Woah. Creepy.
Lishe comes in twenty (!) resin parts: head, headcap, upper torso, shoulder joints, upper arms, lower arms, hands, lower torso, upper leg, lower leg, ankle joints, and feet. She also has two glass eyes (duh), three elastic bands, and an S-hook. The headcap was really difficult to get off >_<
The foot's afoot!
Each leg has its own elastic band, which hooks onto a knob on the foot, under the ankle joint. they go all the way up to the S-hook in the head. The third elastic band goes from hand to hand, and does not hook into the head. Therefore, you can take her legs/head off without taking apart the upper torso. Pretty handy! Her hands are held on with smaller S-hooks, which makes them easy to change.
Purple clay and CP stamp
Lishe's eyes came held in with unbaked polymer clay. I think it's pretty clever, because it's easy to pull off, cleans up well, and stays tacky to be used again. I must say that the purple color startled me, though!
It's hard to see in this picture, but the mold has "© Cerberus Project" stamped into the inside of the head.
I learned the hard way to be careful not to let the elastic escape into the neck when removing the head. It was phenomenally difficult to get back in place!! T_T
I finally devised a method to pull the elastic back through (somewhat) easily, since I don't have a stringing tool. I used a small pair of needle-nose pliers, a sturdy 22 gauge wire, an average round-barrel ballpoint pen, and another person bribed with candy. If there's nobody else around, then you can use your foot to brace the doll. Either way, be careful not to pinch anything when setting the joints, because it REALLY HURTS. Trust me.
Also, please make sure that you keep the left and right side parts in order! You don't want to end up with Lishe's legs on backwards...
I ended up starting in the middle, with the lower half of the torso. I wrapped a decent-sized piece of wire around the center of the elastic band (opposite the knot) and twisted it like a twist-tie in order to keep it stable. I threaded the wire through the the lower torso, and then through the upper thigh. The next part is tricky and is the easiest to do with assistance from another person. One person held onto the torso while I rotated the pliers to "reel" the wire in. When the elastic poked through the end, I shoved the pen through the elastic to keep it from escaping back into the leg. I unwound the pliers, straighened the wire, and repeated the process with the lower leg and ankle joint. The foot can be tricky - slip the knob onto the elastic and make sure it's snug, and then unwind the wire from the elastic and let it snap into place.
After both legs were strung, I worked my way back up to the top with the wire-pliers-pen trick. The knots can be difficult to get through the neck. When I was set, I pulled the knots up through the head (while another person braced it) and slipped the S-hook through the elastic. After regaining conciousness (Holy CRAP is this a lot of exertion!), I was able to argue with the headcap until I managed to get it back onto the S-hook. w00t.
I painted my Lishe using Liquitex acrylics with a matte paint medium. It is easy to remove paint with non-acetone nail polish remover. I am not that great at painting small surfaces, so I'm not about to write a tutorial on the subject; check the links section for people who actually know what they're doing. (^^);