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Yeah I'm back from the dead. So what's new? My family of course. I sold my Rusi head to someone and I got a Soom Dia head instead. Yeah Dia you say? LOL Yeah. My story with him is that I first saw one on the now dead dutch forum "Sweet Addiction. He belongs to SoftPoison. Back then I wasn't a member of DOA and still fresh in the hobby (I still am right? lol) so I had no idea how popular the sculpt was. Not that it matters. At first glance I liked Benji's (Soom Dia) style a lot but just couldn't get into his face. There was something about that face I didn't like. Until I saw how the face ups devolped and after checking flickr. Yep I'd fallen for him. Especially the lips (I'm not pro-botox) but I can say in full honesty I perfere a doll with mushy lips. LOL They're not people for macaron's sake so who cares if they have huge eyes and big lips. It's so much more expressive.
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To make a way too long story short: I got one from the MP on DOA. I originally could've gotten another head but the seller prefered to sell the full doll instead.

His face up is or was gorgeous,very professionally done but way too dark for my taste. I just felt him being out of place in my crew. Plus I always wanted to face up a Dia (in the one year I'm in the hobby loool) My idea is to make his lips lighter,his eyebrows thinner overal a more youthful appearance.

So that leaves me with one thing though: his body. 63cm is the way to go right? Not too masculine,I still gotta be able to get him some nice clothes without having to sweat putting them on.
He's yellowed quite a bit as he's from 2007. And has a nice rich yellowish tone,a bit diffrent from my Kiyoharu (Migidoll Jina)

Speaking of bodies, yesterday I sucessfully stringed both arms on the beyours body but when I tried to get the shoe lace out of the string the s-hook got detached and broke the resin hook on his hand. *Sigh*What's a person to do.

But Jonathan's getting a new body anyway so. From the company and not from the MP on DOA.
Not a Beyours body of course (I have a problem with the thin resin)

Last thing I wanted to talk about is Max. I hopelessly tried to give him a face up but failed.
I still think Ryu is the perfect sculpt for Max.