CLASSIFICATION: REPAINT
MATERIALS USED: ACRYLIC PAINTS
FIRST APPEARANCE: "TURTLE TRACKS" (TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES)

"I thought those tacky jumpsuits went out of fashion eons ago."--Shreeka, "Shreeka's Revenge" (TMNT)

Preamble:  In 1992, a few yeas after the debut of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Playmates Toys released the Toon Turtles assortment, which consisted of new figures that represented characters from the cartoon, and repaints that were more accurate to  their television appearance.  What always struck me as odd was that they never produced a cartoon-accurate April O'Neil.  The version I had was a repaint of the original figure, with fluorescent orange boots and trim that I've always found extremely bothersome.  (They'd also released a slightly better resculpt with purple trim and a weird hairdo, but there never was an actual Toon April figure.  Here's my version.)

Construction:  It's worth noting here that April's color model is kind of tricky.  The inside of her collar and the trim around her breast pockets are a darker shade of yellow--which I hadn't realized at first, since the animators used the same color to create the suggestion of shadows on the rest of her jumpsuit.  Her watch and belt buckle are the same color.  April's hair color tends to fluctuate a little depending on which hair dye she used that week (and which animation studio was doing the episode), but it still needed to be lighter than the hair on the orignal toy.  I also repainted her eyes, which originally had this sort of vacant zombie quality.

Comments: This is actually the second time I've painted this particular figure.  For the first version of the project, I'd just painted over the jumpsuit stripes and painted her hair a much-too-bright shade of orange.  (I have every confidence that this is probably what an official Toon April figure would have looked like, but this time I was going for as accurate a look as possible.)