Peaches and Batuk’s Plethora of Beautiful Pony Babies

Oh, do I have updates for y'all!

As for the ponies in the last update, here they are post-styling! I'm especially proud of Puzzlemint.

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Now for an update I've been especially excited to share: the restoration of the Apple Delight family! Well, mostly Baby and Daddy. Mommy was just a little dirty and her mane was a bit frizzy; she had a standard cleaning and styling and was good as new!

Baby Apple Delight had the driest mane and tail I've ever seen on a pony. I could count the individual strands from ten feet away (probably helped by being farsighted, but I digress). So after many unsucessful attempts to heal her 'do with heat, I resorted to an experimental treatment: dipping her mane and tail in pure, undiluted fabric softener, wrapping them in thin sheets of magic eraser for max absorption, and leaving her to sit for a few days. And surprisingly, it worked wonders! A cold-water wash was all she needed after that, then onto styling she went.

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Daddy was a project I started on months ago and then abandoned during my hiatus. I decided it was finally time to give him the luscious mane he deserved! If I was left bald and headless for half a year, I'd at least want that sort of courtesy granted to me. It was my first full rehairing job, and after many broken needles and much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I got the hang of it, and I'd say I did pretty good.

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Look at this lovely family! Ah, I'm so proud of them~

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I've got some more ponies that need new manes, but until their hair arrives, my current goal: untangling the extremely tangled manes on my plushies. It's a process that takes an average of an hour and a half per plush so far. Fabric softener could be renamed Skin Drierer, because when I finish I just wanna soak my fingers in a big ole' bucket of melted shea.

(I'm so sad I forgot to get Before shots of BAB Twilight, her mane was just a solid wall of tangles. I honestly didn't think I'd be able to make it work. Fluttershy's probably gonna get the same treatment as Baby Apple Delight, because those ends are BEGGING for help.)

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And, excellent news: Jazz Hooves arrived last night! I tried styling her to look more show-accurate. I'm not happy with her mane and will probably redo it, but the tail is perfect.

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I love that shade on Denim Blue. You’ve done amazing work on them all! :Flutter4:
The Apple Delight family look so delighted with the work you’ve done with them! I’m sure Daddy Apple Delight understands why it took so long. How could he possibly hold a grudge after having that mane completed?

Those plushies look brilliant too! Plushies always seem the hardest to me to do. No matter how careful and how much I brush and look after my Ty Dashie’s mane, she seems to try to make her own hair tangled somehow.
 
Bit of a lackluster update, but I wanted to share this fakie I found and gave a makeover today! I’d hoped to make her tail more full and thick, but maybe it’s because I used saran instead of nylon (it’s all I had on hand that really looked good with her color). Either way, I’m still proud!

She’ll need detail work once everything dries and settles because I had to tie her hair plugs into knots and then set it all with a thin layer of glue (she doesn’t have plugs in her head, just one long, open hole; her original hair was threaded through a piece of flimsy plastic that was just loosely hanging out in her body), then there’s the issue of her oversized head and disposable cup-quality plastic making her top over constantly… I might try gluing magnets to her feet and putting her on a magnetic platform of sorts, but I fear that’s one of those ideas that’s great in theory but idiotic in practice…

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peaches2217 said:
Bit of a lackluster update, but I wanted to share this fakie I found and gave a makeover today! I’d hoped to make her tail more full and thick, but maybe it’s because I used saran instead of nylon (it’s all I had on hand that really looked good with her color). Either way, I’m still proud!

She’ll need detail work once everything dries and settles because I had to tie her hair plugs into knots and then set it all with a thin layer of glue (she doesn’t have plugs in her head, just one long, open hole; her original hair was threaded through a piece of flimsy plastic that was just loosely hanging out in her body), then there’s the issue of her oversized head and disposable cup-quality plastic making her top over constantly… I might try gluing magnets to her feet and putting her on a magnetic platform of sorts, but I fear that’s one of those ideas that’s great in theory but idiotic in practice…

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The new hair looks really nice on her! Good choice on the color :)
If the magnet way doesn’t work you could always just glue her to some sort of base
 
peaches2217 said:
Bit of a lackluster update, but I wanted to share this fakie I found and gave a makeover today! I’d hoped to make her tail more full and thick, but maybe it’s because I used saran instead of nylon (it’s all I had on hand that really looked good with her color). Either way, I’m still proud!

She’ll need detail work once everything dries and settles because I had to tie her hair plugs into knots and then set it all with a thin layer of glue (she doesn’t have plugs in her head, just one long, open hole; her original hair was threaded through a piece of flimsy plastic that was just loosely hanging out in her body), then there’s the issue of her oversized head and disposable cup-quality plastic making her top over constantly… I might try gluing magnets to her feet and putting her on a magnetic platform of sorts, but I fear that’s one of those ideas that’s great in theory but idiotic in practice…

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Nice colour choice, how did you find putting the tail in? It looks as if the plastic would’ve been too hard to take her head off. As for a way to make her stand, maybe she needs something around at least one hoof? I’m not sure thought

I once accidentally ordered saran because I didn’t know it was a different type of hair. I just thought it was a colour shade. Now I know the difference
 
StormMaeker said:
Nice colour choice, how did you find putting the tail in? It looks as if the plastic would’ve been too hard to take her head off. As for a way to make her stand, maybe she needs something around at least one hoof? I’m not sure thought

I once accidentally ordered saran because I didn’t know it was a different type of hair. I just thought it was a colour shade. Now I know the difference
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She actually splits in half! The problem was keeping her in one piece throughout the process. For the tail, I just knotted five or so larger plugs and poked them through her tail hole one at a time.

And that was my mistake too! Saran is waxier and doesn’t play well with heat. I’m not a fan of working with it, personally, but I’m still quite new to rerooting and such and I got the saran from a sorta sketchy website, so maybe it was just this batch…
 
peaches2217 said:
She actually splits in half! The problem was keeping her in one piece throughout the process. For the tail, I just knotted five or so larger plugs and poked them through her tail hole one at a time.

And that was my mistake too! Saran is waxier and doesn’t play well with heat. I’m not a fan of working with it, personally, but I’m still quite new to rerooting and such and I got the saran from a sorta sketchy website, so maybe it was just this batch…
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So it’s heat it doesn’t work well with? I just couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t seem to do much with it. I had thought maybe that was it though, heat. It just doesn’t feel as nice as nylon either… when I was making my custom Cranberry Sauce, I thought it was just the red until I got out the purple and then found out that was the same. I ordered black too but I still haven’t opened it and I’m hoping I didn’t accidentally get that as saran too
 
StormMaeker said:
So it’s heat it doesn’t work well with? I just couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t seem to do much with it. I had thought maybe that was it though, heat. It just doesn’t feel as nice as nylon either… when I was making my custom Cranberry Sauce, I thought it was just the red until I got out the purple and then found out that was the same. I ordered black too but I still haven’t opened it and I’m hoping I didn’t accidentally get that as saran too
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Yeah, saran’s not nearly as nice to work with for me. It doesn’t hold any shape well except for Flat and Straight. (I took that picture immediately after styling her hair, so by the time I get home today I expect it to be laying flat.) I do like the silky shine it gives off though, I’ll give it that much!
 
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While I’m stuck at the mechanics for the next several hours, I might as well update our thread!

First and foremost, I’ve reorganized my shelf. I need a new one something fierce. I couldn’t fit everything on here and the G3s have spilled over onto the G4 shelf. Maybe I’ll hit up some garage sales tomorrow, weather permitting…

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I’ve done a few more rehairs! I had both a Desert Rose and an Autumn Crisp whose hair needed fixing something fierce. It seems I forgot to get a picture of Desert Rose…

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I also wanted to show this off! I tried putting Nurse Redheart’s hair into a neat bun. I sorta succeeded, so long as she’s positioned at a certain angle and you don’t bother trying to look from anyplace else.

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And last but not least, my next big (?) project: this Cadence! I received her from @MustBeJewel alongside a ton of other G4s (and a G3), and I latched onto her for some reason. Her tail was beyond saving — tail rust was the least of her worries — so I gave her a new one and combed her mane to a shine. She had glitter on her wings and horn at one point according to MLP Merch, so that’s my next project: re-glittering her! Pray for me. I’ve never worked with glitter in a pony-adjacent project.

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She is looking awesome! Those curves can be a killer. I'd add more water to the areas that indent in more to spread the paint out more.

as for the cancer spots beneath the glitter, I painted over it with glitter. I mixed ultra fine blue glitter with tacky glue and painted it on. It hid the cancer spots nicely. Though my paint job isn’t perfect.

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Here's my outcome with Majesty:
 
Try one more thin coat and let it dry, I think its pretty close!
 
peaches2217 said:
SHE’S HEEEEEEEEERRE

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She’ll need a good cleaning and some paint touchups before she’ll be ready to send out to Batuk, but thanks to everyone here’s kindness and watchful eyes, our Grail Pony is finally ours. We can’t thank y’all enough!!
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So fabulous!
 
Such good condition! And I love the hair colours, such a beauty!
 
So beautiful!! Congrats to you both! I love the colors!
 
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