The MLP Arena
Creativity => Customs => Topic started by: Cessna 150Chick on February 24, 2018, 08:57:59 PM
-
When this pony arrived, I thought I'd met my match! Here she is, side by side with a recently finished Paradise (yes, there IS a Paradise under all that grunge!)
visitors can't see pics , please register or login
The transformation is unbelievable!
visitors can't see pics , please register or login
View the whole gallery here, see her side by side again with the other Paradise:
https://imgur.com/a/3uR5g
I am OPEN for deflock commissions! I can do rehairing as well. Please message me for more info and links to more examples of my work.
-
She looks great!! It's good to see there wasn't any staining.
-
Wow, that is amazing! Great job! I'm glad there wasn't any staining!
-
You did a great job :)
-
Were the fuzzies on the pony originally supposed to be ... white? *shudder* :blink:
In any case, she looks like a new pony now. Amazing what a little love (and lots of elbow grease) can do. Nicely done!
-
This one didn't even need elbow grease! She wanted so badly to be clean again, most of the flocking fell right off after a quick boil in Oxyclean. Then a quick treatment with the special chemical I use took off the last of the glue bits. Had her done in less than an hour!
-
Super work! She is practically luminous, compared to how grey she was before! :thumb:
-
She went from Eww to Wow!
-
She was seriously the dirtiest pony I've ever seen. Her owner loved her so much as child and played outside with her ALOT! I'm so stoked to do this restoration for the original owner, who is now all grown up and a serious collector, I know how much she'll treasure this pony. Her old friend returned to beauty and a gem of her collection!
Chapter 2 will be rehairing this pony, the original hair was just too stained and frizzed. She's gonna get alternative colors and man I've got a great idea for the pattern! Yeeeee! I love doing that part!
-
Well! That's a big improvement!
Love pkw xxx
-
A world of differnce! Makes me wonder what kind if life she lived to end up in such a state. Very much a diamond in the rough.
-
Her owner loved her VERY much! And played outside alot. I'm doing this restoration for her original owner, who is now an adult collector and a member of this page.
I'm tickled it turned out so well, she's going to be overjoyed when she receives her pony back all clean and new!
-
She was seriously the dirtiest pony I've ever seen. Her owner loved her so much as child and played outside with her ALOT!
I know the flocking made them soft to the touch, but I gotta wonder what went through the minds at the designer's level. Flocking attracts lint, cat hair, dog hair, dust, dirt, etc and is next to impossible to get clean. It'd never feel like a real stuffed animal so apart from the gimmick factor, I guess they never considered these ponies would be kept for more than one generation of owners. In my mind flocking is the last thing you'd want to put on a toy that you expect kids to play with. Unless the designers just thought this was to be a collectible only...was that a thing then? I know obviously people bought them, but the whole adult collector market couldn't have been that big at that moment ... or was it and I'm up a tree again?
I'm glad you got her clean again. She's like a new pony!
-
If you're in the business of selling ponies... making one that gets all dirty pretty quickly means customers will be buying a new pony soon. The dirty ones end up on the bottom of the toy bin while the newest sparkly ponies are under the Christmas tree. Probably all about attracting the interest of kids by constantly offering up something different.
-
She looks like a brand new pony! You did a fantastic job :)
-
Oh wow, that was one dirty pony! You did an amazing job, she looks so happy now! :lovey: