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Custom Printed Tony Taka Kotone Ousaka Duvet Cover [NSFW]

Wolfheinrich — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:00:04 +0000

It’s been a while since I got a chance to update my blog since the PVC figure sale posts, first of all I would like to thank everyone who participated in the sale event. Now, those of you who are following me on other social media stream like twitter and tumblr probably knew that I started an ambitious room renovation project, over half of the furniture that were shown in my OTACOOL room post and Culture Japan TV (in cooperation with Dannychoo) are getting replaced (with most of the funding being drawn from the figure sale! That’s like killing 2 birds with 1 stone!).

This huge renovation effort actually started from a casual conversation with twitter comrades yunamon and cyberchaos when we were chatting about the subject of custom printed dakimakura; and before I knew it, I came upon an online shop that only does dakimakura, but also bed sheet and duvet cover! I got so excited after conversing with the shop owner and decided to print something I have always wanted! And if I were going to modernize my room with this fancy duvet cover, I better upgrade my furniture along with it… so that’s how it all started…. Today, I am going to share with you a sneak preview of my room renovation and my first custom printed project featuring Tony Taka’s illustration Kotone Ousaka! I don’t know how to explain it but I had an overwhelming desire to make my bed properly when I woke up this morning LOL.

I personally own this Kotone Ousaka figure and the Tony Taka Collect 1 which featured this illustration, but there is no other merchandise featuring this absolutely gorgeous illustration… so when I heard there is a way to print this large scale, it took only seconds to decide on this!

This is the package it came in with~

This is what it looks like when folded up~

To give you a sense of scale… their standard duvet cover measures 135cm x 200cm, a little on the small side for North American dimensions but I was about to fit my comforter in it just fine.

And it looks absolutely huge compare to my lovely Saber Lily Dollfie! Guess what I am going to print next huh

Here is a closeup image, their printing resolution is 72 dpi but when blown up this massive scale their print quality is still absolutely top notch and can easily rival official printed product! And you can bet I had a pleasant dream last night! Originally, I was going to print a bed sheet but the shop owner told me that the Japanese standard bed sheet 145cm X 200cm doesn’t fit well with North American mattress (which is a true statement cause the North American spring mattresses are much thicker unless you are sleeping on foam mattress), he recommended me to print duvet cover instead which is an excellent idea!

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After checking out their excellent print quality on custom printed product, the plan now is to replace all the wall decoration I have right now with custom printing!

Have you ever wondered about printing your own specialized dakimakura/bed sheet/duvet cover? Have you been waiting for that special 2D girl to be printed large scale so you can decorate/itaize your room with but could not find any official product to buy? Well look no further because you can print whatever you want now as long as you have the image with proper resolution! For more information, you can visit the shop Hobby Heart.

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Connecting PSP Slim To PC with RemoteJoy Lite USB Interface

Wolfheinrich — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:37:26 +0000

As we are roughly a week away from the state side (USA) release of Fate/EXTRA PSP game, I have got to get prepared to play it. As many of you who are familiar with my habit must already know, I always play the game/watch the anime associated with upcoming Dollfie Dream daughters I planned to adopt, I did that for Brighter than Dawning Blue, To Heart 2, Fate/hallow ataraxia, Fortune Arterial, Fate/unlimited codes, Shining Hearts, and now I must play Fate/EXTRA since I have already placed the pre-order for Saber Nero Dollfie Dream Fate/EXTRA version. However, there is just this one little problem… I have never been a big fan of mobile gaming due to the fact that I dislike looking downward to a tiny screen… and holding gaming unit up seemed too tiring over a long period of time…. While PSP does has the capability of component video output to an external monitor, but none of my current monitors support that feature…. Several months ago, I attempted to look for a way to connect my PSP to my computer via the USB interface but that attempt failed to come to fruition due to the software and driver that were available at the time did not fully support my PSP Slim (and I couldn’t get Windows to recognize the PSP Type B usb driver no matter what I did back then).

Fast forward a couple of months, on this faithful Saturday afternoon, I decided to try my luck again because I have to start to play Fate/EXTRA pretty soon …. much to my surprise…. it actually worked via the latest version of remote joy lite and the PSP Type B driver!

Here is Airy chan showing us how the PSP is connected to my PC via the USB interface. Those of you who would like to connect your PSP Slim, you can find the latest version of Remote Joy Lite and drivers here. Upon extracting the files, you will see a folder structure like this.

Now, grab your PSP and put it in USB mode and place the RemoteJoyLite.prx in your seplugins folder, then create two text files called vsh.txt and game.txt with the following line in each of them

ms0:/seplugins/RemoteJoyLite.prx 1

Next reboot your PSP into recovery mode by holding the R button during power up.

Under plugin, enable RemoteJOyLite.prx for both VSH and Game. And with the USB still connected to your PC, exit recovery mode, it should immediately prompt you about installing the PSP Type B driver but if you have a Windows 7 machine, it might not let you install the driver because it’s not digitally signed.

Fortunately, if you are able to get to this step, we can still get it to work by forcing an update by highlighting the PSP Type B line in Device Manager and do an update to the driver.

Browse to the RemoteJoyLite\drivers folder you extracted earlier.

And Windows will complain about it, just ignore it and say Install this driver software anyway!

And success! Now you can launch the RemoteJoyLite Software and it will automatically connect to your PSP.

*Note* If you computer cannot recognize the PSP Type B device driver for whatever reason, you can install this application called pspdisp, which is an application that will allow you to share your desktop with the PSP, the installation package will be able to force the PSP Type B driver to install (you still have to tell Windows to ignore the the warning though).

Once the connection between your PSP and RemoteJoyLite is establish, do a right mouse button and you can access RemoteJoyLite settings… like enabling keyboard input!

You can even turn off your PSP screen off to conserve battery life!

I have a feeling that now that I have sucessfully connected my PSP to my computer screen, I will be more willing to play PSP games than ever before!

Reference Source: [Tutorial] Installing remotejoy liteSimilar Posts:

Operation Erika ~Dollfie Dream Erika Sendo Hair Cut Day~

Wolfheinrich — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:46:25 +0000

It’s been a little over a year since I brought Dollfie Dream Erika into my DD family; but I have never been truly satisfy with her this whole time, which partly contributed to her lack of camera appearances. The biggest problem in my opinion, was due to the way Volks designed her wig, in fact 3 out of the 4 members of my August Four, DD Feena, DD Estel and DD Erika all suffered this what can best described as “bad hair day” syndrome.

The official answer from Volks was that they planted some short frizzy hair underneath the top layer to “increase the volume” of hair; however I don’t think it ever really worked out well.

While I was able to find a replacement wig for Feena from the Mashiro Hakama set, I was never truly able to find a replacement wig that I like for Erika and Estel. They look ok if you are far enough away, but if you get close….

You are likely to notice the unusually thick volume of hair….

Compare to Kiriha, the unusually thick wig just doesn’t appeal to me very much…. (Honestly I have no idea why only DD Kiriha was able to escape the messy wig fate).

I even bought different wigs for them to try on, but I couldn’t find a wig that look close enough to her original wig… those of you who are familiar with my habit know that I want to keep my DD girls’ identity intact, so I simply can’t just get any off the shelf wig for her. I always felt bad that they never got the camera time they deserved… but in the back of my mind, I never gave up on them….

But today, I decided to put an end to what has been bothering me for over year. I put Erika chan next to me as I tried to care for her wig again even though it had never worked out the way I wanted … but as I looked more closely this time, I noticed there is a “definite gap” between the top layer of the wig and the frizzy layer…. I had thought about trimming the frizzy hair out before but I was worried that I could ruin the wig even further if I didn’t do a good job at trimming it, but if there is a gap line to follow…. even I might be able to do it?!

Armed with the new enthusiasm, I boldly decided to go through with the operation to thin out her wig….

and here is her new look! I seriously believe she looks much better now… even though it is not perfect but I believe I at least restored her image a bit more~

Erika chan is all pretty now, no more excuses anymore XD

P.S. Some of you might wonder, if Erika had a hair cut… then what about Estel??

You are rest assured that Estel was not forgotten~Similar Posts:

Dollfie Dream Neck Joint Replacement

Wolfheinrich — Sun, 29 May 2011 07:07:22 +0000

For the past month or so I have been pretty busy with playing eroge game such as Demonbane from JAST USA (which I am still playing btw, and the initial Demonbane review can be found here) and Daiteikoku from Alicesoft (still playing as well) and have not been able to update the blog as often as I would like to; however we are upon the Memorial Day long weekend again and I always do something meaningful during this weekend! Today I am going to talk about replacing the neck joint of my DD girls with one of the aftermarket version.

One of the key parts of Dollfie Dream photography is about getting to understand the construction your Dollfie Dream and their respective poseability between the basic DD II body and the DD Dynamite body, what they can do and what they cannot do. Now, let me make it clear that I didn’t break my dear daughter’s neck :3, however, I decided to change some my daughters to replacement neck joint from Cool Cat Collection because of the very promising improved durability and poseability it can provide~ Here I have my lovely Dollfie Dream DD Saber Lily to show you one of them~

Those of you who has at least put some effort into understand your Dollfie Dream can attest, the range of movement of the default neck joint is quite limited.

And here I ask Lily to help me demonstrate my point. No matter how much you try to push, the neck will always swing back to this point.

After removing the head from the body, we can see what is really limiting the movement of the neck joint. You could push the neck around a little more but it will always bounce back to this position because of the opening in the vinyl bust. There is an unofficial technique that involves cutting a small v-notch in the neck opening to allow the neck to travel beyond the rim of the neck opening but that’s not really a good solution and I don’t like cutting into my daughter XD~.

We will begin this neck replacement procedure by first pulling the hands out and sliding the bust off from the upper torso to reveal the screws that are holding the neck joint. If the bust is too difficult to slide off, you can always use a hair dryer to warm up the bust and expand the vinyl bust a little first.

Next is to loosen the two screws that are holding down the neck joint. Once the two screws are loosen, the neck can be pull straight out without taking anything apart.

Sliding the new neck in place~

And reattaching the screws, it’s that simple!

Now you can see the movement range of the new neck has almost doubled from the default joint! Since the new neck joint is made out of aluminum alloy, it is also more durable than the original neck and can hold a position better!

After sliding Lily’s head back to her body, you can see the result before and after the neck replacement surgery! The difference after the surgery is absolutely astounding!

And of course, I would take any excuse I have to take more photos of my DD daughters X3 and here is a quick snap of Lily and Sasara after the surgery~

The Cool Cat Collection store has a ton of fairly priced dollfie dream accessories that are worth checking out, I am actually waiting on a number of animetic eyes for my youngest daughter Airy chan :3Similar Posts:

Dollfie Dream Pricing History And Trend

Wolfheinrich — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:47 +0000

Ever since I began collecting Dollfie Dream some years ago, it has always bothered me that some of the very crucial information such as how to go about acquiring a Dollfie Dream, and how much does it cost to actually get one are often difficult to find, especially for someone new to the hobby. As we all know, the distribution mechanics for limited Dollfie Dream is rather unique or should I say, highly time sensitive. Once we missed the boat initially, collectors old and new most likely have to end up dipping into one of the most popular aftermarket distribution channel, also known as Yahoo Japan Auction. Now, let it be known that I have always have a strong distaste for online auction for goods with limited availability, because once the availability of the said good is determined to be rare, it becomes a highly seller oriented market, which is bad for most of us who are looking to acquire the said goods.

I could go on and on for pages on why I don’t like these auction marketplaces, but I am not going to do that since doing that would be similar to barking at the wrong tree. Instead, I have been secretly collecting pricing history and trending for some of the highly popular limited Dollfie Dream, my goal here is to bring some knowledge and transparency of this marketplace to someone new to this hobby so they wouldn’t end up paying more than what they absolutely had to.

My assistants for this particular project are DD Saber Lily, DD Saber Alter and DD Rin Tohsaka; arguably three of the most popular Dollfie Dream in recent years.

Disclaimer: The information provided here is only for reference purpose. All of these pricing information collected for this blog post were taken from completed Yahoo Japan Auction at the respective date.

First we are going to take a look at DD Rin Tohsaka~

Based on the data collected since June of 2010, a used DD Rin is fluctuating between 80k yen to 100k yen. A brand new unopened DD Rin is between 118k to 150k yen. The purple line represent a brand new unopened DD Rin along with the alternate school uniform, which is not exactly a very popular auction and has been trending down ever since.

Next we are going to take a look at DD Saber Alter. Saber Alter probably has one of the most controversial auction history of all Dollfie Dream released to-date. In fact, back in October of 2010, one auction almost set a new record auction price for Dollfie Dream but only to be canceled a few days later. The exact details of of the cancellation is still a mystery to me at this point. However, as you can see from the pricing history chart, the auction price of an item is heavily influenced by sudden supply and demand fluctuations.

And finally, we will also take a look at the most recent entry, DD Saber Lily, who was just released back in December 2010. I have monitored and recorded over 70 completed auction of DD Saber Lily by herself (not including Avalon or the maid dress) from December of 2010 to March 2011, thus giving us the best possible picture on how the auction price is changing over time. As you can see, I have conveniently plotted the trend line to show us where the price action is likely to go to.

While this is nothing more than just data points I have collected overtime and by no means does it represent how much you will have to pay in order to acquire one of these beauties; however, I hope these data will be helpful for someone new to the hobby and have no idea how the market works, enabling them to make intelligent decision on their next Dollfie Dream adoption.

P.S. The post will be updated periodically to keep track of pricing trend over time.Similar Posts:

Recovering From WHS Missing Drive Failure

Wolfheinrich — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:00:09 +0000

For the past few years, I have been thinking about taking my 7 years old Prescott out of my home network but I have never been able to do it since it has been working diligently all these time. However, since I build my WHS media server last year, the amount of heat being dissipated in my room has become unbearable at times. Fortunately, since I have no major expense in HTDP Kyoto 8, I have decided to bite the bullet and ordered a Dell Zino HD HTPC (which is due to arrive next week by the way) to replace the Prescott once and for all. While I have been thinking about how to integrate the Zino into my existing network, I thought about getting an external enclosure and what not, then in the middle of all that, a disaster struck! One of my Western Digital Green Drive I purchased during my WHS build sounded an alarm in the WHS console and reporting missing from the JABOD pool.

My lovely assistant this time is my 8th Dollfie Dream daughter DD Kusugawa Sasara.

This called for immediate action even though I had other plans in mind for the weekend (such as pampering DD Saber Lily some more!), I simply had to drop everything to address the WHS missing drive failure first. It was extremely fortunate that I have more or less anticipated this situation to happen at some point in time and had purchased an extra green drive that has been sitting idle the whole time. I quickly followed the instruction and added the new drive to the JABOD pool and began the removal procedure of the bad drive. It gave me a warning that I might lose my PC backup and proceed to prepare the system for the drive removal. It took about 30+ minutes (I have heard some people had their WHS thrown into an infinite loop during this process, fortunately it didn’t happen here), the system came back and told me it’s now safe to remove the drive.

After I removed the drive, the system was still reporting a bunch of failure on duplicated folders.

But after one reboot on the server, everything came back to normal working condition. Since it will take time for the folder duplication to kick in and propagate into the new drive, I decided to call it a night and let WHS do its job.

And when I woke up, everything is back to normal again! Folder duplication is working as intended, storage is balanced between the drives!

Last thing to do was to check with Western Digital and see if the failed drive is still under warrant and it is! This little detour had thrown my plan for the weekend off a bit but I still have some time to recover! While I might have been working on recovering from the WHS failure but I haven’t forgotten to pamper my lovely DD Saber Lily!

Can you guess what @DD_SaberLily is up to next? Stay tune in the next day or so to find out!Similar Posts:

Dollfie Dream DD Saber Lily Wig Instrumentality Project

Wolfheinrich — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:33:08 +0000

It’s been just about a month since Dollfie Dream DD Saber Lily セイバー・リリィ have arrived at my house and just about everything has been perfect so far. However, with the increasing number of cases of Lily’s ponytail simply fall off being reported, I can’t help but to feel a little nervous for my Lily. Thank to the excellent info provided by figure.fm member Poofiemus, I was finally able to make up my mind to do some preventative maintenance on Lily’s wig before it has a chance to develop a problem for me. I call this the DD Saber Lily セイバー・リリィ Wig Instrumentality Project 補完計劃!

Here is Lily waiting to get her wig reinforced~

I really didn’t plan on doing anything as elaborate as stubbing since the wig is still in good condition with no sign of letting up, so the plan here is to just to thread the ponytail to the wig cap a few times to give it a little extra holding power that I am looking for.

First order of business is of course, to get some colored thread that is close to the wig itself~

Here I cut it off and gave it a beginning knot.

A little inspection on the wig itself, no sign of damage yet; but the way I see it, it doesn’t hurt to reinforce it while it is still in good condition!

Everything looks good so it’s time to get started~

Here is a picture taken just before I push the needle through~

Here is a picture taken with the thread pushed all the way through, the beginning knot is clearly visible here.

Shot taken as I was pushing the needle back into the wig cap, and make sure no hair strand is trapped inside the loop of the thread~

Here is a picture taken after I have threaded the line back through the wig cap, rinse and repeat a few times as desired~

And it will end up looking like this~

And here is Lily again with the reinforced wig, look at how happy she is

Note: I actually experienced a fair amount of difficulty pushing the needle through the wig cap and the ponytail (even with a thimble in hand), so if you are planning to do something like this yourself, make sure to select the appropriate needle for the job.

Edited: I probably should clarify here that this is only a preventative maintenance and won’t solve the root cause of the problem as I have stated in my flickr group response.

Nothing ground breaking, just a little preventative maintenance on my Lily’s wig.

DD Saber Lily セイバー・リリィ Wig Instrumentality Project 補完計劃

After pulling Lily’s wig out to work on it, I strongly believe the action of pulling the wig in/out will affect the stability of the stub and cause the ponytail to slip. That’s in part due to the fact that the fitting between the Lily’s wig cap and the head is extremely tight. Any kind of distortion on the wig cap will affect the stability of the stub. Gluing the stub together is probably the only proper solution to this but I am not kin on taking the wig apart and glue it.

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Site News and Recent Happenings

Wolfheinrich — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:34:13 +0000

For the past week or so, I have been working on various improvement on this site, one thing in particular is the average load time. I began using Google Webmaster some months ago and it has always bothered me when it said my site is below the average performance in load time. I know I have been procrastinating over this but during the Labor Day Weekend, I have finally installed page speed to look for ways to improve my site.

在近星期, 我一直為這個博客的下載速度做改善。從幾個月前我已經開始用Google Webmaster, 而我對於那個平均下載時間嘅數值一D都唔滿意, 所以我趁這個勞動節假期裝上了Page Speed, 希望找到方法來改善。

Sure enough, Pagespeed has identified several red flags for me to respond to… including Combine external Javascript, Minify CSS, serve scaled images, Serve static content from a cookieless domain… most of these sounds like French to me.. but there were several flags that I was able to rectify by installing appropriate plug-ins, such as the WP HTTP Compression, this plugin allows your WordPress blog to output pages compressed in gzip format if a browser supports compression. HTTP compression generally means a 60-80% REDUCTION in the size of your pages (broadband usage) as well as an INCREASE in download speeds of 3x to 4x. Other than that, nothing else I tried seemed to work as I tried several other plug-ins to help with the Javascript and CSS but none of them worked out as planned.

而且Pagespeed 真係揾到幾個問題,大部分嘅嘢我都唔係太明白, 但係我揾到一個WP HTTP Compression 嘅Plug-in, 可以zip起Ｄ文件來轉送, 應該會對下載嘅速度有幫助!

Besides improving on the load time of my site, I have also upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1 recently. Most of the plug-ins I use seems to be compatible with it except StatPress… well, not that I still use it anymore as it never tracked reliable statistic for me. However, one of the neat thing that came with the new version of WordPress is the ability to add menu to your side bar….

除咗針對下載速度嘅改進, 近來也將Wordpress upgrade到3.0.1, 大部份嘅Plug-in都沒問題… 除咗Statpress之外…. 但係因為近來都沒乜用喇, 所以問題唔大。Wordpress3.0.1最有趣嘅新功能就係可以喺Sidebar加menu!

One of the few things I have been wanting to do, is to make an easily accessible directory listing to my side bar that points directly to each of my lovely Dollfie Dream daughters! I have seen many Dollfie Dream related blog sites with the same feature and have been itching to make my own daughter directory; however, I wasn’t particularly wild about making each of my daughters as their own category… this new menu feature came just at the right time, as I can specify them with tag instead of revamping all of my blog posts with brand new categories… Daughters are listed in the order they were adopted…. cause everyone who has visited here before knows who my favorite daughter is!

我見過好多有關Dollfie Dream人偶嘅網頁也有列晒班囡囡喺Sidebar, 所以我也一直想加噃個囡囡目錄, 而家終於可以做到喇! 囡囡目錄係順收養嘅次序來排名… 因為大家都知道我最疼愛嘅囡囡是誰吧!

Just like that, one more thing off the to-do list!

Besides making various improvements and adjustments to my site, I have also been trying to reach out to different Dollfie Dream communities in different parts of the world. Since there are a considerable amount of DD parents located in different parts of South East Asia, I have been thinking about reaching out to them (after all, I am a Chinese) just because I am better at typing in English due to the fact that I never had a computer when I was in Hong Kong doesn’t mean I cannot communicate in perfect Chinese on the Internet!

除咗為綱頁更新, 我也正在向其他地區嘅Dollfie Dream人偶論壇打個招呼。其實喺東南亞各地區也應該有好多人玩Dollfie Dream的, 而且我自已又係香港人, 我以前唔打中文只係因為我在港嘅時候未用個電腦之嘛, 其實我都有中四程度嘅中文架。現在我係要靠手寫板來寫中文的。

After doing some researches, I found out there are two major Dollfie Dream forums, one in Hong Kong, another one in China; both very active with wealth of information, tutorials etc.

經過我嘅佈考查, 我終於找到在香港和中国嘅論壇!

Ourtoysland OTL中文名萌玩里 is composed of mostly DD parents from Hong Kong, some of them I already knew from Figure.fm, such as Hololo, Yui, Stepwalkers, etc.

萌玩里就係以香港人為主嘅論壇, 而且也撞到幾個喺Figure.fm識到嘅香港人, 例如Hololo, Yui, Stepwalkers,等等.

OTL also has a sub forum with tons of DD related tutorials, I picked one topic to show here just for reference~

萌玩里有好多有關Dollfie Dream嘅資料, 我就選一個出來俾大家睇下~

A pretty nifty mod to access the secret double joint! A similar mod can also be performed on the neck to improve the range of movement on the head!

很有趣的DIY mod啊, 可以直接用到DDII嘅Secrect Joint啊。而這個方法也可以加用到頸那裡。

The other Dollfie Dream community is located in Baidu.com, a popular web service company in China. Obviously, I would have to post in Chinese, but that’s not that difficult for me, just a little time consuming… that’s all. But for the sake of spreading more Dollfie Dream Love all around the world and making more friends, it will be worth it!

另一個論壇係喺中国嘅百度Dollfie Dream贴吧

To properly post picture topics in Baidu… I have to load all of my picture libraries into Baidu… and that would happen in due time~

要在Baidu貼圖的話, 我可要從新上載囡囡嘅相片直接到Baidu嘅空間, 這個我會慢慢來做…

Slowly but surely, I will be adding Chinese translation along with my blog post, just so that visitors from South East Asia who are not fluent in English can also understand what I am rambling about!

而且喺不久嘅將來, 我也會慢慢地漢化這個網頁, 令其他不太習慣睇英文嘅訪客也可以明白我喺到講乜嘢! 漢化咗嘅網頁可以用這個連結來找到中文博客。

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Project: Retrofitting the Volks Wooden Base Stand with Tripod Mount

Wolfheinrich — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:20:42 +0000

Today, I would like to bring you another edition of Otaku Project. With only a few days away from Anime Central, I have been preparing my Dollfie Dream daughters so they would be ready for their first Anime Convention. I have picked out the dresses they are going to wear, got the Volks SD carrying bag ready, almost everything but a dollfie stand that could be mounted on top of a tripod so I can take pictures on the go and easily. I know what you are thinking, you are talking about the Dollfie World stand! It is true that the Dollfie World stand has brought forth a very unique feature to the world of DD photography, very useful indeed! While I would love to have one of those stand myself but it’s been out of stock for the past month or so (as of writing of this post, it is already back in stock but it is too late to meet my Anime Central schedule!). So, with only so little time left, I figure I got to take matters into my own hand and try to retrofit one of my existing Volks wooden base stand with the same feature.

I thought about what I could do with the materials I have on hand, then I figured all I needed to do is to press fit a 1/4-20 hex nut on the bottom side of the base so that it could be mounted to a tripod adapter!

So the first thing I got to do is the find the approximate center point of the base so that the base would be somewhat balanced.

Next is to drill the appropriate sized hole on the base so I can press fit the nut into the base. I pulled out my reference chart and found out the across the face dimension for the 1/4 hex nut is 7/16, so I grabbed the appropriate sized wood boring bit..

And drill the hole! It’s difficult to see here but the hole is not completely flat! Some of you familiar with woodworking might notice I am not using a Forstner bit but a regular boring bit. I figure the extra groove from the boring bit would be just perfect for the hot melt glue to flow into.

After the hole is drill, it’s time to hot glue and press fit the nut in place. Since the Volks wooden base isn’t made out of hard wood, it’s actually not to bad trying to press fit a hex nut into a round hole. All I had to do was to scribe a couple lines inside the hole, just enough for me to force the nut into the wood.

And wa la~

And the result! There is a little hot melt glue overflow out of the hole, just the way I wanted it!

And my tripod-mountable Dollfie Stand is complete! Now I am ready for Anime Central! Any of you coming to Anime Central?Similar Posts:

Another Site Update, Volks News, and Miscellaneous Happenings

Wolfheinrich — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:06:44 +0000

For the past week or so I have been trying recuperate from my extended Dollfie Dream photography sessions, while I still have many things to do and I am not remotely done with the last setup yet, such as re-shooting and perfecting some of the NSFW photos (my first attempt in taking a completely new direction and taking more sensual DD photos, this NSFW set of photos turned out to be some of my best work to-date!) into a more SFW setting, getting some of the better photos printed out large scale at deviantART, which I plan to review once the photo arrived; getting some pillow case made up again etc.

While I have been recuperating for the past week, I turned my attention back to my recently renovated blog, in an attempt to finish the job that I started. One of the few things that bothered me that most after migrating to this new Motion WordPress theme was the lack of comment count from the main blog page, I visited the author’s homepage and notice there are other people who had the same problem but the author was too busy to help us get that worked out. There were some people who had managed to figure out a way around it but they didn’t leave enough details for me to perform the same operation on the theme file myself. I have tried to follow what little instruction there is to perform these theme file modification several times without success and was on the verge of giving up. However, I finally managed to add the two features I wanted to my blog last night, which is comment count and post view!

More under the cut~

One of the few things that I have always wanted to do is to have some way to show the post view count on each post, sort of an indicator to my site visitors that what is popular read. Found this WP-Postviews plugin some time ago but couldn’t get it to work, but I was finally able to track down the proper documentation to implement it yesterday.

Other improvements such as the most viewed posts, hoping that will serve as an indicator to my site visitors what else might catch their fancy.

Besides my blog update, I also have some Volks news to share this time! We all know that Dolpa 23 is coming up in May and I am planning to adopt Mato Sakura from Fate Stay Night; but there is more! Volks is planning to announce 7 major projects next month to celebrate the 7th anniversary of Dollfie Dream! 7 major projects! I can’t help to imagine what it would be!

I happened to stop by the local Ikea last week and decided to shop for a little furniture to help me organize my ever increasing wardrobe for my Dollfie Dream daughters, was only planning to get the Ikea Lekman Box since I have been using those to store all the DD clothes but..

The Ikea Lack table was on sale for only 7.99! So I can’t help myself but to pick another one up…

Did you know that the entire Dollfie Dream Kiriha Solo Live [NSFW] post was performed on top of an Ikea Lack table? lol~ So, in fact, Kiriha was “Table Dancing” the whole time~LOL (The actual table is hidden under some poly-satin cloth I picked up from the local Hobby Lobby store).

And I have another Lekman box filled with Daughters’ clothing ^^; I feel like I can never pamper them enough ^^;

Oh, and before I forget, comrade Smithy from BlueBlueWave has made the plunge and adopted his first Dollfie Dream Daughter Yoko, be sure to stop by and check her out!Similar Posts: