yidete
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Post by yidete on May 10, 2013 11:45:13 GMT -7
I have my eyes on a cheap fakie set I could use for my first attempts of customizing, but I wanted to figure out some things.
The brand is called ''Funny Pony Toys'' It consists of two adult ponies, pretty horselike (more than MLP g1) with removable heads, rooted mane and tails with some tinsel, molded fetlocks, and a sitting one piece baby, also with rooted mane and tail. Paint job is terrible, hooves painted, eyes little and weird, big ones (bigger teal one and smaller white one) have heart butt symbols.
The first thing Y worry about is the baby. It has about 4 mm hole in the bottom, so I guess I could get haemostat in and pull out the mane and tail, and than reroot with a reroot tool, but I'm not sure if it works.
Also, bodies have visible mold lines, and there is an at lest 2 mm body/head size mismatch, at least that's how it looks like from the packaging, maybe the heads are just badly attached. I did not have the chance to touch them, so I'm not sure how hard is the vinyl, but it looks like a pretty thin and soft material.
Are those any good and what should I keep in mind, that would be different from original MLP tutorials?
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philly
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Post by philly on May 10, 2013 12:15:05 GMT -7
If you could provide a picture it would help immensely, but I'll try my best with what you've described here. For your first custom you should just try to do painting and rehairing. If you remove the original paint using acetone be very careful that it doesn't eat through the plastic, I think just using an acetone based nail polish remover instead of strait of acetone would be safest for the plastic. I literally can't picture the baby from what you described, but if the hole is too small take some scissors (if the plastic is cheap and thin) and widen it up a bit for the tail. But if it's a one piece thing I'm not sure how you'd get in there without chopping off it's head...
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yidete
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Post by yidete on May 10, 2013 12:38:28 GMT -7
Oh, I'm going to add a photo, as soon as I buy them, because at the moment a picnic with my honey was a bit higher priority and I only had as much money on me as I had Never enough money for the ponies The baby is a little thing sitting on it's butt, about 2 inches tall, with all the legs tucked in the way that it is rather compact. (a bit like this i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt152/theskimblishone/Vintage%20Fakies/vp04.jpg but with no gap between front legs and body) In the middle of the flattened bottom part there is a hole that was used to blow vinyl into the mold, and the mane and tail both are rooted. I know it sounds horrible, but I suppose I'll have to either cut a large hole in the bottom, that I wouldn't like, or, literally, push a curved pair of surgical tools into baby ponies ''butthole'' (my honey already said he did not wanna even think about things in ponies butts)
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philly
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Post by philly on May 10, 2013 13:01:31 GMT -7
I know you can get some fairly long forecepts at craft and hobby shops which would more than likely fit up the little pony's butt, if not I'd just widen the hole up with scissors but not cut the whole thing open. And I remember reading about you saying they had visible seams, if they're sticking out you can cut off the excess plastic and then sand he rest down (once it's been painted you won't even notice it was there)
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yidete
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Post by yidete on May 12, 2013 7:09:06 GMT -7
I bought those ponies... Now I have a feeling I should not have OK, pics first Front of the box back of the box the happy family So far so good, every pony deserves love Now to the sad part... horrible neck joint mismatch (pardon my fingers) they are made of vinyl that is pretty thin and soft to begin with, but two legs of the white one and one of the green one are paper thin and wrap easily. (I guess I could fill the legs with white playdough so they keep their shape and be good to go still) I went ahead and decapitated and dehaired them, that was indeed a breeze, after a swim in hot water, babies ''butthole'' was strechy enough to fit hemostat in and they did not have much hair to begin with. Took some acetone nail polish remover, and that's where the horror started. Apparently the paint they use on those is some vicked thing baby was easy, but parent's eye paint smeared and left stains, but hooves and mommies symbol did not even budge, just become a bit tacky and rubbery. Tried nail polish remover, also etanol and isopropanol, no use Dunno what to do now I'll probably try scrubbing them again later but hopes are dim. I mean I could always do a full repaint, but I had such ideas... apart from baby they are only good for emo ot painter ponies, and I really wanted toclean the hooves as they have moldet fetlocks.
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philly
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Post by philly on May 12, 2013 13:49:34 GMT -7
I've never come across paint that's done that, but for stains in the vinal try using Mr. Clean magic erasers (scrub really hard) or just paint over it. I've gotten some pretty nuts stains out of ponies with magic erasers but painting over it is the final solution for me. Let me know how it goes, I hope it goes well! (And yes, magic erasers CAN go through eyes and symbols if you scrub hard enough and long enough.)
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yidete
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Post by yidete on May 13, 2013 5:46:55 GMT -7
Well, I can't get the fancy 'murican stuff here, but I sanded most of the stains off, as well as mommys symbol, and daddys hooves also budged a bit, but mommys hooves stayed. Also sanded daddys neck joint, it's not perfect but much smoother now I guess I will have to do some leg design on her. Add a lot of extra plugs for all, lots of paint and they will be less horrid at least...
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philly
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Post by philly on May 13, 2013 21:40:18 GMT -7
I live in Canada so I know the joys of not being able to get certain American products. I beleive magic erasers are sold all over the world but under different names because I don't think the formula of the magic eraser is patented. Look for products with the words "easy eraser" or anything with the words "magic" or "eraser" they're little white sponge things that come in boxes of about two. They're incredibly useful for getting all manner of things off ponies.
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yidete
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Post by yidete on Jun 1, 2013 14:10:30 GMT -7
Well, have been working on those for a while, most things went well, I rerooted the teal one with embroidery thread, repainted it (BTW straight acetone removed all the smudges and hoof paint)
The only trouble is the sealant I got. It DOES NOT DRY. That thing is still tacky after a week. I was wandering as the sealant is benzene based, maybe it reacts with vynil?
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philly
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Post by philly on Jun 1, 2013 18:24:17 GMT -7
I don't use sealent when I paint so I can't help you there. But I've never heard of anything reacting to vinyl that way, perhaps consult the internet because it knows all.
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