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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.
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.