This is mostly for me tbh to see where my mistakes happen. Spectator welcome
#Gepetto, paint journal by the hour
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Hour1: priming and first crack at face
Hour 2: color blocking, followed by some initial crack at detail
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Hour 3: blocked out color roughly on the rest of the mini. Will paint cat and toolbelt stuff next
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Another hour in. Hour 4 done. Feels like it’s all slowing down a bit. Time to pick up pace
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Hour 5, did some general polish. Feels like maybe another 5 hours will get it done idk
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Hour six.
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10 hour mark. Hard to spot difference now but lots of stuff fixed
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Finished, prolly 13 hours in total. Fun sculpt.
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13h is fridgin fast. Congrats! They look really nice by me.
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Cool piece.
I'm always curious, what do you do w a mini like this? Does it sit on a shelf with others, on your work desk, or glue on something you use every day?
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Cool piece.
I'm always curious, what do you do w a mini like this? Does it sit ...
Don’t really want shelves full of stuff in my house
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I give away everything I paint
I plan to do this once my shelves fill up, but do people care about it being an incredible paintjob or will they accept anything that looks semi-decent at a glance? 😆
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I plan to do this once my shelves fill up, but do people care about it being an ...
It depends a bit. If it’s gaming minis everyone will just be grateful regardless of how ocd the paintjob is
Display stuff like busts and larger models is a bit trickier unless it’s reasonably high quality
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Fair enough. I think the biggest I've done is ~75mm and I mostly do fantasy/DnD themed things, so I expect the gamers would be more likely my "customers"
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Easy wins then
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Obvs I'm going to do my best on each one, but I'm still learning, ultimately. 😂