Raptor repaints, vol. Baby
September 2019 - January 2020

Blue and the Indoraptor's chicks from the AU I've been drawing of them.
If you came to this page from somewhere else, said AU can be found here.

The characters' designs are actually partially based on the figures,
but I still made some changes to complete the resemblance.

Materials:

  • acrylic paint of various brands, no primer

  • soft, round paint brushes in small sizes with synthetic bristles

  • epoxy putty

  • glitter

  • a craft pipecleaner

  • glue

Sunny

This was originally a Safari Ltd. figure of Sinornithosaurus.
Sunny is not a very JP-raptor-looking JP raptor, so I wanted a small figure that was fully feathered
with non-pronated wrists if I could find one. There's a small Velociraptor, too, in the same set,
but the JP raptors were never based on Velociraptor anatomically anyway, and this figure looked more suitable.

  • added feathers to cheeks, top of the head, and backs of the hands by sculpting them with epoxy putty
  • painted claws, mouth, and more detailed eyes
  • added grey skin colour, and changed plumage pattern to replace a few vertical stripes with horizontal ones

Starlight

Made out of a Takara Tomy JW mini figure of the Indoraptor.
As seems to be the case with Indoraptor figures I customize, didn't need too drastic changes.

  • changed stripe from yellow to blue-green
  • painted claws dark brown
  • repainted eyes in gold paint and enlargened them a little

Dawn

Made out of a Takara Tomy JW mini figure of Blue, from the same set as Starlight's figure.

  • added opposable thumbs with epoxy putty
  • painted a light underbelly+palms, brown claws, and dark stripes and face markings
  • changed eyes to red with a gold rim around the pupils, and enlargened the eyes a little
  • covered up the blue stripe's white outline and repainted the stripe into a gradient of different shades of blue
  • embedded a few specks of glitter in the blue stripe's paint

Dusk

This little one was originally a baby Blue figure. The figure already looked surprisingly suitable for
being an Indoraptor, with the bulkier-looking (due to baby proportions) head and wiggly mouth line.
And the hands are in a position where the palms are mostly facing each other, so I can pretend Dusk has birb wrists, too.

  • painted black markings, changed the stripe from blue to a gradient rainbow of the colours between blue and yellow (the long way around, that is), with a bit of gold near the eye
  • added little teeth peeking out from between the lips
  • glued pipe cleaner fuzz onto the figure to represent Dusk's uneven covering of down feathers

More detailed explanations, before&after and in-progress photos and the like
from the process of painting them can be found at this post on my blog.

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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.
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