i got one of these blind box care bears as a gift for christmas and ended up with a duplicate today, so i made a custom to feel better about it lol 🌈
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I always loved unicorns as a child. Recently picked up a series I had started when I was still unicorn-obsessed, which it turns out was completed sometime after I grew up. In indulging my inner child I've been reading it, it rekindled my love of unicorns, reminding me of an imaginary friend I had long since abandoned.
Made a fuss over sifting through every listing for a unicorn figure I could find. Became frustrated because, while I love rainbow unicorns too, my Diamond was just plain and simple white. Just your classic unicorn.
No matter. I have at least one friend who has done toy modifications who could probably give me a start on how to prime and repaint one. So I hunted instead for one with the right shape.
I found this. Honestly, Schleich seems to have the best variety in toy unicorns that I can find at the moment.
So I check in with my friend. Don't need to strip the paint, she says. Just use a primer, as on this material it's a safer bet. Unfortunately this means I also am going to have to paint over the glitter, which is going to leave a weird texture behind, but we make do with the resources and skillset we have. I've read that some people, braver than I, will carefully use acetone - very carefully as it will in fact mess up the toy underneath if you aren't careful. But I decided to go the safe route.
At least 3 layers of gesso to cover the mark on the flank. Only one or two to cover the mane and tail because I wanted the shading to shine through.
I didn't even need the other white, aside from using it to mix a light gray for the hooves (all of it up to now is Liquitex - color added with their small mixing set). The horn looked wrong plain white so I mixed up a very pale yellow to go on it.
Much better. And if you don't look too closely you don't notice the glitter texture too much. (Except on the legs where I opted not to paint over them - the gesso matched her base layer so well I decided to save myself some agony.)
But after a few hours I started eyeing one of my other paints. It was made for leather but maybe... just maybe...
I looked it up.
Acrylic based. So it would in fact go just fine over the other layers. It was a bit of a fuss to put on as it's thin and watery and has... well... flecks in it. But you can't see those in bright light. And in the dark...
Welcome home, Diamond. It's been a while.
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