Repairing and restringing a Gebruder Heubach doll

This is a larger sized Gebruder Heubach character. He needs to be restrung.
His head is perfect and his body is in pretty good shape.
There are a few issues with the body that I will fix before restringing him.

The top of his torso  has lost parts of the outer gesso and paint. This is not a structural problem but repairing the defects will strengthen the neck socket a bit and it will look better.

His limbs have minor losses of the gesso and paint.
His hands have had at least 2 fingers rebuilt and they have been totally repainted. The repaint is too glossy and bumpy and is starting to chip off.
So I will remove the repaint and touch up the rebuilt fingers to match the original finish......if I can salvage the original finish.

Here are the body parts ready to assemble. The neck and other chipped areas have been filled and painted to match the original finish.
The hands did retain the original finish under the overpaint.....including fingernail markings. The  three rebuilt fingers were tweaked a bit and then repainted.

Stringing complete.

A nice outfit and he is ready to go.