Actually they are all my favorites, some because they're beautiful, some because they remind me of real-life girls or women and some simply because they're cute.
These Girls are really special to me:
Nicky, for the way she smiles at me, she's the most adorable of my Girls
Caroline, she represents those hidden qualities that you can bring out with a bit of love and attention
Claudia, she may be different but at least as beautiful as my other Girls
Sylvia, her lovely face complements her glamorous figure perfectly
Repairs and enhancements
All those repair guides on the main page don't mean that Cool Girls are fragile or prone to breaking, most of these figures are really sturdy (I've never broken a CG part myself, apart from some aftermarket ankle pegs). It is just that I wanted to be able to repair things so I bought some broken Cool Girls on purpose !
Originally, Cy Girls were just designed to be taken out of the box and be posed, which is why the ankle cups of the v1.0 bodies were prone to breaking when the boot feet were removed. There was also a batch of v1.0 bodies made with fragile knee joints.
Once I had my first Cool Girls I planned to make some spare/replacement parts (ankle cups in particular) and do some modifications and repairs (you can find links to the results on the main page). One thing still on my list is making hands with bendable fingers.
Since I wanted to be able to repair and restore Cool Girls, I also needed to be able make pleather (leather-like vinyl coated fabric) boot sleeves and clothing, as pleather deteriorates easily and unpredictably.
Sofar I made some pleather boot sleeves, a couple of cropped jackets and a pair of shorts.
Some random thoughts and trivia
One of my main criteria for buying or making a Cool Girl figure is simply 'if she were real, would I want to date her ?'.
I try to dress a Girl in a way that matches her character (i.e. the expression on her face).
The proportions of the bodies are exaggerated by about 10% to compensate for the thickness of the clothes.
Measurements of the regular CG v2 body are 27.5cm tall, B14 W9 H14, which translates to about 165cm tall, B84, W54 and H84 (that's about 65in tall and 33-20-33 in inches) in real life, which is similar to beautiful women like Jennifer Connelly.
One major difference between the action figures and the static models in my display cabinet is that with action figures the novelty just doesn't wear off: just change a pose or dress a figure up differently and you have something new to look at.
A typical CG head has some 400 holes in which plugs of hairs have been inserted, these holes are arranged in a spiral pattern with a length of about 40 cm.
If you'd put all the hairs of a long haired CG head end to end, the total length would be about 1 km.
As my collection keeps growing I now have duplicates of some head sculpts (in particular of Ice and Cutey Honey), but sofar each of these faces has a different expression.
About this site
I've added some Javascript to the main CG page to present a randomly selected picture every time the page (re)loads.
There's some more Javascript on the 'CG related links' page: I prefer to collect all external links on a single page, with Javascript enabled a symbol points to the link that was referred to, so for example if you click a link to 'Men With Dolls Forum' on a page, the 'CG related links' page opens with a hand symbol pointing to the external link for the 'Men With Dolls Forum'. With Javascript not enabled no hand symbol is shown so you just have to find the proper link on the 'CG related links' page yourself.
I've added CY Girls style 'ID cards' to all the Girls pages, listing details about the figure and the date on which she joined my collection.
I've added a head sculpt code to the 'ID cards' of all true Cy Girls, this code is engraved in the back of the neck of each CG head sculpt. There are some surprises with these codes, some codes are obviously reused for a new sculpt of the same figure. The biggest surprise to me was finding a CG01 code on the Ash v2 head.
To celebrate 5 years of collecting Cy Girls, I added a click-able picture of all the Girls in my display cabinet to the Action Figures page.