Granado VINDOLL

That height is perfect for someone I have in mind, but damnit it's just too beefy. He's a pretty skinny guy... Not to mention it looks like any DD sized heads would never fit right and that's more or less where I'm looking face wise for him. It'd be weird if he looked realistic while everyone else in the series looks anime as hell. Then again I need a kind of peculiar face for him anyways. I'm hoping Spike gets revamped and turned into something better cause that would be perfect.

 

If you want just the height, check out the mystic and arsene bodies from dollshe! I'm getting them for a less buff oc guy of mine.

Somebody upload a box opening video of a vindoll in Tan on YouTube. The video is not in English. I didn't understand anything they were saying but the girls in the video were very adorable and the video was funny. The girl give a comparison between a Dollfie Dream and a vindoll at the end of the video.

 

Here's the link

 

https://youtu.be/gUo8FAEvAa4

 

That rapid closeup on the peen is a marvel of cinematography.

If you want just the height, check out the mystic and arsene bodies from dollshe! I'm getting them for a less buff oc guy of mine.

 

OH MY GOD THANKS! The mystic body is perfect!

That rapid closeup on the peen is a marvel of cinematography.

Saw that coming before they opened the box.

 

This video also demonstrates one of the disadvantages of the harder vinyl formulations. The girl in the video struggles to re-seat the arm in the socket but just can't get it in place. Folks that have some experience with vinyls know you need that peg on the arm to seat into the receiving tube on the skeleton, not just into the hole in the vinyl. Aligning the receiving tube with the hole in the vinyl would be much easier with softer vinyl as you could squeeze the shoulder area to align the skeleton. In this situation with the harder vinyl you are left with trying to manipulate the skeleton into place by wiggling the other arm or lower abdomen or by using a pencil or other such device to poke around in the hole in the shoulder vinyl.

When I saw that his arm kept falling off I was wondering if it actually was harder to reattach or if she was just inexperienced with vinyl dolls. Since I can't understand French I wasn't sure if the Sheryl was hers or not.

It made me a bit worried because I had a similar headache with Eiji (although I was also inexperienced with vinyl dolls at the time) due to Danny not really making the arm frame tubes 'properly' (they are WAY too short for the male body, unlike the female body which has less space around the vinyl shell as they're skinnier, and so the boys' detach too easily). If Vindoll is that headache again I might lose interest entirely because the frustration of posing Eiji is the main reason I lost interest in smartdolls.

Oh this reminded me Torino, when the Eiji you sold me got hereI noticed something funny. His arms were actually swapped. He's handled fine with my friend so maybe that was the problem?

Lol I did swap his arms a few times I believe to see if that was the issue, but it's more likely that I put it on wrong after his final stain treatment/clean-off before I packed him (since I had to take him apart to do so). I'm glad he's behaving himself now! Either way I'm not really a fan of the bleepbersome creaky movement smartdolls have after being spoiled by how smooth DDs move (or at least the newest ones like Rin and Len) and parts of this video reminded me of that.

 

I'm still interested in this line and look forward to seeing what else Granada do with it. I'd really love for more companies to have a go at vinyl versions of sculpts, although obviously it's not financially feasible for most.

If you want just the height, check out the mystic and arsene bodies from dollshe! I'm getting them for a less buff oc guy of mine.

 

OH MY GOD THANKS! The mystic body is perfect!

 

Isn't it?! I wish there were more tall bodies for boys that weren't insanely jacked, but they all seem to have six pack abs!

I know! Like, those are nice but it gets tiring after a while. Guys don't have to be super beefy to look good lol.

(L-R) Obitsu 65cm, AP48cm, Granado Udell, Seedring/Obitsu 55cm

 

More coming...

(L-R) Obitsu 65cm, AP48cm, Granado Udell, Seedring/Obitsu 55cm

 

More coming...

 

THANK YOU!!! And CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

So what do you think of him? Is it worth the wait. He looks so hansome in normal skin

This is an overview of my new Vindoll Udell by Granado, their first vinyl doll. This overview is of the doll’s materials, construction, operation, etc., not of its aesthetics.

 

 

Udell finishes out at a height of approximately 67cm. This Udell is the Normal skin tone. The normal skin is slightly yellower than other “normal” vinyls as seen here.

 

 

I found this yellowness was exaggerated by my 3000K photo lighting. Under normal room lighting Udell appears almost identical in color to several of my Obitsus.

 

 

Udell arrived in a very bruised cardboard container. Inside was a clear plastic box, which contained the bubble wrapped Udell along with his accessories. The bubble wrap was secured with thin elastic cords and did its job. My Udell was undamaged and had no loose appendages. The bubble wrap completely obscured the doll rendering the transparent display box superfluous.

 

 

After unwrapping Udell the first thing I noticed was the varying gap between the vinyls surrounding the two ankles. The knee joints appeared even so I guessed the ankle issue was due to incomplete/incorrect assembly of the lower leg. I tried to push the left foot in but had no success. Some disassembly would be necessary. The repair is addressed at the end of this report.

 

Like other vinyls, the Udell body is constructed of a similar number of external vinyl parts. All of these parts are made from a medium hardness vinyl. This hardness gives the body a more resin like feel unlike other vinyls which use softer vinyl in their skins. These harder vinyls are claimed to be more stain resistant than the softer vinyls. The hardness of the torso parts renders most of the jointing of the torso skeleton, from shoulders to pelvis unusable. The mid torso joint is located just under the pectoral muscles, where there can be some twisting and bending, but not much. The hard plastic used for the skeleton appears slightly more brittle than used in most other skeletons.

 

 

Overall the skeleton and vinyl parts yield good ranges of motion, similar to other vinyls. Most of the joints look pretty good when moving through their range except the knees and elbows. These extremities appear to have been sculpted completely as one piece then cut at the knee and elbow. When these joints are bent you can see the excessive thickness of the vinyl castings. The edges of these parts should have been tapered and fit closer to the ball joints of the skeleton. The legs can bend sufficiently to allow the body to sit comfortably. The body is well balanced and the relative stiffness of the joints allows Udell to stand in a wide variety of poses without the aid of a stand. For long term storage Udell should be placed in a secure position, sitting, leaning, or with the aid of a secure stand.

 

 

 

Owners who bought Udell as their first vinyl will at first notice the significant decrease in weight and secondly the relative stiffness of the joints. This stiffness is normal for vinyls and some care must be taken when manipulating the joints. Joints should be bent slowly and carefully, bending one axis at a time. Rotational axes are best manipulated by bending the joint to a right angle then rotating. An example would be posing the hand. Bend the wrist joint to 90 degrees, carefully twist the wrist joint as desired, then re-bend the wrist/hand to the desired position.

 

 

For those who have Udells that are experiencing “leg drop”, when reinstalling the leg make sure the hip joint is completely pushed together as shown below.

 

 

For those experiencing arm drop, when reinstalling the arm make sure the shoulder socket of the skeleton can be seen through the hole in the vinyl and the shoulder joint peg is inserted through the vinyl and into that socket.

 

 

The leg repair

I have over 9 years of experience disassembling, repairing, and modifying vinyl dolls. Repairs of this nature are not recommended for first time vinyl owners. Proceed with caution.

 

 

The foot/ankle came off by twisting and pulling, without any heating. After slipping off the shin vinyl I tried to push in the “shin bone” into the knee joint again without success. The next step was to disassemble the other foot for comparison. With the other foot removed, I could see a difference in length of the two shin bones. The left shin bone was approximately 5mm longer than the right. I attempted to remove the locking collar on the lower knee joint but it wouldn’t budge. All of these parts were extremely tight. I separated the left knee joint from the thigh, again without heating, bent the knee joint 90 degrees and attempted to carefully hammer the shin bone into the knee joint. It did go in several millimeters but its overall length was still longer than the right shin. Having tugged and pulled and hammered the parts as much as I felt prudent, I resorted to trimming the left shin bone to the same length as the right.

 

Great review! Thank you very much

Thanks for sharing the assembly tips and how did you solve the 5mm leg difference.

(Now I'm intrigued with the SM milk color...)

Those joints really are chunky. I wonder if that was intentional, to give a resin doll look.

Those joints really are chunky. I wonder if that was intentional, to give a resin doll look.

Those chunky joints are what they are used to having on their resin dolls. Being more brittle than vinyl, resin edges needs to be that thick in order survive normal usage. Since Granado hasn't worked with vinyl before they probably weren't aware that those edges could be tapered to a finer, less obtrusive edge and still be durable.

Quetzalcoatl is home and he is so beautiful and HUGE!!!!

 

I got my Quetzalcoatl head today from my dear friend . She was giving him a face up. I love this guy he is amazing. I had a hard time putting back the head so I'm not planning to remove it again

 

Here is a picture of my hunk new face up

I got my Quetzalcoatl head today from my dear friend . She was giving him a face up. I love this guy he is amazing. I had a hard time putting back the head so I'm not planning to remove it again

 

Here is a picture of my hunk new face up

holy cow, he is gorgeous. granado is god tier with men's sculpts.

I got my Quetzalcoatl head today from my dear friend . She was giving him a face up. I love this guy he is amazing. I had a hard time putting back the head so I'm not planning to remove it again

 

Here is a picture of my hunk new face up

holy cow, he is gorgeous. granado is god tier with men's sculpts.

 

 

Thank you. They do have some gorgeous male sculpts

 

Quetzacoal's new faceup looks gorgeous! He has tons of personality MrFJMG

 

Btw, granado created another survey...I really do hope they do something Anime and vindoll related https://goo.gl/forms/CRq7CfDbaK5vna0w1

Quetzacoal's new faceup looks gorgeous! He has tons of personality MrFJMG

 

Btw, granado created another survey...I really do hope they do something Anime and vindoll related https://goo.gl/forms/CRq7CfDbaK5vna0w1

 

Thank you for letting me know about the survey. I already answer. I do hope he makes a male anime vindoll. That would be so cool

 

 

 

Thank about Quetzalcoatl

 

Here's another picture.

 

Granado is holding 2018 photocontest http://doll-granado.com/xe/?mid=news&dobleepent_srl=21628

I’m intrigued with the secret vindoll head xDD

Granado just posted a picture on Flickr of the new vindoll. It is MICHAEL!!!!! I'm so excited. I think I will Be getting a second vindoll.

 

Here's the teaser picture they posted

 

Michael is up for sale

 

You can see picture of this gorgeous guy here

 

http://doll-granado.com/vindoll_michael