I've talked with others who use oven bake clay on ponies, and they say to just keep a close eye on them while they are baking. I'm currently sculpting on a g3 with fimo, so I'm just going to be watching the doll as she bakes.

Oh man this gives me such anxiety  !

A lot of the "baits" I'm restoring are missing pieces. Entire legs, ears, horns, parts of faces, etc. I'm comfortable with using sculpy from other art projects and know it can be used for custom ponies, so I figure it will work here. Could someone point me in the right direction when it comes to solidifying the material onto the body? I don't want to melt the original pieces. Thank you!

I can't believe I didn't find out that they showed up there sometimes until THE WEEK that my Tuesday Morning closed. 

I just rehaired my first pony today, but she is a Perfume Puff so I didn't use "regular hair" for her. I have a few "bait" girls that are in DESPERATE need of rehairing in order to restore them to their former glory, but I don't know where to look to make sure I get the right colors for each pony. I wasn't sure if this belonged in "customs" or here, so apologies if I posted in the wrong spot. I've made new tails from DollyHair hair before, but would rather not use them again. I don't have the money to troubleshoot on my own. I need to know what to buy before I buy it, and I need it to be a US based site unless they have really reasonable shipping.

Thank you for any help you can give me, arena members! I tried to search but the search doesn't work for me.

ETA: I'm most urgently trying to match Dazzleglow, if anyone has specific info for her.

Friend! Hi!

Thanks for getting me into MLP ❤

Hey, girl! I'm so glad you're here. 

This is unfortunately common with heavy smokers - they lose the ability to smell smoke / nicotine.  Glad you got a settlement that's (hopefully) fair for all involved.  The good news is as mentioned, it's usually possible to get the smell out of toys with enough time and patience.  Be careful if you're going to wash your RB dolls and/or sprites, and for the love of star sprinkles keep them out of the dryer.   Dryers can be hot enough to partially melt the plastic poly-fur and the yarn hair does not take kindly to rough handling.

I've already fixed them, and definitely did not put them in the dryer.  All is well in Rainbow Land!

Anybody know what image hosts work on the arena now that PhotoBucket is over?

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I think that it is possible to get smells out with good airing and so on. My North Star was clearly a chain smoker when she came to me but now she smells just fine. One of my birthflower ponies stunk of car oil but she's also better now after spending time outside.

Definitely complain to the seller, though. That seems deliberately misleading to me.

That part about North Star cracked me up! Glad to hear she's uh, kicked the habit.

Yes. Between her smoking habit and Shady's hallucinogenic sunglasses there were some definite social problems in the movie star set. It just goes to show that not all ponies can handle fame...

  I love this conversation.

I've decided I'm keeping the dolls, but I'm leaving negative feedback. I don't want to send them back (especially the basically mint besides the smell Tickled Pink) so I'm restoring them. I'm still really irritated that the seller blatantly tried to scam people, though. Hopefully she doesn't leave retaliatory feedback, bc she hasn't left any yet even though we paid literally seconds after the auction ended.