davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

Another pirate??!  You are going to have to build a ship for them; you know that, right?? 
I feel like I've seen this one somewhere before as I recognize the base.

Those Pinkys look like a crew you wouldn't want to mess with.
They actually made vampire Pinkys??

There was discussion back in Ye Olde Pinky Street Dayes (circa 2005 - 2009) as to whether the PK008 figure represented a "vampire" or a "yaeba girl." Yaeba is a Japanese word meaning "teeth," and exaggerated teeth, particularly canine teeth, became a Japanese fashion trend for a time.

I agree, if I continue to assemble or accrue pirate figures I should try to construct either a ship deck setting or a dim and smoke-filled pirate grog-house (The "Admiral Benbow" Inn). The display base for the WS018 figure was sold separately, cost in excess of $200 USD, and looked like an odd hodge-podge of a ship's bow, stern, and wheel deck.

A full-length deck model in 1/6-scale (suitable for action figure or Pullip dolls) would be enormous. A small pirate ship would be 25m (80ft) to 45m (150ft) long, or 160 inches (13 ft / 4m) to 300 inches (25 ft / 8m) long. 'Kay, that's not gonna happen -- although it'd be wicked cool! Maybe a 2ft square deck space would be more realistic.

There's a member on one of the action figure forums who is constructing a 1/6-scale Victorian-era steam launch using traditional boatbuilding techniques and powered by a live steam engine. His machine-shop skills and woodworking talents are almost beyond the comprehension of my feeble little mind:
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t...eam-launch
I wish I had machine-shop skills (I mean - fabricating machines that work from hunks of metal!) and true craftsman-grade woodworking skills (how many years would it take to learn that? More years than I have left, I'm sure.).

Anyway... I opened that box:

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11 January - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Pirate World: Spirit Captain Aisha

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War Story WS018A Pirate World: Spirit Captain Aisha 1/6-scale action figure.

In some online descriptions the name "Aisha" is replaced with "Elsa."

The stock body is of poor quality, not far removed from "dollar store" Barbie knock-off bodies, with a large visible gap at the shoulder joints, so I replaced the original body with a Jiaoudoll 10E (the only body I had at hand) flexible seamless body. To my surprise, the costume fit the Jiaou body.

(The stock body was similarly "busty" in appearance, so no, I did not intentionally enhance the figurehead-esque figure.)

The original costume design has the purple cloth sash on the outside of the faux-leather jacket, but I put the sash under the jacket -- accidentally at first, but I decided I preferred it that way.

Accessories include a sword (of course), a telescope, a pistol, and (not pictured) a compass, a small bird (a cockatiel rather than a parrot), and a plastic treasure chest and plastic gold coins.