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Customs / Re: How do you pop the head off a G2??
« on: March 03, 2012, 04:06:09 PM »
That's a brilliant idea! Mocha softened up when she was boiled, so this little gal should too. Thanks!

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Customs / How do you pop the head off a G2??
« on: March 03, 2012, 03:50:56 PM »
I've got a baby G2 (pink body, yellow hair, yellow smiling sun) who's missing her hindlegs. I want to turn her into a tiny mermaid or naga, but need to remove her head for rehairing. Is there any way to get it off without having to slice through her neck? There's a mechanism holding her head in place I haven't encountered before, like an odd plug. Are all G2s constructed this securely?
 

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Customs / Re: The Mocha Remake - Photo update!
« on: March 02, 2012, 01:39:56 PM »
Thank you everybody! I updates with some more photos of Mocha after she was cooked, poor thing. The horrors she goes through for my amusement!

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Customs / Re: best way to remove glue?
« on: March 02, 2012, 04:20:12 AM »
Ah! Glad to hear it worked :D

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Customs / Re: best way to remove glue?
« on: March 02, 2012, 03:27:47 AM »
Be careful with soaking though, it could damage the plastic. I was overenthusiastic with acetone once, and it ended up 'chewing' into the plastic, giving the pony dents :(

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Customs / Re: best way to remove glue?
« on: March 02, 2012, 03:19:14 AM »
Have you tried Acetone/Nail polish remover? It's worked for me every time.

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Customs / Re: The Mocha Remake
« on: March 02, 2012, 01:36:32 AM »
I sniff her. A lot. I am sniffing her tail right now <.<    >.>  Mmmmmh! Now I am off to make a cup of coffeeeeeee!!

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Customs / Re: Coffee Dyeing?
« on: March 02, 2012, 01:20:29 AM »
Letting the coffee 'mud' settle on the pony can make for some awesome visual effects after it dries! You must show us pictures of this girl when you're done :D

After I posted to this thread I decided to give my coffee girl one more go! I considered giving her a full body paint, turning her into something else but then ended up buying another bag of coffee grinds. Started a new thread here -> (http://mlparena.com/mlp/index.php/topic,289175.0.html) about her ^^

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Customs / The Mocha Remake - Photo update!
« on: March 02, 2012, 01:15:31 AM »
 Back in 2005 I boiled a Strawberry Swirl in coffee and birthed Mocha! The coffee pony!

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Buuut 5 years later Mocha had faded to a poor shadow of her former glory, so I decided to give her another coffee boil which did indeed intensify her colors. Life got busy and I had to shelve pony customization and many projects of mine. Then I re-discovered the Arena, found a thread asking about coffee-dying and decided to take a look at Mocha. She had faded, again! Not as much as the first time around, but one side was more faded than the other, prolly due to light. So what did I do? I bought more coffee grinds! (And unfortunately I do not have a before photo of the faded sad-pony)

I made a large pot of coffee (used the entire bag), set it to a boil and then moved it to my sink and submerged Mocha (poor girl has suffered a lot for her gorgeous tan x3) overnight. My idea was to give the plastic much more time to absorb the dye in the coffee.
Next morning I put the pot of coffee back on the stove and turned on the heat as low as possible. She stood there for... Oh I don't know... 6-7 hours? Simmering and boiling lightly. When I did take the pot off of the heat, I put it back in the sink and left it until the content was completely cooled down. Mocha spend A LOT OF TIME in coffee visitors can't see pics , please register or login
 I took her out to dry before bed, and left her covered in coffee grinds, mostly to see if I could get any sort of mottled pattern on her.

She did not mottle but stained as wonderfully as ever! Now I'm not sure what to do to attempt to preserve her colors, maybe seal her body. I did de-tinsel her hair because it was annoying me to no end. I couldn't do a thing with it. Whatever the outcome of Mocha's new tan, this time I will finish her, paint and all, and she will not undergo another coffee boil. It is time for my girl to relax and be loved even as she fades.

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(Heh, she looks pretty boring so far )


 
I shall update as the coloring progresses!

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02-03-2012

I did more work on Mocha! Recently I got my hands on Super Sculpey, so I couldn't resist trying it out. So now she's a 3D symbol pony ^^

Mocha's colors show MUCH BETTER in these photos! I guess the light in my kitchen is better, heh!
Mocha, fresh out of the oven:

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Poor girl, she's been boiled -and- cooked!

Coffee plant and berries, plus the roasted result and of course a nice cup of the black brew. Mmmmh!

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Customs / Re: Coffee Dyeing?
« on: February 24, 2012, 02:00:05 PM »
A word of caution: Coffee ponies FADE!

Mocha was made back in 2005 and had a gorgeous brown shade as you can see by the photos, but she quickly began fading. 5 years later her color had faded horribly and her smell was gone, the paint had seeped into the plastic and she looked... Not so good anymore. I cleaned her of any and all paint and gave her another boil.

I used a different coffee so she went much darker than I wanted, and everywhere she had been painted the coffee stained much much darker. I set her aside to let her fade a little and just now brought her out again (poor thing has half-painted eyes).

Mocha's one side is still dark brown, the other has faded and her whole head as faded to a light eggshell brown tone. I haven't tried to seal a coffee dyed pony. It might hold the color better or it might all fade none the less.

So my advice is to boil the pony and then set it aside for a month or two. It will fade and its such a shame to spend the time making a wonderful pony, just to have her fade almost instantly.

(Fist post on the new board x3 I thought this place had closed down! Good thing I was wrong :D )

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