(The making of) Castlevania's Alucard & the dolls of depressionReviewPrevNextPrevNext

(Partially a mini review, partially a mini how-to)

I was pretty hyped for the Alucard Nendoroid until I saw what accessories he came with...or more importantly, what he didn't come with:

- Heirloom sword - necessary, check
- Alucard shield - this is clearly S4 Alucard (who finally got tired of tanking hits with his face), so check
- And... a stick! ... A stick?! -_- The same plain Jane stick that was used for something like 5 seconds in S2? Whyyy?



(Yeah I wish it was a joke, it's not, it doesn't even come with the Drac & Lisa drawing as shown in promo shots.)

Just say no to stick : (

... Where's his depression dolls - the breakout stars of S3!? This is a LONELY man, he needs his dolls damn it! So I decided to remedy that.

** So... presenting my mini Trevor and mini Sypha dolls! **



These dolls sit at about ¾" tall. I would've liked them smaller since they're out of scale with the Nendo, but even at this size they were already hard enough to make.

The heads are ¼" diameter wood beads, with nail polish eyes (for a shiny plastic button look), colored pencil details, and embroidery thread hair. The bodies are scrap fabric and embroidery thread, built on half of a box clasp (I really wanted to stuff and sew tiny bodies, but it was impossible because the fabric kept unraveling - the clasp helped provide the structure to stitch the fabric around, plus provided holes to hinge the legs off of). Arms and legs are 18 ga aluminum wire, hammered into tiny "spoons" and "ladles" (which came out more like skimmers or potato mashers).


(Yellow part is the actual part I used for the body)

They're nowhere near perfect but they don't need to be. After all the originals were obviously crafted from scraps as well : )



And since I've seen some cute fanart of Alucard in wolf form carrying the dolls, a bonus! This is actually about the right scale : )


(Le wolf is not Alucard, le wolf is Toriko's Terry Cloth : p Close enough?)

Oh and since I did call this a review, one more thing - his stand doesn't really fit between the tails of his coat (he ends up sorta floating in the rear), so I had to use one of the Good Smile easel stands instead.