser. However, one doubts one could (or would wish to) attempt to obtain such from a taupe (mole). Though perhaps after all that digging, the mole might appreciate a libation of wine or liqueur from some nice (Nice?) region in France. Or California. Or most anywhere, one suspects….
See, one can claim it’s all related to the topic of BJD dolls and tied (tie-dyed?) into dyes, things French, and perhaps small subterranean mammals with coat colors that have been considered un couleur de haute couture for over a century.
No, one is altogether uncertain what any of those have to do with one another, but once one got started, it seemed the thing to do.
Haven’t seen your dye here!
Then again, I don’t go downtown to the West End where all the sight-seers go because downtown Dallas rolls up most of the streets after 6pm on weeknights and all weekend.
Lol!
Blue, have you been at the James Joyce again?
Its either that or the Burgundy….
*snerk*