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.