Bell grabbed the jeans jacket before any of the other girls could claim it, and she looks great in it. I used some of the multicolor wool Kamelia gave me to knit a shawl and a hat for her. The colors are a great match for her pink wig. Look at those tiny buttons! Bell loves this jacket, and so do I. Thank you so much!

Judith shows off the flower print hoodie. It has real pockets at the front.

Solveig likes her new shawl, this wool was also a gift from Kamelia. I don’t know if it’s mohair, it certainly has the look and feel of it.

Thanks again for all the lovely stuff! Some of the fabric will be used next, I look forward to work with it.

This one however is very much Solveig. I hope you like it. The vest closes in the back, just in case you were wondering.

I don’t own a SartoriaJ doll and no Raccoon man, but those who own these dolls will probably know how they compare to Iplehouse and Raccoon dolls in size.

The first picture shows Iplehouse FID women, the Raccoon NaPoSlim woman and the Raccoon kid next to an Iplehouse kid. While the bodies of the two kids are very close in size (they can share tops and dresses, IpleKid pants are a bit wide on the Raccoon Kid), the head size of the Raccoon kid is in perfect proportion with the mature dolls.

This is my new Raccoon kid with possible parents. First picture shows an Iplehouse FID man on the model body, and the Raccoon NaPoSlim body. In the second picture the dad is on a FID muscle body next to a FID woman on the classic body.

Various women, Iplehouse classic FID woman next to different Raccoon bodies. The original old slim Raccoon body is closest in size to the Iplehouse Fid, the NewSlim is a tiny bit shorter, and the NaPoSlim just a few millimeters shorter than the NewSlim body.

JID girl and Raccoon kid. The proportions are off, I just thought the two fiery mopheads looked fun together.

I hope this was helpful. If you own a Raccoon kid and a SartoriaJ woman / couple I would be grateful if you would take a picture for me to add it to this post.

I promised doll Yoga, and after I made some Yoga outfits for the girls they are ready for some exercise. For those who actually practice Yoga: I am well aware these are not proper poses, but it was fun to try.

Meet the contestants: Bell (Lara) on the original “Slim body” (OldSlim), Solveig (Rose) on the “New Slim body” (NewSlim) and Nina (she doesn’t have a name yet) on the “Naturally Posed slim body” (NaPoSlim). I will use abbreviations for this post, since the names for the bodies as they are called on the Raccoondoll website are rather long. The body review for the NewSlim body (released in 21) can be found here. Since I started writing this post I received Cindy on the Naturally Posed Glamorous body (NaPoGlam) as well, and everything I write about the NaPoSlim holds true for the glamorous version as well, it’s just a bit curvier.

The name for the Naturally Posed body (release 2023) is an accurate name for this new body. While the NewSlim already came with some posing improvements, this new body offers a completely different posing experience. Compared to the NaPoSlim the older bodies and other doll bodies appear stiff. The NaPoSlim does not only hold poses much better, it allows the limbs to move and behave in a more natural way. Slightly angled elbows, different knee joints and other changes make it possible to pose this body in new ways. It just looks more relaxed and natural, and the body holds those poses without effort.

And the NaPoSlim body holds the arm and hand poses close to the body without tricks and support. I wrote in my boxopening post that I am not a fan of the way the elbow and knee joints look. But once you have learnt what the limbs can do the aesthetics are negligible.

As you can see in the picture below, the NaPoSlim looks more natural even in a standing position. The arms look less stiff, and the legs can do relaxed looking contrapposto poses easily. The NewSlim body can do some of those as well, but the weak point of that body are definitively the ankle joints. The feet tend to move in unwanted ways and without shoes the joints are not really stable.

All three bodies can do the sitting pose in the following pictures. The NaPoSlim body needs a bit more turning and trying for the leg position, the simple leg-forward needs a bit of a pull out of the hip socket first. The arms can do straight and angled, and the body holds the pose very easily. The other two bodies needed a bit more balancing time. You can see that the NaPoSlim shoulder-width and arm joints allow the arms to go up around the head more naturally.

Nina’s left knee can lay flat on the ground, I just didn’t turn the mobility joints far enough. Still learning to pose the body.

All three bodies can do this as well. The OldSlim body breast part snaps into a sideways angle that doesn’t look very elegant and creates a dent in the silhouette. The hands don’t hold a head-touching position. The NewSlim body takes some balancing to stand in this pose. Her ankles are weak. The hands can touch the head. The NaPoSlim torso part moves most easily, and the arms touch legs and head willingly. Again, the NaPoSlim body looks most natural in this pose.

The hands are a problem for this pose, so the NaPoSlim with the flat hands has an advantage here. She can even move one leg up. The NewSlim feet and hands are not made for this, so I had some problems keeping them in that position. OldSlim as well as NewSlim look a bit stiff in the arms and shoulders.

The NaPoSlim knee joints might not be the prettiest, but they allow the legs to fold in a way the other legs can’t. The head can move back nicely as well, but that might change once she wears a wig.

Again, all three bodies can do this, but the hands and arms of the NaPoSlim stay in position, while the OldSlim and NewSlim arms can’t touch the head. The knee joints look definitively odd though. The OldSlim and NewSlim knees are just looking a bit prettier in certain poses.

It took some time to get the OldSlim into this position without her falling sideways, but she can do it. Her’s as well as the NewSlim body arms didn’t want to stay on the tigh, though. In this position the NaPoSlim needs a bit more encouragement to place the legs a bit apart, the knee joints make the legs want to fold automatically. Again, turning the mobility joints a bit more might have helped. But none of the other bodies could do the pose in the last picture, placing the hand on the tigh and keeping it there.

Now this is a pose only the NaPoSlim can do. Not that there would be much need to ever put a doll into that position. The OldSlim and NewSlim body needed one leg on the ground to keep them stable, they can’t “stand” on their knees. And they needed a lot of balancing to even hold the pose long enough to take the pictures. The NewSlim body wouldn’t stand with a torso bent back, and her arms didn’t want to stay straight either. The NaPoSlim can hold this forever. You could store her like that. Sorry for the bad light, by the way.

This clearly weren’t poses you would chose to show off clothes (well, except Yoga outfits), but I thought it would be fun to compare the different bodies in this way. As far as natural posing for every day use is concerned, the new NaPoSlim body is clearly the winner. Even in unspectacular poses it takes and holds the pose in a more relaxed looking way, and some of the poses I need for showing off clothes very often are so easy! Like putting a hand on a thigh. Last but not least a couple of “every day use” poses. If you own one of the older bodies you will know that these poses are not easy to achieve with other doll bodies.

I will write another post about the hands, feet, clothing and shoes and show the NaPoSlim and NaPoGlam side by side, but I didn’t want to make this post even longer. I hope you found this helpful and fun 🙂

Did I mention I love this doll? Have a nice week!

Her face is elegant and almost a bit androgynous, and like all Raccoon dolls she has a lot of sculpted detail to work with.

But what surprised me the most was the lovely gift that came with her, a very well made brown dress with lace straps. Thank you so much, Raccoondoll!

These are just quick morning pictures with bad lighting, but her features are still visible, I hope. As usual, blank shots frontal view and side view.

Now I just have to come up with a new name for her, or I might confuse her with Racoon Rosie (Queenie).

I really look forward to paint her.

My Ivy arrived! It surprises me every time how much sculpted detail the Raccoon faces have. You wouldn’t be able to tell from the promo pictures. She is every bit as lovely as I expected her to be. And I ordered her on the new slim body. Raccoon released another update of the original slim body a while ago, but this one is simply called New Slim on the website. As far as I remember it was released in 2021.

First things first, blank mugshots of my Ivy. Look how far she can bend her head back!

I’ll add the measurements for the New Slim as published on the Raccoon site to the doll measurements.

And now to the new body

I like the old body, but there are a couple of things that sometimes bug me. The huge head-hook for example. The advantage is that you could almost pull it up with your fingers, but it seems just a bit oversized. And although the robust lower legs are certainly unique, they don’t look that elegant with certain skirt lengths.

I always thought FID legs found elegant poses more easily, and even though the double jointed Raccoon knees make kneeling possible, simple classic counterpoise poses (contrapposto) are difficult. The dolls with the old slim body seem to have a slight backwards bend in the hips when standing unaided, and the legs pose a bit unwilling. All these points and more have been addressed and improved.

The changes are not so very obvious at first glance, but there are a lot of slight changes that make posing easier and the appearance more elegant, at least in my opinion.

The most obvious changes are the larger hands and feet. The hands have FID hand size, and if you don’t mind that the hand rings don’t fit into the smaller slits, you can probably mix and match with FID hands if you want more variety in hands. The comparison picture shows Rosie’s arms with FID woman hands next to the New Slim hands. The Raccoon hands are slightly wider, and the thumb points in a different direction, but they are pretty compatible otherwise.

As you can see in the very first picture above, the hand-gesture is taking up a lot of room. I tried some of my other Raccoon’s jackets, and the sleeves won’t go over the hands. That might pose a problem if you have a lot of expensive clothes with tight sleeves. Ivy will get her own clothes anyway, so it’s not a big deal to alter my patterns accordingly, but that’s just me.

The new feet have more sculpted detail as well, they are longer and the instep is slightly curved.  Some very small shoes like some YOSD Mary Janes or Mel Chan shoes do not fit the new feet. But now they can wear FID and JID shoes, and of course my favorite Matt Tonner boots still fit, just like other slim mini shoes. The FID high heel shoes are not an exact fit, but they don’t fall off the feet any longer.

Since foot swapping is possible without problems, you can put the new feet on the old body and vice versa. I hope the new ankle joints won’t become floppy after a while, but for now the new body stands like a rock – and I am sure the sculptor knows what he’s doing.

I added a picture of the heel feet in JID/FID heels and some American Model shoes from Facets. You can see the gap with the old feet.

The changes to the upper body are almost invisible, but they are there. The elbow joints create a more natural arm position, the nipples are sanded (no more pointy boobs) and the transition from torso to thigh looks smoother. I wasn’t a fan of the bulging thigh joints in tight clothes, so that’s great. And speaking of boobs: The small bust is now almost as large as the previous large bust (20.3 cm). I don’t know how large the “large” bust is, the measurements on the Raccoon page are not up to date yet. I asked, and I will update them here when I know.

The engineering of the arms is a bit different as well. Not very obvious, unless you pose the arms. Outstretched the old arms pointed straight forward. The new arms point forwards with a bit of an angle. This angle makes it possible to do a couple of nice things the old arms couldn’t. Like touching the face without problems – if you bend the elbows the hands go to the face and not away from it. There’s a whole range of things she can do with her new hands and arms. Face palm being one of them ;-D. I am sure I’ll have fun with those new possibilities.

Another huge improvement are the legs. Not only the shape in general but some small engineering changes that make all the difference. The legs seem straighter. And the hip joint makes poses possible that have been difficult before- or at least holding the poses was difficult. I have not tried to pose the new body in every possible way, and my other girls on the old slim body are all sueded, so I am just showing the most obvious differences. I am sure I will notice more of them when I really start to work with her and pose her dressed.

Excuse the dolly nudity. The last two pictures show the improved hip joint engineering better than an actual sitting-up-pose, that’s why you get to see unblurred doll parts. The changed socket and how the position and movement of the joint affects the angle of the legs in comparison is pretty obvious. The legs of the new body want to close naturally, while the old legs tended to drift apart. Draw a line from the knee to the ankle and you can see that the new foot is now where the center of mass would be when the doll is standing. The line has moved from slightly outwards to straight down. Balancing the doll in a classic contrapposto is now possible without problems. Well done!

It’s a beautiful body, and it’s still distinguishable as a Raccoon body. I will definitively want possible future dolls with this one.

If you want to know anything more about the new body I can help you with, ask away in the comments.

The measurements of the FID curvy body are pretty close to that of the Raccoon glamorous body, although the thighs of the curvy FID girls are a bit slimmer.

Raccoon glamorous thigh circumference is 14cm, FID curvy have 13,5cm thighs, which makes them just those annoying 5mm wider than classic FID girl’s thighs. I don’t own a glamorous Raccoon, so I can’t tell if they can share pants. The stretchy Raccoon pants fit the curvy FID girl, but the cotton pants that I made for the slim Raccoon body are too tight in the upper leg. Roux pants on the other hand are too wide in the waist and slightly too long. If they were tight, they wouldn’t fit in the butt and thigh region.

The girls in a row with basic measurements: Raccoon slim body, FID curvy body, FID classic body and a JID girl body.

Like nYID girls the FID curvy body legs have a slight bend to them. I haven’t sueded the ankle joints yet, and I got the impression the classic body stands a bit more safely on it’s own without shoes.

But the curvy girls pose just as good as the other FID bodies, and the three sizes in a row show the variation in body size and shape. I think they would make lovely siblings of different ages.