Tears under the arm
Tears under the arm
- jackrabbit
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1. small tears can be handled with the adhesive that comes with the doll, although it tends to harden up on you when you don't use it. I have used the adhesive a few times for Darcy (tiny tear in corner of mount, several fingers) and never for Taze.
2. larger tears would need the separate repair kit, which also includes more silicone. Be sure to order the right skin tone! I have the kit, but have never touched it because Darcy's tears have alway been covered by the adhesive and Taze hasn't had any.
3. major tears may require more silicone than is in the kit. You can get more from Abyss with another kit or silicone by the gallon, or so I've heard.
Hope this helps. Those of us with more recent dolls don't have as much experience with this kind of stuff.
I think you can repair this tears.
My idea: post some pictures of them, members will give you advice!
Tears can be repaired almost invisible.
I think, that if there is some stuff missing use a filler, if you can put everything together again and there's nothing missing then you can glue it.
More worse is a breast that is damaged.
Then you need to do recasting to make a good looking repair and that's quite a lot of work.
But that is not the case with your doll.
I think if you order a kit at Matt, and maybe its an idea to ask him friendly to enclose a silicone sample.
Then you have a little piece of silicone to experiment with and then you have some experience with the glue and the filler before you start repairing your doll
Good luck and I hope for you on a "Full Recovery!"
mytime
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- red_dragon
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Repair kit w/silicone "2-part" has a shelf life of 6 months. If you don't use it, you've got to throw it out.
Glad to see it mentioned that the 2-part can be bought separately. I ended up with like 3 tubes of adhesive...
Oh - how long before the adhesive dries out?
Also - try TDF Search with key words "arm tears". I know in the Old Doll Forum folks had to conduct these repairs and posted about it.
That is, assuming 0 degrees is straight down, and 180 degrees is straight up (a big no-no).
Oh, and also I'm wondering if it's safe to put the arms behind the doll. I've not let this happen - only a little more than how far back the mattress would allow. If the arms can go back 45 degrees safely, I'm thinking that might also help w/dressing.
Great to hear you have succeeded in fixing her!
Hope it don't happens again!
Inkling:
H'mm... moving ranges...
They should be set on paper and never be forgotten any more...
I think RD has less degrees of freedom as Loly has (Creators doll is made the most strange movement on his pictures).
Shoud be set on paper wat can be done and wat can't be done...
Maybe its an idea to fill the doll handbook with kind of stuff like that!
mytime
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