COMPARISON: MSD Boy + LatiBlue Boy

BJD Comparison

Disclaimer: This comparison post contains doll nudity for the purpose of a thorough comparison, and is in no way sexual or meant to be erotic. If this bothers you, please do not continue.

Specs

Tim is a LatiBlue Boy Rei on the A-type body, and Elliott is a Volks Hewitt II MSD Long-Legged Boy. They are 46 cm and 44 cm tall, respectively.

Resin

The LatiBlue boy is new as of the beginning of this year (2007), and second-hand. The Volks is at least a couple of years old-- I'm not exactly sure. So he's yellowed a bit. His hands are new, so that's the most accurate comparison between his resin and the LatiBlue's resin. They're the same shade, but the Volks pureskin is more yellow.

With some blushing (make the head pinker and the body more yellow), it would be harder to tell. The resin has different textures-- the Pureskin is positively smooth and slippery in comaparison to the LatiBlue, who has an interesting tooth to it feels grainy. The LatiBlue is drastically heavier than the Volks, but that's probably due to the height.

Posing

The LatiBlue has more articulation points, and his rougher resin helps him hold poses better. If the Volks was sueded or wired, he could probably hold poses just as well, if not better. But he will not be capable of doing many of the poses the LatiBlue can achieve due to the construction of the joints. The LatiBlue has double-jointed elbows and knees, along with a thigh-joint that allows his leg to rotate independent of the hip joint. He has no torso joint, though, and instead hs a hip joint that allows him to sit up. That is all.



Side-to-side comparison. I tried to move Elliott's arm out of the way, but it didn't work too well. As you can see, Tim is much thicker than Elliott in the torso.



Arms down so you can see the dramatic difference in their arm lengths.



Most of the height is in the legs.





To sit the LatiBlue up straight, you have to use his hip-joint and "pop" him up-- which also makes him sit a little higher. On Elliott, you just have to learn him forward a little.



Their torsoes are about the same length, but the LatiBlue is a little longer. Shirts tend to come up short, and are snug across the shoulders and chest. It would be best to buy baggy MSD t-shirts for him. I suspect that a tight SD10 shirt might be decent enough, too. But I haven't tried this yet.



The LatiBlue has longer feet, but they're thinner too. The very popular MSD Vans fit perfectly on him. The bottom of his feet are slightly flattened, so he stands more solidly.



Note that the Volks is wearing optional hands, and that we couldn't find his normal hands. The normal hands are thicker and less detailed than these hands. With these optional hands, though, the LatiBlue and the Volks have the same handshape. But the fingers are much, much thinner on the LatiBlue-- not to mention his hands are more detailed. He has veins, knuckles, and joints. The ball-joint of the wrist is connected to the hand on the LatiBlue, but seperate on the Volks.



His hand is much thinner and daintier in comparison.



The palms have about the same level of detail.



Wrist joints.



The LatiBlue's double-jointed knees allow him to kneel without popping his joints out.







Torsos, again. And someone out there is interested in their parts. The LatiBlue boy is longer, but the MSD is bigger. :) The aesthetic detail that went into their bodies is totally different. The Volks MSD can NOT hold his arms flat against his body without bending his elbows, while the LatiBlue can. His arms are also much, much longer.



Once again, different kind of detailing going on. the LatiBlue has thicker upper arms, but his lower arm tapers into a delicate wrist that is much, much smaller than the Volk's.



Double-jointed knees, and you can see the thigh joints on the LatiBlue.



They can both do this pose, but it's unnatural for the Volks.



Head-swap! The Volks MSD head miraculously fits-- though it wouldn't hurt to sand the base of the LatiBlue neck a little bit to improve posing. It only looks strange at certain angles, but other than that it's rather fantastic. The resin match is nicer in real life since the photos on the computer are saturated. Proportion-wise, it's not bad-- but the Volks is a Hewitt, and Hewitts have smaller and older looking faces compared to most Volks MSDs. I suspect that Schulze and Enn would also work well, along with SuperDollfieCute heads. I'd say that the LatiBlue body would be a great candidate for a floating Volks head. Also, the O-ring fits fine in the notch-- so no modding needed.



The same cannot be said for the LatiBlue head on the Volks body, though. I wouldn't... do this. Anyways, now for some photos of the Volks on LatiBlue headswap. Just because it worked out so well. I'm really pleased with how it looks. In fact, Elliott is temporarily taking over Tim's body. Just because it's kind of neat to look at.













Thank you, bye!