Teenie no.6

I now have as many Teenies as I originally planned to get dolls altogether... How did this happen?? Well, because Teenies are addictive. Stay away from them if you want to keep your wallet! :D

Anyway, meet Rigel, the newest addition, a human CW Skoll the Chess. I splitted the horns and the chess piece for myself from the option parts and I'm liking the looks of these horns. They won't stay on with only the default magnets though, since the fur wig is so thick. I have an extra pair of magnets these between the head and the wig, so that the strength is enough to keep these from falling.



No actual box opening photos, since I don't really like doing those. I just open up the package :D I have to say though that at first I was pretty astounded having found an MSD sized box within the shipping box. I thought they had sent me some Little Gem by accident :D But they apparently hadn't wanted to squeeze all the extras into a TG box, so they had taken a bigger one. I got the body in a default Soom pillow, then all the limited parts, wolf parts and the head in separate bubble wrapping.

To my surprise, the head was the original Skoll head, with the wolf ears. I had thought that the Chess version would have been a human head, but since they did offer the wolf parts as well, I guess it makes sense. It's just weird that one could have bought a NS wolfy Skoll, the exact same as the original MD, when Soom has been so adamant on not releasing the same thing twice. Well, the ears don't matter much to me, Rigel is not a full human abyway (horns, duh) and the wig covers them up anyway.

This was also my first contact with the newest Soom Teenie body. The doll came with loads of magnets, for the horns, wings, tail and the dreaded back plugs. I hate glueing in magnets, since I always fear they might go in the wrong way. And how the magnets just don't like to be kept apart at all... But I got the plugs in, and the horns on the way I wanted. But the back plugs weren't the 0nly new thing. I now own Teenies with three different kind of elbows :D I have the original single joint (not much range in movement), then the double joint (hate it, they just twist around) and the newest single joint, that seems to be working quite nicely. It has a new locking mechanism to keep the arm straight, but it can also easily bend enough for the hands to touch the doll's face. Can't hold the arm at 90 degree though, at least without sueding.

The face-up I did today and I'm quite pleased with it. I had all these ideas for the harlequin markings, but decided to go with the simplest design in the end, in fear of ruining an otherwise very nice face-up. Sometimes less can be more, right? The sculpt itself was very pleasant to blush. I can easily see how many different things could be done with Hati/Skoll, from grumpy, to cheeky (like Rigel miht have turned out to be) to sweet. This sculpt might have just gotten into my top3 Soom sculpts, with Bygg and Ai. I love Sweet, don't get me wrong, but the profile with the quirky nose takes away points... :P All the other three look very nice from all angles. Now I have to watch out so that I won't fall for multiple Skolls X(