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« on: February 13, 2012, 08:13:34 PM »
Beautiful job! The way you captured her motion is exquisite!
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« on: February 13, 2012, 08:01:07 PM »
Hmm. I'll have to try the lotion or oil thing. I think I had read somewhere that vaseline works good too. I have tried just water, but no matter what I do, the clay always seems to be too sticky.
I have tried tips the website has, putting it in the fridge for a bit.. But still.. Sticky.
I seem to have a hard time getting good details with it due to how it sticks to the tools. Ill have to try the oil/vaseline/lotion though.
When it comes to some details or smoothing stuff down, I have noticed that sandpaper just doesn't seem to cut it.. Has anyone used special tools for refining details when the apoxie has hardened? Ive looked into buying a dremmel rotory tool, one with changeable bits for sanding and buffing and cutting and engraving and stuff, but I haven't been able to afford one.
If you've got a pretty new batch, it just stays sticky for a while after you've mixed it. Try letting it sit for a half hour before trying to work with it and see how that goes. As it gets older, you'll have to wait less and less.
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« on: February 13, 2012, 07:48:26 PM »
A few years back I looked into this, and as I recall the cutoff for something being considered a "hobby" was $400 or $500. Very few people make enough from ponies to have to worry about it. Even when I've been big into selling them, my actual profit was probably only a few hundred after paying for the big lots I got. Now, this was four or five years ago, so with all the attempts to break into the money that internet sales are getting things could be different, but if you're just selling a couple of ponies here and there you should be fine.
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« on: February 13, 2012, 11:27:17 AM »
I'm positive I saw a custom where someone had done this years ago. I don't remember who, but the whole idea seems so familiar to me (and as a non-coffee drinker, it's not something that would occur to me on my own). So it should work!
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« on: February 13, 2012, 11:24:53 AM »
You can use a bit of oil on your skin so that it doesn't stick to you as much. I've tried emu oil and lanolin, but I'm sure there are others you can use successfully.
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« on: February 12, 2012, 12:09:48 PM »
Since you're not changing them otherwise, give them their original colors. The people who are going to want them are collectors who want those specific ponies. Just make sure to mark them as rehaired in a discrete place like the bottom of a hoof.
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« on: February 12, 2012, 12:06:20 PM »
Honestly, the best option is a spray booth, which is basically a box open on one side that has a fan (the sort of thing like in an oven hood, not the kind you use to blow air around) and filter that sucks the paint particles (or fumes if you're working with chemicals) away from you. There's fancy expensive ones you can buy or you can do various things to make your own. My dad's is basically a plywood box with a fan, an ac filter shoved up against the fan so stuff gets sucked through it, and a light on this inside so you can see what you're doing. As you noted from your work, those particles get aerosol-ed and end up everywhere, including your lungs, so it's a safety issue as well as a cleanliness one. While I would hope food coloring, being a food product, isn't going to do you much harm from your work, paint is another matter altogether. It's always been kind of worrisome to me how cavalierly the pony community treats this stuff.
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« on: February 11, 2012, 02:58:06 PM »
Apama was my first: visitors can't see pics , please register or loginMy favorite has to be Ixion. visitors can't see pics , please register or login
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« on: February 11, 2012, 02:54:30 PM »
I'll be bringing four.
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« on: February 10, 2012, 07:55:20 PM »
Thanks for all the comments! Ixion is one of my all time favorites, so I'm especially pleased by the recognition there. 
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« on: February 10, 2012, 11:23:13 AM »
I've been gone for quite a while, just have felt really crappy and between my inability to customize because of that and the boringness of G3.5, I just kind of fell off the boards. I'm doing a bit better lately though and with some help from a friend, I was able to get started on a new pony. While I'm waiting on hair for her, here are some customs I never got posted anywhere previously. Click on the links if you want to see all the pictures! Christmas Cactus http://www.firebyrd.net/mlp/2008/christmascactus.htmlvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginDragon Dreams http://www.firebyrd.net/mlp/2008/dragondreams.htmlvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginIxion http://www.firebyrd.net/mlp/2008/ixion.htmlvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginRapunzel-For sale for $50 plus shipping http://www.firebyrd.net/mlp/2008/rapunzel.htmlvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginRave-For sale for $20 plus shipping http://www.firebyrd.net/mlp/2008/rave.htmlvisitors can't see pics , please register or login
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« on: February 09, 2012, 10:12:54 PM »
Yeah, a bunch of us have kids these days and my husband will have to drive me (which means the kids come too), so a family friendly place is a must. I have no preferences beyond that since it's all a long drive from Ogden. The difference between 45 minutes of driving and 50 isn't enough to matter. Maybe something with one of those rooms you can reserve for parties? Nicer for both us and the other patrons that way if we're not in the big fat middle of everything. Crystal, know of anything with a banquet room like that?
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« on: February 08, 2012, 01:14:31 PM »
I've got to chime in that if you want to do a park, April 14th is not a good day. We should all know better than to trust spring weather here at this point! If you'll recall, last year at that time, it was still snowing and below freezing much of the time. Even in a typical year, April doesn't tend to be warm enough for a multi-hour activity outside like that. The date is fine for me, but I really think it needs to be inside since we can't foresee the weather forecast two months in the future.
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