Favorite Collection Soft Models vs. Paint the Dinosaur Models

[Torvosaurus]

Howdy, first post. I've been collecting and painting 28mm fantasy and historical wargaming figs for years. Over that time, I've acquired a fair number of animals and prehistoric critters as well, and a lot of my focus and collection has shifted towards natural history with the figures I collect. I try to stay approximately in the 28mm (1/56 scale, I believe), simply because it retains some consistency in my overall collection of figures. However, I do range on either side a bit, as a figure of another scale can really represent an exceptionally large or small individual. I have a variety of prehistoric critters from DeeZee, HLBS and Acheson Creations, but have started to expand into toy dinosaurs due to the lack of variety in traditional "gaming figures".

So I like the Favorite Collection dinosaurs and would like to get a few. I was wondering if the "Paint the Dinosaur" figures are the same as the Soft Model figures? Since I intend to paint or repaint them myself anyways, it would just be easier to buy the Paint the Dinosaur figures and bypass stripping and prepping the Soft Models.

Thanks in advance.

[tyrantqueen]

So I like the Favorite Collection dinosaurs and would like to get a few. I was wondering if the "Paint the Dinosaur" figures are the same as the Soft Model figures? Since I intend to paint or repaint them myself anyways, it would just be easier to buy the Paint the Dinosaur figures and bypass stripping and prepping the Soft Models.

Hi
Which Favorites are you referring to? There were two lines, the original line which was sculpted by Takashi Oda and looked like this:



Then there was the second line which was sculpted by Kazunari Araki.



The painting sets were just white unpainted versions of these sculpts. I don't remember if there was a paint set for the Araki set, but I don't think there was.

Unfortunately the first set has been discontinued and might be tricky to find.

By the way, if you are intending to buy this set of dinosaurs for repainting, I do not recommend that you strip them. They are most likely painted with a PVC paint, which is impossible to remove with conventional strippers (Simple Green, Dettol, etc). One of our forum members did discover that it is possible to remove the paint with acetone, but I think honestly that acetone is just too dangerous for the job. It is very likely that you will damage the plastic in the process. So if you want to do any repainting, save yourself the trouble and just paint over the old paintjob

[CityRaptor]

If you want to paint them anyways, get the ones that are not painted to begin with.

[Torvosaurus]

Thank you, I had figured out there are two lines, and had figured out the paint a dinosaur seemed to all belong to the first line or copies of the metal figures. I've used Testors Model Master paint cleaner to remove paint from other plastic toys I've modified and repainted without ill effect. I may try that on a small test area if I opt for the newer series and want to strip the paint.