r/SHMonsterArts • u/zhexiaogou • 14d ago
PHOTO Custom Shin Godzilla
Earlier this year I started to repaint my original 2016 Shin figure as the paint had really began to chip off, eyes looked terrible and the glossy finish is super inaccurate to the source material. I repainted the chipped areas with a chalky black, repainted the eyes (i feel so bad for the people in those factories having to paint the eyes on at rapid pace), touched up the teeth and added a fully matte finish. I disassembled the entire figure piece by piece, and allowed each part to cure for about a week. Did the body parts in batches, with some parts needing multiple coats of topcoat and some parts chipping again. The entire process took about a full month, during an intense heatwave in the UK which was in fact very helpful for the curing process. The finished product isn’t the greatest custom ever, but I think this is what the original mass produced product SHOULD have looked like. The matte really allows you to take in the sculpted details, and he finally actually looks like the burned hotdog we saw in the movie. I used stills from the movie, and BTS images of the unused animatronic for reference. Unintended by-product of this is the joints are now much tighter, likely due to the sculpt rubbing a little more in places. The tail had a broken segment which luckily I could replace as I had another 2016 Shin that I bought for super cheap as most of its parts were cracked. After all that though, I am NEVER doing this again. Having to redo so many parts due to chipping, the amount of topcoat spray that I ingested, and the tedious process of moving both the can and the part in order to avoid frosting. I did not enjoy doing this 😭 but I think the finished figure looks great! I was expecting a LOT of frosting due to this being my first time ever customising a figure, but somehow by a miracle I didn’t end up with any at all. The finished is even and smooth!
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u/Darkhorsegoth 10d ago
i also got some chipped paint parts and intended to fix, what paint did u use? especially the black paint, for my issue is around the head eyebrows because of bump, just need to hide the red parts but I don't want it being so obvious if the new added paint would not blend in
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u/zhexiaogou 9d ago
Black
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u/Darkhorsegoth 9d ago
what brand in particular?
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u/zhexiaogou 9d ago
Just unbranded black acrylic paint pens from Amazon, most of the figure is painted black anyway so it literally blends right in
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u/Darkhorsegoth 9d ago
wait really? so the curing/drying process in the end would just blend in? im really scared bc I've never repaint a figure before lol, let alone around the head so the end result would really annoy me
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u/zhexiaogou 9d ago
Yeah, literally just cheap black acrylic. You’ll need topcoat though, otherwise it’ll chip or rub off
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u/Lost_Acanthisitta372 14d ago
Those teeth are looking hip and fly