My Miniature Pony! (Pic Heavy!)

[Safflower]

Hello everyone! I wanted to show my tiny pony and Ponyland inspired by SugarCharmShop on youtube. Pics in the spoiler

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Firstly, the Ponyland in a tin! Outside it looks like a regular Altoids Smalls tin...
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But on the inside, it is a tiny version of Ponyland! The trees, pond, and flowers are inspired by G1 pamphlets. The rainbow represents the G1 logo It is made out of polymer clay and paint, glued on to the tin.
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Now on to the little pony! Keep in mind the clay is dirty because it is white polymer clay after all and picks up every piece of dust ever (My hand looks weird because I was trying to hold still for pics, lol! )
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"How tiny is she, Safflower? She looks kind of big in your hand," you ask? Well, here is a size comparison to my Lemon Drop: She is about as big as one of her bigger drops.
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Here she is prancing around in her Ponyland
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Boy did she take long! I made the Ponyland months ago, but couldn't figure out how to make a mini pony to go along with it. Finally, this past week I figured out and today I finally completed her More pics and more about the process in the spoiler.

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I got the idea to make a mini Ponyland after I saw SugarCharmShop's video on youtube. I just had to make it! I already had the empty Altoids Smalls tin lying around so I used that. I put a green sheet of polymer clay in the bottom and a blue one on top. I made sure the top could close, then added the path, pond, etc. I also made the clouds separately. I then baked everything, took off the sheets of clay, and then glued them down. I painted the clouds, added them, and painted the rainbow. Here are some extra pics
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Now, the little pony's process. After I made the Ponyland, I tried to make a pony. The first tries didn't work out well. I did half first, but it was too flat and I couldn't make the other half. I watched SugarCharmShop's video on mini G4s closely and realized I needed to consider her 3D, not two halves, so I made the body and legs first. I used a rounded log of clay and added four tiny snakes and smoothed them. I made about 3 of these, and all of their legs broke off. So then (yes, it was a long process which took months of experimenting, lol ) I figured I had to do the delicate parts last and the most stable first. I made a bunch of log bodies and two heads, then baked them. I realized then that I would surely mess up if I did just one, so I picked the best head and body and put them aside. I then took the other head and the second best body and attached them to practice. I learned from that and did it on the better parts, and it came out well. I then baked both. Then I added ears to the practice pony, learned, and did it on the better one. I baked them again, and added a mane on to the practice. It turned out badly, so I took it off. I developed a new mane making style and put it on the better pony. All that was left to do was the horrendously fragile legs and tail. I tried doing the legs first bake, then add tail, but it broke, so I knew I had to do them all at once. So I did, and it worked! Then I went to take pics and her legs broke. I re did them. Front legs broke. Did them again. Front legs broke once again, so I did them one last time. Then they finally stayed, so I took pictures and was done with it! Here are some more pictures.
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This pic is of the carnage. Bodies, so many legs, and my practice pony

Anyways, I'm hoping to make a mold of her somehow and cast her in resin so she will be less fragile. I also want to paint her to resemble the only white pony in my collection, May Lily Hope you guys like her!

[NsMLPonies]

So cute!

[Goanna]

Oh my goodness, how precious!! I have a big grin on my face right now from how cute this is!

[Leave a Whisper]

Simply adorable!

[Mewtwofan1]

Oh gosh I am dying of cuteness right now! That is just simply wonderful. I must see if I can make a little one for myself to put in my locker...

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Sooooo tiny and adorable!

[Safflower]

Thank you everyone! I've been practicing painting her eyes on my first attempts and me practice pony. I've been trying to figure out how to make a mold of her to make more ponies, but I'm failing. Any tips?

[Griffin]

That's superb! I made a miniature pony a while ago but she was nowhere near this small, yours is tiny. I love the tiny little Ponyland too!

[Taxel]

Thank you everyone! I've been practicing painting her eyes on my first attempts and me practice pony. I've been trying to figure out how to make a mold of her to make more ponies, but I'm failing. Any tips?

The Blue Bottle Tree has some articles about mold making that may be able to help. I haven't read them in a while.

Though it will be hard to mold something so small in that sort of shape. I can't imagine a way you could do it with a 1 part mold using polymer clay and I don't know if resin could work on something so tiny. Either way I'm sure there are tutorials you could find somewhere!

[Safflower]

Thank you everyone! I've been practicing painting her eyes on my first attempts and me practice pony. I've been trying to figure out how to make a mold of her to make more ponies, but I'm failing. Any tips?

The Blue Bottle Tree has some articles about mold making that may be able to help. I haven't read them in a while.

Though it will be hard to mold something so small in that sort of shape. I can't imagine a way you could do it with a 1 part mold using polymer clay and I don't know if resin could work on something so tiny. Either way I'm sure there are tutorials you could find somewhere!

Thank you! I searched a lot of articles and read the ones you suggested, and I think I know what to do. I will probably cast her in silicone if I can find some. It is the only thing that is not a putty or something of the like so she won't break her legs off!

[leonaenae]

SO ADORABLE!! Like a mini mini Polly Pocket =3

[ponycake]

Omg sooooooo cute! I wish I had the patience to do one too.

[ponyqueen]

So super cute!!

[Gingerbread]

Sorry to echo everyone else but that is so cute!

[tailrustedtealeaf]

Reminds me of the Teeniest Tiniest Pets from LPS! Very cute!