status of my faces

jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:27 pm

Just talked to Deborah a few minutes ago. My faces (Sierra/F12/Britney, Mireille/F1/Melissa, and Sydney/F13/Kaori) are basically finished, just waiting for the eyeballs. The last I heard from Guy, he was expecting to ship those yesterday, which would put them in San Macros around Tuesday or Wednesday. Unfortunately, next week is my quarterly Dallas trip, so I will have to wait until the following week to actually receive the faces.

So hopefully I will have pictures of the new faces in about a week and a half.

jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:16 pm

The eyes finally got shipped on Monday, which will put them at Abyss thursday or friday. Of course, since I will be gone thursday and friday, they can't be delivered until next monday anyway.

Found out something interesting about faces made from pictures. The coloring is totally custom. i had thought that they just used the standard abyss colors closest to the picture, but Shelley said they match to the picture exactly, even if the particular color is not normally available. So I changed the dollpipe data from TBA to custom for those fields. Then I will have to figure out for myself what the colors are and change them to "custom pink" or whatever for the stats.

Raingirl · Post by **Raingirl** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:52 pm

Wild and wacky stuff, JR. Well, the way it sounds you will be the first to receive the Kaori face, and on Taze's body, that'll get a big YOWSAH from me

Rainy

jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:12 pm

Deborah said the faces will ship tomorrow, for delivery on friday. So the first forum Kaori will be online soon. And the only one with tits for the foreseeable future, since the only other Kaori in the dollpipe has the standard body 4.

midnight · Post by **midnight** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:32 pm

Hold on there JR......Melanie has tits

....... and she'll have a Kaori face near the end of the month

jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:02 pm

Oh, yeah, I forgot, since you didn't put the face into the dollpipe/matrix. They are set up for separate faces now.

shadowspawn · Post by **shadowspawn** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:31 am

hmmph... nothing wrong with body 4...

congrats, please post some pics of the kaori when you get it!

Davecat · Post by **Davecat** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:34 am

It'll be nice to see some new pics from you again, JR. (Although I'm one to talk, myself.

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Tell the gals Shi-chan & I said 'Howdy'..

jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:52 am

Okay, the faces arrived yesterday, and they are really nice. Unfortunately, the damned sun pulled its usual gag of going away completely whenever I want to take pictures. It's so dark outside that I have to turn the fucking lights on. Figures. I don't really like flash for realdoll pics, but I guess I will have to use it if I want to provide pictures for you today.

The faces arrived in good condition, despite the best efforts of UPS to destroy them. Abyss needs to learn that when dealing with UPS you have to pack something so that it could survive a drop from a ten-story building. The standard practice of dropkicking a package from one end of the truck to the other is described in great detail on page 25 of the UPS Delivery Procedures Manual. Or the Destruction Procedures Manual, as it should be called.

Basically, the shipping method for faces by themselves is to make a hard styrofoam duplicate of a doll face plate and glue it to the bottom of a cardboard box. Then they attach the face to the styrofoam with velcro, exactly the way it attaches to the doll. There is no additional packing material, because they are very leery of having anything touch the face.

Apparently this works most of the time, though I got the impression that most of the successful deliveries were via transports other than UPS. Deborah said that customers had received faces with the box all bunged up, yet the face was still attached to the styrofoam.

I don't know if those who handled my shipment were even more violent than usual for UPS, but all three of my faces came loose from the styrofoam and were flopping loose in the box. On top of that, the styrofoam mount for the Kaori face came loose from the box. So the packages not only received enough hard jolts to separate the velcro binding, but hard enough to break the glue bond in one case.

No doubt the faces got banged up against the box a few hundred times during transport, and the Kaori was additionally banged by the free floating styrofoam. Other than having to clean them up because of the debris from the box, they appear to be intact, though all of the eyes were out of whack (the Marty Feldman look

) and had to be realligned. I had thought the Kaori had a blemish on her forehead, but that turned out to be glue from the failed mount. The other two mounts were still intact, so those faces couldn't reach the glue and wallow in it. I was able to pick off the glue and she is okay.

I understand the issue of not wanting anything touching the doll's face, but Abyss needs to improve the packing, at least when shipping UPS.

One thing I noticed was that only two of the velcro coins were used for attaching to the styrofoam. All of the others (the face has a total of 8 velcro coins) were just blank pads on the styrofoam.

My suggestion to Abyss would be: use more of the velcro coins, maybe all of them when shipping UPS. And maybe stronger glue to attach to the box.

Anyway, will try to have pictures later today. (Especially Kaori With Tits, as requested by Rainy.

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jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:22 am

shadowspawn wrote:hmmph... nothing wrong with body 4...

Forgot to respond to this before. Let's not start the Jug Wars again. We can just say "some like watermellon tits, some like microtits, the rest of us are somewhere in between" and leave it at that.

Raingirl · Post by **Raingirl** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:24 pm

JR, that was a hilarious account of the 3 faces arrival! But somehow, I don't think Comedy Central is ready for your act yet.....

Maybe there's some bible thumpers in the UPS who figured out what was in that box and stomped on them to release the evil. They're probably sending hail and locusts your way now, after removing the sun, to further frustrate your photography

Rainy

shadowspawn · Post by **shadowspawn** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:39 pm

jackrabbit wrote:
shadowspawn wrote:hmmph... nothing wrong with body 4...
Forgot to respond to this before. Let's not start the Jug Wars again. We can just say "some like watermellon tits, some like microtits, the rest of us are somewhere in between" and leave it at that.

yep, just a joke...

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:56 pm

I don't know about you guys, but if I was going to fight in a war, I would prefer it be in a jug war. You might die by being hit by a 44H or a swarm of 32A's, but whay a way to die beat to, death by boobies...lol.

jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:17 pm

I never will forget the episode of Dirty Debutantes guest-starring Chessie Moore, one of the earliest of the giant tit porn stars. She hauled off and whacked this guy in the face with one of her tits and nearly knocked him unconscious.

jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:59 pm

Okay, here are the pictures. I apologize for the quality of these. I will take some better ones when I've got some decent sunlight to work with.

First, Sierra (the second forum face 12/Britney):

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If you look close in the big image, you can see the freckles on her nose. I didn't actually ask for those, the girl in the picture had them and I didn't notice.

Next, Mireille (the 4th known face 1/Melissa):

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Finally, Sydney (the first forum face 13/Kaori):

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And for Rainy, Sydney tit shot 1 and tit shot 2. I think she looks great with tits.