Lightning Returns - Knight of Etro

FFXIII-2 Lightning v.3.0

3^rd armored Lightning custom I’ve made since 2012~

 Commissioned request of Lightning Claire Ferron as seen in the Play Station 2 video game Final Fantasy XIII-2 as a custom pony figure.

 Pony base is an engineered pose from two different generation 1 Sweet Heart Sister poses.

Original body/heads have a layer of Gesso prepped before paint work. Then full body repaint job in flesh tone acrylics, eyes hand-painted in my anime-fusion style, and cutie mark is a original design by me that I first composed via water color pencil sketch on paper. It is a Lightning Rose Cloud- a cloud and rose spliced into one concept, with lightning bolts bolting out the bottom, and rose petals flowing from the rose cloud.

Painted black acrylics for a bodice and on entire front legs.

All paint work sealed in Artists Varnish.

 Mane and tail re-rooted via both the re-hair tool method, and the wire method for some plugs for the sake of saving length of the hair.

Hair is in 4 shades of neutral pale pinks, and about 2 shades of light blondes.

Hair colors are as follow- knotted plugs of saran sugarless gum pink Barbie hair from Dollyhair, hand-mixed with a pale blond.

Then Dollyhair’s Dusty rose nylon hair, pale dusty brownish blond Tiramisu, then a blend of both RetrodollUS’s nylon Oyster and Dollyhair’s Oyster Shell nylon hair, blended together. A bit redundant, but it was a labor of love as one was more lavender than the other and both left over from previous projects.

Mane permanently hardened in my hair gel method.

 Armor is constructed entirely of thin silver leather material with gold and silver strips of leather, with gold and silver thick wire accenting some part. Hand-stitched in some part of the armor.

All armor bits were sketched out on card stock then traced onto the silver material then cut. Authentic leather dyed purple used for some under-areas of the armor. Some thin brown leather strips used, painted gold detail on the purple flaps under the tail.

Glued large tufts of white feathers under one side.