I want a particular limited BJD. There is a legit one second hand on eBay but she has been faceupped hideously and I don’t have any experience wiping BJD (because I only own one!) so I do not know how much extra work I’d be in for and if I should just hope to see one less… Like That.
I have always wiped resin with acetone, but I know many people don’t condone that–so, boosting for people who know!
Unless they did the faceup with Sharpie or something equally bad you should be able to wipe it with acetone or Windsor and Newton cleaner. I’ve seen some amazing recoveries from bad faceups, and there is plenty of guidance on YouTube and (if you have access) DOA. Go for your grail doll!
It’s claimed to be acrylic and pastels with Army sealant, which I’ve never seen anyone use. There are a lot of nooks and crannies and the doll is famously fragile, coming fresh from the company broken in many cases, so it would be instant hard mode to recover her. I feel a little bad because it seems they’re selling it like, “here’s my custom, buy my work,” and I plan on completely removing everything they’ve done if I get it.
I should still have my DOA account from a dozen years ago when I first discovered these and wanted one. It was hard to post, though, since I didn’t have one and never saw one in real life, so I didn’t have much to say and was just in quiet fascination, so don’t have the clout to do much, and definitely not marketplace.
I wanna seeeeeee. Rubbing alcohol works, too, if you’re worried about dissolving the resin, but takes more elbow grease.
Oh I think I found her. Yeah, that’s pretty bad…
I’d suggest whichever solvent you want and a fuckton of cotton swabs for that one…
For that inside paint, soak a cotton ball in your solvent of choice (for THAT I would recommend 90% alcohol so the resin isn’t harmed) and shove it up in there for a while. That’ll help break it up a bit.
You can also pull the swab part off of a cotton swab that has a paper stick and use the paper stick soaked in solvent to get into small spaces or scrub gently.
I’d offer to do it just to get to see her, but I’m clumsy and would either drop her or snap her in half.
Yeah, it’s…. yikes.
But I have a $100 eBay gift card and can’t find the whole doll anywhere anymore and I’m just like, “is this worth the work of undoing All That?” Plus that she was already broken from the company, so I’d be dealing with compromised pieces already.
I don’t know, I just found the doll Fascinating, like most everything else that comes out of DC and DZ, all strange shapes and savage elegance. When I was unemployed and lived with my mom I saw so many people trying to get rid of this doll and now all I see is this or just the torso, haha.
