…Dire wolf, that is;
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Hello!
I like it a lot!
If I were to nitpick, I’d say shot #2 is unfortunate, the spearhead looks like a pinocchio nose on the wolf in that picture. Also, the girl’s left leg looks like it’s broken. And the skeleton could use some shading - I usually do it so that I paint the bones white and then I use a black wash on them.
But I don’t want that to sound too negative - like I said I overall like it. The yellow flowers look really good!
Thanks for sharing and have a nice day!
Paweł
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Princess Mononoke, I assume. Great film! Where did you purchase it from?
I agree about “aging” the skeleton. Other than that, nice job.
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Nicely done!
One of Studio Ghibli’s best anime work. Nice job.
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That skeleton is unfortunate. It wasn’t even supposed to be there. I was fooling around seeing where I could place it, then decided to keep it for another build, then forgot to remove it (it’s not even glued on!) before photographing. 
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The poor girl did suffer a fractured ankle which never set properly! 
The figure is a 3D print so is more fragile than cast resin. I suppose I should break off the foot (again), clean up the glue, and pin it to the leg. If only all surgeries were that simple!
Seconded. A very dilute mid-brown wash should do it. Fresh/living bone is shiny porcelain white (seen my own, one time) but I’m more used to seeing it archaeological contexts where it tends to take on the colour of the soil it is buried in (or goes shades of pale grey if not in soil) after some years. I’ve not seen sun-bleached from hot, arid surface deposition, so I can’t comment on those.
Cheers,
M
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Yeah, I realize that. Bones from archeological digs can be stained a brownish color; and bones lying around on the surface of a desert are usually almost pure white. Like I said, that skeleton wasn’t even supposed to be there. I shall have to delete these pics and have a new photo shoot with changes.
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Thanks for that info, I take it they weather to a matt finish?
Looking at the figure again it suddenly brought back memories of a similar-looking lady in an active pose on display in a long-gone model store in Portsmouth about half-a-century back. Lacking the resources of today, it had been modelled from a figure from a car kit; possibly the girl in the recently resurrected Airfix Beach Buggy kit. I’ll have to give her another look…
Cheers,
M
Very reminiscent of Frazetta. I like it.