Blitzway - 1/6 Scale Ghostbusters - Collectible Figures
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Well here's my attempt to lighten up the skin tone on Venkman. I didn't do a full repaint or anything, just added a few extra thin washes of paint. And then I reddened his nose, cheeks and ears and gave him some 5-oclock shadow. I did end up repainting the eyes though, since I wanted to try giving him a hint of an expression with that bored/exasperated look he often had in the movie. I also darkened the hair and made the eyebrows a little thicker.
And since my figure had a little issue with a broken arm, I had to put him on a COO body I had lying around. I think I was able to make it work ok (and the body does at least give him a longer looking neck), but given the slightly larger scale of these figures I think it probably needs the wider shoulders and buffer body that BW used.
And he's not really that shiny; I just had the light on him a little too close.
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That is excellent. Really brings out the good likeness they got under that slop paintjob.
That looks great
To me they seem more like a grayish blue-green, but I could probably make them a little greener than I did.
I second this! Late to the party with my praise Dave but I loved what you did. Would love to at least hear what paints you used, how many washes etc.
Everytime I've seen my Venkman figure from a distance (i.e. across the room) he looks like Bill Murray; get close and the factory paint job destroys the likeness. I'm particularly pleased you added five o'clock shadow, I thought for a while he needed it.
The eyes are grey-blue IMO, no green there that I can see.
The other thing that would transform this figure is a full repaint of the eyes so that there's no white below the pupils but he's looking straight ahead, and then a few painterly tricks like adding some kind of very slight smirk to the lips.
Sorry don't have the video editing skill for a YouTube video, but I can try to explain the process as best I can.
The very first thing I always do whenever I want a light skin tone is grab my Christopher Reeve Supes to use as a guide, since he's got the palest skin of any figure I've got.
So then after spraying Venkman with dull coat I applied a few very thin washes of light gray (using just cheap acrylic craft paint), to kind of dial back the orangeness and make the color more pink. Then I added some thinned down burgundy for the nose and cheeks (and a little on the lower eyelids), then added some HT-style reddish brown speckling over that, then another wash of gray to blend everything and then a wash of tan and finally some thinned down gloss to give the skin that slightly translucent look (with a bit more gloss on the nose, lips and ears since they're always a bit shinier).
There may have been a few other little touches here and there, but those are the main steps I remember taking.
The very first thing I always do whenever I want a light skin tone is grab my Christopher Reeve Supes to use as a guide, since he's got the palest skin of any figure I've got.
So then after spraying Venkman with dull coat I applied a few very thin washes of light gray (using just cheap acrylic craft paint), to kind of dial back the orangeness and make the color more pink. Then I added some thinned down burgundy for the nose and cheeks (and a little on the lower eyelids), then added some HT-style reddish brown speckling over that, then another wash of gray to blend everything and then a wash of tan and finally some thinned down gloss to give the skin that slightly translucent look (with a bit more gloss on the nose, lips and ears since they're always a bit shinier).
There may have been a few other little touches here and there, but those are the main steps I remember taking.
Hard to say. Just enough so that the paint is barely noticeable when you brush it over the head.
Bo Shrek
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It's off to my son's room with you four!! Thanks for the great memories representing the license in my den.....
For those of us who were kids when the original movie came out - can you imagine being able to buy those in a toy shop after seeing the movie? I remember there was nothing except t-shirts and the record.
Alice
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Can you imagine how many papers you would have had to mow and lawns you would have had to deliver to have afforded them!?
DjBoogaloo
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Finally gave in and bought the 4 pack set. $899 with shipping.
james the cat
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Genius davejames !! You have brought a dead sculpt back to life !
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i never thought of that. Lawns can be pretty big, I don't know if I would have enjoyed delivering them...
DaveJames, you've brought out the best in that sculpt. Fantastic work! 
Regretting passing on this set even more...
Regretting passing on this set even more...
DaveJames, you've brought out the best in that sculpt. Fantastic work!
Regretting passing on this set even more...
Thanks. Glad you guys like.
Ebeneezer Jones
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