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Pony Talk => Pony Brag Arena => Topic started by: balletpot on May 10, 2012, 04:27:34 AM
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I don't know if this is brag arena worthy. It's just a pony a bought, well, maybe not just any pony it's the pony that started my MLP revival around Christmas when I saw her on the internet. I thought Gusty was the most beautiful pony I had ever seen. I got her for an okay price but considering what she looked like when I got her, I think she was worth a bit less than what I payed for her.
I tried not having too high expectations when unwrapping her but the first thing I thought was "That's not stunning white, as it said in the ad, that's the most yellow white pony I've seen." (I have seen worse around the arena for instance, but for me, that was the most yellowed pony I'd seen.) Also, her symbols had some factory "glitter spill" that I later decided to remove. I wanted to give her a bath immediately, but before I did I had to check if she still smelled pony, she smelled ... cigarette smoke. :huh: So, I got a yellowed pony that smelled smoke. The symbols were okay and the hair is silky smooth but this pony had issues. She's missing a plug at the back of her mane and the front plug is very thin.
But however, I have Gusty! After a week in a plastic bag with baking soda plus cat litter, and two months of sunfading I can show her.
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The end result.
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Before. Notice the "glitter spill" on the symbol. I removed it with a toothpick, first dipped in
water then in acetone and at the end I used a paper towel dipped in acetone wrapped
around a toothpick.
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Before.
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After.
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I tracked down "her" outfit.
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And her comb.
Edit: This was my first try at sunfading and the most interesting thing was that it seemed like all of the plastic absorbed the sun, even the parts that were covered. I used to peak under the foil covering the leaves and after a few weeks when the horse was whiter, the parts around the leaves were still yellow. However towards the end when I had a look, the parts around the leaves were white too.
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aww she is beautiful now! Congratulations from a fellow Gusty lover! xxx
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She looks gorgeous! It makes me happy to see icky ponies being given a new lease on life! Well done! :)
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She looks absolutely fabulous!
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Wow... now that's an improvement! :)
You did a great job on returning Gusty back to her full glory - she looks really beautiful. :lovey:
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You did a great job! I hate when ponies have that cigarette smell.
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Gorgeous!
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Yea! Wow, what a great job! I am going to attempt sunfading a Gusty....
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Oh wow. She looks so much nicer than when you first got her. I was so disappointed for you when I read how she looked when she arrived. Sunfading obviously worked really well. How interesting that even the plastic under the foil faded!
Congrats on now owning a very, very pretty pony :)
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She's stunning :biggrin:
I myself have been looking for a good condition Gusty but most of the ones I find are indeed yellowed :huh: I was thinking about just giving in and giving her a good sunfade when I got her. The result you got is definitely impressive! I've never sunfaded before but I have a Windy here that needs it as well that I might give it a shot with
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very nice! she looks wonderful!
i have a gusty but her hair is cropped short:(
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Thank you all. Yes, she turned out lovely. I just started sunfading Moondancer, that was whiter than Gusty from the beginning but now she looks yellowed next to her. The funny thing is that my whitest pony probably is Gingerbread, who quite often doesn't age that well and doesn't stay that white.
very nice! she looks wonderful!
i have a gusty but her hair is cropped short:(
Maybe you can give her some new hair?
She's stunning :biggrin:
I myself have been looking for a good condition Gusty but most of the ones I find are indeed yellowed :huh: I was thinking about just giving in and giving her a good sunfade when I got her. The result you got is definitely impressive! I've never sunfaded before but I have a Windy here that needs it as well that I might give it a shot with
Sunfading Gusty apparently works so I a yellowed one would be fixable. I would be careful with Windy and the sun though, since she's purple. I've read that purple and sun is a bad match. They can fade.
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Wow, she looks gorgeous! Good job fixing her up!
Funnily enough, the yellowest white pony I've ever seen in person is also a Gusty...
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Yup, even her hair is yellowed, haha!
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well that is a job well done that is one lovely pony.
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She looks gorgeous now! Congratulations, and good work!
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I have a yellowed Majesty and this might just be what I need to do. Gusty looks awesome. Wonderful job!
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What a beautiful job. It can be so sad when you get a pony that wasn't what you had expected, but your result after cleaning her up and fading her must give you a satisfaction that more than makes up for it!! Well done :)
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GORGEOUS!
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Wow, she looks lovely!
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I just LOVE Gusty!She's the pony who drew me into collecting too.The most beauitful pony I've ever seen.Huge congrats on fixing her!
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Wow what an amazing restoratiOn, she looks beautiful
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I'm glad you all like her. It's almost hard for me to see her as a white pony, I'm so used to her being yellowed (even if I've only had her for about 2 months and some weeks). But I'm slowly realising that she turned out good. ^.^
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WOW she looks stunning now!! You did such a great job, congrats!
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Wow she is gorgeous! Gusty really is one of my favorites! It is amazing what sunfading can do, all of my windows are full of ponies that are fading for various reasons! Great job!
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how did you do that?
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how did you do that?
Well, first I did the general cleaning of the body with a toothbrush hot water, soap and dish soap. Then I washed her hair and used both shampoo, conditioner and fabric softener. She smelled cigarette smoke and she still did after my first clean and even though I got rid of some surface dirt she was still very yellow. As I said in my first post, the smoke smell went away after she spent about a week in a plastic bag with baking soda and cat litter. I figured the only way to treat her yellowed body was by sunfading her. I was a bit worried if the Swedish late winter / early spring sun would be enough but apparently it was. So, the no.1 reason to Gusty's drastic improvement is the sunfading. The conditioned and styled hair helps too but sunfading is what made the biggest difference. Sunfading, yay. ^.^
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Wow, she's gorgeous! :enthralled: Amazing job!
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Wow, you did a great job. She looks so perfect. Love her long silky hair!
And flowersinherhair, I have *never* seen a Gusty like that . . . what in the world happened to her??? :)
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how did you do that?
Well, first I did the general cleaning of the body with a toothbrush hot water, soap and dish soap. Then I washed her hair and used both shampoo, conditioner and fabric softener. She smelled cigarette smoke and she still did after my first clean and even though I got rid of some surface dirt she was still very yellow. As I said in my first post, the smoke smell went away after she spent about a week in a plastic bag with baking soda and cat litter. I figured the only way to treat her yellowed body was by sunfading her. I was a bit worried if the Swedish late winter / early spring sun would be enough but apparently it was. So, the no.1 reason to Gusty's drastic improvement is the sunfading. The conditioned and styled hair helps too but sunfading is what made the biggest difference. Sunfading, yay. ^.^
I have a NBBE Baby Gusty that looks like a nightmare (the hair is nice) but i want to sunfade but im not shore how to do that:(
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Now THAT is stunning white ;) You give me hope for my Gusty! She's rather far back in my restore queue because she isn't horrible, but she'll get her turn eventually. I also love the way you cleaned up the "glitter spill," I haven't seen that technique before!
Post Merge: May 22, 2012, 02:00:48 PM
how did you do that?
Well, first I did the general cleaning of the body with a toothbrush hot water, soap and dish soap. Then I washed her hair and used both shampoo, conditioner and fabric softener. She smelled cigarette smoke and she still did after my first clean and even though I got rid of some surface dirt she was still very yellow. As I said in my first post, the smoke smell went away after she spent about a week in a plastic bag with baking soda and cat litter. I figured the only way to treat her yellowed body was by sunfading her. I was a bit worried if the Swedish late winter / early spring sun would be enough but apparently it was. So, the no.1 reason to Gusty's drastic improvement is the sunfading. The conditioned and styled hair helps too but sunfading is what made the biggest difference. Sunfading, yay. ^.^
I have a NBBE Baby Gusty that looks like a nightmare (the hair is nice) but i want to sunfade but im not shore how to do that:(
There are some great tutorials on it around, if you have specific questions I and many others would be happy to walk you through the process :)
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I have a NBBE Baby Gusty that looks like a nightmare (the hair is nice) but i want to sunfade but im not shore how to do that:(
Ah, I get it. Here's the Arena tutorial on sunfading. http://mlparena.com/mlp/index.php/topic,288060.0.html (http://mlparena.com/mlp/index.php/topic,288060.0.html)
For me, there's usually a little gap between the tail and the body so I tie some string there to cover that up. Don't forget to cover the blush too! I used both foil and painters tape. It's a good idea to write down the date when you start, so you can keep track of it. Think I turned mine about once a week, depended on how much sun there was. You can PM me too if you have any questions.
Post Merge: May 23, 2012, 01:58:25 AM
Now THAT is stunning white ;) You give me hope for my Gusty! She's rather far back in my restore queue because she isn't horrible, but she'll get her turn eventually. I also love the way you cleaned up the "glitter spill," I haven't seen that technique before!
I've also used a toothpick with a folded wet wipe wrapped around it to clean off surface dirt around glitter symbols. Works excellent. Good luck with your Gusty!
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First, lol @ calling her "Stinky" XD
Major congrats on her new look! She could almost be fresh from her package!