Restorations are done
on a case by case basis and are subject to limitations on space and
time. Sometimes restorations are refused for health reasons, such as
massive sanding projects. I am usually commissioned to restore a
doll that someone wishes to keep and these are not placed on my
website for the owner's privacy. I also purchase dolls in need of
restoration to fix on my own time, to either keep myself, or resell.
If you are interested in having work done or selling a doll to me,
please contact me at buff at buffdolls dot net.
Batchix Alpha Machina - 2015
This girl was improperly assembled, and was painted and modified
in a scheme that is not my style. I pried all the gears off her,
then got to work cleaning her up. She was stained by the previous
paint job, but I was mostly able to remove it. I was able to see
that she was the 'lavender' shade, which I was really happy to see,
since I knew she'd look different than my other Alpha. I decided to
modify the helmet headcap and the sides of her head, to give her a
very sleek look.
Batchix Transformer 2015
This guy basically had the same problems as anything that is
handcast, with bubbles and various inconsistencies. After fixing all
the mechanics, making sure he could stand well, I did a dramatic
transformer-style paintjob on him and added car door wings. He is
pictured with another doll that is here for restoration as well.
Iplehouse Jessica sanding restoration
-2011
This Iplehouse EID Jessica in realskin was blushed and had her
blushing removed with acetone. The acetone reacted with the top layer of her
realskin, causing the white streaks that you can see on the legs and arms, and
repeated contact with the acetone caused the almost complete color change in the
face. She was then spray-painted to a flesh tone, and then to avoid rubbing,
hot-glued together in one position. We begin with some photos of the doll after
I had separated the torso from being glued together. The other pieces had been
pulled apart for shipping, but there was way more than the usual glue in them.
Acetone can be used safely on certain dolls, but I can say assuredly now that it
shouldn't be used on Iplehouse dolls.
I did a little test sanding, which worked, then proceeded to
sand, with super fine sandpaper, her entire body. This took a few weeks, but the
result is well worth it!
DOD Ducan
This Ducan had scars carved into his face, back, chest and
hands, one eye modified open, and then had been spray-painted brown. This doll
took a LOT of work to get back in shape again. I was forced to modify the other
eye open like the first, and because of the depth of the scars, I decided not to
do anything to them, but embrace them. I did clean them up a bit, though. After
removing all the brown spray-paint, which took forever, I proceeded to fix the
scars and give him body blushing and a new face-up. He turned out being rather
cuddly and a friend purchased him.
Orientdoll Vampire Il
This doll had just been modified in the head area. His nose,
cheeks and lips had been heavily modified and not particularly well either. He
also had sideburns glued to his head. The face-up was dirty. I continued to
modify until the job looked proper again, then gave him a new face-up. He turned
out really cute! He was sold.
Nanuri 07
This head had poorly done eye openings and two carved in
scars. One crosses the left eye, and the other came from the left corner of the
lips. I opened the eyes much wider, so that he was able to suit 18mm very
nicely. Then I carved in another scar coming from the right corner of his lips
to finish out the deadly Sicilian scar. Afterwards he was sold.
Lady Saiyuki Handcast Ted
This Ted was very poorly cast so that he was very rough and
had a TON of bubbles. He also had fit issues, because seams were left behind on
the joints. There were significant bubbles in his face, especially in the lip
area. His ears were like giant wedges of cheese, also, and the hands were very
clunky. He had also yellowed. So I took to basically sanding and dremelling to
remove the yellowing and the roughness, and also get a better fit at the joints.
The first few pictures show the condition he arrived in. Then the shots of the
leg piece show close-up how a rough piece was changed quite dramatically into
one that looks much more professionally finished. I had to use epoxy to fix the
issues with the lip, and somewhere along the way he became a she in my mind. I
did a lot of work on the hands, and of course the torso, as it had some huge
bubble issues. I also dremelled down the ears into elegant and lighter ears that
look like ears! She still has a few bubbles here and there, so she has not
entirely lost her hand-cast charm. But she is now much more aesthetically
pleasing and very happy in her new home.
Volks F-05
This head was purchased with epoxy mods on it. I removed the
mods only to discover that she had her eyes opened previously, and poorly, very
very wide and also unevenly. I decided to give her a bevel on the inside of the
head to support larger size eyes and then make her eyes even larger to match my
other Volks doll, Rio. She now takes 24mm eyes, and is quite a large-eyed
lovely!
Unoa Lusis Wink
This plate was a total loss. It had been drilled into, and
carved, and the wink eye had been opened to a different shape than the other
one. I decided to cover up the mods on one side of the face with a sculpey mod
mask that would cover everything on that side, and modify the chin and jaw to
sand the other carved place away. The mask is that of Ichigo, from Bleach.
Blythedoll Pyrite
This is an artist doll, by Blythedoll, called Pyrite. There
are only 5 Pyrites in all the world. She had some SERIOUS problems starting out,
including a popping belly joint, broken locking knees, ill-fitting joints,
rough-sanded joints and bubbles in the face as well as other places. I spent a
lot of time carving, sanding, doing finishing sanding, in order to get her into
shape.
Elfdoll June
She had some mods done to her face and was airbrushed oddly.
The body had the breasts removed, but the job was unfinished. I simply finished
up the chest mod to look like it was always meant to be that way. Then I did a
face-up to be androgynous and work as a girl or a boy.
CP Tan Lishe
Her face was damaged/modified, and I just had to fix the face,
which as you can see, turned out great. Now owned by my mother. ^_^
SOOM Tan Godo
What can I say...this guy was turned from a stunning limited
edition into a dirty mess by a previous owner. I had to clean him up, massively,
and fix his nipples. I've never seen a doll this dirty before, or covered in so
many smudges.
After: I fully blushed his torso, then ended up turning him
into 'Ra' from Stargate. He was also sold as a full set.
CP Breakaway on Abio Angel body
This doll was spray-painted brown. That was pretty much all
that was wrong with him, though it took FOREVER to get all the brown off. This
one was harder than the dye.
After, he was turned into my first 'full set' for sale, Vadim
the Turkish Vampire.
Volks Misia - Fall 2008
Doll was abused by a dremel tool. Her eyes had been gauged
out, her chest had been sanded off, an incorrect swaricco mod was carved, and
her nose was nearly gone. I was able to sand the chest smooth, and fill in the
swaricco mod, and had to carve down to give her a nose again, and lips. She has
been one of the most difficult dolls to save thus far.
After. She was sold to a new loving home.
Domuya Zen - Fall 2008
Pretty mild restoration. The body lacked hands. I simply
ordered some to replace them, and he was missing one ball in his foot. I made
one out of epoxy and it could barely be seen once the foot was in the standing
position. I worked hard to make him the sexiest Zen I'd ever seen though. :)
Serendipity ISMY - Fall 2008
This boy had his face-plate damaged by acetone, and then it
was crushed in a door jam, cracking the plate in half. The previous owner had
then lathered on some repair epoxy in the hopes of fixing the plate themselves.
I removed nearly all of their repair epoxy, fixing the cracks with glue instead,
between the breaks. I then repaired the eye with epoxy. In order to hide the
cracks on the sides of his head, I added demon horns. Then I placed a cross
between his eyes to conceal the crack running there as well.
After
Minifee Shiwoo -Summer 2008
Shiwoo was a sleeping head that had his eyes modded open to an
extreme amount. The tear ducts were almost obliterated, and the eyes were
obviously far too large, and there was no presence of eye beveling at all. In
order to fix him, I first did a thorough cleaning of his face, then I did a
mock-up of how I wished for the eyes to look in the end. That is what you see
with the yellow eyes. Next, I did the mod and reshaped the eyes to be sneaky and
alluring, then sanded, and finally a face-up. A friend of mine fell in love with
him at a meet-up and I sold him to her. ^_^
Customhouse Mars- Summer 2008
These are pictures during his restoration. I had to recreate a
hand for him, and restore his lips and eyes, which were poorly modified by a
previous owner. Overall, he took about 4 days to restore.
Dollzone Shengxi- Done in Summer 2008
She had been badly dyed, and a tattoo painted on her back, and
also a scar had been carved into her left eye and on the left side of her mouth.
The owner before me had done some sanding, but decided the project was too much
for her.
Her lips had to be modified to get rid of the scar and keep
things even, and her right breast needed to be sanded down to match the other
which had a previous reduction. Nothing would take off the dye besides sanding,
so that's how I cleaned her all up, and some xacto scraping to get the difficult
spots between the toes and such. All in all I estimate it at about 10 hours of
work, including the face-up, which actually went on rather naturally. She ended
up as a gift to my daughter, to guard her nursery, and as you can see, she loves
her!