Blind Bag Ponies!

[Inkyheart 16]

Hello! I'm new to the forum, but I'm certainly not new to liking ponies. I've been collecting as much G4 as I could get my hands on for nearly three years now, and last year I ended up with a few extras of the brushable toys. So I decided to try my hand at customizing them, since I'd seen some seriously cool things done with them. Rehairing is fairly tedious (as anyone who's tried it knows I'm sure), but then I found the blindbags and repainting those is...possibly more fun than it should be.

 

So, since this is a place to put up fan made things for ponies, I thought I would share the pictures of blind bag ponies I've done!

 

These certainly all the ones I've customized, but I don't really want to spam everyone with all of the pictures I have at once. I run a blog over on Tumblr for the customs I do, and since my queue is running low I'm going to take some time over the weekend (hooray for Labor Day!) to do some more work, possibly making some show accurate background ponies.

 

(Two of the ponies, the Snowdrop and the white pony with blue hair, were comissions from my Etsy shop.)

 

Anyone have any suggestions of who you might like to see, or perhaps a themed pony I could try?

[Jokuc 8,175]

Hi there, welcome to the forums!

 

I must say, those look very good actually! I like two of them more than the others (the blue one with black mane and the brown one with brown mane) but the others are great too

 

I hope you will like it here on the forums, see you around :3

[Derpy Jason 3]

Cool little collection you have there I'll be sure to go check out the other ones you have made if you give me the link to your Tumblr. Also you said you were new to the community, welcome to the herd!

[Friendship_Cannon 1,677]

Really nice work, are those OCs or just designs you came up with?

(apart from the requests and twilight G1, I hope this is right)

Anyways, I really like the extraordinary cutie marks and the little additions like glasses or bracelets, well done.

[Inkyheart 16]

Oh gosh, I completely forgot to put up a link. Here's the tumblr link: Splendiferous Ponies

 

There's a queue for it so it updates once a day, and some of the pictures are of full-sized brushable ponies I've done. All the names (commissions aside) are up there as well

 

@@Friendship_Cannon

Commissions and G1 aside, they're mostly ponysonas of RL friends. A few of them, like the top one and the redhead have gone to their respective owners whom they were based on (The blue one with blonde mane is my ponysona and the first one I did.) Again, aside from commissions and the G1 Twilight, I came up with all the designs. Of course I asked friends for their opinions, but mostly they left the design up to me and I tried to base them off of their personality and preferences. (The top one is probably one of my favorites too, and though I was sad to hand her off I was so happy at how much my friend loved her.)

[Inkyheart 16]

New post because I have a new problem.

 

So carving Vinyl Scratch out from a Twilight Sparkle mold is really kicking my butt. I'm trying to spike-ify the hair and smooth it out and I have a too big xacto knife to get in and really clear out the individual locks of hair so

 

This is much more difficult than I anticipated. On the bright side, Octavia's carving is through and I just need to paint her up now. Hopefully I'll get started on that...er...Thursday, I think. Too much work to do tomorrow.

 

Anywho, this is just an update

[Inkyheart 16]

2nd Update: I finished Octavia and Vinyl! They turned out quite a bit better than I expected, so I'm quite pleased. They're joining my various collection on my jewelry box today

 

 

I have a English Lit. project coming up that I'll be making Beowulf ponies for, so I'll try to update here as well as on my Tumblr!

 

(Bonus: Have a stacked Vinyl and Octavia XD)

Edited September 8, 2013 by Inkyheart

[Inkyheart 16]

@@Ashley

I seal them with a high gloss finish because I liked the look of it more than just having a matte finish. It makes an obvious difference between them and the official ones, but to me at least it also makes them seem a little more professional

 

The Trixie made with a Rarity mold definitely seemed more accurate, but I could definitely see about making one that looks a little more like her. I have more than enough Twilight molds to work with and a few Rarity molds, so I'll see what I can do!

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

First, hi there!

 

Also, I do love the blind bag ponies you received!

 

Most are not the best accuracy in terms of the show, but they are pretty good none the less.   

[Inkyheart 16]

I'm making a few Beowulf ponies for a school project and I'm trying to decide which model I should use for Grendel: I have a Zecora and a Gilda, and I'm weighing the pros and cons for each.

Zecora: pros, she's taller and she has a leg that would be easy to cut off for Grendel's arm, cons, she's another pony and looks similar to the other ponies

Gilda: pros, she very alien compared to the ponies and she has clawed feet for the trophy arm, cons, she's a little shorter than the model I'm using for Beowulf (I'm using a Big Mac mold).

I have five ponies to make before Grendel, so I have time to figure out which I prefer. Any opinions would certainly be welcome!

(Also: Big Mac is Beowulf, I have a Rarity for Hrothgar, a Twilight for Wealtheow, Pinkie Pie for the various thanes, and Applejack (sorry AJ!) for the one guard that gets killed when Grendel attacks.)

[Inkyheart 16]

New post! Sorry for double posting, but I have pictures this time! They're also up on my tumblr but I'll put them here as well. @.@

 

I actually have the Thanes pony done, I just need to take pictures of them and after that I just need to do Grendel! I went with the Gilda mold so I have a stripped Gilda mold with a detached leg floating around my workspace at the moment. He'll need to get painted up this afternoon after classes, after which my group members and I will be baking cakes and filming the Grendel fight scene! Now I just need to figure out how to stick Grendel's leg on there long enough for the fight.

 

(If Deadguard is uncomfortable for people I'll take the picture off the post!)

[TheSweetieBelle 12]

Very good job! I love the fact that you added Snowdrop and Gen1 Twilight to it. They are all so lovely! Well done ;3

Also, I love how you kept twilights mane style in Vinyls one, i don't know why but i do

[Inkyheart 16]

Word of Warning: As much as I love getting commissions and getting paid to paint ponies, I whole-heartedly regret having to google images of Button's Mom for reference. I will not say why and only advise you to use google safe-search - if you're not into the kind of thing. I'll put up some pictures of her when I'm finished (the commission! not pictures from google) and before I ship her off to her home.