Restoring a 2001 Real Doll

doodman · Post by **doodman** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:04 pm

I thought it was time that I started my repair thead on my Real Doll

Her name is now Miss HollyWood she is a 2001 body 3 face 5. I got Holy
free awile back she was in very bad shap

And was in need of help so I am helping her

she looked like this when I got to see a pic of her

By the time I got her home her condishen got worse, every time I move her she tairs some were new

But all hope was not lost

doodman · Post by **doodman** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:49 pm

So lets get started

When I got Holly home I had to start working on her neck and jaw! There was no time to take photos. Her jaw was broke and going to mess up her face if I did not act fast. So I cut the back of her head and neck open to see what was wrong. I found that she has a fiberglass skull and there was some kind of sharp plastic bits in her neck. I dug the bits out and found out that it went to her jaw

The plastic bits was a thin mixing contaner that wes cut to atach the jaw to the skull. It was riveted to the fiberglass and had shatered in to pits

The mixing container was to thin to do the job

So I removed the rivets and the rest of the plastic.
I cut new parts from a 5 gallon bucket the plastic was a lot thicker and stronger. Putting the new parts in was not ezey to do I used stainless stell nuts and bolts in sted of rivets. Now after I had her jaw reatached I tightend up her neck bolts and then closed up the cuts

In this Photo you can see a small creas in her right cheek.

But at this time I was releved that her face was going to be just fine

doodman · Post by **doodman** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:37 pm

Now it was time to save her legs

In some of the photos you will see in this thead, will show were I was working on Holly in motabale places at the same time. In this photo you can see that her left leg was holding on by one inch of sillicone and was tore allthe way arond

So there was no time to L

S LOL you like that?
I used Real Doll glue to do this, I aplied the glue and posioned the knee to the same spot that it had ben in when she sat in her crate. And then used stapols to hold it to gether as you see here.

I only glued the sides at this time, after the glue cured I then glued the in side as you see here. I was working on bolth knees at the same time.

At this pont her legs were not going to fall off

I will cover the glue later

at this time her legs were looking better

doodman · Post by **doodman** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:10 pm

Now that the legs were safe it was time to work on putting Holly's hands back to gether

When i got her bolth of her hands were off and in a box

so She need to get her hands ack on

she has a wrist joint that was fine so there was no need to open it up. She has some fiberglass with allumanum wire
that broke off. So I removed the wire and replaced it with copper wire as you see here.

After I got the new wire in her fingers I drilled small holes in the fiberglass so the new wires could be glued in to. You can see the holes here.

and here is the wire going through her hand.

doodman · Post by **doodman** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:41 pm

now it is time to glue her hands back on I did not use Real Doll glue for this, I used a Smoth-on glue for this Smoth-on glue is more softer than RD glue. And it cures faster cures in 12 minets and thas what I need to do this. I frist glued all the small bits and tairs together and then glued part of the wrist to gether. I only glue part way around not to get it all at once. If you do this you can line up the seam better rather thn do it all at once. In this photo you can see that I had glued the palm and some outher small aireas at the sam time

Paleonaturist · Post by **Paleonaturist** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:25 pm

Wow, Dood . . .

Holly was in pretty horrific shape, but it looks as though she's got the right new man to bring her around to her former glory. Beautiful work, Dood!

~B.

Mechwizard · Post by **Mechwizard** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:07 am

A hell of a job doodman.
I don't think I would have liked to take it on.
Well done. There is hope for old dolls afterall.

Gigi_Avril · Post by **Gigi_Avril** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:32 am

Who ever did that to this poor doll (referring to first picture) should be locked up!

I am glad that she found you to nurse her back to health! Keep up the good work!

1singer · Post by **1singer** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:28 am

You sir are truly gifted'' I just love the way you restored that doll back to her beauty.I only wish I was so gifted,Great work''

Cherry2000 · Post by **Cherry2000** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:05 pm

Great work. I was browsing your album and found this pic:

http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/di ... fullsize=1

Awesome work.

Cheers

Cherry

mg4 · Post by **mg4** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:38 pm

Great job Doodman, Holly is luckly to have you fix her up, the hands look like a total lost, Had to be to hardest part to fixing her.

Do you know if Wildriver has seen her latly.

doodman · Post by **doodman** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:25 pm

Thanks guys and galls for the great coments
A for your question MG4 I do not know if Wildriver has see her sence I have ben working on her.
So lets fix a dollie

Here is a shot of me working on Holly's hands

My son took this photo and yes I a beer next to me

her hand were not that hard ti fix. After I got them back together it was time to put some finger nails on her. Now that was hard to do! I cut the wires off and turned a loop on each one. So that the wire ends were unde her finger nails. That way I could glue the wire to the finger nail and the nail to the sillicone. I tryed RVT sollicone to do this but it did not hold the nail on, so I tryed Smooth-on to do this it did knot work

So far nothing ws working what was going to do this? So I went back to readding the repair section

Then I found it

Supper glue gell no that is what I am talking about

I tryed it on one of the fingers and it worked WHOOHOO

So if you ever want to glue finger nails to a sillicone doll Supper glue gell is the shit

You can see the wire under the nails in this photo

Now her finger wires will not give her pokies

Her fingers were done like this when she was made in 2001 and has never had a pokie

WhooHoo Holy has hands

doodman · Post by **doodman** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:08 am

well I have found out do not use RVT sillicone on my Holly. I used RVT sillicone to repair her sholders. The RVT sillicone was holding and was hard at firt and now has turned to a gell like state and the repair has opend up agin

Now I have to try to get the RVT sillicone off and start over.I can not aford to buy any more Real Doll repair stuff so I will try to use some of my Platnum sillicone to do the repairs. Dose any one here know if this will work?