Simple Poseable Eye Mod!
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Simple Poseable Eye Mod!
A week ago I noticed my TPE doll's acrylic eyes were much wider than her eye openings and got the idea to shave down a second set and see if I could pose them. It worked but they were not deep enough and looked sunken.
Today it dawned on me that if I simply put two modified eyes in at once the inner eye would push the outer one where it looked right and the inner one would give it something to slide on for posing.
I cut them down with sandpaper, 60 grit, then 100, then smoothed the edges with 1000 so there wouldn't be anything sharp inside her eye sockets. They actually came out smoother than factory.
The last couple I actually cut down carefully on a wire wheel before sandpaper, all 6 of the eyes I modified were marked first with a sharpie, unwanted marker marks came off easily with a quick acetone wipe. If you use acetone on plastic don't linger, prolonged exposure will eat plastic.
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I had to use a lot of powder in the socket to pose them easily so I figure if they drift I'll simply clean the powder out but so far so good.
Now there's one less pair of eyes to keep track of too, she stores them for me.
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kambui, all the eyes are cut down. The ones in back are trimmed to 31mm too. I can swap them and put any eye in front or back. The cotton is in the same place, filling the hollow in the back of the back eye.
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I'll post pics of both projects as they come to fruition.
I have to be careful with pictures since she's a 100cm and that's a touchy subject so they will be cropped accordingly like above.
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Worked perfectly.
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You mean behind the eyes? So instead of the cotton balls a spherical object.Fantastic Plastic wrote:On one of my dolls (Maxine), I put large fake pearls from the craft store in lieu of the foam.
Worked perfectly.
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Her head turns a lot easier now but it doesn't move on it's own. It doesn't work as I hoped but it's a huge improvement. About 80% of the binding from TPE on TPE is gone.
Also no problem to report after living with her poseable eyes.
The heater looks good but the battery I planning to use with it didn't hold a charge overnight. The additional available current got me 69.8*F at only 9VDC.
I got a good one charging tonight so the dolly warmer should be functional this weekend.
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Yes, different heads have different space behind the eyes so you have to experiment.Technician wrote:You mean behind the eyes? So instead of the cotton balls a spherical object.Fantastic Plastic wrote:On one of my dolls (Maxine), I put large fake pearls from the craft store in lieu of the foam.
Worked perfectly.
But it made it much easier to move the eyes since they now gimbal on them.
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Custom SM 168C (will be awhile)
WM 156 C cup (Pink) Upgraded Skeleton
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Heads: WM #58 (Ce Ce), YL Lori (Dahlia), 6yE N24 (Veronica), SM #55 (Asami), DS April (April), IronTech LP (Lucinda), Matedoll #21 (Cindy), WM #234 (Minka) #363 (Victoria)
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Oh, you did kind of the same thing. On mine the eye socket was shaped in a way that the eye touches in the back so they needed trimmed.Fantastic Plastic wrote:Yes, different heads have different space behind the eyes so you have to experiment.Technician wrote:You mean behind the eyes? So instead of the cotton balls a spherical object.Fantastic Plastic wrote:On one of my dolls (Maxine), I put large fake pearls from the craft store in lieu of the foam.
Worked perfectly.
But it made it much easier to move the eyes since they now gimbal on them.
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This seems pretty obvious now that you say it. I'll be trying it out.ILuvFemsNlingerie wrote:All you got to do is powder the neck and the head will move very easily