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mohawkpony) wrote2012-01-25 08:38 pm
mohawkpony) wrote2012-01-25 08:38 pm
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I've been working on the customs, all the livelong day
Finished the custom for the Animal Companions Swap yesterday. My partner is the swap organizer (ha, no pressure or anything), so the required pre-shipping approval photo necessarily spoiled some of the surprise. However, I'm going to hold off posting photos here yet because there were a couple of fun details that weren't shown in the photo, and the extras I'm including will be better as a surprise.
So once I get to the post office, I'll have to contrive some way to celebrate my first custom swap.
Also on the table and near completion, waiting only to be re-haired, are the G4 Moondancer and G1 Fluttershy customs. The Moondancer has been a cinch so far because she didn't need an FBR*, though re-hairing may give me some headaches because I'm using clippings from an actual Moondancer (my destroyed childhood one), so making the plugs is going to be fuuuun.
I'm particularly stoked to get Fluttershy squared away, since I finished most of her paint work in November(?) and was just waiting to lay hold of some sealant, which I finally did late last week thanks to the time pressure of the swap. She'll be the second of the five FiM customs I'm making with G1 baits (Rarity being the first, though I want to redo her creepy eyes and fix her hairstyle, so technically you could say she's not entirely done).
Rainbow Dash still needs her eyes and the blue parts of her cutie mark to be painted, and then she'll be next. Pinkie needs to be stripped and restarted because I was dumb and used crappy paint on her that scrapes off easily, and Twilight hasn't been started yet.
I also acquired recently a Big Brother bait, who's going to become a male Applejack if all goes well.
...And then, like adumbass boss, I signed up for a fakie custom contest on the Arena with a March 15 deadline. A lot of the big guns are signed up so far, too, so I don't have any particular expectations of winning, but. I've been stupidly ambitious about a lot of things so far this year. Why not this too?
*Let it be known that I absolutely DESPISE full-body repaints. Other customizers can complain about re-hairing, but that process is zen. Simple, and instantly gratifying. But mixing the paint, watering it down to the right consistency, spreading it on and then waiting at least an hour for it to dry? And then having to mix the colors again and almost never mixing them exactly the same? For DAYS (or, more often, weeks)? *shudders*
I can't afford and don't want to buy a whole new bottle of paint in a specific color for every project, so I'm stuck with the mixing. What I'd like to do is find some small, airtight containers where I can mix up a big batch of the right color just once, at the beginning, and have more just sitting there waiting for me every time I sit down to brush on a coat. This would end my FBR complaints.
So once I get to the post office, I'll have to contrive some way to celebrate my first custom swap.
Also on the table and near completion, waiting only to be re-haired, are the G4 Moondancer and G1 Fluttershy customs. The Moondancer has been a cinch so far because she didn't need an FBR*, though re-hairing may give me some headaches because I'm using clippings from an actual Moondancer (my destroyed childhood one), so making the plugs is going to be fuuuun.
I'm particularly stoked to get Fluttershy squared away, since I finished most of her paint work in November(?) and was just waiting to lay hold of some sealant, which I finally did late last week thanks to the time pressure of the swap. She'll be the second of the five FiM customs I'm making with G1 baits (Rarity being the first, though I want to redo her creepy eyes and fix her hairstyle, so technically you could say she's not entirely done).
Rainbow Dash still needs her eyes and the blue parts of her cutie mark to be painted, and then she'll be next. Pinkie needs to be stripped and restarted because I was dumb and used crappy paint on her that scrapes off easily, and Twilight hasn't been started yet.
I also acquired recently a Big Brother bait, who's going to become a male Applejack if all goes well.
...And then, like a
*Let it be known that I absolutely DESPISE full-body repaints. Other customizers can complain about re-hairing, but that process is zen. Simple, and instantly gratifying. But mixing the paint, watering it down to the right consistency, spreading it on and then waiting at least an hour for it to dry? And then having to mix the colors again and almost never mixing them exactly the same? For DAYS (or, more often, weeks)? *shudders*
I can't afford and don't want to buy a whole new bottle of paint in a specific color for every project, so I'm stuck with the mixing. What I'd like to do is find some small, airtight containers where I can mix up a big batch of the right color just once, at the beginning, and have more just sitting there waiting for me every time I sit down to brush on a coat. This would end my FBR complaints.
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The quantities of thin, mixed paint are small, so I think I have a solution for you. Get some 10cc test tubes with rubber stoppers, some 20 cc syringes and a bunch of needles, I think 18G1 will do. You should be able to easily procure all of that from a vet clinic, especially a large-animal vet clinic. The idea is that you can store your mixed paint in the test tubes, and use the syringes to transfer the thin paint into the test tubes, and especially, here's the best part, especially use the syringes to suck the air out of the test tubes after you've nearly filled them with paint. The needle goes through the rubber, you pull the plunger to suck out the air, and the air does not leak back in after you remove the needle. Simple vacuum packed paint!
You are probably not looking for stuff to read, but if you like eye-candy, I try and post pony eye-candy in
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Eye candy? I like eye candy. :D
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