Short review: joydoll Jakki on a Doll Family-h body with jointed hands
Last year I ordered two joydoll Jakki (1/4 size) heads, one open-eyed and one sleeping. joydoll is an incredible sculptor and I love all her creations, but Jakki has an old-fashioned sweet look that really appealed to me. Jakki's also been released in 1/6 scale before, but the 1/4 version is slightly more mature.
One of the bodies that joydoll recommended for Jakki was a Doll Family-h slim 1/4 body, male or female. I ordered the slim 1/4 boy body and the head through New Clover Singing. The only thing I didn't like about the DF-h body was the size of the hands, which I thought looked too small, so I added a pair of 1/4 scale jointed hands by DF-h as well.
Short note on how to buy Doll Family-h: they sell through Taobao (here's their page), but Taobao has limited access unless you have an account. You can buy through Taobao with a proxy site or you can use a service like New Clover Singing or Alice's Collections.
Jakki was available in a few colours, including Mia white and pink. I chose Mia white and asked for the body and hands to be colour-matched, which is a service that DF-h was providing for this head - though I think they do colour-matching on request as a general service too.
The heads arrived first, then the body and hands a month or so later. They took 69 working days from order to sending (excluding weekends and Chinese holidays; Doll Family-h is based in China).
The order arrived in a sturdy cardboard box, inside of which was a doll carrier bag with some sturdy plastic packing material (no fabric cushions). I didn't know it would come packaged this way - but this is great, because I have too many doll boxes and no carriers!
The colour match is perfect and the body and hands are beautifully finished - no seam lines, perfectly smooth. The legs also arrived wired, with silicone rings in many joints. It hold poses really well. I'm very happy with the engineering of the body, which is very modern in all its jointing.
I wasn't sure how the jointed hands would perform, since jointed hands are notoriously fiddly to pose. However, I'm extremely glad I ordered them. They look great, are a better scale, and are slightly fiddly but not too hard to pose. (Changing hands is a breeze because there's a notch in the wrist to hold the S-hook in place while you swap hands.)
I'm super impressed with this body for the price and can't wait to play with it some more. And the Jakki heads are so sweet!
Here are some photos showing how it poses. In the background is a free calendar I got from joydoll for ordering both the open eyes and sleeping versions of the Jakki head, plus a look at the beautiful box each head came in. You can see a couple more photos in this Flickr album.
