All the better to chomp you with

Triptail's mouth and claws are done. She had a bit of white paint on her tongue, not enough of it on some of her teeth, and the gums on the top jaw were green at the front, but that should be fixed now.

I gave her stripes a light purple-red wash, and added some green-ish to her underbelly, especially around the throat, since the JP1 figures have that, too. Hers is more yellow-green while their green is more bluish, though.

The eyes got a base coat of white, to bring out the colours better so they stand out against the dark markings around them. They're painted a little over where the eye is sculpted, and I hope the contrast helps in masking that.

Bonus long Masu:

Green raptor erasure

This is now, what? The third green raptor I've repainted to be brown? Also this figure just can't decide what shade of brown she is because all of these photos were taken in different lightings.

Anyway, Triptail is approaching the finish line. I'll still tint her markings a bit, and then it's just details like claws and eyes. Also touch-ups to the paint in her mouth, since there are some stains and scuffs in that. The claws are mostly painted, too, but the factory paint was already a bit spotty in some places and I didn't pay much mind to painting over them while changing the base colour, since they're pretty easy to just repaint black all nice and neat once everything else is done.

Showing up to the repainting 15 minutes late with raptor beverage

The last one of the figures I'm painting into my raptor OC pack (led by one (1) technically-canon character) has arrived. The Papo raptor figure is kind of ubiquitous, but I didn't have one before, and it does match the JP/W figures well in size and proportions.

I'm not a big fan of the tripod pose, though to be fair the tip of the tail doesn't quite touch the ground and the figure does actually stand just on the two legs. The raptor OC I'm making this one into is Triptail, so perhaps she is in the process of living up to her name and tripping someone up with her tail. That at least is her preferred meaning for her name, but she has also been known to perform feats of clumsiness on par with tripping on one's own tail (which a raptor would probably not be able to do very easily, theropod tails are not that floppy).

The face is nice, but I think she kind of has the opposite problem from her sister Whirlwind, whom I just finished making from that Fujimi kit. The eyes are small compared to the JP/W figures. We'll see if I'll do something about that. I'm already going to paint over her eyes anyway, since the character has green eyes.

(Yes, that is the same figure, just at a window mostly illuminated by the limited natural light Finland gets in December, and under a lamp, respectively.)

Happy Friday the 13th

Since it happens I'm currently sharing my home with a black cat.

 It's Masu.

Who would win?

I don't know, why are they fighting? What's at stake? Where are they fighting? Why are they both there? How much are they allowed to use their environment to their advantage? If not at all, isn't it unfair on a fighter whose strength is adapting to their surroundings? Are there others present as possible collateral damage one or both of them may or may not care about? Can they walk away from the fight or are they forced to battle to the death? Who's forcing them and why? Is it to the death or until one gives up? Can they take breaks or is there a time limit? If the fighters are beings capable of using tools and weapons, are they allowed to use them, and what kind? Can they ask for backup? Inspiring loyalty and making allies is a highly useful survival skill - if it's a strength of one of the fighters, are they allowed to utilize it? If not, what's preventing them? Can they use it on their opponent and convince them not to fight? Can they team up against whoever's making them fight? Can they just sit and chat instead of fighting if that would be more in-character?

This is why I'm bad at these.

I have received rexes!

My awesome friend sent me these beautiful stamps featuring Tyrannosaurus rex.

Two of the designs are holographic. One shows a rex walking in the viewer’s general direction, and then coming directly at the viewer with its mouth open and ready to chomp when you look at it from a different angle. Another shows a rex apparently assessing a baby Triceratops for a possible meal, and both of them turn into skeletons when you turn the stamp. Another has a juvenile rex hunting a prehistoric mammal, and last but the opposite of the least - a feathered rex hatchling!

I love them! Thank you so much!

My own rexes in all their outdated anatomy are put to shame by these, lol. To help their case, they brought along to admire the stamps the feathered, basal tyrannosauroid Dilong.

Some snows