MD Meet "Mildew Ponies" Before and After!

[lizstaley]

I have some before pics of mine, but no afters yet. I'm still doing a little work on them, especially the babies. I'll share pics soon!

Elisto, your picks look great! I'm wishing I had snagged one of those sea ponies when I had the chance.

[Buddafly]

I took some pics of my girls after tooth pasting their tails... haven't uploaded them yet though, and they're now currently sitting with their hair curled and drying.  hopefully some decent pics tomorrow of final outcomes!

[kamakazee82]

they are most definately restores lol cause you have fixed the ickiness problem they had lol

might not have been rehairing, painting eyes/symbols, scultping a horn or whatever else, but they are still restored to their original selves and they are AMAZING! a lot of people wouldn't have given them a second thought until they maybe went to bait em and in prep saw how good they came out

[Prince Primbrose]

Wow, Elisto, all those ponies look incredible! Good work! If only all ponies could be cleaned up so well.

[MsTwilight]

I got a couple of them. They are soaking right now. I will try to upload pics soon.



Elisto: Yours look great! I hope mine come out half as nice!

[Elisto]

Thanks! Although, really, some are more discolored than they look in the picture, which is why they're sunfading now. But surprisingly, the rust came out of their tails fairly well!

Though, truthfully, I'm a little put-off when people equate dirty with "baity" or in need of restoration... we all wash our clothes, or at least try to, not cut them up or get rid of them just because they're dirty, I hope!

[butterflybuttons]

They look great now!!!

[Summer-blade]

I cleaned my mildew ponies today they look so much better now and all it took was a quick wash and a Magic eraser. Baby ember and Sunlight (?) look great Sundance still needs another wash but I got her for bait anyway 

[MoongazerThePony]

Wow! I thought ponies like that were unfixable!!

[Buddafly]

so my 3 girls are still stained, but they look a million times better!  once I get some sunlight, I'll snap pics and post em!

[Baby Sugarberry]

Dirt/rust/grunge is probably one of the *most* fixable problems, congrats to everyone who rescued some of the poor things.  I like your analogy Elisto; we most certainly do not throw out our clothing simply because it's dirty!


Especially when G1 ponies are far harder to replace than a shirt or pair of pants. 

[lalalei2001]

They look so happy now!

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Borax, really?  I am sooooo tempted to get some gloves and some Borax and try this out!    I like organic cleaners so it would be nice to see how well it works on my ponies. 

What FANTASTIC restorations! 

[lizstaley]

Okay so, I took a LOT of photos. I'm going to throw the link to the Photobucket album link here to let everyone see all the results. I'll share a few highlights here though:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v230/lizstaley/Custom%20Ponies/Mildew%20Ponies%20Before%20And%20After/

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Poor Medley is still in bad shape. And Hearthrob's NDS is not great either. I don't know if sunfading would help anyone? Gusty has yellow on her back leg, and Glory has a huge brown blotch on her belly still. I know I can sunfade them, but can I sunfade the non-white ponies?

Also, any suggestions for how to style Hearthrob's hair?

The ponies cleaned up really well, to my surprise. And their hair is gorgeous, aside from Baby Blossom. Firefly had to have her tail washer replaced. All three babies had tail rust, so I had to rip their tails out, treat the rust, and then put them back in. Normally I don't care for the baby ponies, but these three sort of stole my heart. It was their little dirty faces that made me start digging in the bag and rescuing ponies in the first place.

[Prince Primbrose]

Wow, even more amazing results! You guys are making me want to go find some filthy old ponies to clean up myself.