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My Mini Baby.. Hair

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 In part one I talked about opening the babies eyes and mouth these thing I have seen other people do and were in part my ideas come from. Next up I want to give the babies some hair. They do come with painted hair and this looks fine but.. well why not?  1. FLOCK For this you first need to cover the babies head with glue, I have silicone glue in the hope it would stay on the head but I have not as yet tried it. What I did use just to see if it would work was Then I sprinkled the flock until head was covered left it to the next day then very gently removed the excess. Now what I did not think about was that silicone is static and draws any old mess onto it. So when I had done the doll was covered! (Bath time). So I thought I would try wrapping them in cling film. This sort of worked but when I removed the wrap any flock floating around still clung to the baby (bath time).  The Locktite 60 second glue looks to have worked, only time and play will tell.  After their ba...
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Walls and Wallpaper Part Two

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 If you are not interested in wallpaper you might want to move on to the next post. I use the doll to show scale and I have left in a couple of bloopers. My wallpaper collection started about 30 years ago and while I have thrown out a few I still have ...well a lot!   The picture below shows what happens if you use the wrong kind of glue. This is the type of paper you get for model railways and I did it like other papers using a boarder glue.. not such a good idea.   Below is another example of when things don't go to plan. This was a second use board and it just does not work. Not sue why this has gone two tone? It has been stored away from light?  So many more to add 
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