Why, thank you, and I'm glad to announce it is indeed much better. I'm cautious, but it's back to average strength again, thank goodness!
And on the photoshoot front, various more items have arrived, including a red Natasha wig and little springs for her wrist gauntlets, and gloves for Clay, and some nicely scaled boots that really oughta be propped up on the furniture to show them off (I'm thinking either Clay or Roque?)
Also, storage boxes obtained, which will be helpful for yanking out existing stores and checking off my lists of "required props."
Also *tadaaaah!* I unstrung my doll for Aisha, took out the family Dremel and got grinding on that muscle-doll body for the first time tonight, which is the first time I've tried using a Dremel. No directions left in the box, so I spent part of last night looking up tutes about Dremels, going in circles listening to absurd stuff there.
Started doing it? Not a problem. (I was so absurdly worried about working on doll resin, too!) Worked long enough to run through the battery charge on it, got a lot done. Probably should buy some more bits of the same general types, keep sharp new ones available.
Also, in working per directions suggested by a modder's tutorial, I got good results, definitely improved how it functions, a big whew of relief there. Still more functionality work to be done there, but looks more doable in reasonable batches. I took down some sharp edges on mold lines that really came out looking like scar lines--and such scars would be seriously ouch!
It'll need a lot of overall sanding (high-level grit with foam-backed sandpapers) to make it look consistent, but not a bad idea if some of it still looks like scars.
I'm really pleased at progress for just the first day at it.
I took some cell phone pix for unstringing, but need to take some of the modding marks too.
Also have pix of the locks I got for Clays' wig (possibly others) so I need to figure out the transition to upload from my phone. Whee, another learning experience!