CUSTOM: Princess Luna Repaint
PONIES AHEAD. If you hate ponies with a fiery passion you can just skip this entry. If you like ponies, love ponies, are totally indifferent to ponies or dislike ponies but appreciate the work that goes into a figure repaint, read on!
Pony fans are probably already well familiar with the little blind bag ponies you can pick up for $3 apiece at a lot of stores. They're about an inch or two tall and more or less the only show-accurate pony figures you can get right now, other than the Funko Vinyl Rainbow Dash and Derpy.
In any case for Christmas I got the Princess Luna blind bag figure from a friend, which I had very much been wanting since Luna is my favorite character.
However, the colors on the blind bag Luna are ATROCIOUS. I don't have her yet, but as you can see the blind bag Celestia's colors are perfectly show-accurate:
But Luna? Screw all those shades of blue that she actually is, let's make her LAVENDER with a weird fuschia/sky blue/periwinkle mane and yellow crown and breastplate. Wtf, Hasbro. I like how on her character card they even show you what she's SUPPOSED to look like (well, her season 1 design at least.)
Naturally I had to fix this. So I set about giving her a complete repaint (except for the eyes; they at least got those right).
I didn't see the need to resculpt her mane and tail as I thought the shape was fine. I made the design decision to simply paint her breastplate gem the iridescent blue-white because the moon shape looked awkward on it.
Much better, isn't she? I've seen a lot of Luna repaints but I think a lot of them make her too shiny so I used a flat fixative to seal her and I think it worked out well. I think for my next minor project I'll pick up the Cadance figure from the "Canterlot Wedding" set and turn her into Queen Chrysalis.
Pony fans are probably already well familiar with the little blind bag ponies you can pick up for $3 apiece at a lot of stores. They're about an inch or two tall and more or less the only show-accurate pony figures you can get right now, other than the Funko Vinyl Rainbow Dash and Derpy.
In any case for Christmas I got the Princess Luna blind bag figure from a friend, which I had very much been wanting since Luna is my favorite character.
However, the colors on the blind bag Luna are ATROCIOUS. I don't have her yet, but as you can see the blind bag Celestia's colors are perfectly show-accurate:
But Luna? Screw all those shades of blue that she actually is, let's make her LAVENDER with a weird fuschia/sky blue/periwinkle mane and yellow crown and breastplate. Wtf, Hasbro. I like how on her character card they even show you what she's SUPPOSED to look like (well, her season 1 design at least.)
Naturally I had to fix this. So I set about giving her a complete repaint (except for the eyes; they at least got those right).
I didn't see the need to resculpt her mane and tail as I thought the shape was fine. I made the design decision to simply paint her breastplate gem the iridescent blue-white because the moon shape looked awkward on it.
Much better, isn't she? I've seen a lot of Luna repaints but I think a lot of them make her too shiny so I used a flat fixative to seal her and I think it worked out well. I think for my next minor project I'll pick up the Cadance figure from the "Canterlot Wedding" set and turn her into Queen Chrysalis.