CUSTOM My Little Pony BIG MAC Tutorial MLP Toy Figure

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another My Little Pony custom tutorial.
In this episode we’re going to make Applejack’s older brother, Big Mac.
You’ll need a stallion (adult male horse) brushable pony figure.
I’m gonna use this Shining Armor figure since Big Mac has a similar body shape and
build. We’re gonna begin by removing his mane.
You can pull it off with your fingers or use a plier for a better grip.
And just pull off any remaining strands. Now, cut off the tail with scissors as close
as you can to the body. Then snip off the rest with the tip of your
scissors. Make sure you have about 3mm deep of hair
cleared. This will help hold the clay tail in place later.
You’ll also need to cut off the horn and remove the factory painted eyes and cutie
mark with nail polish remover. Once that’s done, we’re gonna take off
the head before making the collar. Place your pony upside down in a cup of hot
tap water for about 2 minutes. This will soften the hard plastic in the neck
area and allow you to easily pop off the head. I removed the head because I need to take
the collar off to bake since I’m using oven-bake clay.
If you’re using air-dry clay, the collar can dry on the pony so you won’t need to
take the head off. I made this collar by wrapping a log of clay
around the body and shaping it on the pony to make sure the collar will fit perfectly.
Now, let’s finish making the rest of his collar.
Attach a thin rectangular piece of clay to the back center.
Insert a head pin through a small log of clay. If it’s too thick, then roll it to a smaller
size. Trim of any excess and add a round piece of
clay on top. Trim off any excess head pin but leave about
a ¼” or however thick the back of your collar is so that you can insert it into the
collar. This will prevent these lollipop-looking pieces
from easily breaking off. So, after the collar was finished, I took
it off the pony, baked it, put it back on the pony and then popped his head back on.
You can see here that it would’ve been impossible to take the collar off to bake if I didn’t
take off the head first. Alright, let’s move on to his mane.
I’m gonna use these three tear drop shaped pieces to make the front mane.
Stack the smaller pieces on top of the large piece and blend them together.
Use a long rectangular strip of clay for his back mane.
Cut the end so that it looks like 3 thick blades of grass.
You can choose to carve on the details or paint them on later.
For his tail, make a quarter moon shaped piece and blend on 2 triangular pieces for the tufts
of hair. That’s it for the sculpting part.
I’m gonna paint him while I wait for the clay parts to bake.
I’m using brown for the sides and bottom of his collar.
For the top, I’m using a lighter brown color. The lighter brown makes the shape of the collar
stand out more. Before painting his coat, I need to get the
collar out of the way. I’m gonna hold up his collar by taping it
to the head using masking tape. Any other tape will be too sticky and will
ruin the paint. I’m using red paint for his coat.
For the hooves, I’m using ivory. You can peel off the tape once the paint has
completely dried. Be careful when peeling from the collar. If
you peel it too quickly, some of the paint could peel off as well.
Now let’s finish painting his coat. For this part of his collar, I’m using silver
metallic paint. I chose this color because I wanted it to
look like it’s made of metal. You can use gray paint if you don’t like
or have this color. Moving on to the eyes.
Start by painting on a half circle for the white part of the eye.
Green for the color part and line the top with black.
Then paint on the black pupil, white highlight, and three ivory circles for the freckles.
Do the same for the other side. Big Mac has a cutie mark of a big green apple
sliced in half. So, first paint on the shape of an apple using
yellow-green. Pale green for the core and medium green for
the line. Three brown seeds on the left side and four
on the right. Ivory-green for the stem and yellow-green
for the tip. Then medium green for the leaf and dark green
for the line. His mane and tail has finished baking, so
now I’m gonna paint them orange. There you go! All finished!
Big Mac is my favorite stallion and I really like how he turned out.
I also like how the light makes the silver metallic paint shiny as if it’s made of
real metal. There is one thing I would’ve done differently:
that is to paint the body and collar first before popping the head back on.
That would make the painting process a lot easier without having to tape the collar to
the head. Well, I hope you enjoyed this video. Let me
know what other stallions you want to watch me make.
Stay tuned for more and thanks for watching!

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