Ruin of Felice, part 2 - Eyebrows

So using what I've practiced a little putting hair into Felice's head, I've decided to put in eye brows.

Making a hole with a pin, then putting a strand of hair into that hole was the initial method I had intended on using. I had difficulty with this method, and it seemed like it would likely result in damage, so instead I resorted to a sewing style method.

Hair would be sewn in, snipped strategically, then silicone applied to have it stick.



Hair stuck on, roughly snipped at first.


Then trimmed to give good shape and evenness.


Here we are again, trimmed, and even with more strands of hair added to her left brow.

While undergoing Ruin

While I was working on a modification for Felice; and old wound opened up.



Quite to my surprise. I guess repairs can sometimes still come undone. I decided to see how well this other silicone I bought at a hardware store would fair in repair.




Of course utilizing 'advanced' repair methods.

This happening bout 3 month and 10 days after having Felice.

Ruin of Felice, part 2 - Hair

Yes, I got Felice with the intention of making her a doll for play. A couple of things that bothered me were; after her neck 'bone' had broken, the head would fall off or the neck joint would behave awkwardly, and while playing with her with a wig on, the wig would slip or fall off and so on. With regards to hair, yes it kinda does bother me that she doesn't have eye brows at the moment; which as it turns out is a neat secondary to what we are trying to do now.




The tools of ruin.

I bought some hair clips/toggles. The cost $25 each. You can cheaper ones, you could even get wigs for that price, but the hair quality didn't seem as good, so I went with these instead.

Needles.

Silicone for Glass and Aquariums. Why this particular silicone? Well it turns out some other silicone you can buy contains anti mold in it, as so isn't recommended to be around food or water. Also this silicone is an 'acid cure' silicone which is the same as the one from the Arte Tokio repair kit.

CD marker. Nothing sticks to silicone, so marks made with this pen will get rubbed away.

Tweezers

& 'Cuticle' scissors.




First we mark where we want to place hair.




And next we place the hair in. This was a trial run, taking about a half hour. At first I made a hole with the needle, then used the tweezers to put hair into that hole with a bit of silicone. I decided this was going to take too long, so I thought of a different way to do this.




Several days later I applied more hair. The time I've spent on sticking hair on at this stage is about 3 and a half hours. At this rate I've estimated that it would take 100 hours to do the whole head. I'm hoping I get faster. To be fair some of this was done while watching TV. I decided to kinda 'sew' hair in, apply some silicone, then cut the little bit of hair that sticks out. I could have it coming through, with the end result having hair that is half as long as the strand sewn in, but I kinda like the length I'd set so I've decided on this method for now.





Some days later, after a bit of play, some strands of hair came loose.

In light of that I decided to use a more robust, time consuming method to stick her hair on. Using some sewing and knots for some strands (depending on the length of hair).

Later I found that it turns out there is a way that I can pull out the hair I bought so that the length is effectively doubled. This way I can use the other sewn method I had intended, where the hair is sewn in, then out, half coming out either side, while stuck in silicone in the middle.

Also, I decided that I'm not going to sew in hair a strand at a time.



At this stage it's 11 hours of sticking hair on.



14 hours



About 18 hours here.



20 and 1/2 hours



22 1/2 hours


30 hours


39 1/2 hours



40 1/2 hours



49 hours



57 hours


73 1/2 hours




79 1/2 hours
looks rather like male pattern baldness at this stage



100 and 1/2 hours


This is what she looked like when I was playing with her at this stage.


150 hours, also by this stage, a packet of hair had been used up.


182 and 1/2 hours


195 hours



199 hours


at this stage Felice's hair looks quite complete from the front.


215 hours


216.5



and finally at about 217 and 1/2 hours, the hair sewing is complete.







unlike a wig you can see skin at a parting;


and a hairline.



Now the hair needs to be cleaned up a little bit.

Ruin of Felice, part 1a - Head Joint Stuck On

So stuck the head joint on. It's pretty good, as expected it helps settle that joint.




But well...



Again as expected, it doesn't exactly fix it, still it's an improvement over what was.

Ruin of Felice, part 1

Sticking the head joint to the body.


The dolls from Arte Tokio are really made as display pieces. I however had intended to make Felice a doll to play with.

Remember this?




Taking note of the neck. Well I decided that it might be a good idea to stick the neck joint to the neck.



Taking advantage of the fact that there is a small tear at her right armpit. One that is an old fix having come undone, I decided to do the sticking on now.




The tools are of course from our 'good friend' the repair kit from Arte Tokio. Note, I decided to remove that wire extension I had placed on the neck joint.




The neck joint parts that will join with the silicone, given a nice coat.




And being left to cure.

So it happened

I thought it might; was even counting on it at one point, and in retrospect it seems a little foolish to think it wouldn't, but then, perhaps not as quickly as it did.

After about 3 months and 2 days; Felice's back has separated.

That means, the 'bone' that connected her thorax to her hips is now severed, meaning it now the silicone that holds them together.



Left: normal waist.
Right: waist when made to bear weight of hips and leg.


It's actually holding up better than I had thought. Now this gives support back to that idea I had a while ago of removing hip bones...

3rd month - No eye brows

Yes, Felice is looking like she's had Chemotherapy; cept she still has eye brows. I'm afraid it's getting close to that time where I run out of much to post about her.


Onward to Ruin!