Paint touchups, minor modifications and etc.

[Ajax88]

Not much to shake a stick at, but I sometimes make a few minor modifications to paint or seams on some models. Not brave enough to do any major repaints yet, but someday I'll pick up a figure I like with a crummy paint scheme and give it a go. For now... Minor crest improvements on my Haolonggood Pentaceratops (Titanoceratops). Added some rear frill spots, and made the front a bit more colorful.



Always thought the paint and sculpt of the PNSO Suchomimus was damn-near perfect, but the jaw articulation was a bit too obvious for me, so I sculpted a bit and repainted the throat to better blend the lower jaw. I think it turned out pretty well!

[thomasw100]

I like your touchups a lot, they make the figures look very natural. And covering seam lines is always a good idea. My painting skills are much less than what you are able to do. Right now I am restricting myself to simple fixes of small paint defect, painting over incorrectly clawed digits and painting the bottom of hands and feet of figures to fix wear that occurs over time from moving figures a bit around.

Actually in a way making adjustments along the lines of what you do comes with a challenge that cannot be underestimated. Being able to mix color tones to match exactly to what has been used by the manufacturer so that transitions between old and new are not detectable. I find this pretty hard actually. Sometimes the color tone looks still different when applied to the figure compared to how it looks on the wet palette or on a piece of paper.

[Sim]

Sometimes the color tone looks still different when applied to the figure compared to how it looks on the wet palette or on a piece of paper.

I have experienced paint changing shade when it dries.  Many years later I read that some paint does that I can't remember why, but there is some paint that's created in such a way that the tone doesn't change when it dries.  I know the Games Workshop paint is a type that doesn't change tone when dry...

[Ajax88]

I like your touchups a lot, they make the figures look very natural. And covering seam lines is always a good idea. My painting skills are much less than what you are able to do. Right now I am restricting myself to simple fixes of small paint defect, painting over incorrectly clawed digits and painting the bottom of hands and feet of figures to fix wear that occurs over time from moving figures a bit around.

Actually in a way making adjustments along the lines of what you do comes with a challenge that cannot be underestimated. Being able to mix color tones to match exactly to what has been used by the manufacturer so that transitions between old and new are not detectable. I find this pretty hard actually. Sometimes the color tone looks still different when applied to the figure compared to how it looks on the wet palette or on a piece of paper.

Thanks! My father is a professional artist, so I have picked up an eye for color and shadow from him over the years. I quickly learned almost any color on a model is a composition of at minimum 4 base colors and often many more. In every brown there is a hint of purple or red, and in every black, usually some blue or brown. I'm using pretty standard acrylics, they tend to dry a hair darker than when applied, so I have to take that into consideration. Definetly need to pick up some glossier paint down the line too.