Sorry, been too busy to work on this, but I have a few more updates. First, I decided to make a hollow, hard shell torso because I hope to do an animatronic version someday. It'll need to be rigid and hollow to house the electronics. Sorry I didn't take more pics of this. I carved it out of foam, covered in bondo, sanded, smoothed, yada yada yada:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_torsocarving.jpg
Made a mold:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_torsomold.jpg
There's some detail on the back of the battery compartment door that I decided to build into it so I don't have to scratch build it on every door I cast. I made a 2 part mold using the existing door mold I had as the first half of it. It's meant to be propped at an angle when pouring for proper air release:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_doormold.jpg
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_doormold2.jpg
Now the battery compartment is molded solid into the back of the doll. Mating it with the cloth body was never very structurally sound and tended to warp the thin resin parts.
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_hardshell2.jpg
I also created these handy stubs to attach to the shoes and hands so the cloth legs and arms attach easily:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_stubs.jpg
This is what the cloth leg looks like attached to the shoe. I also added socks because the CP1 doll had socks:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_sock.jpg
I also got a few resin parts from Coinprop. First, because I wanted to make some adjustments to the casting and it's impossible to rework the rubber. Second, the urethane rubber parts yellow over time. While this is accurate to the screen-used dolls (some of them look almost brown today), I don't want my doll to turn amber colored in a few years, so I'm opting for resin parts.
In regards to the adjustments, I generally cleaned up the cast all around, but I also made a major adjustment to the neck. The hero dolls' necks tapered in at the bottom, but for some reason, Coinprop's neck flairs out (either it's compressed over time or it was something characteristic of the background dolls). Whatever the case, I made the adjustment to the neck and extended it slightly to fit my hard shell torso:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_neckadjust.jpg
Here's a comparison of the old neck on the right (you can see how it bulges out towards the bottom) and my newly adjusted resin head on the left (tapers in at the bottom):
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_neckcomp.jpg
Here's a shot of the new resin head finished (but it still has the old wig. I haven't put the accurate NFT hair on it yet). There also a picture of all three dolls I currently have:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_resinguys.jpg
The one in the back is the old cloth body doll with rubber head and the two in front are resin heads with hard shell torsos. The clothes are still the original prototype set I made. The collar was meant to fit the old neck, so you can see it's a little too wide for this doll. I made two more sweaters and on these I corrected the neck:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_newsweaters.jpg
He's still wearing the old overalls though. Lastly, I finally tested doing the silk screen transfers on the laces:
http://www.ryannagata.com/files/gimgs/32_laces.jpg
