WIP it real good! UPDATED: 3-21-13

[Saja]

wow, thats sooo cool, I love the texture there so far! Would totally love to be a fly on the wall an watch you while you work. Promise, you wouldnt know i was there!

[michelle53]

Oh baby baby!  Your ponies are always spectacular!

[Diamond]

lady you have mad skills!

[Artsy Craftsy]

So I have a question: why do you rehair before you paint?

 btw, everything looks so amazing!!! 

[Kazzellin]

So I have a question: why do you rehair before you paint?

This is what I'm interested in too.

Love the theme, and the claywork looks awesome so far!

[PoniesYeah]

So I have a question: why do you rehair before you paint?

 btw, everything looks so amazing!!! 

If your talking about FBP... I don't. I personally have never repainted a full body. And I don't intend to really.
As for rehairing first, before and general sculpting or painting. It's simply cause and effect. rehairing puts alot of stress on the plastic. regardless of what method you use. if you use the needle method then the plastic is being punched in. the string method, the plastic is being stretched.  Either way there's alot of stress happening around the head. whit all the warping going on any sculpting or painting can be effected. clay can pop off and paint can chip.
If the pony has been rehaired first then I don't have to worry about it.
That and rehairing is another thing I just refuse to do. I send the baits out to be rehaired. So again why worry about he clay or paint being damaged during the rehair process when I can have fresh locked pony arrive on my doorstep ready for anything I need to do to it. also if I'm the last stop I can take care of any repairs that might be needed.
clear?

[Diamond]

I think if I was to do any ponies with hair I would do it the same way Ponies, makes total sense.  Easy enough to wrap it and tape it to stay out of harms way.  Then again I hate to hair so gonna stick with modeled manes.

[Kazzellin]

I haven't run into this problem very often, but that does make sence, yes. Thank you!

[Artsy Craftsy]

So I have a question: why do you rehair before you paint?

 btw, everything looks so amazing!!! 

If your talking about FBP... I don't. I personally have never repainted a full body. And I don't intend to really.
As for rehairing first, before and general sculpting or painting. It's simply cause and effect. rehairing puts alot of stress on the plastic. regardless of what method you use. if you use the needle method then the plastic is being punched in. the string method, the plastic is being stretched.  Either way there's alot of stress happening around the head. whit all the warping going on any sculpting or painting can be effected. clay can pop off and paint can chip.
If the pony has been rehaired first then I don't have to worry about it.
That and rehairing is another thing I just refuse to do. I send the baits out to be rehaired. So again why worry about he clay or paint being damaged during the rehair process when I can have fresh locked pony arrive on my doorstep ready for anything I need to do to it. also if I'm the last stop I can take care of any repairs that might be needed.
clear?

interesting method... I've only made 1 customer and have never read or heard of anyone doing it like this although mine was a full body repaint... still, thanks for the insight!

[PrincessOfDarkness]

Looking gorgeous as always  I adore the texture of those feet puddle wave bits

So I have a question: why do you rehair before you paint?

 btw, everything looks so amazing!!! 

If your talking about FBP... I don't. I personally have never repainted a full body. And I don't intend to really.
As for rehairing first, before and general sculpting or painting. It's simply cause and effect. rehairing puts alot of stress on the plastic. regardless of what method you use. if you use the needle method then the plastic is being punched in. the string method, the plastic is being stretched.  Either way there's alot of stress happening around the head. whit all the warping going on any sculpting or painting can be effected. clay can pop off and paint can chip.
If the pony has been rehaired first then I don't have to worry about it.
That and rehairing is another thing I just refuse to do. I send the baits out to be rehaired. So again why worry about he clay or paint being damaged during the rehair process when I can have fresh locked pony arrive on my doorstep ready for anything I need to do to it. also if I'm the last stop I can take care of any repairs that might be needed.
clear?

interesting method... I've only made 1 customer and have never read or heard of anyone doing it like this although mine was a full body repaint... still, thanks for the insight!

I know that both Jupi and I rehair before painting It was because of something she said many years ago that I tried it that way, and I'm glad I did, because it works so much better for me this way.
I rehair, then sculpt, then airbrush, then paint the details. Like PY said, I find that doing it in this order gives the sculpting less opportunity to be damaged (because sometimes I am a bit rough when I manhandle a pony's head back on), and even less time I have to handle it when the details have been painted, so less opportunity for that to get damaged during one of my potential clumsy moments.

[jupiternwndrlnd]

yupyup! always rehair first...have since i started in 2003.
nice to know Im not the only "freak" who hairs first! ha! just makes more sense to me....too much can happen to the paint and such during the rehair process

[PoniesYeah]

Chocolate bump GO!

[Saja]

Not too frequent, I love seeing your stages!

[JoshsPonyPrincess]

I think you are updating it wonderfully - i love seeing what you accomplish each time

[PoniesYeah]

let me hear ya say "BUMP".