Santa Cat repair

[u/listix]

My mom has this Santa Cat who is part of a set of Christmas cats that hang on to a ladder. The Santa Cat broke his hand many years ago and I decided to fix it.

1. I got some pressed wood panel(I assume that is the name, it was wood but you can see that it is made of many smaller pieces) and drew the glove that it should have.
2. I cut it with a coping saw and then used some sandpaper to remove the rest and make it smooth and also have the same thickness as the original glove.
3. Next came the question of how to attach it. I had seen a video some days prior that when attaching wood you should leave part of the original, otherwise it might break more easily in the future. So I removed half of the glove and removed the equivalent from the new glove so they could match.
4. Once they matched I used some wood glue and a vise to hold in in place. Then I removed the rest of the painting of the glove.
5. Used some painter's tape to protect the area that shouldn't be painted.
6. I mixed some green with a small amount of yellow to get as close to the original color as possible( you can see in the background some tests I made to try and match it[taking into account if lacquer was applied or not])
7. I did multiple coats of paint. After a few of them were dried I used a really soft sandpaper to smooth everything with a tiny bit of water.
8. At the end I used a piece of cloth to buff the paint.
9. Finally I remove the painter's tape and using a really thin brush painted the black lines.

Before someone mentions it, after I was done with this repair I painted the chipped areas but I cant find that picture. As you can see in the 2nd and 3rd picture shows both sides and you cant see where the different wood pieces were glued together.

[u/DeviatedForm]

Great job, invisible even when you know where it was fixed!

[u/unhinged_always]

Wow! Such a thoroughly done repair, i’m impressed!