Tangen doll - tin head

This doll was my mothers, she got it right after World war II. I have mentioned the doll earlier on this blog.
Her head is made of tin. 

Her body was worned out and the fabric was in really bad shape. And when I was a little girl I stole som paint from my brother, and I gave the doll a real makeover. That did not go well as you can see.

Found out that I had to do something about it. So in  the summer (2016) I startet to take off all the bad paint with a paint remover.

It took a while, but the weather was good, and the beer was cold and tasty. I had plenty of time to sit outside in the sun, and let the paintremover do its job :)

 All the bad painting is gone.

The shoulder plate was some damaged to. So I had to remake it. She has after all went through some fights during her lifetime.

 I sanded down the plaster I had on, but I forgot to take a picture of it.

Almost finihed painting the head.

Got hold of a body pattern, but it was too small for the doll. Started looking up for another body pattern. But it was also too small. So I went on designing my own body pattern. And that one fitted the head well.

I also got hold of some new arms for the doll. I had some legs too that I thought I could use, but they were a little bit too small for her.

The dark spots on the body is a nylon sock filled with glass beads. Sadly you can see it through the fabric. And the head is still not attached to the body.

Started to sew on the head. Note to myself: Next time start to attach the head on the back first. Had some difficulties with the sewing needle and the last stitches.

At last finished. Some new clothes on. And she is ready for to join the other dolls in the family.

Moms doll Rine from Norsk Lettmetall AS

This old doll belonged to my mom.  I belive her original name is Tangendukka.

My mum was about 3 years old when she got it. So it had to be about 1946, right after world war II. The head of this doll is made of metal. I belive it is aluminium, but I am not sure. The head came from a dollfabric who was named Norsk Lettmetall AS.
The clothes were knitted for Rine at the same time my mom got the doll. 

As you can see she is ugly painted...And I have to admit that I did it... when i was about 7-8 years old (ca 1970). 

I snook into my elder brothers room and stole some of his enamel paint. 

I am not so happy to think about it today. But then I wanted to paint her so she could be beautiful again ...
Yeah right!!!  She really didn`t come out so well after the repainting as you can see. So I have to get rid of that ugly painting I did some years ago. No need to say I will NOT start crying....

The fabric for the body is worn out. The fabric will tear apart if you take a hard grip around the body. I may have to make her a new body... but I do not know if this will make the value of the doll going downward? Is there anybody who could get me some more information about  that? 

I played with her throughought my whole childhood. And she was also used to defense my self when me and my friends got into a quarrel... guess who won??

I, me and myself also repaired her severel times, as you can see. I was not the best in class for that either.

The outcome is: I have to do something with her.