One of my best friends gave me a super exciting gift yesterday- a really nice Doc Ock figure, from the original movie release in 2004!!! I just adore his sculpt, he even has the cute, slightly crooked nose bridge I love so much. I decided to try my hand at repainting him!
Now, before any of you collectors have a heart attack, this guy is far from being in pristine condition. I believe he was a child's toy before he ended up in the thrift store for my friend to find. He was missing his sunglasses accessory, there is a tear in the rubber of his coat below his left arm, his paint was slightly chipped, and his entire back was absolutely caked in a thick layer of glitter glue that took ages to completely remove. In addition to this, a bunch of the paint that originally coloured the figure has faded or been rubbed off.
This is after extensive washing. It took a long time carefully wiping with rubbing alcohol and a q-tip in each of the peg holes to finally get all of it out.
The claws of his actuators were painted with this odd airbrushed red and blue, which I assume was the factory's attempt at shading, however I thought it was pretty ugly. He also had molded back details, but they weren't metallic like the front of the belt.
After washing him, I carefully tested out the option to paint him by dry brushing burnt umber and a custom blended lighter brown onto his hair. The figure came with black hair, while in the movie his hair was brown. It worked wonderfully, so I decided to commit to fully repainting him!
I mixed a custom skin tone, using a reference image from the movie as a guide, then very carefully painted his body and face. I used high quality acrylic paint, then finished with a little bit of subtle shading using alcohol markers. Then I used black paint to do a dark base layer on his spinal augment, and coloured every area I wanted to be metallic with a silver gilding wax.
Here's him now! He's beautiful, and I adore him. I think I'll go back within the next few weeks and do some more work on the rest of him, like adding a bit of weathering to his pants, and repainting his coats a bit. I also think I'll go back and tone down the redness of his burns a little.
I hadn't realised just how yellow his original skin tone was until I compared it to the shade of paint it mixed up. Overall, I think he looks a lot better, even if I couldn't get the paint perfectly smooth.
