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One of my work chums has had a mini of her other half 3D printed and has asked me to paint it for her. My first ever commission! If you've looked at my gallery, blogs or 'Dakka (Unofficial) Painting Challenge' (TM) entries, you'll know I'm not a pro-painter/commission painter. But she's seen my work and is happy for me to paint up her little man. That's all the ego massaging I needed!

I'd never heard of Hero Forge before, but I must say I'm quite impressed. The mini has pretty good detail and very little cleaning up was required. It does have those 3D printed lines every half millimeter or so where it's built up the mini in layers, but for this mini it doesn't seem to be too bad. I think if you were doing something with larger flat/smooth surfaces (like power armour) it might be more of an issue, but it actually gives the jeans and hoodie a little texture!

This is the mini as it arrived from Hero Forge -





It's 28mm scale, so you can see the detail is pretty good for that size.

The options for creating your own mini are huge as well. Go and play on their website for a bit - you'll lose hours

So far, I've got some of the base coats down. This is where minidavid is so far -





Apologies for the poor pics, it seems something was off with my camera settings. Maybe the white balance. I'll try to get it better for the next update!


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Mods - please can you move this to Dakka P&M Blogs where it belongs. Sorry!

Update - basecoats finished and cleaned up. Washes done. Cat's patterning done!





(Pictures are still crappy quality. Had to turn the brightness up in post-production. Not sure why I'm struggling so much in photographing this guy!)

I've got to free-hand a chaos star on the chest next, to match the real guy's actual hoodie. I've also tried to match the cat's markings to his real cat based on photos. Tricky!

Most of the drybrushing and highlights done now. Still need to free-hand a chaos star on the chest - that's next. Other than that, we're almost done now.

The shading/highlights and drybrushing are starting to make the 3D printed 'lines' a little more noticeable, but I'm still pretty impressed with the mini.



(Might have got the photos a little better now. I think it's just struggling with such a small subject!)

Almost done. Started free-handing the chaos star. Not finished, but looking okay so far I think.

Cat needs whitening up a little - it needs to look like his actual cat!

Done!