I'd like to see your first ever customs!

[applejackbunny]

Here's mine... 

As you can see, she's VERY basic! And yes, it's Lyra just jazzed up a bit  No attempt to reroot her hair as I currently have no tools (or hair!) with which to do it. I just wanted to give it a go.

She has been given a single coat of pearlescent nail polish (disclaimer - I DON'T recommend using nail polish at all - this is just for my own **personal** custom which is really just an experiment and for fun. It is better to use **acrylic paint** or something else as nail polish can have a negative effect on the vinyl and become tacky/yellow with age).

She has then had a layer of glittery purple nail polish on her feet and her horn, and her eyes and symbols have been painted over with silvery/rose colour glitter polish. I think she looks cute (if a little basic!) 




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Anyhoo...I was wondering how other people on the Arena dipped their toes into customisation and how their first ponies turned out... I would love to see your pics!

Also, anyone care to come up with a name for my pearlescent Lyra...? 



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I'm also making another to go with her...I'll post when she's finished 

[flutterscotch]

This is a fairly bad photo, but I made a baby Powder about 11 years ago, and in keeping with the whole tradition of "US released baby unicorns were more muted than their adult counterparts", her stripe is much lighter than Powder's.

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I still have her.


My very VERY first custom though, was the time I took a ballpoint pen to Twilight in 1984 and made her a TAF pony, before TAF ponies were even a thing.  I have a bait Twilight on her way to replicate what I did...in a better way.

[Leave a Whisper]

I made this little guy for a friend. He has no name or symbol.

[applejackbunny]

Here's her counterpart...a baity Dewdrop Dazzle jazzed up a little to go with her friend, the as yet nameless Lyra 

@Flutterscotch - love your baby Powder! She's one of my absolute favourite ponies so it's nice to see her baby 

Leave a Whisper - was that the right link? I couldn't see a pony...


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And the two of them together...


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Any ideas for names?

[Leave a Whisper]

How strange that it did that. There we go.

https://littlekunai.deviantart.com/art/My-Lil-Draft-Horse-588712996

[Flitter]

Other than adding eyelashes to DJ Pon-3.
Transforming Design-a-Pony Fluttershy from this
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Untitled by Flitter337, on Flickr
to this
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Untitled by Flitter337, on Flickr
was my first try at any sort of real customizing.

I did RD & Luna too after.
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Design-A-Pony by Flitter337, on Flickr
Though I'm sure practice would result in improvement, I'm not much a fan of customizing. Small imperfections really bother me and I'm not awesome with paints so I've not done anything since. 

[Taffeta]

I don't have any pictures of mine. I did some weird experiments with paint and rooting years back. I never baited a good pony. Which is a good thing. I'm not really an artist.

The one that sticks in my mind is a purple unicorn with Glory's head and Bow Tie's body (Yep, made out of bits) painted in purple. She's rooted still with Glory's hair but I don't have a tail for her. She's been living in my wardrobe for about 20 years. :/

I made a Baby Masquerade and a Baby Parasol. Also a G3 Lollipop/Sweet Tooth out of Gardenia Glow (I think?) and a G3 Snowflake out of a diva Pinkie Pie. Those look not too bad.

Also have a black Powder pose unicorn with silver and white hair (I think?) and a yinyang symbol. I was a teenager. That's my only explanation. No idea where she is now though O.O.

I don't really customise and especially not on G1 now with them so hard to find. The ones I used were always common and baity, but I wouldn't do it any more on those. I have been tempted to experiment on G4 but I don't want to cut off hair :/

I do have a Galaxy somewhere who has no hair at all. I feel like she's an alt reroot waiting to happen but the problem is I don't know what colour she should be rooted O.O.

[Teddy]

Luckily, no digital pictures exist of my first custom. lol! Her name was Baby Blue Bell and I made her 19 years ago. She was a Dollar General fakie that I painted dark shimmery blue with nail polish. She had dark blue hair and a gold bell (also nail polish) for her symbol. I had no idea how to re-root hair back then, so I remember cutting a slit down her head where the mane goes and I think attaching the hair to like a paperclip or something? Then shoving it into the slit and spreading it out so it looked half-way decent. Wow, she was just horrible. And sticky. LOL!

[Mewtwofan1]

No pictures of my first ever. I’m planning on making some more in the future, after this two year break.
     My first was a galaxy twilight sparkle. I just painted over her with black nail polish than glittery nail polish for the stars and a silver and orange supernova for her cutiemark. I learnt the hard way that nail polish isn’t the best for ponies, and will keep that in mind for the future.

[Shaiyeh]

ohh my first... no pictures of that one. She was made from a fakie, and was painted with cheap, tacky acrylics and rehaired with hair extensions xD I actually don't have pictures of any of my early ponies ;_; She was white though, with gradient legs and those super heavy eyelashes that were popular a few (many) years ago ^^

[applejackbunny]

@Leave a Whisper - such a cute little shire horse, and pulling a Care Bear along too! 

@Flitter - I think your concerns are unfounded - they look great! 

@Taffeta - your black Yin Yang Powder sounds lovely. I would have loved to have seen her!

@Teddy - I laughed when I read that you didn't know how to reroot the mane so you cut a slot in the pony's head and stuffed that hair in! Definitely resourceful, lol 

@Mewtwofan1 - yep, I agree with you about the nail polish... I'll be using something else in future and only used it today because it was all I had and I was impatient to try out my first custom! 

@Shaiyeh - I bet it was still nicer than mine! It definitely takes lots of practice 

Anyone come up with any names for my two girls? If not, I'll just come up with something...eventually! 

[Wild Raspberry]

I did a lot of research and prep before starting on my first custom.  She's not perfect, but I am super, super proud and happy of how she turned out. 

http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,390050.msg1693990.html#msg1693990

She's my first full one.  I have a McDonald's pony I experimented on before though..... I hated the plastic tail so I cut it off. She never got hair or sealer, but Perhaps one day I'll finish her. Don't have any pictures of her yet.

[elish2]

Here are mine, they were g3 styling size ponies, did a whole group lol.

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[Leave a Whisper]

Here are mine, they were g3 styling size ponies, did a whole group lol.

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Those are stunning! My favorite is Gingerbread.

[Esbayne]

Here are mine, they were g3 styling size ponies, did a whole group lol.

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Excuse me as I wipe up all this drool...

Gingerbread is my absolute fave there but they are all so stunning!