Obitsu 65cm Male Body: Hybridizing with DD

There seems to be a lot of mystery surrounding the Obitsu 65cm male body, as well as how to hybridize it with a Dollfie Dream head to make a boy DD.

Recently I acquired one myself, and thought it might help to share what I learned from mine.

 

Review:

The body has a foot size of roughly 6.5cm and wears 1/3 (SD) size clothing, although some shorter 70cm pants may fit. I find that semi-white skin and normal skin are both okay matches to Obitsu white, not a perfect match but passable. SWS is probably easier to blush and match, being lighter than NS, but NS is only just a shade or two off from Obitsu white. Pick whichever one you prefer.

 

Hybridizing:

-Warning- Long tutorial here...

 

This particular body comes with a head attached already (the one seen in the promo pictures). To remove it, you'll need to pull off the head from the skeleton and use a screwdriver to unscrew the neck mechanism, which in its entirety looks something like this:

 

 

Problem: The silver included screw is too short and small to be used with a DD head, so I grabbed one from an old VHS cassette.

Problem solved!

 

What to do next is grab your DD head and the smaller spring-loaded piece, the one on the far right in the above image. Later on you'll press on it to expose the little hollow... thing where the screw goes in.

 

Hold the tube part to the bottom of the head. The VHS screw goes into the tube and should fit into a hole at its end. Use your screwdriver to get everything into place.

 

 

Position the spring-loaded piece inside the DD head so that when your press its top button the little hollow insert pushed out through the neckhole.

 

 

 

Screwing everything in is kind of tricky; it helps to have two people working together. (I noticed these photos photos are somewhat blurry, probably because I had only one hand to hold my phone.)

 

 

Voila! Now we put the head back on the skeleton, and it fits into place like usual.

 

 

The only issue I took with this was what I call "Giraffe Neck Syndrome." I hope to correct this by actually modding the neck down. Perhaps there will be a tutorial part two?

 

I hope this helped anyone who has or is looking for the Obitsu 65cm male body. :3

I have several 65cm male bodies and have found removing 1cm from the top of the neck vinyl (and neck piece) remedies the over long neck look.

(Sorry, can post pictures or links yet.)

Thanks for the input! I'm hoping that the DD head will sit alright on the neck after being trimmed down.

(You'll get your privileges soon enough!) ;D

If that's a DD head in your photo, you might have to do a little nip and tuck to get the neck to taper into the base of the head nicely. The depression at the base of the Visuadoll 65cm head looks like it might be a bit bigger than the same place on the DD head and hides the neck mod (mostly).

K2 is the best vinyl doc and he knows a lot when it comes to obitsu's/dollfie dreams etc.

I'm learning from the master! *_*

K-2, teach me your ways!! xD

Here's the tutorial I posted on Dollieh Sanctuary in May 2013.

 

Currently there are two versions of the new Obitsu 65cm male, the stock version (right), available from the Obitsu online shop and the Visuadoll version, (left) Takeshi Oda.

 

The Visuadoll version has an odd head to neck connection involving a leather cup and a larger than normal hole in the base of the head rather than the conventional rounded hollow in the bottom of the head like all other 1/3 scale Obitsus.

 

This arrangement allows Takeshi’s head to sit lower on the neck, while the stock body and head have more of a “watermelon on a fence post” look. The stock head doesn’t look properly grounded on the neck.

 

To remedy this, we are going to shorten the stock version’s neck. The tools required are:

 

1) A hobby size back saw. A simple hack saw blade can be substituted but the thinner blade of the back saw is better.

 

2) A sharp xacto or similar hobby knife.

 

3) A soft pencil for marking plastic and vinyl.

 

4) A measuring device, tape or ruler.

 

5) A small piece of fine sand paper or small file.

 

6) A hair dryer (optional)

 

First, grasp the head from the back, just below the ears and squeeze. With a slight back and forth twisting motion, pull gently upward to remove the head and neck piece.

 

With the head off, measure down from the top of the neck vinyl about 1.2cm. Make 6-8 such marks around the neck.

 

With the Xacto, remove the top of the neck vinyl by cutting slowly from one mark to the next. If you are more comfortable you can connect the marks with your pencil before cutting.

 

Next we need to shorten the neck piece so it will fit farther down into the neck opening. Measure up from the bottom of the neck piece 1cm and with the back saw remove the lower portion of the neck piece, cutting below the 1 cm mark.

 

You can rest the neck piece for cutting on a table edge as shown but place a piece of thick cardboard like the back of a pad of paper or scrap of plywood underneath so you don’t cut into the table top. If your head already has a face-up, you can use a clean piece of cloth or a paper towel to place over the head while cutting the neck piece. If you are more comfortable (and don’t mind braving reinstalling the neck piece) you can remove the neck piece before cutting. Use the hair dryer to warm the area around the neck piece for easier removal and re-insertion.

 

With the sand paper or file, de-bur your cut on the neck piece.

 

If you removed the neck piece, reassemble the head and neck piece and put the head/neck piece assembly back on the body, making sure to tuck the top of the neck vinyl into the cup/recess in the bottom of the head.

 

And you’re done. Now the stock head sits more comfortably on the neck.