What is your opinion?

I have a few Auburn animals and they are not painted, only coloured in one paint (white, red or yellow).

What is your opinion. Would you this animals repaint or leave with their own charme?

My Auburn and Marx figures doesn't work as species representatives in my collection.
I don't think a white grizzly, white mule deer and so can be good representatives even their sculptings are great. Sometimes you only can identify species because of coloring. :)
Also, most of the species you can find in other brands. More, Marx figures look to be made to work well unpainted. Poses and details are really adjusted to species.
They are also discontinued figures, you cannot find another easily and their sizes are not very good to detailed repaintings.
Considering all these things, I think you should keep them as they are. And if they can't find a good place in your collection, I'm sure you can trade them, there are some members collecting these vintage American figures.

I agree with Roger

One more point, AUBURN are rubber made and I'm not sure this kind of material is easy to repaint. I have a double and I will try to make something... I will tell

Many thanks Roger and Kiki. Most of my Auburn animals are species which you can not find often. But your opinions helps me a lot. It is the charme of this old figurines.

No reason to say, I don`t like that people repaint old, rare and beautyful models

There are zillions of models that you can get by the thousands, why chose the rare ones

SUSANNE wrote:

No reason to say, I don`t like that people repaint old, rare and beautyful models

There are zillions of models that you can get by the thousands, why chose the rare ones

Oh no

Kikimalou wrote:

I agree with Roger  

One more point, AUBURN are rubber made and I'm not sure this kind of material is easy to repaint. I have a double and I will try to make something... I will tell  

I have a few Auburns which were painted before I acquired them. The paint looks like Testors enamels as the painted portions are shiny. So it is possible to paint Auburns; just don't try to flex them after they're painted or the paint will crack.

SUSANNE wrote:

No reason to say, I don`t like that people repaint old, rare and beautyful models    

There are zillions of models that you can get by the thousands, why chose the rare ones  

I agree - don't paint old models.

I don't know about Auburn, but in the case of Marx figures there are lots of recently made repros, some made from the original moulds which still exist - painting those is OK.

Thanks, but i dont will do that:)

I am not a fan of repaints because i like models as they are molded and like to see the diferent materials. In my collection is can be quite nice to see a non-white polarbear or a off-standard brown bear once in a while.