My partner for the Custom Army Swap was Salli, and she has an army of Princess Luna. I love me some Luna, but Salli made it clear she didn't want anymore g4 brushables, so I went old school and made her a couple of g1 Lunas. I like to think of them as Luna's ancestors
Now, I have a love/hate relationship with g1 customs. I love them, I think most of them work out beautifully, but I feel terrible making them unless the pony is in awful condition. I nearly broke down in tears while prepping one of these, because I accidentally prepped the wrong Firefly and I was terribly upset when I realized what I'd done. But once I'd gotten this idea in my head, I had to do it. Obviously, since they didn't have winged unicorns/unipegs/alicorns/pegacorns(my personal favorite term) in g1, I got to sculpt horns for everyone. No sense in baiting 4 g1's so that I could build some sort of Frankenpony that may look weird when put together and then be completely annoyed at a perceived flaw that I'd probably be the only one who cared about.
So I started with a Firefly. She was missing symbols, had bad hair, and had an altercation with a marker at some point. She got a sculpted horn and Luna's symbol on both flanks.
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Then, I decided she needed a Baby Luna to go with her. I believe that she started as a BBE Baby Cuddles, I can't remember exactly because her symbol was really, super blurry. Think the BBE ponies are creepy with their eyes? They super-ultra-creepy after you've removed them, leaving just black, empty, soulless pits. *shudder* I plugged those holes up with Apoxie, gave her a horn, and gave her some wings. In keeping with the g1 tradition, I made her symbol slightly different, but still very similar to her Mommy Luna.
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See? Look at those adorable eyes. Much better than what she had!
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Now, here's some of their technical bits. Both were given a few coats of purple acrylic paint - they were actually a teaching experience for Mr. CoinOp, who wanted to learn to do more to help me out with the pony projects. But then I remembered that Salli's swap list had said something about "show accuracy", and decided since Luna's more blue than purple, I would blue things up a bit. Both ponies ended up with a coat of blue interference paint over the purple, giving both a wicked pearly body. I tried to keep their eyes as g1 as possible while still doing them in my personal style, and glossed them with some Triple Thick (oh god, Salli, please tell me I glossed their eyes before I sent them out!). Both of their symbols have been given a decent coat of glittery paint and were outlined with purple interference paint.
Sadly, I have no idea what shades I used for their hair. It was Dollyhair's Nylon, and I'm fairly certain that the blue in Luna was Forget Me Not, and the purple stripe in Baby Luna was a scrap of Wysteria. Sugarplum? Amethyst? Who knows? I literally had about 12 bags of hair on my workbench over the last few weeks, some empty that hadn't made it into the trash and some full of scraps, and some new bags, most going into
another project that still needs proper pics, so I'm completely unsure of what went into whose head.
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loginIn my never-ending quest to be the person EVERYONE wants to have as a partner and going overboard on stuff just a little bit, I also busted out my mad-awesome cross-stitch skills for the first time in, oh, 20-something years, and did a picture of Princess Luna on a cloud. Seriously - I just searched for "princess luna on a cloud", found this, and generated a pattern off of it. Mr. CoinOp just learned how to cross-stitch and was
supposed to do this for me, but he decided to work on a tiny
Shaun of the Dead cross-stitch instead.
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loginShe was supposed to have a large crescent moon, but I ran short on time and settled for stars. I neglected to get a decent picture of it before packing it up, so Salli graciously allowed me to take hers. Thankfully, her picture doesn't show what the terrible job of ironing that I did (with my hair straightening iron) before I framed it
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