#I still have like 10 hours until it drops here 😔

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Custom HIOMAIKA(+Dex)

After months of getting stuff they're finally done! Got some nendo parts along with YMY dolls to make them real.

Before anything was done and Maika had her final clothes:

After the paint was done and Maika got her clothes:

To be honest I barely had to do much stuff in terms of applying epoxy over to make things or sand areas.

They still are far away from being perfect since they could have had way more sanding for a better cleaner look and the colors could have been better if I didn't try to keep touching them while they dried orz

Still, this is good enought to me!

Edit: huge thanks to @/chorva_art on twitter for recommending materials and possible faces that could be used for Maika I watched some videos of customs but if she didn't tell me materials or what could be used to do this stuff idk if I'd have gone through it at all lol

Materials used for the extra parts:

Tamiya Epoxy Putty (Smooth Surface), the one that takes 12 hours to dry;

Sanding Paper that I didn't use as much as I should;

Tamiya Primer;

Tamiya LP-43 (pearl white), LP-52 (clear red), LP-8 (pure yellow), LP-10 (thinner) and LP-65(rubber black);

Acrilex Thinner since i ran out of the Tamiya after making a mistake and using thinner without paint;

Acrilex Fixative Varnish (spray and liquid);

Super Glue;

Mini Oxygen Injector ForeverLily.

The colors weren't the best for painting hair since they are kinda better for cars in the case of LP-52 and LP-43, so any weird thing is due to that. However the effect that LP-43 and LP-65 gave when mixed for Dex's gray hair did have a nice result.

I also ended up breaking the mini oxygen injector's paint/liquid supplier because i dropped it twice in different days so this post will be a warning tale 😔

Hair styles used:

Maika: Nendoroid Doll Alice for the front and Eris Boreas for the back

Hio: Rider/Ozymandias

Dex: Luo Tianyi this wasn't on purpose at all I swear

MAIKA's clothes progress

Maika had parts of her clothes custom made by a relative since her outfit wasn't as simple to get by purchase only unlike the other two.

Dex and Hio's outfits can still get some accessories for a complete version compared to how they are at the moment aside their coats.

This relative can't draw so I had to help by drawing a reference and staying with them while they sewed to make sure it was what I had in mind for this.

Because of that it took quite a while since they kept remaking stuff until it got done in a way they liked and we could only do it once in a while. For the early photos the glovelettes were pretty much not used since we were still figuring out how that would work 😅

Maika's clothes have small snap fasteners to close them.

And here's final look for Maika's clothes:

How steps went by during these past few months:

Getting the hair parts → start sanding them → finishing Maika clothes → starting applying epoxy and adjusting more with sanding → priming → painting → varnish

Hair progress

Maika had to get her hair roll and some patching up to hide the headband of the back hair.

As for Hio he only missed his side hair and the slightly long hair on the side.

This is one of the areas that I didn't sand as much as possible so it could have been better, but since it barely shows up it didn't make a big difference.

His "long" hair part fell down so super glue was used to put it back in place. During the painting process his side hair also fell so, once again, super glue saved the day.

Meanwhile Dex had some big holes to cover, he was the first one to be "completed" from the first day since the main issue that had to be done was the easiest to fix compared to Maika's hairband and Hio's side hair.

These holes were what gave away that this was Tianyi's hair since either it was some long hair part that were attached to it or twin tails, which was the keyword used to figure out who was the hair donor 😅

There also were some holes in the back of the head so these helped a lot to make sure that it really was her.

Applying primer was ok without many issues ignoring that I didn't want to sand more, the biggest issues happened over the painting.

From the get go Dex was the only one who worked, I made some mistakes and wasted thinner thinking that I had it mixed with paint while it wasn't so he was the only one that didn't have any major issues during the first day of painting to the point that I went ahead an applied some varnishing. 🤡

Dex came out pretty ok, had to do some fixing with a brush and even after that paint more since I tested how he looked closed and he wasn't 100% dry yet so his head pieces almost got stuck together.

For the second and third day Hio and Maika's hairstyles got done with the oxygen injector becoming unable to use since each day I broke one of the liquid suppliers RIP. Fortunately on the last day it happened after Maika was done.

After this the spray varnish was applied and they were left to dry a bit. Fortunately everything was already sort of done so I didn't have much else to do...

Until I accidentally scratched Hio's head on the front and his front bangs ended up with a hole in it 💀 I tried to patch it up with oil pastels when liquid varnish was applied so it's not 100% noticiable as it was before it.

The liquid varnish was just to make sure that the heads wouldn't be sticky as some model kit and miniature painters/reviewers on BR YT and blogs mentioned Acrilex's pray varnish could leave stuff sticky due to temperature and other things, so that was what had to be fixed for the last stage.

And with that, here's the final result:

I'm pretty happy with how their hair came out. Maika's head is pretty easy to remove while the other two are hard to insert and remove, need to be really careful to not mess up anything while doing it.

Before finishing the post, here are a few notes for the hair styles and the doll bodies used:

Dex

Somehow was the easiest to get between the 3;

His main issue was actually the liquid varnishing that probably was way too much so it looks like he got glue on his hair, which I'm going to try to avoid touching as much as possible to not make it even worser;

Maika

Maybe applied way too much white paint after some mistakes that made me waste thinner;

Red hair is pretty dark compared to the photos. It's pretty close to the red of Sylvanian Families Cruising Car that I used as reference for this chibi art, so at least it's a really pretty kind of red;

Hio

His hair went from yellow to a more dark orange tone to this in the final result. It's far from his original hair color, however this is good since I couldn't really picture him with a super light blonde color nor did I want to make him closer to the original;

Actually the hardest hair in terms of applying epoxy putty since his side bangs had to be made.

YMY body:

The ver. 1 YMY has more knee articulation compared to the ver. 2. Both Hio and Maika use the second version and they can't sit on top of their knees like Dex. For an easy example it's like how Body-kun has knee articulation while Body-chan does not have that;

Ver. 2 has hands for both sides of the body while the ver. 1 only came with right hand for different hand types. Ver. 2 also got two chests that you can exchange (the one it came with and the alternate version);

Different stands. Ver. 1 has one similar to doll stands (straight stand, doesn't have articulation) while ver. 2 is more similar to nendoroid stands (3 articulation points). You can see them properly on the photos that came before these notes.

And here's a before and after the epoxy and paints were applied:

If you managed to get to the end of this post, I hope you liked it!

This took around 5 months to finish since parts started getting delivered, doing epoxy and painting took less time because a few things got done until 2 months ago. It was done for real 29/08/2013.

If someone with more patience than me does this they for sure can get better results than what I got so may this post help anyone who wants to have their own customs, if that's possible.

Also so sorry for the text and language mistakes, I tried to make some revisions to the first draft and make things a bit easier to understand as I edited this. English isn't my mother language either so hopefully this is all OK as it is. 😅

The doll seat they're using is a Calico Critters/Sylvanian Families one, in terms of seats their items work pretty well for this. A smaller doll type like nendoll probably will work a bit better, even if a bit big for other types of furniture (still not as big as this one).

#ymy doll #other #misc #custom nendoroid #even if it's only nendohair i'll use that tag #vocaloid #vocaloid maika #vocaloid dex #maika vocaloid #dex vocaloid #yohioloid #nendoroid custom #ymy body #ymy #this is also a post of what not to do when trying to custom. rip

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Diary #2 (So., 05.12.21) - Update

Hey Tumblr ✋ 

I wanted write something here more than one time in the last couple of days but I still have to get out of my comfort zone and so I didn't really follow through ✍️. There is not one particular thing I want to write about so I chose a really generic title for this one. 

The last days have been a little bit more busy for me than usual 📅. 

On Friday I visited my good friend C.. We stayed at his now flat and watched some football (soccer ⚽️) and also played video games. It was quite fun overall and we stayed up until around 5 a.m. 🕰. Before I could fall asleep another friend called me. He was staying at a bigger city a few hours drive away from our home town, where he studies 📚. He was drunk from the night out and we just talked for an hour which was quite fun. I wasn't really that tired anyway and it helped me to get more into the sleep mode 😴. After that I slept on an uncomfortable couch until 12 o’clock ⏰. After that we watched some more soccer and in the early evening he dropped me of at a group of friends and colleagues to watch the highlight match of the day. 

They were around 10 people and all quite drunk 🍺. It was fun even though I don't drink anymore. The match was exciting as well but after that was over I wanted to go home 🏡. But before I could do that one thing happened that really got to me for the rest of the evening. It is very awkward for me to write about this but I want to try and be more open about myself so I will try to get into it 😅. 

So ... before I left the girlfriend one of my good friends arrived together with another girl. They were standing behind me when I overheard a conversation of them. Apparently they were talking about looks and the girlfriend said that objectively her boyfriend was the prettiest guy in the room, followed by the guy right next to him 👨. This short remark was quite a sting for me. The background of this is the fact that I am pretty vain to be honest and I like to think of myself as an attractive man. So hearing her leaving me out really made myself question if that belief about myself is true or just a lie I tell myself because it is so important to me 😐. I am really unsure how to view myself and so this was not really helpful in boosting my confidence. I know inside that the (maybe biased) opinion of one person should not be taken to seriously but the way she said it made me feel really unspecial and filled me with self-loathing and envy for the better part of the evening to follow 😒. This is definitely something I should confront myself with because there is always that conflict inside of me that makes me appreciate my looks one day and then despise them the next. I can't really make my mind up and my shattered self confidence is keeping me from seeing the truth I feel. I probably need to get aquatinted with the fact I am maybe somewhat attractive but not really beautiful. This is really hard to accept for me since, like I mentioned before, I am really vain and looks are important to me. I just want to be special so much in this regard and every time reality catches up with me it really hurts 😔 . At the moment I don't think there is much more for me to say about this topic but I will keep trying to figure out a permanent solution for this matter. Anyway, after I got home I was tired and sad but I was still looking forward for today. Before we arrive here however there is another delicate subject I feel I should touch on before. 

Masturbation 🍆 💦 . It is a problem that has haunted me for pretty much 10 years now. As an important background information I should state that I have been circumcised at an early age way before developing an active sexuality ✂️. As I understand it now this really does have a quite significant effect on how men experience stimulation. I learned that there are two mayor differences between circumcised and uncircumcised penises. The first is the general loss of many very sensible nerve endings that are located in the foreskin. The second one is that through the permanent exposure the gland of the penis decreases in sensitivity a lot and becomes used to the sensation of touch because it isn't protected anymore. Some men claim this has influenced there sexual enjoyment heavily, some say it is not that much of a difference.  But for me I’m pretty sure that it is a factor for my problems. Since I started masturbating as 14 years old I have always had problems having orgasms that are actually pleasing. Most of the time they just felt so mediocre if not totally unpleasant and only on rare occasions when I feel very aroused it felt like ‘the real thing’. To this day I am struggling with this and I really hate it. On top of that I never had a great libido. I usually masturbated once or twice a day but sometimes I also stopped for a few days and didn't really miss it to much. My friends said they used to masturbate up to 5 times a day, every day and sometimes even more. This is unthinkable for me because I managed 4 at most and this was like super special day where I used drugs as well. This lack of lust so to call it is probably manly a result of my early downfall into depressive states of mind. Throughout the years this has also led to me developing potency problems and now I often struggle to keep a strong erection throughout the whole procedure. This feels really disappointing and I fear that it will never be normal again. Another point I should mention here is my sex life. We can keep this short: I never had one. Pitiful, I know. This is a topic for another block so I won't get into it right now. All in all I have to say that my experiences with sexuality have been quite negative overall and this is one thing that really makes me feel like I don't want to be myself. One of my big goals for the future is to try and change this sorry state for the better. Yesterday I felt a desire too masturbate even though I wasn't really aroused (a conflicting feeling I often have) and decided to just do it. I used only my imagination which is the best way for me to get aroused most of the time. I took more time than usual and stayed strong even though I had some minor drop offs in my erection. The orgasm didn't feel intense but overall I felt quite relaxed and happy afterwards which is not always the case. Some time after that I went to bed 🛏.

I was excited for today because a couple of friends and I went to play football in an indoor arena ⚽️. This is alway really fun and this is the only sport I take part in because I was never really a sports guy. I held what it promised and I had a good time. Usually I am disappointed in my performance but today I really felt happy with what I did and it felt so nice and refreshing to be surprised in a positive way for a change 😊. After that I got something to eat and played Billard with friends until the evening (a game that has always been more rewarding for me) 🎱. When we finished I walked home and had a pleasant evening. I believe that I was in a better mood today because of the orgasm yesterday. I feel it makes a lot of difference for my emotional state if I have a pleasing or unpleasing orgasm. I am alway thankful when I get to enjoy the feeling if everything works out. 

I’m also looking forward to tomorrow because it is the day of my hypnosis but more on that in the next days. Good night to everyone 🌌.