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61. Yes, those ones are beautiful. It takes years to get that good.

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And those were made from gorgeous sculpts. Some of the sculptors selling these kits have their clay sculpts cast and molded into silicone which they then paint, root and sell, usually only about only ten can be made before the molds are no good anymore. These silicones can sell for tens of thousands. Check this out, she's a lady from Australia who just moved to the U.S. - we're all in a doll forum online together (which is where I found out Cher collects them).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-Romie-Baby-Full-Bodied-solid-SILICONE-doll-sculpted-reborn-by-Romie-Strydom-/171860931647?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2803b5b43f Crap, I just looked and all the pics are gone. But here's her website. http://romiesdollstudio.com/ Not one of these silicones sold for less than 10,000.00. Her blank vinyl kits are all limited editions - of say, 300 total, and sell for up to about 150.00 - finished, they vary of course, depending on the result and skill of the artist painting and finishing them - from a couple of hundred to ten thousand dollars.

A kit includes a blank head and limbs, with the option of buying a belly plate to paint also - usually for photos to sell the doll. You paint up to 30 layers - one for each flesh tone, capillaries, milk bumps, etc. etc. and bake each time between each layer, add texture finishes, and seal, root in individual eyelashes, seal from the inside the hair you've rooted one strand at a time - which usually takes me up to about 60 hours for one head, make your own body, stuff and weight everything, dress them nice (I make my own clothes and knit and crochet their sweaters and hats) - and voila, a doll for someone to love (or hate, I guess).

Here is a blank vinyl kit (which I agree, does look sorta spooky): [URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

This is the friend I had mentioned who sells some of her dolls to Cher. She was a portrait artist who was fascinated by seeing some of the earlier artists who had done them and spends most of her time doing this now, hers sell for up to 10,000.00. She helps me a lot - I send her progress pictures, she gives me advice - or tells me to start over ..., and we trade blank kits back and forth all the time as she looks for mostly the very limited edition sculpts and some aren't sold in the U.S. - the sculptors she mostly uses are from Canada. I got to know her well from that doll forum years ago, she's an amazing lady.

http://hhgalleries.com/index.php

This is my favourite of hers:

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I did the same kit and took it into the nursing home nearest me about a month ago .... mine wasn't nearly! as good as hers but one lady claimed her right away, I think she likes her.

(Yes, it's art.)