UnicornPegasus
03-24-2016, 11:55 PM
I've had my Retro Girl since she came out, so what, 10 years or so. Problem is she had a defect (or what I think was more likely a sloppy cover up by the seller) where part of the border around the memorium plaque was lumpy and terrible looking. I happened to see her price drop to $30 on Amazon, so I snapped up a new one to replace that eye sore. I hadn't really messed with the defect since I got her, but when I pulled her out to replace her in the cabinet I touched that part and it fell off. It was basically hanging on by the force of gravity and that's it. Not even glued on, so I don't know what the deal was with it. I figured, why waste her, I might as well make a project out of her to repair and repaint.
I stripped the paint on the advice of Vince-Vell with acetone, and there was SO much paint and primer on her. That led to finding a lot of other defects too. Pin holes, gashes in her legs, seams and jagged creases, and just terrible quality casting. I had no idea that the paint on Bowen pieces could be hiding so much horror.
I cleaned up a lot, rebuilt the plaque border section that was now missing, and decided to paint her in her normal comic colors. This was a challenge too, as she's pretty much never shown with the same coloration twice. I went back to our TPB's and even found she's shown with different color patterns multiple times in the same darned issue! So, this is the best coloring I could come up with to try and stay true to her comic form, and minimize my artistic interpretation.
I'm still learning techniques, finding paints that I like, and practicing, so I know it's not perfect by any means. Some of the colors needed 7+ coats to not be streaky and translucent anymore, which was frustrating. But I'm happy with the outcome. (The red was the bane of my existence for a while there.) And the incised lines I thought would make for easy color guides, but they were actually kind of frustrating too, since the paint would bleed into them like crazy.
Let me know what you guys think.
http://tinyurl.com/ztro8md
http://tinyurl.com/zme8geh
http://tinyurl.com/har2ro2
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/64/82/c3/6482c35cf79539134fe8c6a2f054fea1.jpg
http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_12358/subcat_113448/Untitled-Scanned-10.jpg
http://static4.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/35127/1892257-retrogirl02.jpg
This is the third time I've tried to get this posted. I had removed all mention of the statue I used to see if it's thinking it's a duplicate of my question thread re: paint stripping. I edited the information back into the thread after it got posted on the 3rd. try. :sly2:
I stripped the paint on the advice of Vince-Vell with acetone, and there was SO much paint and primer on her. That led to finding a lot of other defects too. Pin holes, gashes in her legs, seams and jagged creases, and just terrible quality casting. I had no idea that the paint on Bowen pieces could be hiding so much horror.
I cleaned up a lot, rebuilt the plaque border section that was now missing, and decided to paint her in her normal comic colors. This was a challenge too, as she's pretty much never shown with the same coloration twice. I went back to our TPB's and even found she's shown with different color patterns multiple times in the same darned issue! So, this is the best coloring I could come up with to try and stay true to her comic form, and minimize my artistic interpretation.
I'm still learning techniques, finding paints that I like, and practicing, so I know it's not perfect by any means. Some of the colors needed 7+ coats to not be streaky and translucent anymore, which was frustrating. But I'm happy with the outcome. (The red was the bane of my existence for a while there.) And the incised lines I thought would make for easy color guides, but they were actually kind of frustrating too, since the paint would bleed into them like crazy.
Let me know what you guys think.
http://tinyurl.com/ztro8md
http://tinyurl.com/zme8geh
http://tinyurl.com/har2ro2
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/64/82/c3/6482c35cf79539134fe8c6a2f054fea1.jpg
http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_12358/subcat_113448/Untitled-Scanned-10.jpg
http://static4.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/35127/1892257-retrogirl02.jpg
This is the third time I've tried to get this posted. I had removed all mention of the statue I used to see if it's thinking it's a duplicate of my question thread re: paint stripping. I edited the information back into the thread after it got posted on the 3rd. try. :sly2: