God of War Kratos action figure wallpaper

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As customary, I did a simple wallpaper of my most recent and first TOY repaint. This a a simple collage of a couple of photos of the NECA 12" Kratos action figure I just finished painting. Hope the God of War fans and toy enthusiasts like this.

Thanks for dropping by! Til next post! :)

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God of War NECA 12" Kratos figure repaint

I just finished painting and taking photos of this 12" Kratos action figure. I will give this to my client / officemate today and I hope he'd liked it. I actually enjoyed painting this toy specially the blood stuff. Battle damaging this is better than battle damaging Gundams! I will also look for my old LOTR toys and repaint once in the same manner.

I painted this with some Vallejo and Citadel paints and I never used any enamel washes this time. I basically re painted the gold and silver parts as they were too dull. I also added a few wounds to the figure and added blood using a red Gundam marker.

The red looks like real shiny blood as Gundam markers dries to a shiny hard paint. The flat coat of the skin tone together with the shiny blood and metallics completed the look that I was going for. I blended the skin tone of both the Medusa head and the Kratos figure with Vallejo pigments.

Overall I could have done some spot enamel washing to improve the painting and have removed the mold lines. But I love how easy the Vallejo pigments are applied, so I got lazy to mix some enamel paints. Besides enamel paints easily damages my brushes. 

I also did a simple base for this action figure. It is just a simple ground work that was also painted with some Vallejo paints and pigments. Vallejo paints and pigments and citadel paints came from above! These are fabulous paints for toy repaints and I highly recommend them.

A lot of thanks goes to my Skype buddies Hummingbird, Kamm and Decay for their suggestions on how to tackle this repaint without actually repainting everything. The next couple of photos shows the quality of the final photos ( lol ) and the jump before and after my repaint. Now here are a ton of photos of my blog's first TOY repaint...

Thanks a ton for dropping by! Hoped you liked this post as I plan to paint more toys! Thanks! :)

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Painting the 12" Kratos action figure

This will be the only WIP of my Kratos project as I am almost done. I just need to dry brush and paint some details with Citadel Boltgun metal and I am finished! I thought of posting this as I think anyone who might like to paint any of their action figures might find this post useful.

FIRST and only TIP: Always spray a thin coat of clear matte before painting( I used Bosney flat clear ). Giving the plastic toy a clear matte will remove the " plastic sheen " of the figure and will give the succeeding paints a nice flat surface to cling on other than the bare plastic. The clear matte is acting like your primer if you have no intentions of repainting the whole figure like me.

This project is very simple, my client / officemate  wanted me to paint all the dull gold parts of the action figure and create a custom base for the kit. As you can see in the next photo or in my previous post, The figure has a plastic sheen to it as usual. The painting of the Medusa head is awful and the gold rubber parts are too dull.

So, I created a custom base, repainted the gold parts, and will repaint the Medusa head later. After spraying flat coat all over the toy, I then painted the gold parts black, then bronze, then eventually gold. I also added some wounds to the figure using a soldering iron.

I then painted the blood with a RED Gundam marker. I used a toothpick to apply the red paint extracted from the marker... Annnnd that's it! Told yah, the only tip is to use a clear matte before painting.

Anyways, here are some photos of the painting of this action figure...

I painted the armors with Vallejo bronze before painting it with Citadel shining gold.

The last couple of photos shows the original action figure on the left and the finished repainted figure on the right. So aside from repainting the gold and silver parts and adding blood all over, I added nice tonal values on the Medusa head and the skin tone of the Kratos figure with Vallejo pigments. I simply brushed the pigments straight form the bottle and sealed it with a matte coat.

Thanks for dropping by! Hope you enjoyed this post! :)

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