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A painted cube
A friend said I should paint the 3D-printed Weighted Companion Cube, so I did. I had the paints left over from a model kit from my childhood (see previous post), but I'd never really used them before, especially on something small. For some inexplicable reason I hadn't spent my early adolescence painting tiny model orcs, so the painting was something of a lesson for me. I learnt:
- Twenty-year-old model paints work fine.
- A loupe is really useful.
- I would have been better off giving it a comprehensive base-coat of white at the start. The grey shows through pretty easily, made worse by the bumpy surface (see below).
- Working at a tiny scale is very fiddly, but with a super-pointy brush previous experience playing at watch-making came in useful.
- It's really fiddly.
- At this scale, the printing ridges are large. It really does want to be smoothed down (acetone trick?) before being painted.
- It takes far too long to do.
Without further ado, the fruits of this labour are below. To be honest, I reckon it looks a bit better in real life. :)
Posted 2015-07-19.