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I have just finished unwrapping a few models made and painted over the years.

Despite vast, almost industrial, quantities of bubble wrap, not a one has come through the move without some damage to a greater or lesser degree. In two cases at least, I shall have to give them a damn good clean, and then see if I can disguise the repair work.

More distressingly, is the poor quality of the painting, which for sometime I had been rather proud of. Now I have them in a comparatively well-lit environment, I see that the painting isn't as well done as I had thought. This begs the question as to whether I should sand them back and repaint, or merely try to touch them up, and then display them in such a way that there is just enough distance between model and observer to obviate the need for massive reworking of the colours and technique.

Or maybe I should just leave them as they are, as lessons to me about the need to ensure adequate lighting when doing this sort of thing.

(no subject)

I have just finished unwrapping a few models made and painted over the years.

Despite vast, almost industrial, quantities of bubble wrap, not a one has come through the move without some damage to a greater or lesser degree. In two cases at least, I shall have to give them a damn good clean, and then see if I can disguise the repair work.

More distressingly, is the poor quality of the painting, which for sometime I had been rather proud of. Now I have them in a comparatively well-lit environment, I see that the painting isn't as well done as I had thought. This begs the question as to whether I should sand them back and repaint, or merely try to touch them up, and then display them in such a way that there is just enough distance between model and observer to obviate the need for massive reworking of the colours and technique.

Or maybe I should just leave them as they are, as lessons to me about the need to ensure adequate lighting when doing this sort of thing.