nsfw VMF50 & Angel Philia Discussion Thread (nsfw, doll nudity)

Heh, Rinrin is actually one of two reasons I like the Nao head so much. She's super pretty and can pull off the sexy look as well as the more cute/pretty look. She's versatile and attractive and that's what I'm after. And while Rinrin is sexy in the tight white outfits Kymaera has for her, if I ever get one, I want mine a bit more curvy up top. Otherwise, Rinrin is pretty much exactly what I'm after in a VMF girl.

 

 

Billy

haha, i heard if you say kymaera in the mirror three times, RinRin will appear!

 

(btw! - a picture of RinRin is about the 4th top hit on google image search for 'vmf50 nao' if you search from USA)

 

i never realized it, but koba-2011 headswapped his Nao doll on to Shiho's (G) body sometime last year. not sure if it was permanent or just an experiment, but he took a bunch of pics and posted a blog article. so you can get an idea of what she might look, but afaik he never posts full nude pics of dolls, they are always covered in some way even if with just the hands:

 

http://koba-2011.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/vmf50_nao/index.html

 

vmf50 NAO + Type-G body by koba-2011, on Flickr

 

(more pics on his blog/flickr - if you scroll down there are bikini pics of Nao on the Type E body for comparison)

 

edit: if you also look at the pics of Nao with the G boobs in the B/W striped tank top, that's actually one of the reasons i might still want to replace them. unless the top is really baggy or made from really thick material, or you use the padding/bandage trick, they start to poke through the fabric. and they are sharp. before i knew any better, i put her in a shirt that was made from very thin fabric and she literally tore a hole in it with one of her nips. even with a cotton fabric top (i just took it off her while changing her clothing today) i held it up and there were distinct indents where it was pressured against her boobs. so essentially most clothing that is even slightly tight on the G bust, will potentially be ruined over time due to the pointy-ness.

 

most VMFs have pointy nips but the smaller the boobs, the less pressure is being applied to the fabric... at least from personal experience with the variety of clothes i have for my flat chest VMFs vs my Shiho.

 

now, obviously i know part of the reason why VMFs have pointy nips is because it's someone's fetish/ it's meant to look erotic, so that's fine from that perspective... but it's not mine, and i reeeealllly don't like the idea of having any more nice or expensive doll clothing [that actually fits her] being ruined by extensive wear.

 

not everyone is going to care about this factor at all, but if it might be an issue, keep it in mind...

 

other edit: also found these two old pics of a (modified? hybrid?) Risa(?) doll wearing the Yamato R-Type device thingies... i realized that the plastic covers their nips kinda neatly since it's dome-shaped. could make a weird alternative to using padding and doubles as a bonus "outfit" when you take her other clothes off?

 

 

i actually really like the way this looks on it's own, they appear to have styled her in all-Yamato accessories but she either has a non VMF head or maybe a head from a different VMF (the skin tone does not match up, which means they must have used a blush or dye on it...tbqh might even be a custom tanned Nao head. i dunno.)

 

source is http://nijiura-doll.info/cgi-bin/spr.cgi?file=/fullmirror/201102/20110207_02/index.htm

Edited July 17, 2013 by Guest

The above lovely lady is one of Tommy's customs from quite a

while ago, basically she's a custom face-up using Nao and Risa

as a base.

 

I'd really love it if Tommy joined this thread, he'd have some

awesome prototypes

Edited July 17, 2013 by Guest

Baldylox have you thought about the B-type breasts for Nao??

The body types match and trust me she looks amazing!!

The above lovely lady is one of Tommy's customs from quite a

while ago, basically she's a custom face-up using Nao and Risa

as a base.

 

i suspected it was something like that, so i was close...her face looks a lot like Nao but has bigger eyes and an open mouth smile which Nao does not seem to have.

I'd really love it if Tommy joined this thread, he'd have some

awesome prototypes

 

you seem to know a bit about Tommy, so i actually had some questions about him (maybe you know the answer to them?). i assumed he doesn't speak English, but if he does that would be neat and i could send him a message. if he only speaks Japanese i'd write a much more simple message if no one fluent can help out.

 

also, do you know what Tommy's job/s are or have been at the companies?

 

as far as i'm aware, R.A.P. is actually a subdivision of Yamato/Arcadia and he works at both companies... something i noticed is that the R.A.P. dolls and accessories are always more sexualized than the standard VMF/AP dolls and he might be more involved with R.A.P from a designer POV...?

 

but anyway, what is his job? i always wondered how many people actually work on the dolls before sending the designs to be manufactured. obviously he does custom work like the photo i posted, and takes photos, and is probably one of the main sculptors/artists... i just don't know how high up the chain of authority in the companies his job is, is he just a designer and photographer or does he actually own a lot of the copyright to certain sculpts etc?

 

if you don't know, i'm just curious, so it's fine.

 

Baldylox have you thought about the B-type breasts for Nao?

 

i actually suggested B-type in one of my posts yesterday but unless you can buy B-type separately from the webshop (did not check) it could be an issue of availability. the only B chest doll in tan was one edition of Miu and Nao is tan.

 

speaking of which....

 

below is a link to a *DRAFT* version of a part-swapping/skintone guide chart i'm working on, it's based on the Japanese chart i posted a few days ago, but i changed it and made it longer to be more informative.

it won't go in the FAQ until i've been able to de-bloat the notes section a bit (or a lot). they mostly contain comments regarding ambiguous information, so some should be entirely or partially removable.

i also need to add measurements or "guesstimate measurements" for some dolls still, and when i post a less draft-form version of this infographic to the FAQ it will be reduced in scale and size w/ a link to the larger chart for ease of reading purposes.

 

right now it's 1000X2000ish pixels because of my resolution and i definitely wouldn't post an image so large embedded in a forum post. make sure you zoom in and scroll down to read it in the meantime.

 

if someone wants to give any opinions or point out errors that would be great. also...

 

> i used the pink font on blue because A) pink x blue x yellow is a thematic color scheme that re-occurs in the official pictures for these dolls often B) i just like pink and C) it's not hard for me to read.

 

...but if other people find use of a pink font to be annoying, or find it hard to read, or don't like the actual font i used, LET ME KNOW. i will change it to be more legible if most people dislike it since this is for the benefit of other people as much or more as it is for my own.

 

any critique or additional information that i can add to this is highly welcomed:

 

>>>http://i.imgur.com/4wM4PUm.png<<<

 

edit - note to self - one of the official translated points advised to softly heat the plastic with a hairdryer or similar heat source when changing parts, the same way that is done often for changing Dollfie Dream parts. i forgot to add this in, will add it later.

 

other edit -accidentally wrote Miu as having Obitsu 50-02 head, should be the O50-01 head.

Today I received my first vmf50 and she is more wonderful than I imagined

I think that vmf50 is more beautiful than Dollfie Dream, even better than some bjd´s

The Marina face is really cute , and the body is so sexy , but sincerely the tits are very porn for me , in person has impacted me

Definitively I really love these beauties , now I need a sister to my Marina , I think that Sayuri will be perfect....

 

I introduce you my vmf50 Marina : Berry

 

Berry or Vanille por ☆Mikan☆, en Flickr

Oh my!!! She soo awesome!! Congratulations to the fact that you got it! would love more photos of the body. Where did you buy it? and for how much if I may ask?

In my home live vmf50 Mia (Miho)re-makeup. You can find me on figure.fm because i cannot post image

Thanks for your comment lexxylove, I hope upload her arrival gallery in my flickr this weekend

 

I checked your flickr and your doll is really pretty , the succubus photos are really cool.

I am searching this wings since long time ago, I am so jealous , I need it

This wing from Starcraft Premium Series 2 — Sarah Kerrigan, maybe you can get it in store?

It is possible that pass me the link?

I was convinced that your wings are "wings of nigromancia" (or similar name ,I dont clearly remember) that I saw some years ago in some bjd shop

The action figure of "Starcraft 2" is here from DC direct. Sorry i cannot post the link.

Galhound, that picture is awesome! i love the white wig on her. i'm also glad she's not disappointing to you.

 

i love my Dollfie Dreams a lot, but i'm going to admit i'm a VMF convert as well (that's why i spend like 90% of my posts in this thread?). since i first saw pictures of them, i really liked them a lot.

 

as fate would have it, 3 hours ago Romina and Nao were delivered...

 

...but i haven't unboxed them yet because i've been feeling very sick all day ~ OTL

so i'm going to wait and see how i feel in an hour or two because i'm really excited to check them out but i have a slight fever and only just got out of bed >< so i don't know if i will post a proper photoset yet? maybe iphone snap when i de-box them later....

 

BTW, Romina, Karura, Marina all have the same head, it was confirmed by my chart. so the difference is in the body type and skin tone.

 

edit:lexxylove, before i checked your flickr i misunderstood, but since you already have a VMF i realized you were specifically asking about where Galhound got Marina.

 

you might want to check the front page FAQ, i recently updated the section about buying VMFs, although i need to link to the post about proxy services.

 

since you're a new member and can't PM yet, if you have questions or links and images you want to share, then you can either ask me or Galhound via private messages on other sites (i.e Flickr)? if they are related to the topic of VMF dolls one of us could post them in the thread for you.

 

i'm looking at your flickr right now and your Miho doll is really, really pretty! (fyi, my flickrname is ___rei)

 

congrats again Galhound ^^ how did you choose the name Berry? (i missed it the first time i read your post... too sleepy and distracted by the photo, aha)

 

and i will post pics of Romina and Nao, possibly with my other VMFs, as soon as i begin to feel a bit better.

Galhound, congratulations on your new girl Berry she's

Lovely and slightly awarkward at the same time:D

 

Lexxylove, great pics of Miho/Mia I really love the

succubus wings and a great pose aswell:)

 

Leitan, to answer your Q's I've never actually contacted

Tommy so this is only speculation or what I've seen over

years, he's obviously Japanese and he's the main man

when it comes to VMF 50/Angel Philia whether he sculpts

all the faces I don't know (if he does I've got to shake his

hand, that's quite a talent) and RAP is a side company

that handles they "naughtier" side of the doll distribution.

 

When the Yamato site was around Tommy kept a blog

updated regularly which he showed a lot of his works

of up coming dolls and some prototypes.

I just flicked through some of the links at the start of

the thread (thanks Leitan, check em out everyone) and it

looks like there's a new bust part 0_0,

Leitan feel better soon we'd love to see

some pics:)

 

I know this is "of topic" but what camera

are we using to take pics of our lovely

ladies??

 

Please don't hurt me Leitan ,0~0,

maybe i'll write him a simple note in Japanese... or tweet him...but, i don't know what kind of answer to expect, if i get one at all.

 

i know it sounds funny because his job is basically the "dream job" of making (or designing, but he may sculpt the prototypes too) and photographing ero-dolls all day, but his job is actually probably a lot of hard work.

it depends on how much of the main duties he has within Arcadia and RAP when it comes to design, sculpture, etc, but i know that photography alone can be very time consuming to get the 'perfect' image, so adding in all the other duties he might have, he could actually have a really busy job and spend a lot of time dedicated to it...

(i've never been to one ofc, but i'm going to bet he also might attend or set up the exhibits at most of the doll shows they appear at...since an artistic director involved in marketing the brands might have to do that kind of thing).

 

i wonder what his salary is... just like i wonder about the copyright issue. it doesn't seem like coincidence that since the Yamato/Arcadia rebranding 'split', certain doll heads that were popular (Eri? Nao? Shiho/Miho?) have not been re-used as "variant dolls" faces. maybe they just want to use the new sculpts, but maybe they don't own all the copyright to the earlier dolls any more.

 

the new bust - are you talking about the crazy massive wonky hentai boobs on his blog? because those are available on Chiara (Pink Drops #3) and called the C4 bust. so they have been available maybe a few weeks now although not as a separate part (yet) to my knowledge. i bet they will sell for a bomb if they ever appear in the webshop.

 

speaking of Chiara... in my innocent naivete i was browsing the RAP webshop some days ago and looking at the thumbnail images where i saw what i thought was colored jump rope (hey, it kinda made sense because Arcadia sells gym uniforms?) so i just clicked it to see what it actually was...

 

...turns out it wasn't colored jump rope...

 

http://www2.moeyo.com/img/13/06/08/1/119.html (image is VERY NSFW)

 

MOVING ON....

 

to answer your Q: i normally take 'proper' photos with my DSLR (canon eos rebel t3i) but i frequently either get pretty tired/sick 'cause i have chronic health problems, or maybe even if i'm feeling fine i just want to take a "quick" picture... so my pics are always fairly split between DSLR and iphone pics.

 

it depends on how much effort i want to put into a picture and also how much time and energy i have, since taking pics, editing and uploading from iphone is much faster...but of course it will never be able to do the things an expensive good-quality camera, lens, and photoshop can... (at least not yet?)

 

photography is not too off-topic honestly - for this thread it can't be the main topic but - there is actually a photography board on this forum dedicated to doll photography where tips and tricks are discussed as well as camera, lens types and settings etc. if you want to talk about doll photography, anything that applies to DDs should pretty much apply to VMFs, so maybe check it out.

 

also i think as long as the main topic relates back to the dolls, OT banter is fine, it should just not take up all of your post... hobbyists are people, not robots (well, most of us).

 

i took some photos last night and yesterday but nothing worth posting to this thread yet since i need to edit some more of them.

 

there's a weird picture of Romina on my flickr but i took it for my 365 photo project and those pics tend to be often very lo-fi/overedited or strange editing/a lot of noise and grain/heavy photomanipulation (this includes on faces)... they usually have an odd aesthetic that i think a lot of people dislike so i prefer to wait to share a picture that's less aesthetically effed up (note: apparently i can't say this phrase) when compared to what i guess i would call a more mainstream doll photography taste.

 

by this i mean, my most personal style of pictures does not fit within the 'clean/cute/sexy/ero/fun' feeling of doll photography at all (because it's not meant to be) but that doesn't mean i dislike taking photos that fall within that kind of criteria, in fact i enjoy them, but it just depends on my mood and what the project is as well as other factors.

 

see, now i am the one meandering off-topic. somebody post more VMFs.

 

TL;DR - a photo or two coming soon since i actually made the progress to take them today. i'm normally very slow at tasks anyway, but when i get sick and overheat i start to grind to a halt - ORZ - thank you for the wellwishes, though.

 

btw, TomoTomo, which girl is your favorite doll? also, do you have any pics? (i forgot if i asked these questions to you already, woop)

Haha it's so funny you'd relate "that" to a jump rope

I can see what you mean tho but this is RAP and they

do deliver the naughty things

 

Leitan.....My favourite girl....very hard choice.......

I really do prefer the darker girls so when I see a

tan skin girl my ears prick up

So my fav visually is Kana but overall it's Nao the

E-type body is the one to own, really pretty and so

much mobility, beautiful lines aswell

I've also been experimenting with 12mm eyes lately.

I'm expecting a order from Parabox so when that comes

through and I get a new camera and pic spam this

thread

i totally swear i could not tell what they were from the thumbnail picture, ahaha... i saw this - http://i.imgur.com/jENTbL9.jpg - which is not as obvious as the other thumbnails... plus, i didn't read the description. hard to imagine "jump rope" translating into"love stick"...

 

anyway, as for eyes, do you mean as in different colors or styles? many of the 'new' girls take 12mm by default, but there are girls with "16mm" default eye sockets like Nao.

 

so, i know that some of the other girls have larger eye sockets that come with different "default eye" types... but Romina and Kana actually come with 12mm Parabox "Charming Eyes" (if you still have the information packing slip included with the box, it says this in English).

 

i don't know where the other packing slips for my other VMFs are right now, but the one for Nao says she uses "16mm LOVE Eyes Collection Grace/Brown". They look exactly the same as my Shiho's eyes except for the color difference (my Shiho came with green).

 

i used to think that the eye color with each doll was random, but now i think that each doll comes with a specific default eye color? what do you think?

 

i actually replaced both Romina and Nao's default eyes with random (not sure what brand, type, or MM- they were in an unmarked plastic ziplock bag) BJD eyes that i had lying around in my "stash of spare doll parts" as an experiment. i really prefer the way both of them look with these eyes (well, one reason i didn't want Romina to have the purple eyes is that, although they are actually very pretty, Romina's head is not only just a variant of Kana's head sculpt w/ a different face up, but Kana came with and is currently wearing the exact same purple eyes. i do not want them to be styled alike. it also looks like Galhound's Marina came with these same eyes)

 

i think i like the effects of non-company eyes a lot, and will buy new eyes for some of my other VMFs sometime because as pretty as the default ones are, i want to experiment more now.

 

speaking of which, here are one or two pics of Nao from yesterday afternoon...

 

the large picture is heavily photoshopped. not just by changing colors, but i also changed the shape of her body and parts of her face slightly to suit my personal taste.

 

so that you can compare, i included some unedited pictures afterwards. you can recognize them because the lighting and colors are very dull. these it is OK to use for reference... as a rule of thumb, it is best not to use my photos as reference for (any kind) of dolls unless i say they are not photoshopped or only lightly photoshopped (i.e color and lighting correction)...

 

here's Nao sitting pretty:

 

7/19/13 | 68/365 | pondering by ___rei, on Flickr

 

and here is without photoshop (aside from cropping and resizing):

 

 

 

i experimented with a lot of different wigs on her... i tried long reddish-orange with side bangs (Parabox), long brunette with center part (Monique Gold), long dark blue with bangs (also Monique) and then i even tried my Yamato VMF "short tomboy" cut wig that is a light brown. i couldn't find one i liked enough, so i put my "default favorite" wig on her (it's by BeachGirlNikita) - that is a fur wig - this one has been worn by many of my dolls because i have an irrationally obsessive love of fur wigs.

 

i imagined i would want to use red or brown as her main hair color, but i think now i will look for a blondish fur wig with color streaks similar to as in the edited picture (same for the eyes... IRL you can see the eyes are quite dull, i want more 'sparkling' and 'colorful' eyes).

 

in general i also have aesthetic preference for dark skin, another reason i like VMFs... is that their tan skin isn't a "limited option" or "not available at all" l....*COUGH*Volks, Azone*COUGH*many BJD companies*COUGH* -- so i agree with you.

 

my only WS VMF is Sayo though, and i think that white skin suits her very nicely. i would not be so interested in a tan edition of her, so she is an exception to that rule. it's also why i put the idea of Karura aside for now, which i hope i do not regret later.

 

so - TomoTomo - is Kana on the E-Type body your ideal doll?

 

as it happens, since i live with my boyfriend for a very long time now, he sees my dolls very often as they are displayed in one area of my room permanently (unless they are boxed & stored waiting to be sold).

he has very specific tastes and is a very opinionated person (like me), so his feelings for dolls are very split: he likes some of them a lot, but very much dislikes others.

 

Kana is honored to be one of the few dolls he gave many positive complements about, which surprised me because he normally prefers my BJD that have "realistic" faces over any doll with "anime" style face.

 

i guess that perhaps Kana has a surprising universal appeal to most people? [i said the next part earlier in the thread, but i think that was quite a while before you joined in discussion] -- i actually bought her feeling very unsure of if i would keep her (when she first was released, i was not interested at all, but since Yamato went out of business and i found her for sale second hand, i decided to "try" owning her). i ended up being surprised by just how much i like her too. i would definitely not want to sell her now.

 

anyway, Tomo, do you give special (personal) names to your dolls or keep their default names?

 

i forgot if i said this already, (i repeat myself often, sometimes because i cannot remember) but i like to give mine a personal name. in the thread i almost always call them by their official name so as to avoid any confusion... but i am still trying to come up with a personal name each for Nao and Romina...

 

also, i need to figure out what kind of clothes to dress them in, but in this hot weather clothing is currently optional.

Edited July 20, 2013 by Guest

to answer your Q: i normally take 'proper' photos with my DSLR (canon eos rebel t3i) but i frequently either get pretty tired/sick 'cause i have chronic health problems, or maybe even if i'm feeling fine i just want to take a "quick" picture... so my pics are always fairly split between DSLR and iphone pics.

 

Canon Rebel t3i - check

iPhone - check

chronic health problems - check

Ok. I realize that I'm your hero, but you don't have to do EVERYTHING that I do

 

On the eyes, I'm not a big fan of the "eye pods" that they use. Makes lining up the eyes a lot harder as they can be bumped easily when adjusting the other one.

 

The blond looks quite good on your Nao I'm sure you'll come up with a great name for her. I usually give mine different names from the sculpt except in the rare cases like Saber where I kept her as a variation on the original character or Aya where I kept ALNA! (yes, all caps and the exclamation point) as her stage name.

Canon Rebel t3i - check

iPhone - check

chronic health problems - check

Ok. I realize that I'm your hero, but you don't have to do EVERYTHING that I do

 

PSH, if anything it means one of three things:

 

1) We are secretly the same person.

2) Clones.

3) God intended for me to be a dysfunctional male otaku (no offense meant your way- i'm mocking myself because i'm dysfunctional as hell), but the night my parents were doing it he got totally stoned and thought it would be a hilarious joke to make me female instead.

 

also you can add "Nao-www also owns Nao" to that list if you want... but trust me, my one true waifu is my other half, and my hero is Rei (wait...shouldn't it be the other way around...?). if there's ever a vacancy, i'll be selling tickets to audition.

 

back on topic: the "eye pods"...ugh. agree, agree, agree. i know (assume) you only have RinRin, but since i now have 5 girls all from different times of production, i can actually tell you something vaguely interesting... the eye pod system has changed over time. they haven't been removed completely, but the ones in the later edition VMFs and also my Dollcore are different to Nao and Shiho's.

since i don't own any Angel Philia or Pink Drops, i don't know if they've maintained the system with the company rebranding.

 

i'm actually curious to know what kind of eye pods or eye system Galhound's PD Marina came with. or if TomoTomo has any PD/AP girls which i think he said he does, maybe he can tell us.

 

i have some pics on my cellphone of the inside of at least one of my doll's heads - the pods kinda creep me out when empty, because they remind me of a Furby skeleton face... (i swear i will post a side by side of that in a moment)

 

i am pretty bad at correctly placing eyes in "normal" dolls that don't have the pod system - it usually takes me several attempts to get eyes placed (compare the unphotoshopped pics of Nao... i wanted her to be looking up and to the side, but she has a slight case of wonk-eye in the originals that i was feeling to hot and sick to correct IRL) - i absolutely agree that it makes it 10x harder with the VMFs. or if not hard, annoying, esp if they are the pod type where you can knock the eyes out of place by accident (other note: Kana and Romina came with complementary sticks of eye-putty, and unlike the others, they do not arrive with eyes already in the pods)

 

as for a name for Nao... i'm going to assume most people here are familiar with Masamune Shirow... anyway, aside from GITS, i've always liked his artwork point blank (doesn't matter to me if it's his erotic works or regular manga, he's a great artist- also - edit: Galhound, is your username a Shirow reference?)...they are making what so far appears to be a PG-13 spinoff series of CG animation shorts based on the W Tails Cat artbooks (available unsubbed on Youtube for anyone who wants to watch them)

 

the 3DCG girls kind of remind me of Nao and some other VMF dolls, (i'm not directly referring to the fact that they're both kind of lewd, even though they are, i was more focused on that their faces remind me of Nao, and also Shiho)... since i just rewatched all 3 eps that are currently out (they're very short), maybe i'll name her after one of the characters.

 

i also keep some original names or just use a variation nickname for some dolls. since i have 2 different Rei Ayanami DDs, i have Rei ("original") and Mei (she is the "special maid outfit" edition, so it's short for Meido). i also never gave my Azone50 Kanojo a unique name, but that's up in the air.

 

everybody should have a stage name though... therefore i approve of ALNA!

Edited July 21, 2013 by Guest

Leitan, that first photo of your Nao is gorgeous! I love the work you did to it, especially the colors of her eyes and wig. Great work!

 

Thanks for making me want one for myself even more now.

 

 

 

Billy

Tomotomo dont worry ,thanks a lot for the information

And thank you for the congratulations

 

Leitan the white wig is provisional , I am waiting some Leeke wigs in pink color for her, but I admit that with the white wig , she looks really cute

 

I choose Berry name , because I decided that all my future vmf50 family have sweet names, and berry is a beautiful name to mi pinkish girl

 

And congratulation , your new girls are awesome¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ I really love the Nao eyes in the first photo (magic eyes )and I need see more pics to Romina (I see only one in your flickr) , is the twin of my girl

 

I coincide with you about the tan skin , I love this skin , a lot of my bjd family are tan skin , I think that it is my favourite color , If Romina had included the "win" hands ,I think that I choose her

 

About the eyes mechanism is horrible ,Marina has two tubes to put the eyes and it is so difficult for me to put it correctly

 

Wooow ,another Shirow fan , yes my nickname is reference to Masamune Shirow , I really love all your work ,especially the collection "Pieces"

 

And I dont understand , why dont appear some Liza flashgirl for sale in Yahoo Auctions?

Leitan, that first photo of your Nao is gorgeous! I love the work you did to it, especially the colors of her eyes and wig. Great work!

 

Thanks for making me want one for myself even more now.

 

d'aww thanks! i am not usually happy with my photoshop work (it varies) and the pic was taken in pretty casual conditions so i wanted to make it a little sparkly and was actually quite pleased with the result.

 

Leitan the white wig is provisional , I am waiting some Leeke wigs in pink color for her, but I admit that with the white wig , she looks really cute

 

I choose Berry name , because I decided that all my future vmf50 family have sweet names, and berry is a beautiful name to mi pinkish girl

 

Leeke make really, really nice wigs in my experience (i have one or two for my BJD), so i look forward to seeing them when they arrive!

the wig for Nao (and eyes) are provisional too, until i get something similar to the photoshopped photo colors. with Romina, i found i already have a few wigs that look quite nice on her.

 

Arcadia/RAP use the color pink when marketing their dolls a lot, and my Shiho almost always wears either pink clothing or wig. so that's a sweet idea of yours.

 

i was playing around with trying to take/edit more photos of Romina a few days ago, but did not turn out how i wanted...

 

7/20/13 | 69/365 by ___rei, on Flickr

 

^ hit the thumbnail to go to my flickr, then in the commentary for the pic, there are 4 links to unedited photos.

i'm pretty unhappy with how i edited the photo, ORZ... i'm not sure if it's just the perfectionist in me, but i could not change her facial expression the way i wished to, without distorting it improperly.

i may try to correct it later or make another edit using one of the untouched outtakes, because i liked the concept for the photoset, just not my final result.

 

in the photos she's wearing: Dollheart Wig in 7.5-8.5, and the shirt is actually something i bought from Nine9Style for my SD16 (66cm height) BJD. that is why the sleeves are rolled up in all the pictures.

 

thanks also for the complements about both Nao and Romina.

I coincide with you about the tan skin , I love this skin , a lot of my bjd family are tan skin , I think that it is my favourite color , If Romina had included the "win" hands ,I think that I choose her

 

sometimes i choose WS because i think it suits how i would like the character to be from an aesthetic POV, overall i like tan or dark tones more though. since i also have BJD, if you count up all my dolls, it roughly divides into 50% white, 25% tan, and 25% 'fantasy' skin (i.e gray or blue).

 

About the eyes mechanism is horrible ,Marina has two tubes to put the eyes and it is so difficult for me to put it correctly

 

warning: ugly pictures ahoy below. the night i de-boxed Nao and Romina i took a phone-photo to compare their different insides before i put the eyes in, so the pics are bad but you can still see.... eh. was Marina's the same as Romina? (pic 1)...i wondered if i got a factory mistake or something because the vinyl was sealed. now if you use the default eyes you could push them through the front socket (that would risk damaging the face-up though) but the fact they come with putty is even more confusing. because i didn't even want to put the Parabox eyes in Romina's head, i said "f--k it" and cut the end off the sealed tubes inside her head after taking the photo (i just used the scissors in my penknife to cut the vinyl ends off).

 

also, one of these things is not like the other....

 

Romina's head before 'surgery':

 

 

Nao's head (this is also what Shiho's looks like):

 

 

a naked Furby:

 

 

yeah....

 

Wooow ,another Shirow fan , yes my nickname is reference to Masamune Shirow , I really love all your work ,especially the collection "Pieces"

 

i'm familiar with "Pieces"!~ i always like that he uses military and cyber themes in most of his work. the contrast between looking pretty and feminine while still being kind of butch and 'badass' at the same time is appealing to many people, i think?

i found a camouflage hoodie for Nao to wear as tribute... now she just needs one of these...?

 

 

(it's from the RAP webshop, still available, but it will set you back 9,800 JPY before shipping...)

 

And I dont understand , why dont appear some Liza flagship girl for sale in Yahoo Auctions?

 

EDIT: i found out why, just read the description on Arcadia's site - http://www.arcadia.ac/products/detail.php?gid=56

 

it basically says the dolls were "Sold Out" on Pre-Order. They were being produced and scheduled to ship to the owners in May, but they "tentatively delayed" the delivery to June. They said they would notify the people who bought Mona or Liza when the dolls were ready for delivery.

 

because it is the end of July now and there are no sales at all on YAJ or anywhere, i am guessing there is still a delay of production or shipment. unless the dolls were very, very limited, which seems unlikely, there is no way that they were only purchased by people who wanted to keep them. as you see with Pink Drops or any other limited run doll (i.e Dollfie Dream), resellers always immediately try to get in on ordering the dolls as well, to sell for mark-up on YJA.

 

edit: i found an auction for AP Maya on YAJ from June, the winning bid ended at below her retail price, and you can still buy her from the official website store at a discount price compared to what Mona and Liza retailed at... it seems Maya is unpopular with the Japanese?

 

also, i realized that although we discussed the AP Summer event, there were some previews from Tommy's blog that didn't get posted... also not everyone reads the blog, and i myself cannot understand all that is related in the text.

 

i'm probably going to doublepost with a picspam (other people's photos) post after this so i'll include then.

 

edit: added those comparison pics...

Edited July 22, 2013 by Guest

About the Angel Resort event...

 

the girl who looks like Sayuri but with a different body (C3 bust, ?? torso) may be called "Tsugurura-chan". i'm not sure of the accuracy of that name.

 

this is very old news now because it was posted about 2 weeks ago on the blog, but there will be a new set of "twins", Kirika and Serika.

 

*EDIT* here is the catch regarding the Angel Resort event.

i don't understand enough to tell the details accurately, but the gist of it is:

 

There will be a physical in-store raffle at Azone Akiba somewhere at the end of the event (which might actually be today? if it is not today, it is very soon...).

"Unique" dolls are available as the prize. I think it indicated that it would be a "unique" version of Kirika and Serika, specifically the ones pictured below. It's unclear to me if there will be standard edition runs of Kirika and Serika.

 

There was also the possibility that "Tsugurura-chan" is a one-off doll available to a lottery winner. Tommy mentioned something about Tsugurura's parts being available in the webshop at some point, I think, but like I said it's hard for me to read.

Kirika

 

 

Serika

 

 

since i need to add them to the chart, here are the body measurements posted...

 

Kirika - C1 bust, C butt/hips/legs, Obitsu default arms, 48cm Obitsu frame,

Serika - F bust, C butt/hips/legs, Obitsu arms, 48cm frame

 

it didn't mention the feet but i suspect they are (permanently?) transitioning to default high heel feet. in the pics you will notice the dolls are standing on clear plastic stands instead of magnet stands which indicates this.

aesthetically i love the high heel feet, i just hope that they provide the regular feet as option parts still, since otherwise it makes the dolls a lot harder to balance without use of a stand or certain shoes (and they stand so well on their own with flat feet!)

 

i can't quite tell if the actual head sculpt is new, or if they just have different face-ups. it looks like Kana's head (H-type). it is unlikely that it is unique so i don't know what makes the dolls "one off" other than maybe included outfits as the prizes or their custom painted faces, since you could essentially construct their bodies just by mix-and-matching parts already available.

 

 

also, if you did not read the measurement chart i posted before, it alluded to there being an Angel Philia Super Sonico in production soon that will (probably) have a new or unique head.

 

speaking of Sonico, here are some cute photos of some Sonico VMFs. they were posted yesterday by a blogger. i'm not even a big fan of Sonico, but these are really cute (and the last photo seems a bit yandere?). i wonder if an Angel Philia Sonico will have a changeable eye system instead of painted eyes?

 

if you want to see more photos, you can go to the link and look at his/her other entries: http://ameblo.jp/sonicymtv50/entry-11577348550.html

 

 

 

 

 

i have more images from Japanese blogs to post as well, in a bit.

Yep I'm not so keen on the default eyes that the girls

come with so I've been swapping them out for awhile

now, at first with just standard 16mm obitsu eyes and

recently with other 12mm and 14mm eyes.

I my opinion the latter gives my girls so much more

character;)

As far as I know all the girls have the same eye

sockets (16mm) but many come with 12mm eyes and

eye putty (blue tack!!) I'm not sure about the Angel-

Philia/Pink Drops girls I won't own one until I receive Kiara.

 

The love eyes come standard with Nao, Shiho and some

of the early Dollcore girls, you know at one stage they

were also going to release butterfly eyes and a few more

different highlights. I guess it didn't take of.

 

Leitan, I guess Kana with the E-type body would be my

favourite maybe with the D-type legs aswell for a super

hybrid 0_o but Nao is the bees knees >o<

I don't have any special names for my girls either they

just are who they are which is funny because I managed

to get a Shiho head of YJP a while ago...... I'll have to

give her a name scince I now feel guilty:(

Maybe Chiho or something along those lines??