Raven

Another forest creature, this time in a beautiful charcoal resin, with a blue black wig.

I will use feathers to dress her and my raven will be known as Twilight Thundermist.

The Black Resin Doll

I chose not to reply to each individual comment on my other blog, because I'd rather continue my honest and fair appraisal of the recast dolls I purchased. I am not telling or encouraging anyone to go purchase one, I am simply providing an opinion and understand that it is subject to scrutiny and objection. 

However, I must admit it may appear to some that I am being hypocritical by even venturing down the recast trail. One may think if I was curious, I should have purchased just one doll, but there were four different coloured resins and I wanted to see how each colour compared with the legitimate dolls I had in those colours.

No: 4

The one doll which I really wanted to look closely at, was this very dark charcoal one. Unlike the legitimate dark resin dolls, this doll has no seams showing, which makes me wonder if she was actually cast. Perhaps she is 3D printed or not in resin at all. I am not an expert in either and will leave that to those who are more knowledgeable about such things.

Personally, I'm not overly fond of the Popovy dolls as their elongated limbs and emaciated bodies remind me of people suffering from anorexia and I certainly would not like to experiment on a legitimate one, as their cost far exceeds even my own generous dolly budget. However, I do admit they make a great "clothes horse" and much like catwalk models, are wonderful to dress.

Furthermore, I'd like to think those critical of my four recast doll purchase, will take into consideration I have purchased well over eighty legitimate BJD's. More to the point, I hope those critics don't own any recast or fake dolls themselves . . . as the old saying goes "Those who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones".

NOTE: Legitimate Popovy dolls range from AU$1,200 for a blank doll plus shipping, up to AU$?? depending on what you choose (i.e. faceup AU$750, body blushing AU$750, eyes AU$75+, wigs can be from AU$750 to 3,000 ) and waiting time can be from 1 to 3 years.