Bugle Attending the Masquerade Ball as a Magpie

This is my most recently created swap pony for a swap at the My Little Pony Arena forums, and is the last swap pony I have. This means I am down to just personal trades now and my contest prize.

My partner for this trade had two ideas that I meshed together for this.. She wanted the custom to be of her persona, Bugle, made with a real fox tail. Or, to do a magpie theme using real magpie feathers. I decided to do Bugle dressed up as a Magpie. Unfortunately, the feathers I ordered were bigger than anticipated. The feathers used on this mask have actually been cut down. So I had to rely a lot on coloring to get the image across.

I wish I had been able to do more detail to this dress, but I was short on both time and ideas. Patterns are certainly a weak point for me! I was also torn by the desire to let the sculpting stand out, as I am rather proud of the sculpting on this piece.

The hair for the pony in this picture is done in two braids. It is NOT intended to be displayed this way. Unbraided, the hair is wavy and very pretty, but since I was running short on time, I was unable to photograph it down and then get stuck needing to rebraid it.

So many pictures.. This is The Dread Pirate, Captain Peggle! She will be awarded as a prize at the end of a game of Lazer Ponies at Fear The Con, in St. Louis Missouri.

This pony is a number of firsts for me.. First corset, first updo, first time doing fancy eyelashes, first body mod.

She is sculpted with Apoxie sculpt. Her peg leg has a tin foil base.