WE DID IT!

I can't believe we finally got to 5000 messages!

Anyways, I'm off to look on amazon.. It's my basic pricer also I am looking at epoxy... Kinda interested in doing a little sculpting... Not extreme, I don't think I have anything to cut head off with or anything, but manes, tails, feathers, etc.

does anybody know a wesite that sells really chep retired horse modles

Try ebay... I found another one, it had rare models (like, I think they had the grazing riding pony, normally $20-$30) for $6-7, but I don't remember what it was called!!

Ya, they have good stuff! Epoxy! i should try that!!

Yeah but it's pretty expensive... However if I do get into customizing a lot, I think I might just go ahead and buy it. Then $10 worth of something else. Then I can buy a few add-on Schleich until I reach my $40 gift card

Ya, that would probably work. I am so bad at customizing!

Yeah me too... I need practice mainly for eyes, mine are slightly messy black dots. For my custom Arab filly I tried making white too, but she always looks like she's scared and rolling her eyes backwards, because I forgot to leave a bit of white at the back too!

Oh, whenever I customize eyes the black slips out of the eye and rolls down the face, fail.

what do you guys use to costomize? I usually just use a sharpie to make black black insted of brown.

I should try that to! I use acrylic paint but it comes out globby...

oh cool. I have duplicates or some so maybe i could try that

Wow! Duplicates! Cool!

Water it down. I did that on a breyer knock off custom I did and it works great. Not blotchy at all. He's actually money faves. (I got the idea from honeyheartsC. )

Honeyhearts is awesome. I would've subscribed to her like last spring when I found her... If I had a YouTube

Yeah I use a sharpie pen to go around the inside of my one horses hooves so that the silver isn't inside the hoof (been doing that for a while) but it comes off. I wouldn't recommend using sharpie on a large area- it's not meant for smooth plastics. Eyes are good though, and inside of black nostrils.

If acrylics don't work out, yes, try watering them down. And you'll want to seal them so they don't chip. I however mainly do mod podge on top largely because I hate the feel of plain acrylics on something I'll be touching a lot.

I also have leftover paint from a paint your own breyer set I got. They turned out wonderfully, smooth (ish) and not so acrylic-y. I don't know if it's because they were primed, or because the paint was good, but I want to try it. I did another few coats of regular paint on the one because he was painted horribly, and now he feels normally painted....

[quote=1936271110][author]<em>Retired breeder</em>[/author]Wow! Duplicates! Cool![/quote:0] ya i get one and then my friends buy me the same one so i have two of the same horse

Cool! I just wathed the parody song honey hearts made, so funny!

I think this custom is very pretty. The others are nice, too.

Gorgeous! How do they do the different color affect that is lighter and then darker?

I'm not quite sure. You'd have to ask someone else about that.

My customs aren't shaded because I'm a lazy bum and can't make myself learn how to do it I wish I was a really good artist though.

I'm the opposite, my acrylics are too watery

Ya, I guess you could use pastels rayon shaving like another person said a long time ago...

I love them. i would never be able to do that