Simple stance modifier
- Mechwizard
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Simple stance modifier
The more complex stance modifiers looked too scary to me. They put a lot of stress on the base of the doll's neck and basically force the doll to stand straight.
With a spacer (in this case a nut) to allow for the thickness of the doll's skin, it bolts up as close as possible to back of the neck. Two bends basically follow the line of the lower neck. All this does is move the hanging point for the suspension strap up 3.5" and forward about 1.25 - 1.5", or for the metrically inclined, up 85mm and forward 40mm.
And this is all it takes to make her stand straight without the RealDoll crouch that everyone is used to. A back or butt support will push her forward, but for photos this is so much easier. It also allows her to wear high necked clothing without having to cut a hole for the neckbolt.
She can be spun about to take photos from any angle without having to move the camera. We had hours of fun snapping her new wardrobe.
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Simple, elegant, efficient. And yes, it would eliminate the torque of the more elaborate stance modifiers.
I'll need to make a couple of these!
Thanks, Mechwizard, and your faithful assistant Zara!
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It may have been fabin you were thinking of. Beautiful Doll. Don't hear much from him.
Third, fifth and sixth posts down on page.
http://www.dollforum.com/modules.php?na ... ht=#217244
I did try, but without a vice and tools was not very successful.
Cheers
muzza
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Fabin was the member I was thinking of. I remembered his idea although I found I didn't need as much angle on the hanger that he used. The more angle, the closer the hanger will get to the doll's neck.
Here you go, just a quick scribble in photoshop but it should give you the idea. After cutting to shape and drilling the holes slam each end in a vice in turn and bash with hammer to bend. The offset on mine is 15 mm but this could vary b/n dolls depending on size, weight etc. You shouldn't need more than 20 mm offset. If you have a fixed height doll stand this will drop the hanging height of the doll so you need to take this into account. With it attached she won't be able to tilt her head back, but otherwise there is no restriction. You could use 6mm aluminium or 3 mm steel should also be fine.Perry wrote:Excellent!
When you can, could you tell us how you made it, and what a guy with a simple set of tools could do to make one? Including dimensions.
Does it interfere much with head posing?
It's a nice tool I think.
Hi, Muzza.
Thank you for introducing my post.
http://www.dollforum.com/modules.php?na ... ht=#217244
Hi, all friends.
I've been using my own one(steel plate) for four years. There is no damages around the original neck nut nor her skin. So I think it's more effective bending the plate more tight to close up to her neck skin. No troubles. And the method of bending the 3mm thickness steel plate was using hammer and anvil. Good luck.!
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Just a thought.
And fabin, you are welcome, and your doll IS very beautiful, trust she is well.
muzza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM00BZst1v0
In this movie you may see my doll is turning. It's my pleasure watching her turning in various fashion.
........fabin
I really like that idea of your tuning device. Would you mind and sharing us the top tuning and bottom device, a parts list that you used.
Even more detailed pictures would help me much.
I wanted to make the same thing for turning my doll, I looked at some bearings and was afraid those bearings will pull out of each other and the doll will fall down, there is a lot of force on that part.
Would be great if you would share your info.
Welcool