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BJD - Wip parts - steampunk. BJD - Wip parts - Steampunk. Sculpting, casting, stringing. Again I made a basic form this time out of tin foil (again covered in press and seal so the sculpey wouldn't stick) )for the torso and sculpted away!

Sculpting, casting, stringing

To keep thinks looking smooth, I sculpted all parts in full. So for example rather than trying to sculpt the top part of the torso and the bottom repeatedly, I made it as one full torso, put the soft sculpt in the freezer to harden, then with a scalpel cut the pieces in half with a horse shoe shape in front. This was then baked.

I pulled the separate pieces off the form, and started to hollow out the top part, and build up the bottom part to rounded dome make the torso joint (it looks kinda like the top of an egg!) I worked the same way with the limbs, only I used a chopstick as a form. Ball Joints As you can see in the first photo I attempted to build my own ball joints, but these didn't look so good. I carved them out and replaced them with good sized wooden beads, with a slit sanded into them with my dremel. BJD - The Mechanics. Part 3. Posted By Natasha Red October on October 2, 2010 Continuing from Morezmore #25 Ball-Jointed Doll (BJD): Figuring Out The Mechanics.

BJD - The Mechanics. Part 3

Part 2. I have some progress to report: My first ball-jointed doll is sculpted. Her name is Smita which means “Smile” in Sanskrit. Smita taught me a lot! BJD - The Mechanics. Part 4. Posted By Natasha Red October on October 29, 2010.

BJD - The Mechanics. Part 4

Make OOAK hair out of Tibetan Lamb fur. Posted By Natasha Red October on March 31, 2008 Day 22 (March 31, 2008) – continued from Part 2 More work in progress pictures can be found here: I put the hair on Fortuna and took pictures, it is drying at the moment, will style, take more pics and post them.

Make OOAK hair out of Tibetan Lamb fur

Hardly a tutorial, as I do my hair differently every time and I don’t have a “procedure” yet, but still something to give folks an idea of how to go about it. I get a lot of questions about hair, some folks even ask whether one needs to cut it off the pelt or just put it on the doll with the skin. All right, here we go: How to make OOAK hair out of Tibetan Lamb fur 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The Fabri-tac glue is kept on a piece of paper throughout the whole process (a drop at a time, as it dries quickly).

Pick up a bit with a toothpick (in a scooping kind of motion), smudge over the end of the hair lock, plop the hair on the head, TURN THE TOOTHPICK AROUND AND PRESS WITH THE CLEAN END OF THE TOOTHPICK. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. BJD - The Mechanics. Part 5. Posted By Natasha Red October on May 20, 2011 Continuing from Morezmore #25 Ball-Jointed Doll (BJD): Figuring Out The Mechanics.

BJD - The Mechanics. Part 5

Part 4 ————————————————————————————-May 20, 2011 I did the legs and, unfortunately, did not have time to do the description – Smita is my second BJD doll and is quite a learning curve. The legs took so much fitting and cutting and remaking. A quick tip on how to use TLS (Translucent Liquid Sculpey <a target="_blank" href=" Liquid Sculpey</a><img style="text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;" src=" ) to make the baked sculpt nice and smooth, to cover scratches from sanding, cover up fingerprints, small bubbles, tool marks and other small imperfections: Making a BJD with Allison Mecleary. Making a BJD with Allison Mecleary by Allison Mecleary is licensed under aCreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Based on a work at Here I will be documenting my process of making my porcelain Ball Jointed Dolls.

Making a BJD with Allison Mecleary

There are many ways of making BJD's, I will just be talking about the way I have done it and the references I used and learned from as well as supplies needed and where to purchase them from. I will be adding information as I go. Here is an outline of the topics I will be covering over the next several weeks. I also placed a discussion thread so we can chat about the process. Design Process Sculpting a BJD Making Molds for Porcelain Slip Casting Casting in Porcelain Cleaning Greenware Cleaning Soft Fired Porcelain Firing Porcelain and Test Stringing China Painting Sueding Assembling Making a Magnetic Wig DisclaimerAll materials and information are provided as is, for entertainment purposes only, and do not constitute an approved instruction. How to Make Noah's Doll [English] Ball jointed doll tutorial part 1 by *Deskleaves on deviantART. Ball jointed doll tutorial part 4 by *Deskleaves on deviantART.

Ball jointed doll tutorial part 3 by *Deskleaves on deviantART. Ball jointed doll tutorial part 2 by *Deskleaves on deviantART.