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Smart Doll – Wersaze Silicone Soft Bust Review

April 5, 2016 Anime Shutterbug 11 Comments

Soft squishy boobies for my Smart Doll?? Yes they now exist! The company Wersaze now makes a silicone bust specifically for smart doll similar to the popular Peach Pai for Dollfie Dreams. I am among the first to pick one up and after trying it out for a couple weeks I have a great review for you guys. The official smart doll busts are very nice but one of the great things with a soft bust is that you can squish it into tight clothing and have a push up cleavage effect. This also lets you use a wider variety of clothing sizes as it doesn’t need to fit 100% perfect since there is now some give to the bust. I’ll let Mirai show you the finer details herself. For reference before Mirai changes into her new silicone bust, she is wearing her official large smart doll bust.

This bust is roughly the same size as the smart doll large bust, and its squishy! You can see in the next pictures it has an internal shell that keeps the inner skeleton from harming the silicone. Also it keeps the jelly-like implants from coming out of the breast area. Compared to a peach pai this is a little more firm and has a bit more spring to it when you squish it. If you keep tight clothes on them they expand back to normal size very quickly.

Here are some shots of Mirai with her large bust on, then some similar angles of the new silicone bust. By the way I painted the Smart Doll bust myself using pastels, though I think I oversealed it since you can see a little bit of clear specks from the sealer. Oh well it was my first time =p

If you are looking at the photos in high res you will probably notice the silicone bust has some dust specks on it, it came like this in the package. Unfortunately silicone does attract does very easily and needs to be cleaned once a month if you are keeping your doll out on display. The bust needs to be rinsed off with water, though this causes the silicone to become almost sticky. You then need to lightly powder the bust with either baby powder or corn starch which gives the bust a smooth clean look and makes it not sticky.

Now for the fun part, see how they squish!

The skin tone is not a perfect match but it is close enough. I tried to keep this photos as nearly raw as possible, minimal editing, to show you the true colors of the product.

Mirai is modeling her new outfit from TC Doll, an amazing doll clothing maker that I highly recommend. He makes clothes for DD & Smart Doll girls with an emphasis on sexy, as you can see =)

Overall I really love this bust! The versatility you gain by having a soft bust and being able to wear a bunch of different clothes that may not fit exactly right on a solid hard bust is huge! This bust is very well made, the seams are not very noticeable and the inner shell gives a great protection that the Peach Pai is lacking. The silicone seems sturdy and so far has shown no signs of ripping, of course you do need to be more careful with it than with a normal vinyl bust. The only trade-off for the great look is the cleaning maintenance and the fragility of the silicone but as long as you take care of it properly you shouldn’t have any problems.

As always feel free to ask me any questions you have and follow me on social media as I update those much more often! Thanks for reading!

Dolls, Shia Flatpaddy

My First Dollfie Dream Shia Flatpaddy Arrives!

March 14, 2016 Anime Shutterbug 13 Comments

Well first off I know it has been quite a while, sorry! I was kind of waiting for all Shia’s parts to roll in and there were a few complications but she is 95% complete! I feel like a custom doll is almost never “done”, or if you do reach that point it takes a lot longer than you think. So I decided she is complete enough to be shown off! =) Here is Shia Flatpaddy my custom Dollfie Dream!

She is gorgeous as you can see! I did not get the ears / tail yet but I am having them custom made and should be getting them this week. The wig I am still fighting with styling, it kind of likes to just go where it wants to and will need some work. Since I am using a SQ-Labs head which is actually slightly smaller than a DD, i shouldve gotten the next wig size down which would be a 7-8, instead of the usual DD size which is 8-9.5 . So unfortunately this wig is slightly too large, I am going to try using a silicone wig cap to bulk her head up a bit and see if that helps. It’s not terrible but its something I want to eventually fix.

I am really happy with how her faceup / wig / eyes interact color-wise. It really is a good pairing and is pretty true to the original character she is modeled after, created by the artist Syroh. His artwork has been a favorite of mine for years and you may already know this from my previous post about Shia which details my creation and ordering of parts to make this doll.

I did make quite an error in not realizing the head I ordered from SQ-Labs was actually in white skin, and the DDdy body & peach pai plus were both in normal skin. Though its not super noticable you can see the skin tone difference. I will eventually be looking into getting a white skin body to match as I really like the tone of the head and would rather keep her lighter skinned. Of course there was only 1 model of pure white DDdy ever made which is White Christmas version Alna. This is kind of a rare doll and just to get her body would be pretty expensive… oh well it’s something to look forward to eventually. This body can always become a new girl =)

I really am just in love with this girl even with the flaws that are my fault. Her face is just perfect, really love the sculpt and the faceup is just a perfect cheery / cute loli! <3 I of course will be taking lots more pictures for you guys and I wont take 2 weeks to post again I promise! Getting into the Overwatch beta has been very disruptive to my life cause it’s so goddamn addicting! lol

In closing I would like to say if you are thinking about making your own custom doll and you are really getting into using different vendors, custom parts, etc. , like I did. Then you need to double and triple check every part to make sure it is compatible and to make sure its all going to match up the way you want it to. It can be hard especially since we need to order from sites in other languages just go get what we want sometimes, but you can always ask me or ask the helpful folks over at dollfiedreams.com to help. Here are a few bonus pics of before her proper wig arrived, she was wearing the extra silver wig I had lying around, and she actually looked damn cute in it! These are the kind of random pics I usually post on social media so follow me for more! (btw Shia’s ass is a bit bigger than Mirai’s and she ended up ripping a few stitches out of these shorts..)

Dolls, Mirai Suenaga

Mirai – Casual Bikini Top & Jeans

February 28, 2016 Anime Shutterbug 5 Comments

It’s been too long since I spent some time with Mirai taking photos and even though it’s winter here you can never go wrong with a bikini top! She is wearing the Smart Doll default jeans and this bikini top is from M+V Studios on taobao.com. I have been keeping the XL bust on her lately but honestly it is hard to find things that fit it well besides a bikini or loose fitting lingerie. Typically a Smart Doll will fit into clothing made for a Dollfie Dream Dynamite when using a M or L bust, but since the XL kind of slopes downward more naturally it ends up not looking as good. In any case soon I will have a custom made silicone bust for Mirai similar to a Peach Pai and of course will have a full review up on here. Anyway lets get to the photos! =)

Bonus for scrolling all the way down, a few NSFW outtakes behind the tab!

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Slightly off topic, how do you guys feel about wig changes on your doll? I recently picked up a cool silver twintail wig just to mess around with. I put it on Mirai but I don’t know if it is that her eye color doesn’t go with the wig color or what, but it just feels weird! It almost makes it like she becomes a totally different character, she just doesn’t feel like my Mirai with it on you know? I think I will eventually get Mirai’s official alternate short style wig but besides that I don’t think wig changing is for me. Maybe if she was going to go full out cosplay and wear an anime outfit but that’s another story. Do you change around your dolls wig / eyes or just keep them the same?

Dolls, Shia Flatpaddy

Building my own custom Dollfie Dream – Shia Flatpaddy

February 18, 2016 Anime Shutterbug 14 Comments

I have been working on piecing together my next anime style doll for a few months now and I have finally confirmed my design and wanted to share! I am building a custom Dollfie Dream Dynamite which is a 1/3 scale ball jointed doll, modeled after a character by my favorite Japanese Doujin artist Syroh. Now this is just something I love about dolls vs figures because you can literally build any combination and get it to look exactly how you want. The chances of a doujin artists original characters getting any type of figure is next to none. Do you have a favorite character from a niche 12 episode anime that never got any good figures but you wish they did? You can build a doll to look just like it! The possibilities are really endless. So anyway here is my nekomimi Shia Flatpaddy that we will be recreating in doll form, she is just adorable! <3 <3

So where do we start? The head is the primary thing that really makes a character look the part and I found my head at SQLabs. They do a lot of great custom heads / faceups and the one I chose has little fang like teeth which are perfect since I am making a catgirl. This cost about 25K yen for head / face makeup / eyes.

Now we need a body, the Dollfie Dream line comes in several shapes & sizes and I chose the Dollfie Dream Dynamite body for its curvy design since Shia is a very voluptuous girl. I bought a body on Yahoo Auctions JP from someone who parted out a DDdy Miko for 25k yen which is a great price! So this is what our body will look like. (Miko pictured below)

While the DD Dynamite is pretty busty, Shia is a very well endowed girl so she needed something special. I got her the Peach Pai Plus, which is a custom aftermarket silicone bust made by Rajikaru and is pretty much the coveted grail of Dollfie Dream collectors around the world haha. They are made from custom molds designed technically for the DD2 older generation body do they do fit the DD3 new body with some slight modification. They allow you to have a more realistic bust that will squish and mold into clothing much better than just hard vinyl and looks great. A few examples of Dollfie Dream equipped with Peach Pai below. (Photo credit to bluebluewave on Flickr)

I found a wig pretty close to the style I need from Miruya.com , it will need a bit of wig wax and styling to achieve the exact look I want but I think it will be a good match. The pigtails are detachable too which is nice

For the ears I will be attempting to make my own with some felt like fabric and little fuzzy hair to stick out the middle of the ear. I got the inspiration for the ear style from my friend @kugapost on twitter. I will use magnets on the bottom of the ear that will have counterparts glued inside of the head, this will create the look of the ears growing out of the hair rather than being just a headband. The tail I will be creating with a fabric coated pipecleaner that will attach through a drilled small hole through the back that will tie around the center skeleton frame for support. It will be scary drilling into her but worth it for a permanent tail!

See a pic of @kugapost’s cute Mini Dollfie Dream below with her kitty ears.

So there is my custom doll progress, at this point everything has been ordered and I’m just waiting for it all to come! Now I need to pick out outfits… this might take a while lol.

As you can see putting together a custom doll exactly the way you want it really can be a hassle but how else could I recreate a niche doujin character in physical form? It took shopping around to a lot of different vendors, talking with all the helpful people on the DD forums, and a lot of planning but finally I can say this stage is done.

Have any of you built your own custom DD? Let me know if you have any questions about my custom Shia. I might in the future make a more comprehensive post listing all the resources I have found for DD parts and how/where to buy them if there is interest. =)

Dolls, Mirai Suenaga

Smart Doll New XL Bust Arrives! (NSFW)

February 12, 2016 Anime Shutterbug 8 Comments

Danny Choo put out a new Painted XL Bust which retails for 9900 yen and mine just arrived, woo! It came in the usual Smart Doll box with the bust in a drawstring plastic bag and a couple of cool looking Culture Japan cards, love that Chitose one!

Here is a comparison of the bust sizes, pictured I have from left to right, the small default bust, large bust, and extra large (painted). Unfortunately I don’t have the painted versions of the other sizes but it is not an optical illusion, the nipples on the XL are very pronounced. The XL bust is not just a larger version of the ‘large’, it has a completely different shape and has a much more realistic look under the armpit and flowing out into the curves of the breast. They are more sloped downward but spread out wider than the large bust. Also a notable change is the top of the neck hole is completely circular and flat as opposed to the original busts that have a more elliptical shape and are indented in the middle.

Here are a few shots of the busts on Mirai, sorry the angles are not exactly the same but you get the picture. Notice how the XL bust seems to sit a little better on the body not showing the gaps between the torso as much.

A few more shots of the XL bust in her mint green lingerie set.

Mirai’s default shirt gets quite a bit stretched out with the new XL bust but still fits fine, those nipples could take an eye out! lol

Overall I really like this breast shape better, the XL bust is not truly much larger than the large bust but has a more pronounced outward shape and looks a bit more natural. The large bust probably has a better form for a cleavage look but the XL is good if you are a fan of braless under clothing. I will be trying the XL out in more outfits soon so keep an eye out for the next photoshoot!

Do you like the XL vs the large? Let me know in the comments & please sign up for my newsletter =)

Dolls, Mirai Suenaga

Smart Doll Mirai: Mint Lingerie Photoshoot

February 6, 2016 Anime Shutterbug 2 Comments

It’s been a little while since Mirai had a full photoshoot and I think my photography skills have improved a little bit since the last one. Today Mirai is modeling a mint green lingerie set I got from Taobao seller M+V Studios. This outfit fits her a lot better than the snow bunny dress even though they were both designed for a Dollfie Dream because of the adjustable ties.

I shot this with only the natural light coming through the windows and I think it gave the photos a much more intimate feel.

What kind of outfits do you want to see Mirai in next? Let me know in the comments =)

Dolls, Mirai Suenaga

Snow Bunny Mirai Wallpaper

January 25, 2016 Anime Shutterbug 1 Comment

Hey guys! I was messing around in Photoshop and made this wallpaper and thought I’d share =)

Dolls, Mirai Suenaga

Snow Bunny Mirai

January 23, 2016 Anime Shutterbug 7 Comments

Well I was planning on doing a shoot with the sailor outfit next but Mirai’s cute little bunny dress seemed fitting for all the snow we got up here. I got this outfit off M + V Studios along with a bunch of other stuff which I will be showing you soon. Finding Smart Doll clothes can be a pain since it’s a new doll and doesn’t have a huge following like Dollfie Dream. A lot of Dollfie clothes will fit Smart Doll but you have to be careful with tight fitting clothes. I am really happy with this outfit though,it is very well made. The interior is all white lined and the outside feels like a nice fluffy blanket. The back of the dress has a white zipper that seems pretty sturdy. The dress was a bit tight on Mirai, in fact I had to change her from her usual large bust to her small bust to get her to fit.

Enjoy!