Apoxie adventures

Today I opened up my apoxie package! I actually thought that the containers would be smaller (since where I bought it from only stated it as "small container of apoxie") so that was a nice surprise.

My first victim test subject model horse to be fixed was this lady:

She is a Bat Girl resin that I won in a raffle at a live show years ago. She suffered a broken ear for me when my bodybox fell to the ground during my move. I could never find the piece so why not make her my first apoxie test? 

She also had another problem. She came to me with this problem. Her tail had been broken and glued back on but it wasn't perfectly aligned making a long gap in her tail. 

This is what she looks like after today's sitting:

Sorry about the light, don't know why it came out so yellow.

The tail looks dark and it still looks a bit like there is a gap but I think that's because the apoxie is darker than the primed resin.

The underside looks way better!

Her new ear seen above, I'm actually quite happy with how it came out. It still needs to be sanded but for now I think it looks okey. I also found a hairline crack in her lifted front leg that I reinforced and fixed with some apoxie (can be seen in the picture).

I thought that I only mixed a little apoxie but I still had apoxie left when I was done with Bat Girl. Even though my only real goal was to finish her (I didn't set any higher goals since I've never worked with anything like this) I couldn't stop, it was so fun! 

So my next model to be fixed was this girl:

She is a Quintessance resin by Liddy. I painted her a few years ago and updated her paint job for a live show before I moved back home for summer last year. I was actually starting to like the colour I got on her but unfortunately she fell of my table and her ear was lost in pieces. 

I was quite sad to have to reprime her and repair her but I hope I can do it even better when I get that far.

                       

This is what she looks like at the moment. Even though she needs to have her ear sanded I think I managed to do a pretty good match to her other ear.

I still had some apoxie left so I was looking for another body to do some work on. I found my G2 Stablemate rearing arabian. He will be my interpretation of The Silver Brumby's Tambo so he needed to loose the dished profile so I tried to even it out a bit.

He looks a bit more convex than he is but I think that it is the colour of the apoxie that makes it look like it. I will prime him to see if he needs more work but for now I'm happy with his look :)

My last project of the day was this guy:

He is the Breyer stablemate G3 jumping warmblood that I removed his mane and a bit of his tail to give him braids. They are far from perfect and they are a bit too big but I like them! I will show him as a pony so I can always blame it on his fluffy pony mane ;) Fluffy, unruly pony mane means big, not perfect, braids ;)

Anyway I'm quite proud of my first apoxie adventures and can't wait to do some more work!

All in all I think I spent 1½-2 hours on these horses (it was a little more than 2 and ½ episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) and hopefully I can spend some more time on them tomorrow!