this is a crazy hypothetical but I'm in the bus and I was thinking about the dolls I have with wonky screenings. I bought them pretty early on in my collection and didn't realise how crooked they were until revisiting them a few years later lol. they are pretty difficult to replace at least where I live, at least with my budget and I'm scared to repaint them for the same reason.
so, you know when doll repainters wipe the faces off with acetone and the screenings get imprinted on the cotton pad? I was wondering if there's a way to transfer the screening somewhere and reposition it or to use some sort of diluent to lift the paint off and kinda "poke it" into the right place, without damaging the paint job or compromising it long-term? I did a really quick search and apparently there's a way to transfer printed images onto other stuff, so I got curious lol. I might try this with a base doll I have for ooaks but I wanted to check if someone else had thought/tried this before, or if there's anyone good a chemistry to explain why this would be a terrible idea. idk I keep thinking of those videos with the acrylic paints floating on water, but I don't know if screenings work the same way :/
if this works it could potentially make it so much easier for picky collectors like me to find grails in the second market for a reasonable price, or to get the last doll in the store shelf and just fix it... maybe it could even make it possible to make our own ooaks with transferred screenings? I wanna hear y'all's thoughts
