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« on: November 14, 2012, 10:02:59 AM »
How many hanks of 38" kankelon hair does it take to rehair a G4 styling pony? I ask because I ordered the hair back on the 31st, and barely received my order today. Which is normally all well and good, but I ordered 2 and 3 hanks of each and only received one of each. Each baggie weighs the same (except for one of the ones that I ordered 3 hanks of, which weighs a good 3 grams less then all the others), so I'm positive Tina didn't combine hanks into only one baggie.  I plan to cut the hanks in half so the hair is not quite so long anyway, but it doesn't look like I'll be able to get these styling cusotms rehaired in time for the convention tomorrow. So I'm asking about needed quantity in the hopes that I might actually have enough to finish them, but it doesn't look good.  (Yes, I'm emailing Tina.  )
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« on: October 24, 2012, 05:35:11 PM »
This is the pony I made for EgyptianDragon for this year's Halloween Swap.
She was very fun to make, if a bit messy!  I was inspired by the conversation earlier in the swap, when people were sharing though creature pictures from the video game. She's not what I originally had in mind (she doesn't have a costume, really), but I love how she turned out, so no worries.
She started out as the purple dancing pony (whose name I can never recall). One of the first things I did is decide I didn't like her rear hind leg sticking out like it normally does ('cause she's dancing), so I cut it off, along with the left rear leg of a duplicate bait, so she would just stand. I glued the leg in place with superglue, then meshed it up with Apoxie Sculpt.
While that was drying, I made her a beak out of DAS paper clay, as I wanted the texture of it for this purpose. I made the hook on her beak by using the shaft of my clay pointing tool (a pencil would have worked too, though).
After that she got her wing frames put in. I used the tutorial by Eiriel, and though the twisting wires gave me some issues (the plastic kept tearing while I was twisting; wish I knew how far apart to insert them...), that went fairly well. I ran into trouble shortly after than when I couldn't get the clay feathers I was making to stick to the window screen material. Like, at all. So, she was shelved for a bit.
After a few weeks, inspiration struck, and I got my Apoxie back out. I mixed it, and ran it through my Sculpey clay machine until the fourth or fifth setting, and wrapped it around the wing forms I had made, covering both the top and bottom. Once they were dry, I painted her butt and rear legs, then went to work with the feather boas. Originally, I had a small length glued to her head, too, but I really didn't like how it looked, so I put that part off for a bit. I cut the boa to the length it would take to go from her body to the tip of the wing and a bit to curl around it, and glued them in place individually, using krazy glue (my glue of choice). Once I was done with the right wing, I painted her beak and added her toes with Apoxie.
Once the glue on the right wing was dry, I trimmed the edges a bit so it looked neater, and checked for any obvious gaps. Then I realized that if I wanted to give her a cutie, I'd better do it before I put the rest of her feathers on, or they'd be in the way. While waiting between stages of painting for that to dry, I also did more coats on her beak and painted her feet and her eyes (for variety, I did the pupil and outlines in royal blue instead of black), then used Sparkle Modge-Podge for more stars in the area immediately around her cutie before sealing the painted areas. Then I did the other wing, which went a bit smoother than the other, because I knew what I was doing this time! Sort of. 
Once the left wing was done, I thought on how I wanted to do the head and body feathers. I'd already tried trimming one edge of the boas flat, so it would lay properly, and this was a very messy thing to try. Then it occured to me that I'd bought a 5-color pack of Fun Flock for another custom, and didn't have plans for 4 of the colors - including the black. And the bottle of Modge Podge that I've never used says it can be used as a glue. :3
I didn't know how well this would cover the original body color, though, so I painted the areas that were going to be flocked with a quick layer of cheap black paint before I flocked. Flocking was done on smallish area at a time; I don't think I ever did more than maybe 1-1/2 square inches at a time. I folded a sheet of paper underneath her to catch the extra I brushed off (and I finally have a use for the two 1/2-inch square paintbrushes I've never used!). Once the flocking's first layer was on, I checked for how thick it was, and added more layers as needed.
Then I did her hair. I am loving this hair blend, and will have to use it again in the future. It's mostly Sour Grapes and Hematite, and has some highlights in Arctic Frost and Star Light. I'd gone over the mane holes with the Fun Flocking, so had some trouble finding them again; I'm positive the lines are a bit wobbly, but I'm not sure how much that matters in the long run. Once the mane and tail were done and her head back on, I had to touch-up some of her facial flocking (only to be expected, I suppose). So, she was done! Now for her base...
To keep her upright while I was working on her, I wasn using a piece of steel from the decking section of the hardware store; it was great for holding her in place while I worked! Since she still had megnets in her hind feet, and I liked how she looked standing better than "running" (the pictures of which you shall never see, as a side note ), I grabbed a scrap piece of 1x6 and glued the metal piece to it, then wrapped the whole thing in green felt, added some brown Fun Flock, and added the headstone to it.
Viola! One Hippogryph custom pony, complete with Halloween leaf bags full of gummy-type candy. 
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I think I will definitely be making more of these. 
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« on: October 22, 2012, 08:43:29 PM »
Okay, I put all this effort into a pony that I just finished rehairing, and glued the plugs so I could put the head back on and add the finishing touches. And the head goes on fine, but there's neck ring showing! A lot of it! Like, a shelf of neck ring even! And I look and get the head facing the right way and then it hit me - I used a Sunny Daze II body and grabbed a Sunny Daze V head by accident!  I custom-blended the body paint for this pony - and don't have enough to repaint another body. I could potentially repaint another head, but I don't have enough of the main mane color anymore. Plus, I added deedly boppers to her head - and I know I don't have the same materials for replacing those!  I was thinking of wrapping her hair up and putting a ring of apoxie sculpt around her neck to blend the two together; pretty sure I have enough of the body color to paint it to match. But, will Apoxie Sculpt stick to something that's already been sealed? Or, am I sunk? Customs-wise, this is like, the greatest of moments shattered by the worse of moments. Bah! I'm gonna watch an ep of FMA and go to bed.  Edit: Okay, I stand corrected, looking at the images on Strawberry Reef, it might not be a Sunny Daze head at all; the head looks like the one to Pinkie Pie's walking shy pose, but it's white. Not sure whose head this is now. Regardless, makes a point for keeping heads and bodies together. 
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« on: October 22, 2012, 11:14:05 AM »
For those who don't know (and sorry if this has already been posted!), Fleet Farm's holiday catalog is out! Therein be ponies! They have the standard sized ponies advertised for $3.99, and styling ones for $12.99. They also show the regular ponies as being Apple Jack - with sideways bangs. I don't know if htat means they have a store of the orignal style ones or not, but still bears checking out. Happy pony hunting, everyone! 
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« on: September 11, 2012, 05:12:11 PM »
I'm asking because I have a bottle of Palmer Prism's Pearly Glaze, and I'm wondering if I should be going over it with a dealer or if its good by itself. Thanks! 
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« on: September 04, 2012, 09:11:45 AM »
Okay, back years ago, when my brother and his wife first started dating, I had recently started customizing ponies and had brought some with me to our DnD game to prep for customizing while food cooked and we were otherwise waiting to start. She saw me decapitating a poor, plastic my little pony toy (a G3 if I rememebr right; it might have been a G1). And, despite being a "goth inside" (she comes across more like a party-going sorrority girl) she was very disturbed by the idea that someone would cut the head off a pony toy. So of course I started grinning in amusement at her disturbance. This disturbed her even further. Fast forward to Spring of this year, they've been married about three years, and I come to find out that she's never gotten over seeing me do that. Anytime my little pony comes up, no matter the circumstance, her mind goes back to the image of me cutting the head off a pony, and she's disturbed again. She claims I ruined her childhood, she can no longer stand ponies, etc, etc, etc. (Personally, I think she needs to build a bridge and get over it, but I'm not her.) So, yeah, I traumatized my sister in law, and it's apparently been a bone of contention she's had with me for years. So! Am I the only one with this problem? 
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« on: August 26, 2012, 06:10:02 PM »
I'm working on sorting ponied and getting them in storage, since I currently lack display space. The boxes I use, I can get 2 layers of G1 ponies, with something in between so the second layer can stand properly. Right now, I'm using some light tagboard, but I'm not finding an "acid-free" notation on the label, so I'm a bit concerned about using it if the storage turns into long-term. The candy we get at work comes packed with styrofoam between the layers, and we're allowed to take it home if we want. I have sheets ranging from 1/2" to 2" thick, and it should be a treat to cut down. So, Styrofoam sheets between the layers - good idea or bad idea? I've no way to find out if this stuff is acid-free, and is probably use some on the top and/or bottom too. Any thoughts? Thanks, everypony!
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« on: August 16, 2012, 06:01:40 PM »
Going through my ponies for sorting and insurance purposes (never know when fire may strike, though we all hope & pray it never will), and I came across a Tall Tails whose mechanism isn't terribly enthusiastic. Which is the say, it'll flip the the left, but only if you squeeze really hard. Well, her head is loose - looks almost like it was never glued, really - so I took it off and found that the main part of the mechanism is plastic, except for this thin, u-shaped piece of metal in the front, just behind the shoulders. Which is now totally rusted. Now it is attatched to the rest of the mechanism with four plastic knobs that go through holes in the metal piece, but if i can get it out, I might be able to replace it, right? Before I try, has anyone ever attempted this before? If so, how did it go? Thanks!
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« on: August 12, 2012, 12:16:52 PM »
I'm using Kimsite's Dream Valley site to ID ponies so i can finally put up my poydex, and I have a cutie issue. Dream Valley says UK Love-in-a-Mist's cutie is supposed to be a large red heart with a purple arrow rhrough in surrounded by smaller red hearts. My pony has an aqua arrow, though. Is this common? Or does this mean I have a different county here? She's branded as made is China. Please help a confused girl out! Thanks everypony!
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« on: August 01, 2012, 10:47:58 AM »
I may not be in time for the Holloween Swap (oops!), but I can still share these two gals. ^__^ visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginThese are two of the customs I've been working on since the start of the year. I have others coming, but I haven't finished their hair yet. All in all, I'm happy with how these two gals turned out. The only thing I'm not really happy with is Mystic Fire's eyes; before I did her hair, I intended for her to be a guy, so didn't do anything fancy. I'm debating changing that, but am not sure how well the paint will go on over gloss sealer.  Anyway, both of these gals are for sale - Flower Dots for $35, Mystic Fire for $45. Please PM me if you're interested. I'll also be posting them on DA and FA, so watchers there will see them again. You'll have to wait to see the other 6 customs until after their hair is styled, though! 
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« on: July 26, 2012, 12:57:42 PM »
I currently have 9 ponies whose hair needs styling, one rabbit pony I'm painting, 6 FBRs I'm working on, and 8 sculpts going. What's everypony else up to?
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