DD2 Forearm Replacement with 3D Printing

Hi All! It's been a while since I last posted in these forums but I wanted to share a recent dollfie dream repair job I did. Here's a couple images of the pieces:

 

 

 

I've been creating some dollfie dream accessories with 3D printing recently so I decided to take a shot at printing a replacement DD skeleton piece. Here's a couple photos of the part:

 

 

 

Originally I was going to do something fancy where the part clipped to the elbow joint but in the end I decided to go with the simplest thing I could think of, which was just having an interference fit on both the elbow and wrist parts. Here's the piece partly installed:

 

 

It takes a bit of effort to get the pieces together, which is okay since we don't want them coming apart. Here's the completed install:

 

 

The wrist joint is probably a bit tighter than it needs to be since it now takes some effort to rotate the wrist joint but it's not that big of a deal. Let's see what Misty thinks of her fixed arm:

 

 

 

 

Misty approves!

 

 

If you'd like one of these replacement forearms, I've put the model on my shapeways page at: http://www.shapeways.com/shops/dollfieliving

Wow, fantastic! What a great idea, and I love the little accessories too. Can't wait to see what else you end up making

That's incredible! And very helpful. It'd be nice if more replacement parts could be done this way, since Volks charges a lot... On things that I think that are flaws of their design. (Such as the weak shoulders.) Very cool, thanks for posting!

My next project is the MDD shoulder joint since my poor Rena has a broken one.

I'm sure if you made that available, many people would be interested! I have heard many "horror stories" about MDD bodies.

Wow, this is really great! Wonderful use of 3D printing, so creative! You can solve so many problems with this method.

very cool idea. your girl must be so happy now.

Awesome repair idea, it's great what we can do now. This sort of technoloy could likely be used to fix a number of problems