disinterestedguy wrote:I signed up on these forums just for this lol.
Are any manufacturers making these types of dolls. Would love to get a Tiefling. Something along the lines of Alfira's horns and skin tone but with the base body and face of say Natascha from WM Dolls or Samantha from SE Dolls.
Custom skin tones are out there. There are quite a few variants of red, blue, and I've even seen a couple in various indigo bases. I've only seen 1 with a green hue thus far, and it was more of a sickly grey-green like you might see on an "grey (alien)" than an orcish green. That doesn't mean there aren't more out there, it's just what I've seen.
muesky6969 wrote:Hi Y'all!!
So some of you have already seen my Agares, demon/incubus extraordinaire. Agares is the beautiful darkness in my avatar, but I will post a picture or two. As Seagull mentioned, I am working on giving him a tail. Well okay, it is on the To-Do List. Right now I am focusing on weight reduction. So unfortunately, it is going to be a bit before I get to attaching his tail, but when I do I will post some pictures.
As for the tail, I have toyed with a few ideas. Detachable, magnetic or permanent, ultimately I am going with permanent, and here is why. I could mount an attachment on his skeleton, since I will be cutting him open to add the hollow insert to get his weight down, but then I would run the risk of moisture getting into his body and causing a mess. As for magnets, the neo-size and weight that you would have to mount in the body to make the tail stay on are huge and expensive. you also run the risk of ripping the one mounted in the body out, if it is not connected to the frame. Of course mounting it to the frame is easy enough to do, but you have to make sure you get the right size magnets, or it won't hold the tail on, and all you work was for nothing. Or you will have to go in and add more magnets.
For Agares' tail it will actually be covered with TPE and grafted onto his body after mounted to his frame. I am going to use a metal pipe split long ways (trough style) to mold the two halves of the tail that will have a metal wire, wrapped in gauze, embedded in it so the tail will be prehensile. The end of the wire will be mounted to his skeleton, but will have a pvc housing so the wire doesn't rip through the TPE. Sorry I don't have the designs written down, it is all in my head, but if this is something you want to do, let me know and I will walk you through it.
The reason I am using metal pipe for the tail mold is I decided to go with hot processing because it will be much cheaper and less toxic overall then going with the cold processing. To cold process the TPE, it will take a gallon of the 3M tape primer and that is currently around $200. For hot processing I already have a non-stick electric fryer/dutch oven, I don't use do no extra cost.. Once the tail is attached and soldered to the frame, I will close him back up and then using TPE paste, heated spoon, etc. and adhere it to his back so it looks like it is part of him. Then I am going to hair punch the end of Agares' tail like a lion's. Actually it is not going to be nearly as hard as the weight reduction process, or when I first grafted his ears.
I had looked into buying the TPE for Agares tail but the manufacturers treat this stuff like gold and want to charge $250 for 6-7 kgs of TPE, but since I will be removing about 20-30lbs of it when I scoop his chest cavity, abdomen, thighs and ass out, I will more then enough to make his tail.
So if you are wanting ears that are more animorphic, that is actually not hard, you will just need to cut the human ones off. and either mold or sculpt whatever shape you want and graft the ears with cold welding using TPE paste, on the top of their head. The other option is to mold them and mount neo-magnets in the head and the ears. Here is the thing when working with neo-magnets, you are going to need to get yourself some aluminum spoons, or strips and mount handles for heat sculpting, because steel spoons, etc. will rip the magnet out of the skin to attach to the spoon or whatever you are using to heat sculpt with.. Yeah don't ask me how I know this.. I made some aluminum heat tools with handles and they were pretty easy and relatively cheap to make.
In a couple of months I am planning on ordering another doll in a custom dark red color. He will be getting horns, pointed ears and a tail, as well. Still toying with the idea of making cloven hooves but I am worried about balancing issues, so I don't know if that is going to happen or not. Still got so much to do on the dolls I have.. LOL!!
Please do post build pics as you can!
Excellent point on the the ferrous plate ripping through the flesh if it's not attached to the frame.
I'm curious what kind of wire you plan to use, and was wondering if you'd thought of something maybe a little more robust like a bit of gooseneck like you'd find on some lamps, phone/tablet holders, and microphone stands. Since they typically have cabling running through them that could give you the wire you need (depending on gauge) to affix to the skeleton itself.
My initial thoughts for custom ears were to start them the same way I used to back when I was doing stage/theatre makeup and effects. Little bit of screen/mesh, or cotton batting/gause, liquid latex to make a positive. Make a negative from the mold, pour silicone in the mold and have a positive ready to go. Add some invisible elastics to hold it in place if you don't want it to be permanent.
rubherkitty wrote:disinterestedguy wrote:I signed up on these forums just for this lol.
Are any manufacturers making these types of dolls. Would love to get a Tiefling. Something along the lines of Alfira's horns and skin tone but with the base body and face of say Natascha from WM Dolls or Samantha from SE Dolls.
Welcome to TDF!
If you want to make a bunch of mods to a doll, go with silicone.
You can make a mold, cast the parts in silicone and glue onto the doll. You can paint silicone w/a silicone based paint as well.
Rubherkitty, thank you for stating that so plainly. I'd come to that conclusion myself, but it's nice to just see someone else say it so succinctly.
Also manufacturers of silicone dolls are more willing to make the dolls in custom colors. Since I am wanting a doll in dark red and another in true black, it maybe something down the line. 
