Blog of a Zoider

Knockoff Vocaloid repaints! 

I got these guys specifically to repaint as a fun side project to work on between all my other hobbies. I got them cheap off of ebay, listed as the China version of the Vocaloid Petits. At least they were upfront about it, lol. The repainting took a few months of sporadic work, but they’re all finally done. 

Each is pictured next to my factory seconds of actual Nendoroid petits and the very bottom image is how the knockoffs originally came. Most were just meh, but some were pretty badly painted, while a few are just flat out bad sculpts. The worst of the batch is the original Miku, while the best was the other Miku (Rolling girl ver. I think?). All I did for that one was touch up the black, and repaint the hair.  For the blonde Meiko I added some gloves as made some simple changes with paint, as I really just didn’t like her sculpt and it needed a change of some kind. The most different is Neru, because I didn’t want to paint another black/yellow Vocaloid. I wasn’t going for anything in specific with her, just playing around with colors until I got something I liked. I do wish I knew how to make something different for her to hold other than a phone though, haha.  As for the others, the main thing was correcting color and painting in details. 

Overall, this was fun and challenging project that really tested my detail painting skills. I’m happy with the results, and now they have their place on my shelf next to the real Vocaloid Petits. 

Got the first sketch for my Vocaloid Halloween series done! I was originally going to have MEIKO dressed as death/ the grim reaper, but it just wasn’t working out. So, I decided to make her a witch! I’m very pleased with how it came out. I’ll try to add in more detail when I do an inked version. But for now this sketch is done and I’m satisfied with the design. 1/6 down, next up is KAITO!