What are Indoraptors?

[warning for discussion of animal abuse, and spoilers for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom]

Originally posted to tumblr as three separate posts in 2018 and early 2019, reposted here to archive posts I want to keep... and now reposted again because I accidentally deleted it.

Finishing touches, finally

Adding pupils,

 attaching legs,

...and here she is!

Spottier

Purply spots!

 And darker outlines to the purply.

Our raptor is starting to be done (hopefully, anyway)! She's getting her legs back once this latest addition dries, and then it should be just eye details. And possibly touching up any paint I chip by popping the legs in. Acrylic sticks to her plastic okay, but it scratches off more easily than on the other figures I've painted. Those other figures are all made of at least a little softer plastic, while this raptor needs to be made of hard plastic to maintain the shape, since the model is hollow, and needs to have the parts line up when put together. She's survived just fine getting dropped a few times, though.

Spotty

Whirlwind has the beginnings of her patterns, and her new base colour. The insides of those spots are going to be darker than the base colour, but I didn't paint over those areas because the base colour is a bit yellowy, while I want the spots to be a bit purply, and those being complementary colours it may turn out cleaner this way.

I also gave her eyes a gradient from darker and bluer green to lighter and yellower. Since she's got big eyes, might as well make them fancy. I'll still shape and resize them with more dark brown around the edges, though, before adding the pupils. She'll have dark blotches around her eyes, so hopefully the brown on the "eyeballs" blends in a bit.

Her patterns are based on the tribe B raptors from Trespasser, just in shades of brown instead of the pretty goldfish colours seen in the game, because she's female. Apparently during Trespasser's events all the lady raptors were elsewhere, perhaps doing something more productive than chasing humans by walking, and falling off cliffs.

I did get to just the painting

Whirlwind is getting nice and brown, and has left the lantern only to sit in my brush holder instead, as she and her legs are yet to reunite. I put them back on temporarily, though, just to check that the putty on her neck didn't make her too front-heavy to stand (being heavier than the plastic is, though still pretty light), which it turns out it didn't. I think I'll keep them separate until she's at least almost done. The patterns in that area should turn out neater that way.

She's got ~1½-2 coats of the light brown paint I used for the base colour of the JP1 raptor babies, but the base colour I want her to have is a little darker and brighter. This paint is just more opaque and easier to cover up the green with than jumping straight to that colour would have been.

The tail does still move, but I prefer it in this position, so if the next coat makes the paint thick enough it won't anymore, that's not a big loss.

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.