I used to love Dragonball almost as much as I love Sailormoon, but this guy, as esoteric as fuck as he is, never left my mind. Like how the fuck do you create a character that looks like this? How?
So I’ve had this factory rooted Poppy Parker head I’ve held onto for awhile cuz a friend said they were gonna send me a spare Spectra body, but it’s been awhile. And turns out this body sent to me from Dolls Ahoy is a perfect match to the head so I figure I’ll just do a modern interpretation of Spectra and if/when the Spectra body comes I’ll switch it over.
Since Poppy Parker has a very distinctive type of face I just referenced a vintage Spectra face to place the colours. A thing I love about 80s dolls is how pastel and soft the colours are, and that there’s no black pigment in the face.
I’m glad to finally knock this off my list because I think something a bit more common and juvenile filtered through a high fashion aesthetic like Poppy Parker is a fun exercise and makes me appreciate both ends of the spectrum when it comes to dolls.
not 100% sure whether they will be part of the dr who universe(s) or who they wil be, but they’ve got their personalities sorted ;)
modding-notes:
both started from Serial Experiment Lain dolls that i had for more than 10yrs, like back when i first got into the hobby.
i swapped the bodies to @modernwizard because she likes the ninie bodies and i don’t.
one head had faded and the other had yellowed a scary amount. i repainted the yellowed one (because it was the paint on her face that had yellowed) and pinkened the faded one slightly.
they’re both on SnapStar bodies. why?
i had got the AA SnapStar because i wanted one doll with that size head to wear the few CW wigs i’ve kept, and i really like the facemold and screening on the Dawn doll more than any LIV i had.
when i got the AA doll, the body coincidentally almost-matched the Lain head i’d painted… so i discovered i just really like this combination, and did the pale one the same way.
they wear clothes from bratz, MH, pinkie cooper dolls, and mr.z zootopia action figures. they wear shoes from only hearts club and MC2
the finished dolls are 20cm tall and fit best with the 10inch (1:7ish?) scale action figures (the ones i call Smallerverse)
