Moondancer Restoration - Complete! (pic heavy)

[Enolaalone]

I feel bad for the person who thought, "She's getting so yellow... I know! I'll PAINT her back to pristine!" *paint paint paint* *sees result* "Ohhh... );"

I know! So sad! I got her and Bunny Hop covered in pink highlighter in the same lot. Some people were not so nice to those ponies...

Post Merge: October 03, 2012, 01:56:19 AM

Wow great job! I had a go at restoring moondancer also- stars are hard to paint!  Yours look fab .

Thank you Awesome, do you have any photos?

[lochnessmomster]

Enola, she looks amazing!  I would have been so nervous attempting to remove all that paint, though I suppose there wasn't really much to lose.  Your restoration is fab!  Great job on the eyes!

[SourdoughStomper]

She looks nice again.

[Enolaalone]

Enola, she looks amazing!  I would have been so nervous attempting to remove all that paint, though I suppose there wasn't really much to lose.  Your restoration is fab!  Great job on the eyes!

It wasn't too bad, it just took a long time and most of a bottle of nail polish remover!

Thank you very much

[lochnessmomster]

Enola, she looks amazing!  I would have been so nervous attempting to remove all that paint, though I suppose there wasn't really much to lose.  Your restoration is fab!  Great job on the eyes!

It wasn't too bad, it just took a long time and most of a bottle of nail polish remover!

Thank you very much

Most of a bottle of nail polish remover?!  Sure hope you had a window or two open! 

[Enolaalone]

Enola, she looks amazing!  I would have been so nervous attempting to remove all that paint, though I suppose there wasn't really much to lose.  Your restoration is fab!  Great job on the eyes!

It wasn't too bad, it just took a long time and most of a bottle of nail polish remover!

Thank you very much

Most of a bottle of nail polish remover?!  Sure hope you had a window or two open! 

Haha, it was a small bottle but I did finish it. Also I didn't do it all in one go so I didn't overwhelm myself with fumes!

[Goldilocks]

Wow she looks great! Was the paint originally over her eyes as well?

Thanks! No, it wasn't. They'd painted around her eyes & symbols. I took some of her eye paint off with the nailpolish so I had to repaint them They are a slightly funny colour but I like to think it makes her unique.

Post Merge: October 03, 2012, 01:47:15 AM

The white paint looks so strange, but still her eyes and symbols look very original in the before pics. Did someone manage to paint her in white but leave the original eyes and symbols..?

Anyway now she's a happy pony 

Yep, although they didn't do the greatest job of painting around the symbols. I mean, it's okay, don't get me wrong, but it's not as good as it looks from a distance. Here's a shot I took before I removed the paint:

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I know it's annoying I removed some of the original symbols and eyes but there was really no other way of doing it that I could see The paint took some scrubbing to get off so it was hard to take it off accurately next to things if you see what I mean.

Anyway, she is fairly common and now she's not covered in paint (which made her weird and squidgy), so that's a plus.

Oh okay now I see, maybe it wasn't that nice repaint after all Moondancer really deserved this second chance, how could someone repaint a nice Moondancer like that. She doesn't seem to have any bigger faults and yellowing is such a common issue with Moondancers that I don't think that means baity at all

[Enolaalone]

No, and to be honest she's not super-yellow. She's not as white as my bath (where I took the photos) but not as yellow as the shots make her look. I'll have to try and take a comparison shot with someone who is really white, that might help.