paintingdinos repaints and customs

[Mini Minmi]

Those gradients are beautiful! Excellent work! It looks so alive. I'm not sure why but it reminds me of a German shepherd I think it's the beige muzzle and black back with the expressive brown eyes.

[paintingdinos]

This model is new to me but great paint work though. As the BOTM figures have shown feathers can have brighter colours and not look odd on these impressive animals. They really should stop calling the Raptors in the JP / JW films Raptors - these are Raptors!

Beautiful work. I love the gradations within the colour that you have achieved.

Thanks to you both! This raptor is a bit on the drab side, but yes bright and colorful can certainly be realistic on the right animals. I'm excited to see the new ceratopsid line, those are looking like they'be very colorful too

Those gradients are beautiful! Excellent work! It looks so alive. I'm not sure why but it reminds me of a German shepherd I think it's the beige muzzle and black back with the expressive brown eyes.

Thanks! I was going for something kind of wolf-y, but I'll admit to actually having 3 German Shepherds... perhaps they are a stronger subconscious influence than I realized 

[PhilSauria]

Paintingdinos - I was actually complimenting your choice of colour as being bright; that blue having an iridescent look (at least on my monitor) that rendered it a tad brighter than some dull brown, grey or black option. The large dark pupil in the eye reminded me a bit of our dog, though the dog in question has a considerably friendlier face than this critter! I'll now be seeking more mode;s by this artist, I quite like the very naturalistic style.

[Mackeral]

Looks great! Those eye's are lifelike.

[Lone Trike]

You are really a talented model painter! That Parasaurolophus is just beautiful and the Deinonychus is even better. Fantastic work!

[Halichoeres]

You did a great job! I definitely see some wolf or hound influence in the expression.

[paintingdinos]

Thanks again to you all- I always appreciate the encouragement! I was feeling pretty self-conscious about the Deinonychus (its such a nice model, and for a long time it didn't feel like I was doing it justice). Glad people like it!

[paintingdinos]

Another update on an older project. Those Build-a-Raptor sets are actually proving to be useful in very interesting ways 

[IrritatorRaji]

I thought you'd abandoned this guy, nice to see more progress! A very creative use of the Build-a-raptor kit btw

[paintingdinos]

I thought you'd abandoned this guy, nice to see more progress! A very creative use of the Build-a-raptor kit btw

Thanks!

As it turns out, the B-a-R heads actually fit really nicely on this model. Sadly, the tails do not (way too short, which is odd given how everything else fits together).

I might have to send a few more of these poor Safari raptors to the guillotine and create some more fluff raptors.

[paintingdinos]

For those wondering whatever happened to the massive Para, I finally installed a shelf for it and few of its friends.



Also added a new small friend to the collection- a repaitned Battat Dacentrurus

[Jose S.M.]

Dacentrurus looks really good and that Parasaurolophus is huuuge and beautiful.

[ceratopsian]

I hadn't realised the Parasaurolophus was that big!

[Halichoeres]

I hadn't realised the Parasaurolophus was that big!

Seriously! What drove it home for me was the tiny tiny PNSO Shantungosaurus!

That Dacentrurus looks much better, nice work.

[paintingdinos]

Thanks, all!

Yes, the size was what drew me to it... there's lots of cool Parasaurolophus models/toy (and I have a few!), but the insane size of this thing made it irresistible.

These guys also make a Pentaceratops that I'd reeeeeally like to work on at some point:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-10th-scale-Pentaceratops-resin-assembly-kit/142304928053?epid=605063953&hash=item212208e135:g:EQ4AAOSwSlBYvvwv

[paintingdinos]

Guys, I'm feeling very proud of myself. I built a simple light box, and have been experimenting. I'm still trying to figure things out, so these are far from perfect, but I think they look better than my usual crummy-lighting cell phone pics 

[Halichoeres]

The light box definitely lets more of their excellence shine through

[Patrx]

Nice photos! They really bring out the best in your very cool repaints.

[Jose S.M.]

Oh I love those color schemes! Great job.

[paintingdinos]

@Lone Trike

This is a really lovely model, and I hope I did it some kind of justice. These pics aren't the best, so I'll try and get more later.