Months ago, I was planning to repaint the Chainsaw Man project I did last year. I didn't finished it with varnish so the paint kinda looks faded by now. Thankfully the toothpicks and popsicle I used to build it was still intact so my only concern now is its faded paint. So earlier this week, I started with my repainting and since I'm a procrastinator, I didn't finish it in just one day. It took me almost 2 days to finish it and now I'm going to share with you the process of how I repainted it.
Let's start!
1. First, I dusted it and removed the cobwebs that were clinging to it. I stored it above our cabinet so naturally a lot of dust and other particles accumulated in it.
I used wet wipes to remove the dust on most of its parts, while for the small and tight spaces, I used a slightly wet brush.
2. Then I proceeded to fix some parts that opened. I filled those parts with hot glue and I let it dry. After that, I painted it white acrylic paint so that it would be easier to repaint it later.
3. Its necktie got lost and even though I tried to look for it, at the end I wasn't able to find it, that's why I just made a new one. Thankfully there are still excess toothpicks from last year, so I used some of them.
After the hot glue dried, I painted it black, but the twist is I didn't used acrylic paint because my black acrylic paint already ran out months ago—so I used my black nail polish!
4. Now that I'm done with the necktie, I proceeded to repaint the shirt part. I admit that I kinda got passive while repainting this part because I didn't paint it in smaller portions first.
I immediately painted almost the entirety of the shirt part and it turned out the color shade I used wasn't the same with the previous one. Anyway, I just went with it because I don't have enough paint anymore. I also painted the white part so that it'll match the color of the shirt.
5. After repainting its whole shirt, I proceeded to repaint the pants. I used the black nail polish again, and it really turned out glossy and nice. I also attached the dried necktie and painted it black again when the connecting hot glue dried.
6. Finally, I repainted the head part and added some details. Since I also don't have orange or yellow acrylic paint to mix with the red ones anymore, I looked for substitute paint again. I scraped my brother's orange watercolor and after pulverizing it, I added a little bit of alcohol to liquidize it.
Then to make its consistency the same with acrylic paint, I added some glue to it, and like the nail polish, it also turned out nicely. After repainting the head, I finally moved to the last parts—the blood splatter and bloody details.
7. After few minutes of adding those details, I'm finally done with my repainting project!
That's it! Repainting it took almost two days not only because of my procrastinating, but also partly because I repeatedly repainted some parts all over again. The head for example—I repainted it all over again the second day because I didn't find the the shade of orange I used appealing when it dried. Anyway, the effort is worth it because it now looks like new all over again. So that would be all for today everyone! I hope you somehow enjoyed the repainting experience I shared today and hope to see you on my next blog.
Janeee~
All of the pictures that were used were taken by yours truly, ridgette while the first picture was edited in Canva. The gif was generated by imageflip.
