Show me your best restorations

[Like A Tea Spoon]

I love this thread! All these poor ponies being given new life!

[sabathamk]

I'll have to post some of mine... I recently did a G3 that was terrible with pen, scratches, and whatnot.  I get most all of my ponies from the recycling center (my uncle works there, and gives all ponies he comes across to my cousin, who gives them to me... I get a few a month, mostly G3s and 4s, but I've gotten the odd G1).  I need to get my befores and afters eventually.

These are all awesome btw!  I ADORE these threads!  I love seeing old toys restored like this!  This is the reason I'm into collecting right now!

[mysweetabbie]

That is so cool that you get your ponies from the recycling center.  Giving a pony new life is THE BEST way I can think of to recycle a pony.  I just bought some off the Goodwill website to try to restore.

[Leopard_Print_Unicorn]

At first I was like "aww" because I am on my parents' PC and my photos are all on my Mac but then I was like "yay!" because I remembered this one was in my photobucket. Derp. Anyway.

I wish I had the original e-bay screenshot, she was pretty sorry. I think I posted it in the Nirvana forum when I first posted her restore. Her mane and tail were cut, mohawk style. She was dirty, and she had red and black marks that did not wash off. But I figured a Dutchy for $20, what is there to lose?

With help from pinkkittywinks to help me determine the correct shade of Dollyhair, I went to work. I bathed her several times. I had to really go at her head with a razor blade to get it off, it might have been glued on before and I could not salvage the inner ring, thus it is glued back on. The black and red marks that did not come off I had to carefully wipe with acetone on a q-tip. One of them was so large and deep that her plastic (which is harder than most G1's, like a lot of Dutchies) is a little thin in that spot. But I got it to where her marks are not that visible on display.

Then I started to rehair. I am fairly new at this, and I use the knot and wire method. It started off slow, because of the plastic being hard, I had to take a needle and widen a lot of the holes. But I finished her before I thought I would during my time pre-back surgery when I would wake up with burning nerve pain in my leg and foot and not be able to go back to sleep. It's something quiet to do at 4:00 in the morning, and requires concentration so it was as much of a distraction from the pain as possible.

Then I compared her to my real Dutch Seashell for an idea of hair style, and cut her new hair using my mom's hair trimming scissors.

I give you: $20 (plus new hair) Dutch Butterfly:
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And here she is with her Dutchy friends:
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[ZennaBug]

Ooh, I have some special projects I'm working on.  I'll have to finish them up and post them eventually!

I love all the restorations!  The ponies always look so happy when they are beautiful and clean again. 

[Endocat]

Here's Moondancer before, covered in smooze, (this photo is after a wash BTW), totally discoloured icky!  Most of her mane was rotted. 

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And after   2 months of sunfading, some serious smooze scrubbing (and some bathroom cleaner), rehair (purple stripe was slaveged), repaint of symbols.

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[Honeycomb]

No way that this Moondancer is the same pony! Just wow!!! You did an amazing job, Endocat!

[Evening_Moonstone]

I love seeing everyone's wonderful restoration work!

[hathorcat]

Oh gosh! Moondancer looks amazing.

[kezrob23]

ok, i'm gonna try and post some links, as i don't have photo bucket or similar. i bought some 2nd hand g3's for my daughter, and was telling my mum that i was gonna be pony hair dressing that night. she asked me why do i bother, so i said i'd send her before and afters so she could see why i bother. she was totes amazed!! hopefully this works
before:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=294022857374052&set=a.294022740707397.64263.100002990193788&type=3&theater

after:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=294022824040722&set=a.294022740707397.64263.100002990193788&type=3&theater

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Great job; they look wonderful!

[hathorcat]

They look great!

[michelle53]

ok, i'm gonna try and post some links, as i don't have photo bucket or similar. i bought some 2nd hand g3's for my daughter, and was telling my mum that i was gonna be pony hair dressing that night. she asked me why do i bother, so i said i'd send her before and afters so she could see why i bother. she was totes amazed!! hopefully this works
before:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=294022857374052&set=a.294022740707397.64263.100002990193788&type=3&theater

after:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=294022824040722&set=a.294022740707397.64263.100002990193788&type=3&theater

Beautiful job!!  Wow, they look gorgeous:)
Welcome to the Arena by the way!

[invaderhorizongreen]

ohh let me check here are mine !

sadly I no longer have the before but her hair was a mess

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I put new glitter on these gals

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[butterflybuttons]

They look fantastic!