TooOldForDinosaurs' Repaints

[Pliosaurking]

Nice job on your first figure!

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

@Lynx Thanks for your suggestion. I have repainted figures before and the details turned out to be still well visible for the most part but I'm still worried for this particular self-made figure. The tool impressions are a lot finer than on all my bought models and the material would require to first prime the figure before painting it (so the paint doesn't chip off the figure) and also sealing it after painting. I don't know if it I may be because I'm using fairly cheap acrylics but the paint has to be applied quite thickly to cover nicely. All this makes me think that I might lose a lot of my hard detail work through painting the figure but on the other hand I'd really like to do so... To summarize my essay: I'm torn.

@Pliosaurking Thanks!

[SidB]

Maybe try repainting a cheap trike model, and see if the detail is as clear as you'd like it to?

On this note, @TooOldForDinosaurs , maybe you might want to switch paints to see if a different product will give you good coverage with a thinner application. After all the work that you've put into this piece, perhaps this would be a worthwhile approach.

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

You're right S @SidB .   I will probably try that, thank you both @Lynx ! Its probably worth to invest into some high quality paints if I wanna paint this. I'll have to do some research.

[Bokisaurus]

Looking very good! I can tell you are doing a lot of studying and taking your time in sculpting your model, that's good.
My biggest flaw was that I rushed too much🤣 that I didn't take the time to really study!

Yeah, I have a thread about my sculpting called "Boki's adventures in sculpting "
The journey took a little over a year!
Good luck, I can't wait to see how this turns out!

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

B @Bokisaurus Appreciate it, thanks!  Cool, I'll go and check that out. The model will probably stay a bit like this for a while until I've found some better paint and did some testing. My free days are over so I'll have to see when I find some time again. This creative work takes up a whole afternoon or day very easily. But it will most probably be painted in the future and it will definitely get a custom base as well.

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

Here's a Ceratopsian group shot I took yesterday evening and I've also put all of the process into a video like I did with the Camarasaurus repaint  :

[Halichoeres]

Looking good! On the topic of paints, are you using them straight out of the tube/bottle? I always thin mine with water when painting in three dimensions, so they're a lot less globby. If that works you don't have to buy new ones.

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

Looking good! On the topic of paints, are you using them straight out of the tube/bottle? I always thin mine with water when painting in three dimensions, so they're a lot less globby. If that works you don't have to buy new ones.

Thank you! Well, it varies. But they don't seem to thin out really well and lose a lot of opacity pretty fast and/or don't adhere well to the figure anymore... Maybe I'm just doing something wrong haha (I primed my previous repaints just with a plain acrylic paint instead of a primer - maybe thats why I had to apply so thickly...? - I plan on using a primer this time anyway because this baked clay is very "slippery") But I'll take your advice and do some testing with the current paints first before I get new ones and experiment with those.

[Halichoeres]

Primer might be sufficient to get better adhesion and better opacity. I use gesso, which isn't really made for that purpose but seems to preserve detail really well--including 3d print lines ha ha.

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

@Halichoeres Great, thanks for the tip! I'll have to check out if thats available here or else I'm sure I'll find something suitable.

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

New project started: Ouranosaurus

I really do still hope PNSO tackles this genus soon but while we wait for that to happen, why not try to make it myself? So far I've only done the wiring, maybe tomorrow I'll do the rough body shape with paperclay.

[ceratopsian]

It always seems strange to me that Ouranosaurus is not more popular with commercial firms. I look forward to seeing your take.

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

Update post:
I've decided to skip the use of paperclay this time because this body has not as much volume. I'll probably end up doing the tail today as well, maybe I'll even get to the head and neck. I don't know about that though. This is what I've got so far:





Bakey bakey


And



If anyone has a good reference picture for the head sculpt please leave it here.

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

Due to my wiring the Tail turned out a bit slopier than I intended.

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

Head sculpt done. 1 1/2 hours for this tiny thing:

[SidB]

Wonderful talent - you've got the juice!

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

Time for bed. Starting the limbs tomorrow. So far I'm happy with the sculpt.

Size comparison to PNSOs Iguanodon:

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

Wonderful talent - you've got the juice!

Thank you very much! 

[TooOldForDinosaurs]

Phew... first leg done. That took me quite some time