Run! It's a tiger!

During my latest Animal Buying Extravaganza I picked up a bag of various large jungle animals. It contained a giraffe and zebra - both rather cartoony, but charming nonetheless - and the usual three big cats: lion, tiger, and leopard. All three about the size of the Bullyland lions, and really exceptionally well made for cheapies. Instead of the usual "uniform parallel lines signifying hair texture", they have nicely sculpted muscle and fairly realistic fur detail.

Still, there are certain flaws....
I think the tiger's mom may have mated with a traffic cone. The color is actually substantially more day-glo orange in real life!
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However, a bad paintjob isn't exactly the worst flaw in the world. After two afternoons' work he looks like this:
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This was my first ever attempt at a tiger pattern, hopefully not too wrong. I used a reference photo, but of course it's not unlikely that particular tiger may have had atypical stripes.
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That's an absolutely fantastic repaint Sumo!! I love it!

Wow, great job

And the eyes look great Thats my biggest weakness when it comes to painting animals

I always have tremendous trouble aligning the pupils... he looks slightly cross-eyed head on.
There's a quick and easy recipe for painting eyes, actually.
1: Basecoat, in this case Citadel's Desert Yellow.
2: Mix base color with white and lighten the bottom of the eyeball. (For brown-eyed animals, use a lighter shade of the brown - burnt sienna, Indian red or similar.) This creates that semi-transparent effect. Metallic or pearlescent paints work very well for this.
3: Lightly shade the upper part of the eye, especially along the eyelid. Citadel has a line of special washes that are less runny than regular watered-down paint, I mixed green and sepia for this one.
4: Add pupil.
5: DO NOT, WHATEVER YOU DO, ADD THAT WHITE DOT. Just... don't.
6: Gloss.

Very good repaint, thank You for sharing

Amazing! I love the painting job you did!

very nice custom, you saved this model

Very good re-paint Sumo!
In the close-up, this model has the feeling of an older composition model...
The striping is that of a Sumatra- or extinct Java-tiger.

Wonderful Sumo!

Probably that tiger was originally brought in by Willy in Indonesia that's why has an Orange coat.

The Indonesians will love you for saving their Sumatran Tiger.

Well done repainting job, by the way. deserves a three

That is really beautiful, Sumo, you should be proud!

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Sumo wrote:

Still, there are certain flaws....
I think the tiger's mom may have mated with a traffic cone.

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Very good re-paint Sumo!
In the close-up, this model has the feeling of an older composition model...

i thought the same thing. He has "it".

Well done, it is too bad that some very nice figures come with such poor painting, this is a huge improvement over the original paint job!

Big wild cat)
I like your custom

Brilliant!

-Kristie

Lasersword1973 wrote:

Probably that tiger was originally brought in by Willy in Indonesia that's why has an Orange coat.

The Indonesians will love you for saving their Sumatran Tiger.

Well done repainting job, by the way. deserves a three

Don't forget Ronald, that how much more south, the tiger (sub-)species are more dark and orange...
Lighter in weight, lower in height, smaller and narrower stripes, and shorter furr to...