Photos of the finished repaints: at iperyys.net - at deviantart - at tumblr
August 30 2018:
Raptor socializing happening on my desk, where I am finally done with
the touch-ups to their paint. Also what is this concept of multiple figures of the same character, Blue just has a daughter now.
The Triceratops was never heard from again.
More on the changes I made to them:
Blue
- I gave her stripes the white outline this figure didn’t have. I like the Attack Pack Blue’s sculpt best, I think, but yeah she also has the least detail painted on her.
- I wanted her gaze to be focused more forward, so I moved her pupils a bit from the center of the eye towards the inner corners. I also gave the iris a bit more detail, with a light yellow outline around the pupil and a bit more orange shade to the rest of the iris, and a white dot for shine.
- And that’s it. I considered painting her claws, but I don’t mind them like this.
Before:
After:
Bonus creepy in-progress shot:
Blue Jr.
- Outlined her stripes, too.
- Her eyes were just black dots, like on the Triceratops (understandable, as the figures are really tiny), but I think I managed okay in giving her yellow irises and making her eyes a bit bigger without it looking too much like I’ve painted over lines.
Before:
After:
Indoraptor
- I wanted to make his eyes stand out more, as they’re originally a very dark red that kind of disappears at any distance, especially with how shiny he is all over. I painted over the irises with a slightly brighter and warmer red, and outlined the pupils with gold paint.
- I added black between some of his teeth that looked kind of fused together as opposed to how most of the teeth are painted individually. Particularly the lower front teeth. Also gave his upper front teeth a bit more paint.
Before:
After:
:D
September 18 2018:
Charlie!
I mean that’s enough resemblance I can consider this to be her, right? The shade of green is wrong, but whatever, I can live with that. Blue isn’t speckly like a pigeon, either.
Actually I think that might be even intended to be Charlie. From what I’ve seen Mattel has made four Velociraptors with this sculpt: a brown one, a yellow-orange one that has darker stripes like Charlie here, this one, and a Blue. Since this is part of the JP 25 years Legacy Collection, I think they’re meant to represent raptors from each movie (skipping JP3, which, okay, it’s not like the raptors were the best thing about that movie or anything): the brown one is JP1, the orange striped one is TLW, Blue is representing Fallen Kingdom, and Charlie Jurassic World. We have a Charlie!
I don’t think I want to repaint her even partially. She looks close enough, and idk, painting the rarer figures feels like a bad idea, even though I’m not much of a collector and just want these things standing around on various surfaces of my apartment because dinosaurs are neat.
With Charlie came a bunch of other figures, the most interesting of which to me is the other Velociraptor. She has the Attack Pack Blue’s (i.e. the one I have) sculpt, and similar colouring, but she’s obviously not meant to be her. Her eyes are more orange, the blue on her is more purply and muted and not in the distinct two stripes Blue has, it’s more streaked over her back like Charlie’s tabby stripes. Her grey is also a little different shade from both Blue and Skye (a.k.a. Blue Jr.), who are kind of green-grey, while this raptor is more red/brown-grey.
I’m not sure yet what to do with her. Other than keep her, of course, she’s part of the pack now whoever she is going to be.
I also have the green Attack Pack raptor, and am waiting for another, non-JW, raptor figure to arrive by mail. I'll decide what to do with them and who to repaint into Delta and Echo when everybody's here.
Raptors!
a hunt
... and caught!
See, that's how you catch a Gallimimus.
Never mind that it's still standing there in the background.
October 26 2018:
Unboxing assistant Hiihoo giving a cheek swipe of approval.
Finally getting around to painting Echo and Delta.
I decided to go with the green Attack Pack raptor for Echo, and for Delta the Schleich raptor who has finally arrived. They match more closely than I even expected, in size and proportions, and their heads being a bit different shape is fine, since the raptors have some individual facial features in the movie, too.
Echo before painting
Delta before painting
Echo after first and second coat of paint, I forgot her feet are going to be dark green anyway
An extremely dignified photo of Delta after her first coat of paint
Delta is turning out more teal than green. I brought Charlie over for reference, and since she’s about the colour Delta is in the movie and Delta is supposed to be a more bluish green than her, I think this will work to differentiate their colouring. She looks bluer in the photos than she actually is, though. I’ll see if I can just find a lighting where she photographs well, or I might backtrack to a bit greener colour the next time I work on them.
Other than that, I did get those reds covered surprisingly well already. If I’m fine with the colour, she’ll start getting her patterns (and eyes!) next. Echo is going to get one more coat before I start adding her stripes.
November 6 2018
Echo only got her palate and gums painted this time. They were the same green as the figure’s original colour, so I changed them to pink. (And then fixed where I got the pink on her teeth or lips, a bunch of times.)
Delta was too blue, so I left her previous base colour as her markings’ colour (you can see it best on her cute little arm feathers and on her feet, for comparison), and made her new base colour a bit more aquamarine. She got some darker and lighter spots on her markings and a light bluish underbelly, and also finally has eyes again lol. I’m quite happy with her colours now: she’s green enough, but clearly distinguishable from Charlie. Her claws and everything in her mouth I left as they were on the figure originally.
I’ll see if I still want to give her some finishing touches, but if not, she’s done!
November 9 2018
Stripes!
November 26 2018
Finishing up Echo’s stripes. The photos are bad, but there should now also be some colour variation in them from teal green to blue. And she has her scar. Unless I find something to still fix I think she’s done.
I also decided Blue and Skye aren’t done yet after all, and did what I hadn’t earlier bothered to. Both now have their claws painted, Blue got the lighter underbelly every figure of her but this one has, and I continued the colour on Skye’s further up her neck and onto her jaw and chin. I didn’t extend the lighter colour to Blue’s face, though, I think it works better on the figure this way.
I’m still considering if I want to give Blue the little bumps/spikes she has at the back of her head and on her brows. I figure small blobs of paint should work to make those? I bet they would chip off really easily if she falls over or something, though, and the figure has pretty bad balance. The grey raptor who came with Charlie who has the same sculpt has that issue, too. I wonder if I could do something about that by attaching something under their feet, which are now kind of tilted instead of flat against the ground. Raptor wedge heels??
December 11 2018
Making some shoes for Blue! I decided raptor wedge heels are exactly what she needs.
Bakey-bake
I don’t know if I would have needed to wrap her feet in clingfilm while molding the polymer clay to fit them, but I like to not have to worry about it leaving the figure or the table surface sticky or something.
This is how uneven her feet are! No wonder I can barely get her to stand without leaning on something (though her horizontally curved tail is pretty good for being discreet about the leaning.)
They’re not exactly seamless, but I think I want them to be removable, so I’m not trying to make them look like they’re part of her feet. After taking these photos I painted them her skintone, though, just to camoflage them a bit (nude raptor wedge heels, very fashionable).
And now she can stand! Without my having to worry she’s going to get knocked over by any tiny shake of the bookshelf these guys usually stand on, or a faint breeze, frankly.
Which was very useful for when I had enough to worry about in steadying my hands when I painted those tiny bumps on her head (not pictured here). I considered putting them on Skye, too, and she’s been getting a bit more detail as well, hence why she’s there in the background, but I think she’s too tiny to bumpify even for my tiny detail brush (tiny lines and dots I can do, but the bumps are carefully applied blobs of paint, which are so easy to accidentally merge into each other if put too close together), so we’ll consider them details omitted in stylization to comply with limitations of the medium.
The grey raptor who came in the set with Charlie doesn’t have her feet quite as tilted, it turns out, despite her having the same sculpt as Blue. She can stand pretty easily if I don’t (ever, lol) move the pose her legs are in, so I think I’ll leave her alone.
Speaking of the grey raptor, I’ve decided to call her Victoria, to keep with the alphabet code naming. The code for V is Victor, but, she’s a girl, and yeah V as in Subject V-2 (in which the V stands for Velociraptor, I’m sure, but she deserves a name besides that). Also that gives her the nickname Tori, which in at least one language means bird, and that amuses me. Welcome to our flock of troubled birds, Tori.
Photos of the finished repaints: at iperyys.net - at deviantart - at tumblr
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