To Heart HMX-12 "Multi" (VOLKS Dollfie Series)

[tasuke]

I have a couple of those Volks bodies and they drive me nuts because the feet fall off all the time. I generally try to keep them in boot so I don't have to worry about loosing the foot and shoe that's on it.

Boy, don't i know it. another issue is the spring spine design, which causes the torso to tend to want to arch backwards and rest at a pretty ugly angle.

i solved this issue, -on all three of my VOLKS EB Body-based girls- by disassembling them, and wrapping the springs in electrician's PVC tape
until they were thick enough to fit snugly through the abdomen cavity. this still allowed movement, but stiffens the torso, preventing it from slipping out of natural human posture.

i also wrapped the shoulder pegs in PVC tape, -JUST BARELY one revolution- so that when reassembled, -with pressure form the fastened screws-
you get a nice pair of shoulders with just the right degree of tightness in the joints.

finally, while there isn't much one can do about those ankle joints, you can superglue the separate C-clamp blocks to the feet,
so at least when the feet inevitably get pulled free, they come away as one piece per leg, rather than two.

in any case, i'm going to have to break down and get all three of them new OBITSUs one of these days. i figure the old 23 cm. ought to do them nicely...


at any rate, she's pretty much finished. there was excess mold plastic on the tips of her unfinished resin Ear Antennae that left an ugly gouge in each when cut away,
so i had to rework them slightly, with leftover GUNDAM model parts i had around, painting the finished tips pink, to echo the style of the ear control pods on the "Persocom" Androids seen in "Chobits"

http://chobit.wikia.com/wiki/Chii(Elda)

also, the original ribbon on her Sailor Suit blouse was no good at all, so that was replaced completely;