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I know I need to post a pic of this boy – but I do have a question… Some members here have wondered if our black male griffin is a re-paint. How would one go about finding that out? If he has been repainted is there anyway to safely remove that paint without damaging the sculpt? I’ll try to get a photo posted by tomorrow. Thankies!
twindragonsmum 😀
tdm
Post a pic first?
The way I would tell if there is nothing obvious would be to take a q-tip dipped in alcohol and rub that on a small inconspicuous spot where a “normal” black male would definitely have had color. Once you work through the clear coat (if it has any) the black will start to come off onto the q-tip. Switch to a new q-tip frequently and watch the colors that come off. If a repaint, you will eventually start to see non-black colors staining the q-tip or even be able to rub the black off of the original color on the piece. If not a repaint, you will soon rub through to the white plaster. The alcohol wont hurt the plaster.
Thanies much, Pam! If he isn’t a repaint and his black paint comes off, how do I repair the damage I ‘inflict’ on him by removing paint? 😕 *gotta find the camera*
twindragonsmum 😮
tdm
well, if he isn’t a repaint and he is just solid black, then you can just paint over the spot with black acrylic paint and satin or gloss finish 🙂 The texture might look a little different though, which is why I would recomend doing it in an out of the way spot.
However, you might want to post some good pics before you start doing anything like this. Maybe someone here will notice something or have some other idea on how to tell, one that won’t involve stripping his paint!
Hmm, I was just thinking, I bet the color on the peacock griffins was done with interference paint. If you are not familiar with it, it is a very thin opaque paint that only shows its true color over black. It would be hard to see on a q-tip and with black underneath, it would be very easy to miss. On the other hand, the original finish would still have a clearcoat on it, so after getting through the repainted part hopefully the clearcoat would still be able to protect the original color long enough for you to see it.
If he is a repaint, he would have to be a repaint of the brown male griffin, or a fake. If he is a fake, he will be a different weight, not feel right, or have imperfections in the gypsum. If he is real, what’s the harm? Even if he is a repainted brown.
Why would he have to be a repainted brown?
If I remember correctly, the OP said in a different thread that this piece had blue eyes, so he could be either a peacocck or brown repainted black, or a peacock that was sent out without the right coloring.
I figured he had to be brown if he is a repaint, because why would someone paint a black griffin black? But he could have escaped the factory with his coloring being a little off
If I remember correctly, the OP said in another thread that this griffin had a regular colored beak and feet. If a repainted brown, there would be a harsh line around the beak and feet where the “repainter” painted around those areas. There would also be little patches of brown under the eyelids and around the pad, or even black paint on the pad itself. Of course, this is assuming the person did not use an airbrush and didn’t remove the eyes and pad beforehand. Trying to take a pad off and then put it back on without destroying it is next to impossible though.
But, we may know more once we see pictures.
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