Raptor repaints
August-December 2018

I've seen some beautiful realistic-looking repaints of these toys and other JP/JW ones.
The end result I was going for here on the other hand was to keep the stylized,
cartoonier look that lets them still blend in with other toys from the series.
Basically, what I would have come up with if I'd been put in charge of designing toy figures of these characters.
 

Materials:

  • acrylic paints of various brands, no primer

  • regular soft paintbrushes, I used one small and one medium sized, and one tiny detail brush

  • polymer clay



Blue

I chose the Attack Pack Blue because I like how her sculpt looks,
despite not having as much paint detail and actually having pretty bad balance.

  • painted a white outline on her blue stripes

  • repainted most of her eyes, with her pupils moved a bit forward and given a lighter yellow outline, and gave the rest of the iris a more orange-yellow colour +shine dots

  • painted claws

  • added the bumps/spikes/vestigial feather follicles/whatever those are on the back of her head and on her brows

  • gave her the lighter underbelly most of the Blue figures including the mini have, and added the lighter colour to her palms, too, since that’s how I’ve been drawing her

  • made her some “shoes” out of polymer clay to help the figure stand more steadily



Delta

To have variation in poses and because I think it’s a cute figure, which matches the JWFK raptors
in size and proportions surprisingly well, I chose a Schleich raptor figure as the base.

She has little feathers on her arms that aren’t exactly movie-accurate,
but Delta has more avian DNA in her than the rest, so even among the bald JP/JW raptors,
I think she’d be the most likely to have those.

  • full repaint except for the claws and the inside of her mouth



Charlie and the grey raptor who came in the set with her (and whom I've named Victoria) haven't been repainted.
They're just part of the photoshoot as setting and moral support.

 


Echo

She was originally the green Attack Pack raptor. I think the sneaky pose suits her.

  • full repaint except for eyes, tongue, and teeth



 


Indoraptor

Honestly this figure is really great to begin with, but I gave him a few touch-ups:

  • repainted his irises a brighter red to make his eyes more visible, and the pupils have a thin outline of shiny gold paint now that I think fits how his eyes seem to almost glow on their own in some shots of the movie
  • added black between some of his teeth that looked fused together while most of them are painted individually (although I still left the tiniest ones at the back alone, those are fine)

Skye

Yes, her out-of-universe origin story is that I already had a Blue minifigure when I bought the regular sized one,
and just decided they're mother and daughter rather than duplicates of the same character.

I could have repainted her to look completely different rather than a small Blue clone,
but with the in-universe explanation I cooked up for her existence, I guess she technically is a small Blue clone.

  • gave her eyes irises, and enlargened them a tiny bit
  • her blue stripes didn’t have white outlines either, but now they do
  • painted her claws
  • continued the lighter colour further up her neck and onto her jaw and chin
  • emphasized her mouth and nostrils with a bit of darker grey; they’re sculpted, but the details on the sculpt are hard to see because it’s such a small figure



 


 

For more before&after and in-progress pictures and explanations, see this post on my blog.

Updates made to the figures in 2019:

posted to: deviantart - tumblr - and Echo by herself to cara
 

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Art and photos © Elina Hopeasaari / Kosmonauttihai. Jurassic Park / Jurassic World and its characters and the toys I used as base are © someone else.
Please don't repost without my permission.