*DONE!* Em-Pea Lap Dragon Repair (my first repair!)

That sounds perfect, size-wise! Thanks for confirming. 😀

Actually there is a much much smaller pack you can get, let me see if i can find a link cuz i have some in the tiny size.

EDIT, and the 1/10 a pound is actually the one you want, its about 1.5 oz total and beeing two part it is split in two, each tub is about a little bigger than a quater and maybe 1/2 inch tall, so it the pefect small amount and if you store it in the freezer it pretty much lasts forever. I myself end up buying the four lb tubs but thays cuz i do regular repairs and lots of sculpting with it.

Updated with photos of the damage, plus a photo of the in-progress repair!

My apoxie arrived, but thanks to a wedding in the family I haven’t had a spare second to sit down and experiment with it yet!

Now it’s time to play with paint!

Thank goodness her broken areas are primarily a single color, and she didn’t break right at a dramatic blending. 🙂 Fortunately, I have a lot of metallic paints in the green-blue-purple range, but of course it’s hard to tell what they really look like in the bottle! So I did a little testing, first.

Trying to figure out what paints I have that might match:

Applying a couple layers of the blue that seems closest:

Not a bad match! I’ll have to do some blending and shading on top of it, and then I’m going to try contacting Windstone to see if they can send me one of the markers they use for the gold points, as I’ve seen other repairmakers do, so I can touch up her little gold dashes along the wing edge and repair her “beauty mark”. So only two more steps, hurrah!

Thanks! But don’t sell yourself short, Betrluk! Frankly, it’s looking much better than I thought I could pull off! 😀 So you just might surprise yourself if you ever do take a stab at it…

much better then i could pull off for sure haha.

Great job so far! You wouldn’t know the poor thing had the horn sheered off! Yeah Windstone sent me a couple of the gold paint pens as they don’t sell them at my local Michael’s now and I couldn’t find them anywhere. They had just enough gold left in them to touch up a few pieces. I should warn you though, I tried using one directly on the edge of a dragon wing once and pressed it a bit too hard and the gold paint leaked all over the wing. I couldn’t get it off so I had to repaint the wing and then ended up sending it with some other pieces to get repaired by someone who had the same emerald paint. So since then I have just dabbed some of the gold paint pen on a paintbrush and used the paintbrush to touch up spots on my pieces. A warning though that the gold paint does not like to come off clothes, pallets or paint brushes very easily so be careful with it!

Thanks for the tip! That’s a good idea to use a paintbrush.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand finished!

The “regolding” went well, and now both sides match once more!

Wing:

Face:

Wing and face:

The display side, for comparison:

I feel very accomplished! There’s a lot I could have done better, and perhaps one day I’ll go back and rework it a bit – the facial rebuilding left some rough textures that mar the paint, which annoys me and looks sloppy. Beyond that, however, I’m pretty satisfied!