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Mass Effect: Garrus Action Figure Repaintby *Nightlyre

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This is the Big Fish action figure of Garrus from Mass Effect 2 - recalibrated a bit.

You can get a decent idea of how big the figure is from my fingers in some of the photos. I haven't done a lot of detailed painting at that small of a scale before and wasn't sure how well I'd do, but I enjoyed working on this quite a lot. At the moment, I've just done his face - not sure if I want to do anything with his armor yet or not. I also had to remove his visor to do the repaint. I'll be reattaching it once I've done a bit of work on it.

I will say that the original figure's cast is actually very good. I didn't do any adjustments aside from repainting. All of the lovely detail was there - it just needed a bit of work to bring it out! The only thing I wish I could fix that I probably won't be able to are the little spurs under his mandibles; there are supposed to be two, and much narrower than that, but they're just too small to adjust easily!

Just to be clear, I did not sculpt him - I just repainted the existing action figure. Garrus and Mass Effect belong to BioWare.

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~vrekasht Mar 28, 2013

I went ahead and repainted my own Garrus!

A fair bit less accomplished than yours lol. But he looks much better, I think. Thanks again for the inspiration!

*Nightlyre Mar 30, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Nicely done - Knowing how they generally look out of the box, he looks FAR better!

~vrekasht Mar 24, 2013

That looks...amazing.
I've toyed with the idea of repainting my own, but I've never worked on such a tiny scale before. Don't know how well it would go, or what kinds of materials to use, how to seal it...I don't want to ruin him.
Well - make him look worse, anyway. He kinda came pre-ruined. lol
Did you have to remove the head to work?

*Nightlyre Mar 24, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Glad you like how he turned out. I didn't have to remove the head, just the visor... there's enough room to work if you use a small paintbrush. Normal craft acrylic paints work just fine (the kind in bottles, not tubes), and I used Krylon Matte Finish to seal him. It'll hold up nicely; it takes a pretty aggressive scrape to take the paint back off again. And, well, my philosophy is, you can't do worse than his out of the box paintjob, so give it a try! If you aren't happy with your first attempt, you can repaint him until you are. Let me know if you have any questions.

~vrekasht Mar 25, 2013

Oh, thanks very much!
I'll have to write that finish name down and see if I can find some...face-ups on fashion dolls is really the only comparable thing I've done. Not really the same thing, so I'm glad to have the advice

~socrazy123 Mar 20, 2013 Writer

Okay, how in god name did you manage to get the eyes so perfect? I've got everything but the eyes done on mine, and he looks plain dead without his blue eyes.

*Nightlyre Mar 20, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Ah! Well, the first piece of advice is not to worry about messing him up if you get the eyes wrong first time; I had to repaint them a few times before I was satisfied. It's easy enough to scrape off the paint or just add a little dab of black over it. Use a very tiny paintbrush, and get a small bead of paint on just the very tip. Do the main portion of his iris with just one careful tap of the paintbrush; it's much easier than trying to paint a perfect circle. His pupil is similar, but you'll want just the TINIEST bit of paint on your brush, or even on the tip of a pin. It's also useful if you have a magnifying glass; I have a lovely desk lamp with a built-in magnifier that I use for detail work.

For the color, study screenshots - his eyes are actually light grey, with just a hint of blue/green. Turians have tiny eyes, and getting that proportion right is important to making him look authentic.

I definitely want to see how yours turns out, if you've got the means to put up a picture!

Do you still need to know what colors I used? In any case, I uploaded a few more photos here, showing the reattached visor.

~socrazy123 Apr 3, 2013 Writer

Ah, superb. I'm not super happy with mine, but I suppose anything is an improvement from zombie garrus. The greys I had were a much darker shade so my wash doesn't come through as well as I'd like. I think I also over did his scar, but I've never painted an action figure before so I think I did okay with what I've got. I'll throw up some pictures when I can get his eyes done, which will hopefully be soon. Thanks for all the help

*Nightlyre Apr 4, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

I like to use a wash for darker colors, but dry brushing for lighter colors - that way, you can start out with a dark base coat and then paint over it progressively lighter. Dry brushing leaves the dark color in the grooves, so they appear more three dimensional. It's quite a nice technique!

Otherwise, you're more than welcome.

~socrazy123 Mar 18, 2013 Writer

Might I ask how you got the eye piece off? I just recieved mine and I'm looking to redo the paint, but I'm wary about taking pieces off for fear of breaking them o-o

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