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Arts & Crafts Corral / Re: 2015 Holiday Art Swap *WORKING*
« on: December 06, 2015, 08:40:41 PM »
I totally forgot a teaser pic before I shipped it yesterday  -_- I also forgot a picture in general, but it's pretty I promise! *goes to watch it fly to it's home*

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Off Topic / Re: The Once Upon a Time Discussion thread *Spoilers*
« on: November 30, 2015, 08:14:48 AM »
I think it's more for the sake of the Beauty and the Beast story. At the end of the movie Beast has to become a hero and nearly die for both parties to realize their love. Rumple has nearly died, but not necessarily in a heroic way, so now he needs to be the better him, and go forward without malice or cowardice, not relying on Belle for support and genuinely be a better man. buut I could be wrong. *shrug*

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Arts & Crafts Corral / Re: 2015 Holiday Art Swap *WORKING*
« on: November 28, 2015, 08:13:37 AM »
I'm pretty much done with the ornament, now to extras! my cat keeps trying to eat the hanger on the ornament  -_-

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Did you get my email?  :blush: I was having issues uploading it how I normally would >.<

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Arts & Crafts Corral / Re: 2015 Holiday Art Swap *WORKING*
« on: November 21, 2015, 11:11:05 AM »
For me, I don't care as much if it's pony or not :3 I also don't care if its a decoration or ornament, and, so long as the glitter isn't everywhere I'm cool with that too. Oh! but no plastic ribbon please, my cats eat it -_-;

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Off Topic / Re: My coloring book is done!
« on: November 19, 2015, 09:32:51 AM »
Thank you! it is on Amazon as well now. Createspace gives me slightly more royalties, and it's link is easy to get  to, just go to the createspace website and add /5867196 to the address and you'll be right there! Amazon, just search for the title and it'll come up. I appreciate any word-spreading. Layla's go fund me has about 8,500 of 50,000 so we have a long way to go. (edit)

[Best to PM about details on Layla if interested--MA]

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Arts & Crafts Corral / Re: 2015 Holiday Art Swap *WORKING*
« on: November 18, 2015, 11:01:06 AM »
I'm excited! I'm eager to get started!

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Pony Corral / Re: Very challenging pony cleaning project - advice wanted!
« on: November 18, 2015, 10:55:26 AM »
I love oxy-clean. Get a tub of warm water, put oxyclean detergent in the bottom, inside the ponies, etc. let them sit, repeat. It's worked wonders for me.

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Off Topic / My coloring book is done!
« on: November 18, 2015, 09:56:27 AM »
So, for the last little bit I've been working on a coloring book, in hopes that I could sell it to help My friends family pay off her one year old niece's cancer treatment (she has stage four Neuroblastoma) I'm happy to say that it's now being published. I'm excited and super nervous! If anyone wants a link to the book or the gofundme for the little girl, please pm me. It's not on Amazon yet, it should be within the week, it's called "To the Ends of the Page."

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I'd like to do seven swans and I heard the bells on Christmas day, if that's okay  :blush:

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Customs / gauging interest for a Charity auction
« on: November 15, 2015, 10:32:09 AM »
Hi all, so my friends little niece has Neuroblastoma.
*link removed per site rules -kkat*
we're all trying to raise money as much as we can and I was pondering if I did auctions for customs (and probably art commissions, even though that's a different board), uf there would be any interest? I know some people here have done charity commissions in the past, do you have any advice?
I'm not sure where to put this, I'm sorry if it's in the wrong place, >.<

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Customs / Re: the G4 snow globe pony tutorial is here!
« on: October 30, 2015, 08:09:26 AM »
Thanks for posting this I have a bunch of questions!

With the snowglobe body ponies could you put the bottom hole on the back feet?

For sealing the wings would any kind of waterproof sealer work and how visible would it be?

Would anything like this be possible (but with just the liquid and not the butterflies)
http://www.officeplayground.com/mobile/GetImage.ashx?Path=~%2fAssets%2fProductImages%2fpi4200-4399%2f4317_LiquidButterflyPaperweightMini_1.jpg

I wonder if the snowglobe wings could be used on a snowglobe Princess for an ultimate snowglobe pony
I believe you  could, so long as when your sealing it you can rock the glitter to the other feet.
So, I use E6000 a lot and it's pretty much clear. the sealer will also be right next to the wing holder thingys which are sort of visible, so it shouldn't show up too much.
I've wanted to do that a lot to XD so long as you find the right consistency of oil and put it in prior to sealing it, it should work. It wont be as dramatic as either of us would want it to be though. The caveat is that if you don't want your pony to have a moving head, you could make the neck hole bigger which theoretically could then accept oil.
hmm let me check.... okay, so the princess snowglobes have a bar in between the two shelve holders. Take that out and the snowglobe wing holder looks like it can fit.

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Customs / Re: the G4 snow globe pony tutorial is here!
« on: October 29, 2015, 07:01:01 PM »
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I'm sure I would have wrecked a few ponies trying to figure this out. I'm excited for the second half!

Is Celestia's body the only one that reacts badly to acetone? Did you find you just had to remove her mark a little at a time?
So any of the snowglobe ponies that have the water in their body and the wings of the ones with the glitter in the wings react poorly to acetone. they're made out of a different plastic, like Monster High dolls bodies. It sort of melts them. But if you take it of slowly, you hopefully won't get to the melting point.

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Customs / the G4 snow globe pony tutorial is here!
« on: October 29, 2015, 04:55:33 PM »
You asked for it (twice, actually) and I finally got around to doing the first half so here we go~

Spoiler
For this, I use:
a hot knife
a dremel
cardboard or something to put my bits against when they get covered in plastic
ponies
boiling water
resin or apoxie
a watertight glue
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First we start the way we do with all g4's, boiling them and taking their heads off. In my case I'm rehairing Celestia so she gets a haircut too.

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 the winged snow globe ponies need a little additional boiling to get the glue on their wings to loosen so you can take them out. The tail will come with them.

After that, I took a hot knife to get the wing attachments out. There's a hard plastic rod holding them in along with glue, so you have to cut along both sides to the top of the attachment.

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 Celestia's wings are similar. they have two shelves that keep them in. Cutting along the opening where that shelf is will free them.

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 We now have headless, wingless glitter ponies!

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 Celestia gets to have two holes drilled into her. one is in her neck and is where I put in and take out the water. You have to be careful if you plan on having a head that moves. The entire plug will melt and often come off. you can combat this by taking breaks every few seconds or if you have an attachment that allows it, drill it in water, like you would a precious stone. On that note, be careful when playing with these ponies in general and molten plastic is hot and often what you get when making holes.

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 the second hole is in her front hooves. This is to get the glitter out and in. For the snow globe wings I make one hole in each wing that looks a lot like this one.

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 after you get the glitter and not really water out, this is what we're left with. From here, personalizing is a lot like other ponies, except that Celestia's body will react badly to acetone. If you can put it only on the cutie mark, and only sparingly. Or, just paint over it.

I haven't taken photos of the finishing process but I'll try to explain it to the best I can. Celestia will get new wings out of a mold of my own which will be sealed in with resin. On Tinkerbelle I got the tail out by cutting away the barrier between the wings and the rump, I don't suggest that. Everything I was trying to seal in ran down her tail until I noticed and plugged it with some silicone. This time I made the tail hole bigger.
Next plug the neck hole with your finger, put the glitter in along with a table spoon and a half of glycerin (more or less, it doesn't so much matter) a long with some water. Make sure all of this ends up in her back hooves or as close as you can get it.
The next part is sealing her hooves, you can use apoxie if you don't need the translucency. If you do, you can make a mold for resin out of pretty much anything. I have monster clay, but you could use duct tape or another clay so long as you put  wax paper at the bottom.
Once everything is sealed, fill up the rest of the pony using the neck hole and a lot of patience. the neck hole is small so it takes a while for water to get in. You can try to add more glycerin here, but I don't suggest it, since it has a higher viscosity.
last, use something to plug the hole. If it's apoxie just stick it in, or if you can find something clear (I use clear silicone) to plug the hole and then put e6000 on top of it. I suppose you could also use a low temp hot glue gun.


For the wings, it's a little easier. Put glycerin, water, and a plug in. glue it shut, then reglue it to it's holders. In my case, I'm actually putting lights and feathers in instead of water so I just need to make a channel for the cords in the holder and glue them back together.

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what an amazingly dumb place to put something. you may be able to contact the recycling company too. they have to sort things, especially if they contain different plastics.

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