Rebuilding of fingers

Many dolls are found with missing fingers. They are small and delicate and prone to damage.

 These are the hands from a ball-jointed composition body. The body is in great shape other than the 2 missing fingers.

The finish on the hands is cracked but filling the cracks would mean a total repaint. The cracks do not detract from a 100 year old doll so they will be left.

The fingers will be rebuilt with minimal damage to the original finish.

 The first step is to install wire supports for the new fingers.

The fingers have now been rebuilt with epoxy putty.

The new fingers are painted to blend in with the old hands. The original finish (and cracks) remain on the rest of the hands.

Victorian match-holder repair

Another not-a-doll.
My mother has an extensive antiques collection and occasionally has a mishap. This time she stumbled in the dark and knocked a Victorian plaster match-holder off the wall.

This dude had a bad nose fracture and only half of his nose pieces were found. Plus his pipe had been knocked off.

He needed to be pieced back together, have his missing piece of nose reconstructed and all the repairs painted to match the original surface.












Done :-)