My little pony, Rainbow dash.

[duality]

Wow, I must say this is impressive. Very funny too.

 

[vincent228]

A couple of things "after the fact" if anyone plans on building one of these
1) scrape off the paint where you plan on attaching the hair, main, wing and tail on the head and brace. The hot glue don't like to stick to the sealed surfaces.

2) get some spray foam in a can and a wooden dowel. Cut a hole in the tail where it is glued into the brace. Insert the wooden dowel into that thin section and squirting some canned foam into the hole and let it harden. The tail section started standing proud and tall, but started to sag and weaken from the bouncing of walking. The bracing from the dowel and holding in place by the foam would have prevented that.

3) find a way to make the eye holes created for sight bigger. The nice look of the eye quickly gave way to safety from lack of visibility, and almost tripping on curbs.

Other than that it went flawlessly and she was very happy. And kudos to that home Depot $3.50 a can spray paint that I posted a picture of earlier. That costume was bumped, stretched and bent. And the paint didn't cracked, chafe, peel or flake off at all!

 

[Blobfish]

Wow, that looks fantastic ^_^ I'm glad you managed to get it done in time, and it's lovely to see people putting in such effort for their kid's costumes. The colour quality you got out of that cheap paint is really impressive too O_O

 

[BenStreeper]

Thanks for sharing, I built one of these for my wife in 13 hours due to your impressive motivation. I cut some corners (yarn hair and now wings)but if it weren't for your build she wouldn't have had a costume this year. Thanks for the inspiration

 

[vincent228]

That is absolutely fantastic !!!
how did you get the head so smooth ??!!
is that foam ?
Im blown away !! I wish i could have gotten results like that in 13 hours !!!!

 

[Stevenisuseless]

My youngest would love something like this.

 

[BenStreeper]

That is absolutely fantastic !!!
how did you get the head so smooth ??!!
is that foam ?
Im blown away !! I wish i could have gotten results like that in 13 hours !!!!

yup, it's foam. I used some bondo and resin jelly to smooth it out

http://www.therpf.com/f24/rainbow-dash-13-hour-build-165240/

 

[Rider Kabuto]

Ben, Vincent great job to you both. Its cool the storm didn't ruin your halloween, better not let the bronies get wind of this.

 

[vincent228]

yup, it's foam. I used some bondo and resin jelly to smooth it out

http://www.therpf.com/f24/rainbow-dash-13-hour-build-165240/

Ben,
I've done auto body work about 150 years ago. But that bondo was hard and stunk to work with. When you say bondo and resin jelly. Do you mix the 2?

 

[BenStreeper]

Ben,
I've done auto body work about 150 years ago. But that bondo was hard and stunk to work with. When you say bondo and resin jelly. Do you mix the 2?

Nope. I used bondo first to build up the shape, then resin jelly to get the nice smooth finish.

 

[vincent228]

Gotcha! Thanks for the response. I'm a newbie at all of this.

 

[CelticRuins]

Another fantastic father on these forums! Awesome job!

 

[vincent228]

Thank You Celtic.
The way I look at it, It takes a fantastic family behind him to make a fantastic father.
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[Victor Mikhail]

gracias por la idea

 

[Izzy Wolf]

What scale did you set the head at?