Aaand the retro G1s continue...

Maplemeadow

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It's been a busy day in the workshop. Changed my shy pose girl to a Cheerilee since sometimes, you just have to go along with what the lady is telling you...

Plus I saved tails from a Lemon Drop, Cherries Jubilee (remember my Pinkie Pie??) and Dancing Butterflies (my 2nd Fluttershy) to start work on a Princess Cadence. Anyone any good with sculpy??
Lol She'll need a horn at some point.

Plus I got a yearning for a Lady Amalthea after seeing someone's avatar and I love shining up old Moondancers....
This girl has recycled white hair from a much larger horse doll and I'll probably have enough to do 2.

Lastly, I have a Medley bait that cleaned up really well so I used " Willow " from Retrodollsuk to do a reroot. She looks a little mermaid-ish to me, but maybe I'll stick with the musical theme for her cutie mark.

Hope you enjoy...I'll post more as I progress with the painting...
 

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They’re all looking great! :smile:
if you don’t wanna work with clay on the horn, a little paper-mache over a toothpick works pretty good for all things like that :)
 
They’re all looking great! :smile:
if you don’t wanna work with clay on the horn, a little paper-mache over a toothpick works pretty good for all things like that :)
That's a great idea...thanks for the tip!
 
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Hahaha IMPOSSIBLE cutie mark to copy! I'd need to be a "real magician" for that...but she was fun to work on.
 

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This one was soooo fun! I took the darker Fluttershy from before and redid her dye job. She doesn't show as much discolouration with the black and I used a splash of purple to muddy up the yellow and make sure it didn't show through. The flash shows more marks than she does to the naked eye.
The hair is a combo of salvage from a bait Sprinkles, and leftover Oxford Blue and Black nylon. Plus, for each black hair plug I added only a strand or 3 of Silver Slipper...so it really does have a starry effect.
I got a tiny scratch in the glue while dying, so her eye will need a tiny bit of work to make her stop looking so crazy, but overall...not too bad
 

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So I kept working on the re-dyed black Surprise and wound up with what I'm now calling "Moonstorm"
And the bait Sunbeam had a bunch of regrind on her face (which sucked! She was one of my first ebay purchases and I was soooo disappointed with the quaility of the lot I got) so I made her even more blue with dye...I tried paint first but the acrylic never really matches, texture wise.
I had seen a Thor pony and thought, "yep...cool idea!" So now dirty Sunbeam has become Mjolnir...hair is a combo of Silver Slipper (from @Retrodollsuk ) black and her original tail.
 

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Re-pinking and restoring day today...
I figured out flutter wings in the oven with iridescent craft foil and a sculpy "form"
They are a pain in the a** so not going to be doing more than my 6 original flutter ponies from the 80's.

I've had this Rosedust since I was a kid and she's always been a personal favorite. I just love how she turned out
 

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Bait lots are always such a hit'n'miss lol
I got the near mint hat and apron for Scoops from one lot and a dirty hairchopped Pony from another.
A little bit of scrubbing, rehair with original wisteria hair from dollyhair and some eye touch-ups, I think she looks 1000x better.
 

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From a box of baits leaps a fully restored Firefly...this was my first try at getting glitter symbols back up to snuff. Even my superfine glitter isn't quite fine enough but I think she looks miles better
Snatched a tail from a Majesty (that I'll post later) and here you go
 

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Ok so before anyone gets too many feelings about this girl, let me just say that this was a personalized gift for my friend. He's Gitxsan northern nation and I asked specifically if he would a) let me know what authentic tattooing for his culture looks like and b) if he would be offended if I tried to emulate the traditional art style. The answer is he "LOVES her" and thinks "she's fantastic" so I'm calling that a win.
Feather and abalone charms are old jewellery of mine. This Blossom base was super faded and had no tail. She took about 10 mins to turn a lovely chocolate shade. Paint is a combo of acrylic and nail polish sealed with mod podge...it was still damp in the photos but has since dried lovely and matte
Hair is a combo of black, white (from the our Generation horse I did earlier) silver slipper (the last of it) Moondancer tail, and kirsch nylon from @dollhairemporium
 

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