Kid-friendly customs?

[Dreamer]

Ok, I know most customs are for display only, but my little cousin has seen my first custom and asked me to make her one. She's eight years old, and treats her toys gently, but I'd like to make sure that her custom won't give any trouble. Any ideas or tips? It wouldn't involve sculpting, just repainting and rehairing.

[Shiromisa]

I would do a basic rehair/eye/symbol design. She's old enough to take care of her stuff, but accidents do happen, so I wouldn't go with a fbr if possible.

[flyawayraven]

I know a few people have made kid friendly customs, and like Shiro said simple non 3D parts work best.

[Saja]

I have made my daughter many and she was only 4 at the time of her first one, all of them are still intact, make sure if you rehair do it well and heaps of glue, and when painting make sure you seal the symbols and eyes well!

[mermaid_splash]

My four year old has a fbr and it is sealed several times.  So far so good, but she also knows how to treat "special" things

[Snapdragon]

Oooh! I have an idea, why not buy one of those 'blank' G3s from the Hasbrotoyshop and dye the hair? The hair is already rooted in there pretty firmly, so by dying it it'll still be tough to damage it! She would probably be able to keep brushing it! And then you could paint on it, of course, since it's blank!

[Summer-blade]

I've made customs for kids before, I would recommend extra glue to hold the hair, and double sealing the paint. I made a  Baltimore Ravens custom for a coworker's seven year old grand daughter and put two layers of modge podge on it, that was a year ago and the pony is still in one piece just as good as the day it came off my work bench.   

[StrawberryMeadow]

I made a G3 Styling size custom for a little girl this Christmas and according to her mum, she's still perfect! She has FBR, hand-painted details and sculpted lettering. Apparently Princess Daisy (as she's called) goes everywhere with them in Daisy (the little girl)'s wheeled bag. She gets her hair done and sits at the table in restaurants etc.


She was sealed with mod Podge maybe three times? and then once over with Testor's and then the shiny bits with Triple Thick.

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