So much for my build diary. I was lazy and just finished the darn thing without documenting it :redface After I reshaped the legs, I filled them with anchoring cement in hopes that they would keep their shape. They did shift slightly back to their original position, but only by a centimeter or so, so I compensated by building a stand that accomidated the slightly off-balance stance. As for the paint job, I used the "Making of Jurassic Park" book as reference. There are a bunch of great preproduction and production photos of the animatronic raptors that show the original paint job in great detail. It's very hard to glean the correct color scheme by watching the movies since they look very dark and desaturated (a lot like the Aliens from "Aliens" were painted more brown in real life, but appeared black/blue in the film). There was a lot more yellow than I thought and the bilateral grey belly/dark back scheme was more pronounced. The belly was also more flat in finish than the more shiney scales on the back, so I simulated this by spraying dullcote on the bottom, and airbrushing a diluted semigloss polyurethane on top. I'm very pleased with the results. When photographed, I think it matches the film quite nicely.
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