Hideo: In Progress

[kiyakotari]

Well, we've got two sets of arms so far. =D I'll most likely be making some changes to the balls of the upper arm pieces for the new set, just to make them aesthetically a bit easier to parse, but so far they're working out well. The extra weight is making it a tad difficult to keep her standing, but some glue sueding in the ankles (or a pair of boots) and/or wiring in the legs should fix that. The arm additions took me about three hours so far. I'll leave her like this for a while, to get a feel for the new set of arms and how the jointing is working out before adding the third pair.

At the moment, Luke Alan's head is riding on her, since her head isn't here yet (hopefully it'll make it by around my birthday). And he's got his own wig on, which totally doesn't fit her character.

I still have to finish modding her genitals, too.

What do you all think of her body so far?














(Sorry about the grainy pictures - I don't have anything but standard Windows Paint on this computer yet, which means resizing = pixelation.)

Comments

[greenjudy.livejournal.com]

Hideo fills me with ph3ar.

But in a good way.

How is the tech so far? What kind of stringing scheme are you using?

[/fascinated, yet full of teh ph34r]

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

8-) Glad you like.

With most dolls, the arms are strung separately from the torso/legs/head (and with dolls whose arms AREN'T strung separately, changing the stringing to so it IS that way often solves all kinds of posing issues). Hideo is the same way. I've run three loops of elastic through her so far, and when she has the third set of arms, she'll have four loops. The extra elastic for this second set is lower than the elastic for the original arms, and set pretty snugly against the inner front of her torso piece. It doesn't interfere with the other elastic loops at all. The third set of arms, if I put them on the way I currently plan to, will be slightly higher up on the torso than the second set is, and set farther back, which should make the elastic sit against the inner back of the torso cavity and keep everything free to move around easily. This positioning scheme should also allow the arms to all have the most freedom of motion, and even to all lay flat against her torso without too much angling (the original set of arms should sit right between the second and third sets).

Posing her is going to be interesting. There are so many hands to keep track of already! I can't imagine what it will be like when she has six...

[greenjudy.livejournal.com]

Got it. Marvelous. You have engineer brains and can see the future + variations in a way that stuns me on a regular bassis.

I think Aiko is...rather a lucky girl. ^ ^

Hideo will come to Dollectable, yes?

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

Glad it seems like I know what I'm doing, because I'm totally making this up on the fly. XD

Oh, yes, Hideo is coming to Dollectable. Definitely. Not sure who all will be hauled along, but Hideo is a must.