Proving To Be A Pain In The Arse

This is Scott, sometimes Scottie (a nickname he hates), and he's an April Story Raven.

He's also currently proving to be my doll-based thorn, as he's turned out to be more of a ball-jointed noo-doll than he is a regular BJD.

When he arrived the poor sod couldn't sit upright, and had to be propped up by Tay until I could take him apart.  When I did, I found that his upper thigh parts had been put on the wrong sides, so rather than catching on his hip and holding him upright, they were actively pushing him back down.  His arm parts were the wrong way round too, so his elbows didn't fit together.

I still can't decide if it's his lower arms that were the wrong way round, or his upper, because only one part of him has been L/R labelled that I've found so far, and it was one of his knee joints (but not the other).

Either way, even after I restrung him (twice) and tightened up his strings, he still couldn't stand unaided.

So I inexpertly sueded him with a cool-melt glue gun, using a silicone wig cap that doesn't appear to effectively fit anyone to help smear the glue around (surprisingly helpful).  And it sort of helped, in that his hands and knees remain in place and his feet don't really wander off any more, but he still can't stand because although his knees no longer crumple under his weight, his feet won't keep him upright and he just topples forward instead.

So the next step, it looks like, is another restring and some wiring.  Which should be interesting because I have no idea what I'm doing.  I have no idea if there's a specific kind of wire that would work or if regular jewellery wire would (which I have plenty of, most copper- and some silver-filled, in various gauges), but... in a perverse way I'm looking forward to learning.

And his arms need restringing again, because I ballsed that up.

It's a bit of a disappointment he still can't stand beside Tay (who, being a Granado Evol doll, stands like a rock), but... I'm hoping we'll get there in the end.  I'm hoping that if/when he does I'll have this massive sense of satisfaction at how much I've learned just through him.

...We'll see, anyway.