Almost assembled

Puttying is done, for now.

Assembling the raptor, part 2

The raptor model kit's journey into becoming one of my Jurassic Park OCs in figurine form continues. Number of separate pieces has gone from... 68 (+spares)? to 8.

Little Velo guarding the small parts by being brighter and easier to notice, so I don't accidentally sweep the feet and one (1) loose claw onto the floor, from which the claw at least will never be found.

Assembling the raptor

So, about time I get around to putting that Fujimi raptor model kit together.

Same hat scientific inaccuracies! Same scientific inaccuracies!

More on the small JP raptor figures

The little mini one is almost finished, and just needs pupils, and paint on their feet. The feet are convenient to hold the figure by when painting other details, so I left them for last. The figure has a light underbelly and some faint stripes, but I want to keep the babies' colours more muted than the adults'. Hopefully my paint supply lets me do that.

The bigger kid has a base coat of light brown, and their sickle claws painted. I'm so proud of managing not to stain the base, can you tell?

I haven't named them yet, but they would probably be my other JP OCs' children or grandchildren. I gave the little one markings that look like they're maybe related to Finder and Dare (a ring around the eye that "drips" into a stripe over the mouth, and a dark chin, respectively), so... Squeak&Finder's kid and Dash&Dare's kid had a kid, then. The other one has orange eyes that I'm not going to change, so they're probably Survivor&Grappleclaws' child, or grandchild that one of their children and another one of Dash&Dare's children had.

Kukertava

Hare

Scaly tabbies

The tiger bros are finally done!

Their stripes took a while partially because each stripe needed like three coats, due to the smooth plastic surface, but I really wanted to keep the orange the way it is and not paint over it with a primer. Echo, whom I painted last year, had a full repaint with the base colour functioning as a primer for her stripes, and most of the stripes I painted on Grappleclaws, too, had paint under them. The way I painted these two boys may not have been the most efficient, but it was fun to try it this way, too.

I don't know if it shows in these photos, but their claws are a slightly different colour, to further differentiate them. Finder (on the left in all three photos) has purply-grey claws while Elusive has dark brown claws, which also contrast their eye colours a little.

I think next I'll try to puzzle out the Fujimi raptor and if it could be made into one of their sisters, and then I'll still need to find a figure to make into the other one. I don't really want to use this same sculpt again, even though I really like it, since I already have four raptors with it and two of them in this pack.

Painted Velociraptors and alleged such

Gave my Safari mini Velo a bit more colour on the face in addition to painting the claws. It hopefully looks now like the white is all feathers, and the raptor actually has a yellow-brown snout. I painted the inside of the mouth, with a bit of darker pink at the back.

The wait is over (panels 9-13)

The comic is here at my site, and here at deviantart: part 1, part 2

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Trying out sculpting

I don't do sculpting much. For some reason it's a pretty intimidating artform for me, and my experiences with it don't extend much past having a lump of clay put in front of me at school and being told to make something out of it without knowing anything about how to do so - that may very well be the reason, actually. But I'm working with a 3D canvas in painting dinosaur figurines already, so I guess this is a logical next step. And I'm quite happy with the results so far!

For starters I decided to do something about the cuptopper Blue not having sickle claws, and for starters of that, I just chopped the non-sickled middle toes off with a box cutter. I thought about detaching the figure from the base for this, but it's glued on quite firmly and I wanted to get on with the sculpting, so I just slid a piece of thin cardboard under the toes to avoid scratching the base's surface much.

The operation was a success!

...And then I did my best to make tiny raptor toes with tiny raptor claws out of epoxy putty (Apoxie specifically, for anyone curious). I don't really have any sculpting tools, but I had tooth picks, an old brush, and water, and after having the putty cure for a day, we have this:

Damp

The Wait panels 7 and 8

The comic at my site, and at deviantart.

Content warning for that much mentioned (better too much than too little when it comes to warnings, I think) blood and gore in this update, and animal death but we can't see much of the dead animal.

Raptors having a nice dinner, and some more feather development inspecting a few days later.