I originally made these ponies last year [link] but when I took them (and others -- see this part of my gallery: [link] ) to Dragon*Con, they got badly scuffed. I've recently made a new Stargate MLP, and I figured I should fix up all the others as well, and take better photos. Vala's mostly just cleaned up (and not completely, alas, but I don't want to paint over her pretty sparkly skin), and I added some silver glitter-paint to the areas that were white on her top and the symbol on her left haunch, Daniel's coat has been repainted, his symbol's been cleaned up a bit, his eyes and brows have been redone (I think they look *much* better now), he's been given Modge Pdge sealant, plus he has new glasses. I also made new Kor Mak bracelets for them, out of Crayola Model Magic -- they aren't really like the ones on the show, which would have been impossible, but they're better than the crocheted ones they had before.

From the original versions' posting (edited):

Daniel is made of the only boy-pony I ever had, Quarterback. I'd cut his hair short a long time ago (the long hair just didn't look right). I didn't think I would ever do more than that to him though, until I got the urge to customise Parasol into Vala -- then it just seemed *right*.

I used a terra cotta Tria marker to color Quarterback's blue-and-white hair brown (hence it looking a bit red in spots). [...] I also cut his tail into a bob and used the Tria on the fringe above his hooves. I used a black sharpie to colour Parasol's pink-and-white hair black, leaving a strip of white in her mane and tale, which I coloured with a yellow Prismacolour marker (Vala had a bleach-blonde stripe in her early eps). I also used the sharpie to thicken her eyelashes.

The SG-1 patches on each of them are made of felt and white acrylic -- Vala's is smaller than Daniel's. True, Vala wasn't a member of SG-1 when she was wearing that outfit, but I might make other clothes for her someday, and joining Daniel's "little Stargating Club" became very important to her.

Daniel's other symbol is a book (he does a lot of reading) with a pyramid on one page (he's an archaeologist) and "Dan" written first in Asgardian runes, and then in Ancient letters (he's a linguist). I also painted over his eyes (I didn't like the shape and they were too small). [...] Vala's other symbol is a black heart with stars in it, a compass rose, and an "x that marks the spot" (she's a treasure-hunter/space pirate). They each have the Stargate symbol for Earth as their cutie symbols, with Vala's being over the heart that Parasol already had.

Each is wearing a [...] grey band around a foreleg, to stand for the Kor Mak bracelets Vala used to join them together (they couldn't get very far apart, or it would kill them both -- she thought it would just keep him from running off with her half of a treasure they were seeking, and didn't know about the fatal side-effects).

I originally tried making Vala's outfit out of three different materials, but after the three tries, I decided to draw it on with the sharpie instead. Daniel's black t-shirt under his BDU shirt is also painted on. I had to cut a slit in one sleeve of the BDU and sew on a small bead to used as a button, just to get it on him! XD [...] Parasol came with a crown, which I painted with gold glittery fabric paint -- it reminded me of the scene from "Avalon, Part 2", when Vala lounged among the treasure and put that crown on. XD

You can see an artsy photo I took of them here: [link]

You can view a digital painting I did of them (in different outfits) here: [link]

And you can see the reaction of several of the cast, including Michael Shanks and Claudia Black, here: [link] (photos) and here: [link] (video by snarklover)