{"id":1278,"date":"2015-01-06T19:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eternalwinter.org\/blog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2015-10-04T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T08:35:23","slug":"maintenance-getting-rid-of-loose-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/reference\/maintenance-getting-rid-of-loose-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance: Getting rid of loose knees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three of my Azone Pureneemo girls arrived with really loose knees and the other two are not as stable as when they arrived either… and I don’t really like that because it makes balancing them more frustrating. Sooo, I started thinking how with my BJDs I always suede them to improve their posing – although I prefer to use pliver instead of hot glue. But anyway – I figured that I could try sueding for my neemos too and when it comes to vinyl, hot glue is probably better so I went with that. I did this operation to Yumei and Kotone a few weeks back and now I did it to Kasumi, too… because her top-heavyness with the LL bust doesn’t help her loose knees at all, haha. xD I also took a few photos while I was it – in case anyone’s curious.<\/p>\n

First you need your doll, of course.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Take the legs off. They’re held by similar pegs as the hands, so you may need to twist and pull, but they should come off okay. At least I haven’t managed to break any of the three dolls that I’ve done this operation to, haha. xD *knocks on wood*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Prepare your glue gun. I use one that I bought from a local crafts shop. Let the glue heat properly, but be careful if it gets too drippy, it’s a bit harder to work with.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Apply a thin layer of glue around the peg. The glue got too drippy while I was distracted taking photos, so my work is very sloppy here, lol. xD;; Not a very good example… With resin dolls a lot of people warn not to touch them directly with the glue gun and use paper or something to put the glue on, but… I always stick the gun right in there, lol. Nothing has happened so far… it also didn’t harm my neemos. *knocks on wood again*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Reattach the legs. This angle is the best for putting the leg back on, in my experience. The glue makes it a bit harder to push the peg back in, but it should still fit, as long as the glue layer isn’t too thick. But it’s easy to scrape off and redo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
And voil\u00e1! You have a steady poser again~ ( \u00b4 \u25bd ` )v<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If I come up with any other tips for maintenance, I’ll be sure to post about those too. :3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three of my Azone Pureneemo girls arrived with really loose knees and the other two are not as stable as when they arrived either… and I don’t really like that because it makes balancing them more frustrating. Sooo, I started thinking how with my BJDs I always suede them to improve their posing – although I prefer to use pliver instead of hot glue. But anyway – I figured that I could try sueding for my neemos too and when it comes to vinyl, hot glue is probably better so I went with that. I did this operation to Yumei and Kotone a few weeks back and now I did it to Kasumi, too… because her top-heavyness with the LL bust doesn’t help her loose knees at all, haha. xD I also took a few photos while I was it – in case anyone’s curious. If I come up with any other tips for maintenance, I’ll be sure to post about those too. :3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azone","category-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}