Tokidoki Luna and Blindbag Luna Customs

[Iris Patch]

I customized some Lunas for myself! I am really glad she already has a lot of merch, but I wish at least one piece of the merch was show-accurate!

I don't have a real preference between S1 Luna and S2 Luna... I like the blue-violet coloring of S1, but the perpetually moving sparkly mane of S2. So I just did S1 coloring with a sparkly mane.

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This was a customize your own Tokidoki Unicorno figure I bought at Hot Topic It's twice the size of the regular Unicornos, so it was pretty easy to work with. It was nice to not really have to deal with facial features, either!
I first sprayed it with white primer, then laboriously layered up cheap craft store acrylics until I was happy with the color and I had neatened up everything. Then I sprayed it with a matte sealant. I went a little overboard with it and some parts looked "dusty", so I wiped it down with a wet rag and now I like it fine.

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This Luna used to be Cadence! I masked off her tiny little eyes with masking tape (I knew there was no way I could freehand it and have it look good) and sprayed her with white primer. It was the exact same process as the Unicorno, I painted both at the same time. I specially mixed the bottles of paint to get those exact hues of cyan and blue-violet. Halfway through I decided it was too blue and remixed the paint and repainted them both. I used the tiniest brush to repaint her irises, I almost didn't do it because I was afraid I'd mess it up. I also touched up the white in her eyes, it was sort of pinkish because of the underlying plastic color.
Can I just say what a pain in the butt her mane area was? There are parts that are so hard to reach, like between the mane and wings that I had to fix a lot of stray paint marks.

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These were pretty fun to do! I have a few extra ponies that I want to make into customs too, so this shouldn't be my last customs forum post I just need to learn rehairing stuff and buy the tool off someone and then I can expand my repetoir.

Hope you enjoyed looking at my work!

[Shiromisa]

Princess manes are the worst to paint! I always end up getting a bit on their leg or back and have to touch it up. But yours look great, good job!

[Galactica]

They look fantastic!

[disturbed-rainbow]

Love those, Luna is a great pony.

[Diamond]

Nicely done on both, nice smooth paint jobs.

[moonsugar]

Oh, so pretty!

[Rosencrantz]

UNICORNO! That's so cute!

[Sunshine]

I've always wanted to see a DIY Unicorno finished, she looks great!!

[Colorscapesart]

I love the Luna colors you chose!  Both girls are beautiful!

[Alipes]

Wow, both of them turned out fantastic!  I have one of those DIY Unicornos sitting around that I need to figure out what to do with.  Yours is a very inspiring finished product!  Great job!

[kaoskat]

They both look awesome! Great job!

[StoryDreamer]

*grabby hands* the tokidoki luna is amazing

[Morosan]

oh cripes! that Tokidoki is ADORABLE!!!! ^_^ 

[achab1984]

Pretty!