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Quote from: Carrehz on April 02, 2021, 02:20:44 PMHm yeah, could someone w/ an account edit that bit out of Mimic's article? I'd do it myself but I don't have an account on there; maybe it could just be rewritten to make it clear that's speculation and not proven fact?I'm running off to work right now, but I caught this and edited the article. Left the sought after part there as she is... well, sought after. We're just not sure why.
Hm yeah, could someone w/ an account edit that bit out of Mimic's article? I'd do it myself but I don't have an account on there; maybe it could just be rewritten to make it clear that's speculation and not proven fact?
Update: I experimented a bit with different dye colours to create my custom mimic. First, I tried the neon Rit dyes (a combination of neon yellow and neon green) on a custom blank pony. Unfortunately this type of dye does not seem to work. I ended up boiling the pony for 1 hour within the dye until it had some colour and of course the pony was burnt by then. I believe that the issue was that this type of dye is for fibres that contain up to 35% synthetic materials, so not ideal for ponies. I then tried the Rit dye for synthetic fibres, although they do not come in neon colours, so I tried a combination of the daffodil yellow and the peacock green colours. I did not boil the pony this time, but had a stainless steel bowl on low heat instead. Fortunately, I tried it on the burnt pony from the previous experiment, because this one was a failure as well, as I probably put too much dye and the end result was a khaki-green-coloured pony. At the final attempt, I used the neon colours again with a tiny bit of the synthetic colours on a new custom blank pony, which worked, although most probably it was the synthetic colours that did the work. I think the result is quite good and the colour seems very close to that I see online. I included a link with a picture, although I think the colour seems more yellowish than it actually is.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XB4wDVAACrtBDef-P8Mz9vAD39nq3BTe/view?usp=sharingSome tips in case you want to experiment as well: 1. use just a little bit of dye (better to submerge the pony a couple of times than to end up with a very dark colour), 2. I suggest to use a ratio of about 1:10 (G:Y) of green and yellow, although you might want to try out different ratios, 3. do not boil the water- heat the water in low heat instead, 4. as the first attempt might be a failure, you might want to get a spare or two of blank ponies, or experiment on a white bait first.Hope this helps