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- Feb 2, 2014
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Because a robot with a chainsaw is exactly who you'd want customizing ponies! Honestly I prefer restoring figures but sometimes that just won't work. Sometimes you need to do something drastic.
Silverlight and Lucky Star. Silverlight was a BBE Sundance with highlighter marks and rusty eyes. Trying to de-rustify them made the lenses cloud and slough off. I was trying to dye her black to convert her into a non-BBE baby but I kind left her on the stove too long and the pot boiled dry. The great irony is that she is STILL NOT BLACK. Seriously. She has a grey hind foot.
Lucky Star's creation was a lot less dramatic. I was trying for something like the My Pretty Pony I had when I was little. She was a pindotty birthflower pony with terrible, terrible hair! Dyeing didn't go quite as I planned. The pindots picked up blue coloring for some weird reason while the rest is a brownish grey. I used some unlabeled mystery hair from Dolly Hair.com and it refuses to be tamed. Suitable for a wild-looking horse, though.
I think I'm calling this one Mirrormoon. She's a magic motion Sundance who had some weird color issues and badly rubbed markings. Unfortunately I didn't think to use heat shrink on the spinner mechanism and tail, tried to reuse the original sheath instead. Her tail does spin but it behaves kind of weird. She's gorgeous even if she's a bit dysfunctional.
Pickledilly! She's my favorite thus far for obvious reasons. She was made from a mold-invested Medley that came in a random lot. It was terrible! She stank like death and trying to bleach some of the spores just wound up reactivating them instead. Boiling and dyeing killed the little blighters although her color is a little uneven and you can see lighter spots where the molds used to live. Those pickles just look so, so happy.
Soon I'm going to experiment with waterslide decals and I sincerely hope it goes well! I have a couple others in progress, too, another G2 MM Sundance and a pretty blue G1-style fakie with shrimp. Really. Happy blue shrimp.
Silverlight and Lucky Star. Silverlight was a BBE Sundance with highlighter marks and rusty eyes. Trying to de-rustify them made the lenses cloud and slough off. I was trying to dye her black to convert her into a non-BBE baby but I kind left her on the stove too long and the pot boiled dry. The great irony is that she is STILL NOT BLACK. Seriously. She has a grey hind foot.
Lucky Star's creation was a lot less dramatic. I was trying for something like the My Pretty Pony I had when I was little. She was a pindotty birthflower pony with terrible, terrible hair! Dyeing didn't go quite as I planned. The pindots picked up blue coloring for some weird reason while the rest is a brownish grey. I used some unlabeled mystery hair from Dolly Hair.com and it refuses to be tamed. Suitable for a wild-looking horse, though.
I think I'm calling this one Mirrormoon. She's a magic motion Sundance who had some weird color issues and badly rubbed markings. Unfortunately I didn't think to use heat shrink on the spinner mechanism and tail, tried to reuse the original sheath instead. Her tail does spin but it behaves kind of weird. She's gorgeous even if she's a bit dysfunctional.
Pickledilly! She's my favorite thus far for obvious reasons. She was made from a mold-invested Medley that came in a random lot. It was terrible! She stank like death and trying to bleach some of the spores just wound up reactivating them instead. Boiling and dyeing killed the little blighters although her color is a little uneven and you can see lighter spots where the molds used to live. Those pickles just look so, so happy.
Soon I'm going to experiment with waterslide decals and I sincerely hope it goes well! I have a couple others in progress, too, another G2 MM Sundance and a pretty blue G1-style fakie with shrimp. Really. Happy blue shrimp.
