#remakeleon

I sealed the painted work on my Damtoys RE2 Remake Leon's head sculpt and glossed the eyes! I'm super happy with him, once again, more so than the factory out-of-box head I received just a few days ago. Remake Leon was my first Damtoys figure I purchased, and I was disappointed when I saw him inside his box. However, I thought, maybe it's just the plastic distortion, because I didn't unbox him then. I got this head parted out from the recently released in the USA classic version. It wasn't distortion, his paint apps were as disappointing as I had feared. I was hoping that because this is a much newer release, the classic version, they would have improved the paint apps. However, they didn't! I always complain about lack of QA and QC from Hot Toys' figures, but at least their paint apps are palatable for 300USD figures. Damtoys Leon's on the other hand... >__<;;

There's a lot I can still improve on, with my repaints, the eyes are not it. They are tiny and my hands don't cooperate. I am still learning however, so i hope to improve little by little, and have no plans to stop repainting and painting as many of my 1:6 toys as I can/I'm willing to! Even if it takes me a lifetime and a half to see any real improvement, I'll continue to try my best each time! And if I fail, I'll just keep repainting the sculpts over and over, because I am stubborn and that's the reason I got them -- to customize them to my liking, even if I suck at it! Lol! (:

I finished repainting my Damtoys RE2-Remake Leon. I haven't sealed the work yet and haven't glossed the eyes either (obviously!). But I'm so much happier with him now, than straight from the factory. I know there's a lot of things that could have been done a lot cleaner, but I suck at painting miniatures, and I have shaky hands, so I won't bother to try to make those perfect, because I know I can't! I just don't have the steadiness needed to get a cleaner job. The right iris looks a lot bigger, but I think it's just because of how I painted the iris darker on the left. I tried fixing it but didn't get anywhere and I don't want to ruin, something I know I can't get cleaner... it's a struggle, believe me. T__T;;

The hair on the left photo is from the rooted silicone 1:2 bust by Fantasytoys, I Photoshopped it on to the bang-less head, because plasticly hair makes things look plasticly, and I feel real hair looks better most of the time. I won't bother to make a partial wig for this sculpt, because Damtoys didn't do an accurate job for this hair -- everything else is pretty good. However, they gave him wig-hair. Massive amounts of thick sculpted hair, which is not even accurate to the game, so I don't know why they did it. The bangs are wrong too, but I won't bother making a partial wig, because I can't see it looking good on this as thick as they made the sculpted hair. I would have to remove the back part which is sculpted directly onto the head, and I don't want to do that. I just rather him look plastic and less realistic, I suck at taking photos anyway, so it doesn't really matter anyway....>___>;;;

More of my Damtoys RE2R (classic ver.) Leon repainted head sculpt, wearing my other Leon's R.P.D. uniformed body. I color corrected the ones from my old (crusty) cellphone. I like how despite this one not always cooperating, it at least doesn't add a thousand pounds of noise on the face. Making it look like I gave Leon sandpaper for skin. DX

These are the ones I took that other time I posted. I just color-corrected some of them a bit, because my cell phone is old, and the camera doesn't cooperate most of the time now. I'm still super happy with him and might be considering making a partial wig for him, now more than ever! I might try to touch up his sculpted hair first (with paint!). We'll see. (;

My Damtoys Remake Leon repainted head sculpt, borrowing my OG-RE4 Leon's bodies. Yes, my OG Resident Evil 4 Leon has many bodies, because I feel that if he needs seven, he'll get seven of them. Not because I am a lazy bum who would rather not undress and redress the bodies with the appropriate clothes, of course...DX

I never in a million years would have guessed I would love this head sculpt half as much as I love it right now! I'm thrilled I decided to finally get a parted out sculpt to repaint. I always wanted to but kept putting it off because the original Remake one was going for so much more than what I am willing to pay for this head sculpt. However, I was lucky I was able to find the classic version in-stock when I did, for a decent price. (:

He is wearing the OG Resident Evil 4 version of the RPD uniform, as I haven't been lucky to get the DAMtoys classic Leon's RPD uniform yet. The first Damtoys Remake release is quite different (as it is in the game), however, I don't need a second of those. I already own the full-set figure, which is still sealed, and I have no current plans to unbox until I have the display room to get him out of the box. Then I'll display that figure with this head. In the meantime, I don't mind photographing this one on borrowed Leon's bodies, or others (my Ken has a suitable Damtoys body as well, luckily!). =^.^=

More of my Leon S. Kennedy repaint work. Now, it's my DAMtoys RE2 Remake Leon. I got the classic version head sculpt, parted out specifically to repaint him. Just a few days ago, actually. I was hoping this one would have better/nicer paint apps than the regular release, that I got when that one came out a few years ago. However, from what I saw (I haven't unboxed mine due to lack of display space) in his box, this one isn't nicer/cleaner/precise nor accurate to the prototype. Factory paint wise. At least the particular head I got, doesn't seem all that cleaner, or even close to the prototype. I don't doubt the prototype had better photographer, as I am not one by any stretch of the imagination. However, I'm pretty certain the prototype had better paint apps in general than what we got in box/actual-figure-release.

I want my Leon to look like a mixture of Remake and the hyper-realistic Fantasytoys 1:2 Leon bust. When I saw that bust for the first time my jaw dropped to the floor! It's a gorgeous rendition of Remake Leon, so of course I wanted to repaint my Damtoys figure for a long time, ever since. I just was too lazy to unbox him just to get his head sculpt out. The Remake first release head sculpt was going for too much by that time, but now that I got a chance to get a parted out classic version, since it just recently released in the USA. I was able to get a second HS to repaint, without having to unbox mine! Yay! And for not an eye off the face, like the first release is going for nowadays.

I can f-this one up all day, and not worry about regretting it later. Lol! I still need to clean his eyes, brows and lips a bit further, and I want to make him a touch tanner, since the parted Damtoys Remake Leon's body I got from the first release is a lot darker tanned, leaning towards sunburnt. My repaint doesn't look quite as tanned IRL, as he appears in my crap-photos, but his original factory paint was a lot darker tanned, and grayish. More so than the parted-out body (more gray, not tanner). I won't be using that body for him, however, since I do own the whole Remake figure, I will be displaying that full-set figure with this repainted head, once I get more display space/detolfs... who knows when that will happen. >___>;;