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Customs / Re: Favorite Brand of Acrylic Paint?
« on: November 18, 2017, 01:45:13 PM »
Coming from a wargaming background I used to work primarily in Citadel and Vallejo paints. Threads like this are a godsend as I still mostly paint wargaming figures but I am always on the look out for other painting options to stretch my budget as far as I can.

That said I like going to the hardware store and getting paints there sometimes. I rather like the Krylon colourmasters spray paint as it is a pigment and primer spray with good detail retention, I use it if they have a colour I want from time to time. It is really good if you do a lot of sculpting to a pony or figure as it helps seal the surface for painting.

I know Citadel paints tend to be pricey but if you find a store that carries the entire range of colours they actually have quite a large range and their base/shade/layer/dry/technical system actually works really well if you use in the proper order.

I've also been playing with Super Black 2.0, which sadly is just a really good and inexpensive black paint but it does hold detail very well and even though it can wear fast if handled without sealer sticks to plastic without needing a primer coat like some paints.

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Customs / Re: Advise from your younger self
« on: October 28, 2017, 04:53:37 AM »
JUST DO IT!

If you are going to buy stuff for customizing, just do it. Do not get emotionally attached to your half a dozen whatevers and never actually custom them. You are only going to get better if you actually do it.

Also buy an airbrush and an ultra sonic cleaner. You will hate constantly replacing paintbrushes and you will hate trying to get them clean and your work will suffer for not using clean tools. The cleaner will clean your airbrush so you don't have to, it will also clean your ponies.

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Customs / Re: Best Air dry clay?
« on: October 28, 2017, 04:46:27 AM »
It should, it all depends on how big the repair is.

One of my customs was chosen because the dog chewed on it. If you click on the link you can see my very crude sculpting job for the one wing and ear (warning I only needed to fix one wing). My sculpting abilities are not indicative of the ability of miliput to hold detail merely my lack of skill at the time.  https://nevwyn18.deviantart.com/gallery/35490281/Morning-Glory

I didn't pin or glue anything in place I just smoothed the miliput over the edges and let it dry the epoxy in it has done all the work holding it for about six years now. As long as you are not trying to go over a gap that the putty will want to fall into then milliput can fix it no problem. If you do need to cross a large gap Miliput will still work but what you will need to do is roll it into a flat sheet and cure for about half an hour so that it is stiff and then carefully put it in place. Miliput is very easy to deform when it is fresh but still very workable for 30-45 minutes if what you are trying to do is carve flat shapes to place onto a surface.

Just keep in mind that it is an epoxy so it likes to stick to things so vaseline is your friend for both your fingers and your tools.

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Customs / Re: Best Air dry clay?
« on: October 22, 2017, 01:42:44 PM »
Several years back before getting distracted and wandering away for a while, I did a bunch of ponies using miliput green stuff epoxy clay ( I had a couple tubes for wargaming) and that stuff lasts damn near forever. I did my own versions of the 4 ponies of the apocalypse plus a couple custom fallout ponies and I have never attempted to take any care of them just toss them in a box and move across country a couple times bounce them around without a care.

Green stuff takes a bit of getting used to like any other clay but it remains flexible for years without damaging.

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Customs / Re: Starting rerooting, breaking pins.
« on: October 22, 2017, 01:31:41 PM »
Yeah I was cutting my own, I tried using a couple I found with longer eyes in a needle pack (one of those round ones with like five to six different sizes) in the end I just started using the ones at work in the quick fix kits we have (I work at a hotel so we have tons of them) but they are hard to get a decent amount of hair into.

I have multiple pin drills so I don't have to keep switching between needle and drill if I need to expand a root hole but I just went through so many pins for such a small amount of roots that I wonder if there is something wrong with the pin size or type I was using.

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Customs / Starting rerooting, breaking pins.
« on: October 17, 2017, 06:34:28 AM »
So some time back I got a set of the Concerned Pony (http://concernedpony.tumblr.com) fakies and ran into an issue when trying to do something to keep her mane from becoming a snarled mess. I like to keep a couple ponies with me when I travel so if I see something cool I can take a picture of with a pony, I never remember to actually do it but that is my excuse for having them and I don't want to use just the molded mane ones. Anyway I was trying to do something with this pony:

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As you can see he original mane is rather lackluster they only used a single line of holes and it wasn't glued in at all. I drilled a second row in alongside the first ones (I had to be really careful as she doesn't have a  single tail hole but like ten holes in a circle and it is really hard to get the glue tip around to her rear) but even after carefully enlarging all the holes I snapped pins about six times for maybe 24 roots. In the end it looked better as you can see, but the hardest part was constantly cutting new needles as they are as hard as my sidecutters (I think I groved the jaws on my cutters).

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Is there a trick I should know? What size needles are the best?

I have a bunch of ponies and a growing collection of monster high dolls I want to reroot and face up but I would prefer to not have to cut a couple dozen needles with every doll.

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Introductions / Heyo!
« on: May 29, 2012, 03:20:20 PM »
I so totally didn't forget that I signed up here and hadn't said Heyo.


Lets see.


Age: Old enough to know better, but still to young to care.


Started watching with FIM, collecting just prior to G4 with my version of the ponies of the apocolypse.
All my ponies are in my DA gallery here:  [size=78%]http://nevwyn18.deviantart.com/[/size]


Where am I from... technically from Niagara Falls (both of them) but in a few days I'll be making Grande Prairie Alberta my new backyard.

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