Autodefenestration observation

[Spoilers for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom]

In references to the fight between Blue and the Indoraptor in Fallen Kingdom, I've seen the Indoraptor falling out of a window getting attributed to Blue causing it, and I've referred to it as her throwing him out the window, myself. But after a closer look, that's not actually what happens: it's very quick and unclear, so it's hard to see especially if you're watching at a theater and can't pause, but turns out he jumps out instead. He just lands in the clumsiest way possible and rolls down the rest of the roof hitting every corner along the way, so not exactly according to plan, but that's what you get when you don't look before you leap.

Beauty and grace, about to fall on his face

But that does make more sense. Blue is trying to keep the Indoraptor in the room, or at least from going after Owen and Maisie, so tossing him in their direction is pretty counterproductive.

I'd figured maybe things got bad enough for her that she had to, and that he hit the window was more of an accident. The only way she could have "thrown" a creature bigger than herself anywhere is by kicking, after all, the same way the Indoraptor sends her flying across the room at one point by kicking her off him, when she gets him vulnerable on his back for a moment. But if this is what happened instead, that makes more sense for the Indoraptor's behavior, too.

The redder end of the leaf spectrum

Making eyes

At the boys, or for the boys. Either way, they both have pupils again.

The orange raptor is the character Elusive, since he has green eyes, and I was going to paint over the figure's chipped and badly placed eyes anyway. Might be that the figure I'll repaint to be Finder, who has yellow eyes but otherwise the same colouring, will need to have its eyes fixed, too, but then I'll just paint more eyes, nbd.

I gave Elusive's eyes a couple of coats of green to cover the old eyes, a bit lighter and warmer at the center, and touched up with orange where the old eye paint had bled to the lower eyelid.

 Grappleclaws' eyes are a bit more complicated, and I did end up painting over them completely instead of preserving the old pupils, since that seemed it would come out neater. He's got a coat of red, another of bright pink at the center, touch-ups to mix the two more gradually, and a stripe of very light yellow at the center. I used cool reds and yellows for the eyes to contrast his colouring otherwise being very warm, and deliberately went a bit over the eyelids to enlargen the eyes a little, since the jumping raptors have kind of small eyes. It's probably because the sculpt seems to be designed for the JP3 raptors, which do have smaller eyes compared to other JP/W raptors. To help the eyes stand out even more, there's also a ring around them of the same black I use for their stripes (mixed with brown, like the white I used on Elusive's underbelly is, too, to have them not be too stark).

Hopefully I'll get to working on some of the girls, too, soon. The Fujimi raptor might become one of them, but speaking of eyes, it actually has really big eyes compared to these figures, so I'll see if I can do something about changing that, or maybe I'll just learn to live with them.

Also, I think I may have fixed the Sinornithosaurus figure's leg? After having it sit on the mold for a week continuously I took it off it, and it's been a day and it hasn't warped back. So that's nice!

Some ruska

Orange leaves and orange boys

 The boys are getting stripes, the leaves are perfect as they are.

Self-assembly raptor

A raptor model kit I bought arrived today. Haven't started putting it together yet, as I'm going to paint it, and at least some parts will probably be more convenient to paint before assembling it, but it looks pretty neat. At least by comparing the individual parts it actually looks a closer match to the size and proportions of the JP/W raptor figures than I'd expected, the biggest difference I can see being a bit shorter torso, which is probably what makes the head look kind of big in the photos I saw of it. The head part is actually about the same size as the Kenner raptor's.

The kit is by Fujimi. It's obviously based on the Jurassic Park version of Velociraptor, though the English info on the package is actually about the real animal in all its turkey-sized glory, and it was made this year so it just has a retrosaur design rather than being from when it was thought to be accurate. Apparently the parts are snap-fit and don't need any glue, and the instructions are mostly pictures, so they should be pretty easy to follow even without knowing Japanese.

In other raptor figure news,

Making some OCs

Working on repainting for myself figures of the characters from my raptor fic. Two of the JW Legacy Collection raptors already look a lot like the siblings Shredder and Grappleclaws, so it was easy to pick which figures to make into them.