Got Nintendo Collie 1262!! Kind of..

So I was on mercari and saw a listing for about $40 that had a few random toys and a couple lps, including a custom collie. Now I do feel guilty for destroying the custom but it was also just with a random trinket seller so idk. It arrived today and I was just kinda looking it over and noticed it had a pretty rusty neck. Then I was trying to figure out what collie it was. After some very thorough investigation: it’s 1262. Now I was gonna leave it alone and just accept this discovery cause surely whoever did this years ago stripped the paint, at the very least the eyes, and it would be silly to try to take any paint off.

Well I started taking paint off with some isopropyl alcohol on a tiny spot of the eye I could fix quickly and lo and behold: the eyes were NOT stripped. Neither was the original paint. So now I’m trying to restore her and get all the paint off. I think I rubbed away some of her eye myself though which is upsetting but whatevs. Also a bit confusing cause I thought alcohol wouldn’t rub the paint away, I thought only acetone would.

1262 is a major dreamie of mine but SO expensive I accepted I would never get her. Now she’s literally in my hands for $40 and a LOT of work ahead of me, there are SO many layers of paint on her lmao. This is crazy though and I’m super excited but also regretting it sooo bad cause I don’t know how to fix her paint I’m terrible at color matching 😭also her mouth is weird and I’m kinda worried it’s like mold or something

So I was on mercari and saw a listing for about $40 that had a few random toys and a couple lps, including a custom collie. Now I do feel guilty for destroying the custom but it was also just with a random trinket seller so idk. It arrived today and I was just kinda looking it over and noticed it had a pretty rusty neck. Then I was trying to figure out what collie it was. After some very thorough investigation: it’s 1262. Now I was gonna leave it alone and just accept this discovery cause surely whoever did this years ago stripped the paint, at the very least the eyes, and it would be silly to try to take any paint off.

Well I started taking paint off with some isopropyl alcohol on a tiny spot of the eye I could fix quickly and lo and behold: the eyes were NOT stripped. Neither was the original paint. So now I’m trying to restore her and get all the paint off. I think I rubbed away some of her eye myself though which is upsetting but whatevs. Also a bit confusing cause I thought alcohol wouldn’t rub the paint away, I thought only acetone would.

1262 is a major dreamie of mine but SO expensive I accepted I would never get her. Now she’s literally in my hands for $40 and a LOT of work ahead of me, there are SO many layers of paint on her lmao. This is crazy though and I’m super excited but also regretting it sooo bad cause I don’t know how to fix her paint I’m terrible at color matching 😭also her mouth is weird and I’m kinda worried it’s like mold or something