The Munzerlite Lamp Restoration: Progress report

There's some lovely Munzerlite dolls out there, 

and the fashion now is to display them as they are, 

in all their faded glory.

But I was commissioned to dress the lady up
as close as she had been.
I'm happy to touch up her paint, but I don't want to

damage or compromise the original.

With that in mind, here is the doll as she was given to me.

and the back.

I had a rare miracle, when I painted her.

I'm a little smug 

(all right, very smug)

about my ability to match a colour by mixing paint

but this time I didn't have to mix anything.

I had an ivory coloured acrylic 

and it was a perfect match

right out of the bottle!

I've used the paint to pad out chips and flaws.

 and refine some of the features. 

I was lucky that the detail painted on her face

was pretty much unscathed and just needed touching up.

After some research on-line, 

I discovered that some of the best preserved 

Munzerlite ladies had rosy cheeks and sultry eyes, so

I used powdered artist pastels to give her some rouge and eye shadow.

I sprayed on some sealant, 

dabbed on the powdered pastel just like make-up

and sprayed over everything to seal it.

She did have a rather shiny finish when I got her,

so I'm assuming that a glossy skin is the right way to go.

Now I have the silk and the wool felt for her hat 

and we may be looking at getting her finished!

I'm going to miss her when she's gone.