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CustomAnon — Custom Tutorial Part 5- Tails
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Carrot top is our model for today- this is her second rehair because I kinda fried her hair the first time. Restoredoll.com hair has a lower melting point than dollyhair or actual My Little Pony hair.How to thread tails! I'll get on painting symbols soon but need new white paint before I can do eyes. Let me know if there is anything unclear about this tutorial, and people are welcome to repost my tutorials on ponychan etc all since I am still banned. de derp.
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I tried this once. Never again. Zip ties for me!
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Zip ties also work. That's what I did to put the tail in my Lyra.
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thx one my firefly's tail just poped out so thx
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Do you know a way to reroot tails without taking apart the body? I did a poor job on my last custom's tail [it was too short] and now there is paint all over it and I want to try rerooting again.
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Okay I kinda had to make the hole a bit bigger to fit the tail through (I used the exact same amount as a regular pony), will it go back down to normal size eventually?
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I'm actually about to start my first G4 custom and this stage was what was worrying me the most.
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frankly, I'm finishing up a custom, and for me, this stage was the easiest
so don't worry about rehairing the tail, worry about the mane...
yes, I am replying to a 1-year old comment. yes, I'm weird. yes, I know you probably already finished the custom.
(I say these things because I don't want you to beat me to it...
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Over a year on down the road, and I have to agree with you. Tails, shoot, can do 'em in a minute.
Hair takes DAYS. Ugh.
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no, it takes MONTHS if you kind of a lazy, busy-with-other-things pony like moi
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By the time I'm at the re-hairing stage, I've got the momentum going that my mindset is 'YEAH! LETS GET THIS DONE!'
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At DollyHair they have a rehairing tool, if that helps ^^
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I've gotten quite good at using these long straight needles for dolls that I found at Jo-Anne's and dental floss. :3
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Can you bulk up the tail hair at all? Hasbro seems to skimp on the tail hair of the G4 toys, and it's kind of sad, given how thick and luxurious they look in the show. I'd be willing to cut the heads off my G4 toys just so I can give them thicker tails. Y'know, I bet a zip tie would work well as an anchor - no metal to rust, and tougher than thread. (I'm just grateful my almost-30-year-old G1 pony doesn't have any rust. She's *white*!)
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What if I want to do 2 color tail, kind of like.... I guess sweetie bell. No, Im not trying to do sweetie bell, Im trying to do a custom pony for brony bf. How would I do two colors? ^ ^
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You just combine two colours together ^^
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And how do you make the Wonderbolt uniforms? I'm thinking just cutting a blue balloon and painting lellow bolts on it.
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i am going to use ollder mlp to make rainbow dash ill be using hidden treasure as rd and hair from rainbow flash
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how'd you get the old tail out, when I tug on it I feel like I'm ganna break it. Plus theirs that piece of plastic that holds the head in. Do I just rip that off too?
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[link] & [link] should help you
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Huh. My tech was the opposite of yours. I used this method: [link] . It's sorta the opposite of how you do it, but it also worked and you don't double-up the hair you're pulling through the hole.
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It's almost the exact thing? Except for the way the hair is wrapped in there. They'll both work! the only thing is I pull the hair from the neck in, and that goes from the tail in, then tied.
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lol, is your little brother making a custom in the background?
it looks like it so much XD
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Oh, hah, no, he's taking a look at Soarin, who I had just started the night previous.
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question; how do you remove sculpted tails? other than very carefully?
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Just with a X-acto blade I suppose- I haven't done a custom where the sculpted hair was removed.
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This part I actually had to figure out on my own for my custom Derpy, since your tutorial wasn't ready at the time. But thanks for posting this. This will be useful if anypony else decides to make one.
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