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LAW she was dyed in teal then dip-dyed in sapphire. Her teal hair was also dip-dyed. I've wanted to do a gradient Pony for ages, & Squalina was perfect for this with the countershading sharks have.I've never owned an airbrush, & imagine it would be worse than my spray sealant in use
Hey, does anyone have any tutorials (written or video) on how to get started rehairing a small G4? I've never been able to get their heads off without breaking the neck ring, and I believe to get to the washer I'll have to remote the stump-thing that the head turns on. Does anyone have any resources onhand that could help? Thank you
Yep, I’ve only done a few G4s but I do it the same way as Sunpony. They’re a pain to get the heads off!
Quote from: lowpolyzoe on April 18, 2022, 06:08:34 PMHey, does anyone have any tutorials (written or video) on how to get started rehairing a small G4? I've never been able to get their heads off without breaking the neck ring, and I believe to get to the washer I'll have to remote the stump-thing that the head turns on. Does anyone have any resources onhand that could help? Thank youHmm...I'm pretty sure I saw or read a nice tutorial somewhere when I first customized a G4 but that was about ten years ago and I don't know how to find it now. But I can tell you how I do it currently! I assume you mean the standard size brushable G4. First, a warning - this method is somewhat dangerous as it involves boiling water and somewhat-risky use of a razor-sharp blade!So, basically I use a saucepan of boiling water, tongs, a towel, and an X-acto knife with a fresh, pointy blade. While you wait for the water to boil you can cut off the mane as close to the head as you can, and the tail unless you want to have it intact. Once the water is boiling, just put the pony right in there, and you can turn off the heat at this time if you are just prepping the one pony. Let her simmer for a minute or so. You can poke her with the tongs and she should feel soft. Pull her out with the tongs and put her on the towel - be very careful as she may be full of hot water. Use your hands wrapped in the towel to pop her head off. Now here is the part where you can very easily injure yourself. Stand the pony on her legs so the neck plug is straight up. You are going to use the X-acto knife blade to CAREFULLY cut between the white plug and the colored pony neck. Ideally your hand that is holding the pony is AWAY from the neck. I wear leather gloves and just try to be very careful about what direction I am cutting. Not only is this risky to you, but because the plug is a harder material than the pony neck, it is kind of easy to slip and cut through the neck. I will alternate between doing this and putting the pony back in the water to reheat/re-soften, until I have cut all the way around the plug. I wonder if adding acetone to the equation would help loosen the plug glue...I think I might have tried that once...hmm. Anyway once the plug is loose you can remove it and get to the tail!By the way, to remove the hair from inside the head I will pop it back in the hot water to resoften, then remove it and scrape the hair in there with some forceps/scissor blade/whatever. Alternate scraping and heating as needed. Some are easy, some are incredibly hard. Again make sure you hold the head in the towel so you don't burn your hands on the hot plastic.Anyway, it is quite the process, those plugs are really well glued sometimes, as is the hair. I usually try to do a batch of several at a time so I have a rhythm going and a constant flow of pony parts between the towel area and the pot of water. If you hate it and want a prepped G4 send me a PM, I always have several prepped ones sitting around.