Scrumpy the Pony Part Three

It was time for Scrumpy to get a paint job, so that the clay and paper mache would be sealed and hopefully he'd look like a proper little horse with some colour on him. I used acrylic paint that I bought in the 99p shop, (the alarm bells should have started ringing right there, but I've bought some good stuff there before).
I started with a layer of black, because the clay dries white and it makes it easier to see which bits you've done, but also because I like to paint from dark to light.
When I checked him several hours later, something interesting had happened, the paint had developed a crackle finish, which I'd never encountered with acrylics before, and the pigment had sort of separated so that he was black with bright pink crackles!

Pink is the new black....apparently.

I thought that if I covered him over with several layers of white he would be alright, but when paint goes wrong it goes horribly wrong.... I ended up with a pinky-grey pony, which was not what I wanted.
There was only one thing to do, I would have to spend several days scraping all the paint off him.