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Recasting in Porcelain
I never thought that porcelain artists would bother to recast a resin design, but apparently someone is trying just that. Short blog article by Marie Zeligen from Medium (sort of an aggregator of articles on various topics) https://medium.com/@mariezeligen/russian-fake-fcc9d719e151 (That is my Gneiss up there from Soom, her sculpt is one of the "recast" examples in the article). The goofy part about doing that is that the porcelain world overlaps the bjd world, so recasts are easily spotted--and porcelain needs different shapes than resin to be sturdy. Also the aesthetic is just different IMO. But it's something to watch out for as porcelains are so fiercely expensive (which is why I don't have any). Thanks to Cat for finding the article!
Beware, not all elves are equally useful
Reposted from Ilsonya's blog,( and run through Google's translator) a post by meeuw http://llsonya.diary.ru/ Monday is rarely happy with good news, and today is no exception. Trash in the number will be a little later, but for now - official communication from SPIRITDOLL . The office found that their Limit(ed) Dark actively butlezhat (bootlegged), therefore warns those who are going to buy it on the secondary market: the real dolls to be branded carrying a certificate and a plate on the back. In addition, Dark was never released in any other skintone than gray. In general, beware, not all elves are equally useful. Recasts (where people take existing dolls and make a new mold from them and then sell them as if they were the genuine product) are getting to be a huge problem, especially for people like me, who buy (or used to buy) mostly from the secondary market. I don't buy dolls from Ebay unless I know the seller, and even on Den of Angels I look to see that the certifica...