[wink] Changing Keep's default eyes
After Kat shared her experience removing the rubber lens in the Namu's default eyes, I decided to go ahead and give it a try. I wanted to remove the lens, and paint it another color.
Here's a look at the eye mechanism with the eyes attached to it:
I've said before that the lens on Keep's eyes are rubber. The lens in Ink and Withered's eyes are not. I dislike the rubber. It attracts dust and isn't very shiny. -_-
So anyways, I dug around the sides of the eye and pretty much tore out the rubber lens from one eye:
Here's a closeup of the unattractive lens (though the it's painted really nicely):
Ya, you can see that I kinda ruined the lens a bit, can't you? -_-
Here's the back of the eye. It's painted on this side and the rubber has ridges:
And here's the lens with most of the paint removed:
It's a bit of a bitch trying to remove the paint from around the ridges. I decided not to bother and decided to paint it and see how it looks.
It's not bad, I suppose. ^_^;
Of course, after all that hassle, I couldn't be bothered to remove the other lens. -_- So for now, Keep's got strange eyes:
Putting the rubber lens back into the eye wasn't so hard, though I can't say with certainty that they won't drop out just as easily. *grin*
I'm going to get me some eye chips the Blythes use and replace the rubber lens with those. ^_^ Hopefully they fit perfect and I won't have to do any modifications. *_*
That's so cool! Can he still blink? Or did you have to remove his eyelids?
Problem is, I can't put the eyelids back. Well, wait, I _can_ put the eyelids back, but I cant pop in the bits that make it work. *laughs* There's probably a trick to it, but I've not mastered it yet. -_-
