STS Model painting month 2022 - Sign up topic

I’m signing up. I’m going to repaint a Schleich Peregrine Falcon as a Bat Falcon.

sunny wrote:

this is my model - a tiger family
but if it only has to be one model then I will choose the walking tiger to paint. I haven't decided what species of tiger it will be yet.

But because I will be painting it in colour batches I will be doing the others at the same time, to save time and hassle with the different paint colours when I open the tubes.
They are all Britains models 1/32nd.
The cubs are lions as they never made plastic tiger cubs (that I know of) but I've wanted to make tiger cubs for a long time now

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There are baby tigers made by Britains, I have only seen one set. Never issued in the range though.

thebritfarmer wrote:

sunny wrote:

this is my model - a tiger family
but if it only has to be one model then I will choose the walking tiger to paint. I haven't decided what species of tiger it will be yet.

But because I will be painting it in colour batches I will be doing the others at the same time, to save time and hassle with the different paint colours when I open the tubes.
They are all Britains models 1/32nd.
The cubs are lions as they never made plastic tiger cubs (that I know of) but I've wanted to make tiger cubs for a long time now

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There are baby tigers made by Britains, I have only seen one set. Never issued in the range though.

was that in plastic ?

Awesome projects, Sunny and Birdsage

So many excellent models!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] And a collie!! I can't wait to watch this sheltie transformation, amazing breed choices!! The real Bonnie would be very happy!

Am I too late or can I still sign up? Had some stressful days and couldn‘t decide on a victim yet….

sunny wrote:

thebritfarmer wrote:

sunny wrote:

this is my model - a tiger family
but if it only has to be one model then I will choose the walking tiger to paint. I haven't decided what species of tiger it will be yet.

But because I will be painting it in colour batches I will be doing the others at the same time, to save time and hassle with the different paint colours when I open the tubes.
They are all Britains models 1/32nd.
The cubs are lions as they never made plastic tiger cubs (that I know of) but I've wanted to make tiger cubs for a long time now

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There are baby tigers made by Britains, I have only seen one set. Never issued in the range though.

was that in plastic ?

Yes they used the lion cubs mould.

If it's not too late to sign up, I think this will be my project. He is the Funrise Irish Sport Horse, and I'd like to try to recreate the dapple gray I think he is supposed to be. I have always found dapple gray almost impossible to paint in two dimensions because it's so hard to shade properly, but maybe that means I will manage it better in three dimensions where in theory I don't have to shade it.

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Feel free to join even in May.
The only deadline is finish before this month ends.

Thank you Ana! Will try!

At last I decided on a victim, a tiny Fox made by nb-arts (Nicola Behr). It was a bonus figure when I bought a horse model from her. It is tiny and delicate, hopefully I will not break a leg...

Love to see all your projects!

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So delicate and so beautiful! Can't wait to see how this one turns out!

Thank you Bonnie! He could be an arctic fox so not much to paint!

Exciting projects

I'm looking forward to seeing how they all turn out

Here is my entry it is the one in the middle, hopefully I will have it finished in time. I plan on painting it in the style of Britains with maybe just a little extra care :)[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Wonderful choice!

It’s very interesting to see everyone’s choices for repainting. There is a lot of variety again this year in terms of size and style.

I had planned to paint the Safari ltd red deer to pair with my wapiti from last year, but I decided to settle on something smaller this time. This okapi was in a bag of small secondhand animals from a garage sale. It is a Britains copy marked made in Hong Kong. The texture is different from the Britains version, and there are some small differences in the sculpting (for example the feet/hooves are not as well done). As you can see, the snout is destroyed, so my priority was to fix the face before painting.

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The size is just over 6 cm tall. Does anyone know if that is the same size as the original?

That's a really cool figure! I haven't seen it before, but then my Britains knowledge isn't that good... I can only image how good it would look in a propper paint coat (and with a whole face)

A.R.Garcia wrote:

The size is just over 6 cm tall. Does anyone know if that is the same size as the original?

Great idea with the okapi, The original Britains is between 60 and 61 mm so precisely the same size.

The face is done now and I'm very excited to give it some good paint!

Thank you for the confirmation, Rogério. I suspected it may be the same based on scale, but couldn't tell for sure.

Is it too late to join the party? I have a victim here- a knockoff Schleich hyena.
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I'm glad you joined us, Kelly! Definitely not too late

I was gone for a while and haven't had time for anything due to a foot injury but I hope I got time for this.
I wanted to paint another Papo Megaloceros for a while, it is just such a fun figure to paint.
Won't turn out as amazing as [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]'s entry but I will go with another direction anyway.

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Instead of realistic I want this time to paint it like the forest spirit from Princess Mononoke, planned to since last year, just didn't have the money to do so.

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So good to see you back! And this is such a great project. YAY for Forest Spirit, I'm a big fan of Princess Mononoke! I'll be looking forward to seeing it in progress and finished

Here are the starting pics for the blue jay... I didn't want to finish the month without completing anything, even though I had already posted the okapi ... but was so busy painting the jay I didn't upload these or the process pics before now...

The original group pic:
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and a quick base coat:
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