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« on: July 31, 2018, 08:48:04 AM »
I'm looking for a craft material to use for pony wear, besides cloth. Something that holds its shape when cured but is still flexible and bendable, sorta like polly pocket clothes or Tempest Shadow's removable armor. Basically I need something sculptable that I can still easily remove from and put back on a pony once its fully set.
Does anyone know of something commercially avalible like that?
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« on: July 26, 2018, 07:49:01 AM »
Acetone does nothing to the 'all about's ds murals. I can remove the eyes and the nds cutie mark with no problem, but the murals resist my attempts. Does anyone know how to remove that?
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« on: July 26, 2018, 05:28:50 AM »
Does anyone have a list of G1 ponies sold in the us/north america that were not sold in Europe or the uk? I'd like to eventually trade some of my G1s for european G2s, since G2s are so hard to find in the us, so I'd like to know which us ponies are rarer in europe.
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« on: July 02, 2018, 04:03:48 PM »
And what to do with all of them.
I've been on a bit of a pony shopping spree lately and have ended up with a lot of okay/fair to near bait condition common G1s: Peachy, Moondancer, Firefly, ect. The problem is I dont know what to do with them all. I only want to keep one or two of each pony for my personal collection, but I'm worried that okay condition common ponies wont sell for much or at all, and might just be baited if they do sell. Especially if they're ones I've restored (most of what I've aquired needs symbol touch ups and a few need rehairing).
I'm worried about the fate of these girls, but I'm running out of room in my makeshift pony workspace for all of them. What should I do with them?
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« on: June 25, 2018, 05:18:21 PM »
G3 heads have a lot of glue inside them. So much glue that my usual method of bait prep hair removal (digging around with hemostats and pulling out chunks) usually does not work. I have broken a pair of hemostats trying to remove G3 hair.
So, does anyone have tricks for removing the hair roots/getting through the glue? I've tried boiling water to little success, and steel tools for carving clay with slightly more but still not consistent success.
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« on: June 22, 2018, 04:52:49 PM »
I have a second-hand Powder who's hair is neither in terrible contion nor great condition. The white has faded to a translucent-y yellowish color, and is quite thin and dry feeling.
I like my collection to look nice, and I think she would look much better with new white hair. But I know a lot of collectors hate rehairs and prefer everything to be original.
I'm not really planning on selling Powder any time soon, but I also dont want to contribute to the 'destruction' of all-original G1s. If I'm only keeping her for my own collection, is it okay to rehair her?
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« on: June 19, 2018, 06:33:35 AM »
Acetone can only go so far, and jasco scares me too much to go near. Has anyone tried deflocking damaged so softs with a product like goo gone? Their website claims its safe on paint and plastic, so I think its worth a try. But asking for others' experiences first before trying it myself seemed the best plan.
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« on: June 18, 2018, 12:31:39 PM »
Hello! I recently got back into pony collecting after an almost six year break. Its been a long time, and I am not the same person as I was when I made this account.
Call me Gray, or sparkleskye, or just Skye. My gender is lunarian (look it up) but I dont mind being referred to as a girl. I'm 20, living in Texas with my mom as I try to get my health sorted out. Chronic illness more or less runs my life right now.
I began collecting way back in 2012, after watching mlpfim for a few months, and after remembering the two ponies my grandparents gave me when I was much younger. Those two were Sparkleworks and Autumn Skye, and though I've lost my childhood Sparkleworks both ponies now live on in my username.
I collect all generations, though I prefer G1 and G2 and mostly collect baity G3 and G4 to turn into customs.
My favorite pony that I currently own is brush n grow Bouquet, who has all of her beautiful hair intact and a still functioning mechanism.
My ultimate grail is merry go round Flower Bouquet, I simply adore her colors and design and want to own one myself more than anything.
The best part of pony collecting for me is restoration. Because of my limited budget I cant afford mint ponies, nor do I really want them. I love taking ponies most would consider bait and restoring them back to their former glory. Seeing an old, well loved pony look beautiful again makes all the hard work and frustration worth it.
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« on: June 10, 2018, 08:16:22 AM »
I am very very new to customs, about all I've done is prepare bait and rehair one G4. I also don't have much artistic talent in general. I want to customize, and I have all the supplies I need to do it, but I am frozen in terror at the thought of messing up a custom and that fear has kept me from even attempting a face up.
Does anyone else suffer from this fear of failure? Or have any tips on mitigating customizing disasters when they do happen?
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« on: June 07, 2018, 02:43:40 PM »
I've recently come into possesions of some extremely well loved g3s. The insides are organge with rust and brown with dirt and its quite disgusting. I've removed heads and let them all soak in a hot oxiclean bath, rinsed them out, and scrubbed as well as I could with toothbrushes and q-tips, but I can't reach everywhere with this method and a lot of the ponies are still dirty inside. Any suggestions for cleaning these girls?
Most of them are too baity to be saved regardless of interior grime so I'm not terribly concerned with preserving symbols or hair.
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« on: June 02, 2018, 08:05:03 AM »
I have a chronic illness that leave me bedridden most of my day, both from pain and lack of energy.
I love toy collecting/restoration/customization, but lately I find I usually cant get out of bed to work on my collection. I have a spare room full of ponies in need of restoration or customizing, and yet no work is getting done on them despite how much I want to.
Are there any other collectors out there fighting chronic illness? What strategies to you use to work on your collection despite your illness?
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« on: May 28, 2018, 07:30:46 AM »
I’ve recently come into possession of a G1 Beach Ball with extremely frizzed up hair. She’s from the sunshine pony set, so the white streak is meant to turn purple in sunlight, which mine sort of does but not very vibrantly. The problem is I’m not sure there’s any hope to tame her factory hair into anything presentable, but there’s no replacement hair on the market that turns from white to purple in sunlight.
I’ve also heard that heat will ruin sunshine hair, so boiling or using a straightner is out of the question, but I can only find one source on that and no one else agreeing or disagreeing, and I’m hesitant to test it myself.
Should I go ahead and rehair with a normal white? Or keep the frizzy mess of her factory hair?
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« on: July 30, 2012, 07:41:36 AM »
Hi  My name is Cassy Tyler (not my real name, im kinda really cautious about revealing anything on the internet. everyone just knows me as Cassy Tyler) I live in Texas and it is sooo hot here, but at least I dont have to worry about humididty conspiring with mold to infect my ponies like i did in Louisiana. Im a teenager, and I go to high School. I'm a viper! Hiss! ...i dont really care, I've never been into football much(or any sport for that matter) I've been colecting for all of 2 months now, but I do have a sizeable collection of around 90-100, split fairly halfway between G1s and G3s. I have 3 G4s (two I bought from walmart, and one (a first release Rarity) from my local-ish GoodWill) I have one G2 and she is one of my favorites, a not movey/posable Lightheart with a year stamp of 1997 which many G2 identification websites dont think exist *shrug* I got into collecting after having owned a Autumn Skye since i was 7ish, and then finally discovering MLP:FiM 3ish months ago. I would really like to get more G2s since i think they are very pretty and would like at least one to customize. sadly i dont have any "rare" ponies except a Minty which i think might be rare but she has a really bad hair cut so she has lost a lot of her value  now for some non-pony related info! my favorite TV shows are (in no particular order) Doctor Who, Merlin, Sherlock, Danny Phantom, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Lost and a few others i cant remeber right now. I watch Youtube a lot, Vlogbrothers, Charlieissocoollike, littleradge. I went to Vidcon last month! it was sooo awesome (vidcon, video-conference, the comiccon for youtube) I play video games Ratchet and Clank, Pokemon(I <3 all gens), Assassin's Creed, Portal, Super Smash Bro's Brawl. I want to play Half-Life but i dont have enough money, I spent it all on ponies... yeah thats it! again, Hi!
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