Came upon some old MLP McDonalds toys at a thrift store and decided to try repainting one of them to look like one of the new Gen4 ponies. Pictured is my attempt at painting Rarity from MLP:FiM. Her original ‘body’ or ‘base’ was actually Sweetie Belle, which I figured was sort of fitting, haha.

I used water color masking fluid over the eyes to keep them safe while I used thin layers of gesso to cover her old skin. Sanded down the gesso a bit in places where it built up too much and then used thin layers of acrylic paint. Lastly, applied some glitter to her cutie mark and horn to try and get some ‘sparkle,’ but it didn’t turn out as well as I originally thought. Will probably purchase smaller cut glitter in the future.

Worked on this mainly as a test for future projects and feel like I learned a lot, so I’m not too upset with how she turned out.

Any critiques would be appreciated.