New doll in the house, she is a Tonner Martha Jones from... 2007? 2008? (I feel fairly sure Martha was no longer on the actual show by the time this doll appeared, but I could be wrong about that.)
What put me off this doll for the longest time was the very pale lip colouring. I don't know why but pale-lippy-against-dark-skin only seems to work on humans not on dolls. Luckily though the contrast is not as apparent as the photos on ebay suggested, so I am glad I decided "What the hell I can always repaint maybe" even though I can't repaint at all. She is staying as she is, she is lovely.
Martha has the Tyler body, which is new to me as somehow I have managed to resist most Tonner dolls (I am sure that is about to change -- Martha needs friends!) except err the City Girls and the Ellowyne's from Wilde Imagination. I don't know how much she looks like Freema Agyeman but it's not a horrendous likeness (see the Tonner Tenth Doctor doll for a truly terrifying face). I am not good with faces, maybe she looks more/less like her to people who are not me.
Martha's clothes are also great, she wears stuff Martha wore on telly so that you know she is Martha not just some random woman. I was wary of breaking tiny zips so I didn't check if the jacket would close over her chest but it looked like it would be a tight fit. Despite years in the box I am happy to report that she is not stained/marked anywhere, though her earholes were not very keen on taking earrings and I didn't want to force the issue.
I wonder what she would look like with her hair down, but not enough to remove it from the Recognisable Martha Pineapple Hairstyle that she arrives with.
She is currently sitting naked on my desk as I procrastinate about making her an outfit. I don't have Tyler patterns yet so I shall be trying her out with other dolls' clothes and seeing it any of those patterns could be altered to fit her.
Oh, and the Tyler body is less extreme than I had thought it was, which is good to know. I always seemed to picture her with a scarily tiny waist and massive shoulders which are only a bit like that it turns out.
