Hey guys, thought I should share this here.
After I completed my WWD Toyway Collection, I felt I could expand it by adding repainted figures to my set, to represent species depicted in the documentary that were not made by Toyway.
Of course I won't be able to do that for all species, but there are three that come to mind that can be done. Those are Dromaeosaurus, which can be created by repainting the Utahraptor, American Iguanodon can be done repainting the European Iguanodon and the Allosaurus can be repainted to recreate the Australian Dwarf Allosaurus.
But I feel bad repainting rarer figures, so I decided to only repaint ones I find in bad condition for sale. My luck was that a couple months ago I came across this one on eBay. An almost completely sun bleached Utahraptor.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Here's it next to my Utahraptor which is in good condition.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]I wanted to remove all the black stripes so I didn't have to give it a full coat of paint. I wanted to do a simple paint job with few paint layers to mimic the factory style. So I used paint thinner to remove the black paint and red paint from the eyes (before I tried acetone and other products that didn't work). After that I put it in a ziplock bag with hydrogen peroxide and left it a few days in the sun to further bleach the remaining yellow stains.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The result was a mostly clean model. I didn't bother cleaning all the gray paint from the limbs and black from the claws, since these would be painted over anyway.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]So using this promo image as a guide and screen shots of the documentary I managed to paint it.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Here's the final result! Enjoy and let me know what you think!
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