Hideo: Update
Apr. 19th, 2008 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiyakotari
I wasn't feeling well last night, so I called in sick to work, which kinda sucks, but also let me sleep. Still a bit queasy today, but mostly better, and I took the opportunity of a full night's rest (almost) last night to get some more work done on Hideo.
She now has all six of her arms. The newest set is strung a bit loosely, which I think I'll need to fix - the knot shifted and the elastic is not quite even. But overall, she's working well. I'll definitely be wiring her arms, though. There are just too many of them to keep track of when posing her to make it really practical when they can still snap into new positions without warning. The new added weight doesn't seem to have made the ankle issue any worse, which is nice. She can stand unaided, but it's a bit iffy on carpet (she's fine on solid surfaces like tables and linoleum), so I think I will end up hot-glue sueding her ankles and hips after all. The arms also look much more balanced, now that there are extras on both her front and her back. I think she's also gotten much more spider-like, as opposed to simply looking like an attempt at one of the various multi-armed Hindu deities, like she did before. This is good.
Here's a shot of something the back arms can do, where they come up over her shoulders, which even I admit looks a bit creepy, in a cool sort of way. Also makes me think very strongly of the way a spider's legs function in relation to its cephalothorax. Which amuses me.
Here she is standing unaided on a table in the living room at the apartment. Not bad, but we can do better!
Here you can see what the arms look like when they're all straight down at her sides, and the reason I didn't put them all in a line down the side of her torso. I wanted them to be able to lay almost-flat like this.
I still have some work to do, like finishing the genital mods and wiring and sueding, but the hardest part is done now. Restringing her was surprisingly easy, even with this many arms, and only took a bit longer than restringing a doll usually does for me. Would probably have been even faster if I'd had someone to give me a hand with it at a few points, rather than using my knees and teeth. ^_^;;
(Again, sorry about the grainy pictures - I still only have standard Windows Paint on this computer. I really need to fix that.)
She now has all six of her arms. The newest set is strung a bit loosely, which I think I'll need to fix - the knot shifted and the elastic is not quite even. But overall, she's working well. I'll definitely be wiring her arms, though. There are just too many of them to keep track of when posing her to make it really practical when they can still snap into new positions without warning. The new added weight doesn't seem to have made the ankle issue any worse, which is nice. She can stand unaided, but it's a bit iffy on carpet (she's fine on solid surfaces like tables and linoleum), so I think I will end up hot-glue sueding her ankles and hips after all. The arms also look much more balanced, now that there are extras on both her front and her back. I think she's also gotten much more spider-like, as opposed to simply looking like an attempt at one of the various multi-armed Hindu deities, like she did before. This is good.
Here's a shot of something the back arms can do, where they come up over her shoulders, which even I admit looks a bit creepy, in a cool sort of way. Also makes me think very strongly of the way a spider's legs function in relation to its cephalothorax. Which amuses me.
Here she is standing unaided on a table in the living room at the apartment. Not bad, but we can do better!
Here you can see what the arms look like when they're all straight down at her sides, and the reason I didn't put them all in a line down the side of her torso. I wanted them to be able to lay almost-flat like this.
I still have some work to do, like finishing the genital mods and wiring and sueding, but the hardest part is done now. Restringing her was surprisingly easy, even with this many arms, and only took a bit longer than restringing a doll usually does for me. Would probably have been even faster if I'd had someone to give me a hand with it at a few points, rather than using my knees and teeth. ^_^;;
(Again, sorry about the grainy pictures - I still only have standard Windows Paint on this computer. I really need to fix that.)
