#customizedfigure

Just some quick crappy photos of my repainted Leon. I managed to damage the irises twice already, and once again I'll have to redo the left one. I am terrible when it comes to doming the irises. It's a pain in the gut, and at the same time the part of the repaint I "love" the most, on head sculpts with painted eyes. I feel they breathe so much life onto the sculpt. However, I suck at it! I had given him cleaner eye paint apps, but I managed to ruin both irises the first time I domed them. Then I redid them, and the paint apps turned out like sh1t. I had to redo a whole lot of the left eye, not just the iris, so it looks super sh1tty now. Still, i love the way my Leon is looking, so I wanted to keep trying and now I once again ruined the freaking left iris and already peeled the gloss off, so I know for sure it is ruined!

I cleaned my GameToys 1:6 scale Sephiroth’s figure lower-eye-lids a bit further, once again. I know I could have just wiped the whole thing, but I am scared of re-repainting the irises. I have terribly shaky hands, and the way they are now is not too far off from what I want. They could be cleaner of course, as I said, my hands are shaky! I have tried all the tips for shaky hands people doing miniature re/paints, I have been an acrylic on canvas artist my whole life now. So, yes, that’s as good I can get. I am in-love with this figure nonetheless so, so much! My ultimate all-time favorite video game character is Sephiroth! That’s why I have so many dolls representing him (none of them will ever do him any justice, and I would adore a CC version that was accurate, but never happening). However, out of the box this figure was a huge disappointment. I know a lot of GT fan-boys didn’t mind the less than stellar paint apps on this figure out of box. However, for the cost, it was quite the letdown for me because HT figures are licensed and sometimes cost less than this one did but have much more precise and accurate paint apps. Not like I love HT, but they do have better paint apps in general, for what their figures retail for (no Japanese video game ones from them ever again, sadly or fortunately?).

Long rant longer, I am happy with him for now! I wish I could redo the lips and be satisfied with them as well. I removed a lot of the gloss, and they do look better (to me), but far from what I wanted them to look like. Not only are they uneven (due to my shaky freaking old-person hands!), but they are also a lot darker than I wanted them to be. I will attempt redoing those once again, another time. These are all repetitive extreme close-ups because I am “showing off” his newly cleaned lower eyelids, and there are a thousand photos of his, already in his full-set elsewhere. I was lazy to remove his body from his box (I don’t have display room for massive 1:6 figures right now, or any figure for that matter), to take photos of him on his default Sephiroth outfitted body.