Frost flowers

Ok NOW can I get to just the painting?

Well, not quite right now because she'll need her neck seam to cure for the day, but hopefully that's the last of the sculpting she'll need. I don't know if the head support I slapped together for her is necessary, but just in case her head starts falling over before the putty is hardened enough. All her parts are really light though, being hollow plastic, so it probably wouldn't.

Her legs are off since they're easier to paint separately for at least the first coat, and she's sitting on that tealight lantern thingy instead of lying on her side, which might make steadying her head easier, because I also sealed the seam on her back. It wasn't a huge gap, but, since I could. I also just now noticed her tail is poseable at the base, too, and can move up quite a bit. This shouldn't ruin that, but we'll see once the putty's cured.

I made the head turned to one side a bit, which I think looks livelier than having her look straight forward. Little raptor who's joining her on the drying shelf agrees - and is finished now except for the drying.

Here's a before and after of what I did about the little raptor's mouth. I didn't repaint that part completely, but the paint on the teeth was pretty uneven, most obvious when seen directly from the front. Also the tongue was the only part with pink on it.

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.

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