Well, I spray-painted today. I figured I'd get those gauntlets going again. My god, they're still not done, but all I can smell is paint. So much paint. I spent the entire day painting in fact. At least it was productive.
I think it turned out pretty good for my first time. I'm definitely not as great at painting as I am other things, so it's a bit rough. Over all it could have been worse though. Spray-painting was easy enough. I just set up a produce box on the porch, layered newspaper all over it and used it to contain the spray. I also used a respirator, and gloves to protect me. The acrylic was a bit more challenging.
I was lucky enough to already have acrylic paints on hand. I don't to a lot of painting though, so I'm not particularly skilled at it. I also don't have much patience for it. The end result turned out kind of sloppy, but it looks passable in person which is what really matters. It could have been a lot worse for someone at my skill level. At some point I'd prefer to have the ability to cast all of my armor myself. Right now with the birds, and the limited space it's not an option.
The other thing I did was work on the sculpt for Cassandra Alexandra's brooch. My sculpting is vastly superior to my painting. This sculpt took about half the time of the one I did for Aigis. Despite looking more complicated it was actually so much less complicated to assemble than Aigis' earphone sculpt was. I was able to do a large portion of it on one piece, and I didn't have to worry about making it as perfectly round as possible. Nothing I produce at this stage is going to be amazing, and I ended up having to make some changes from what I originally interpreted the design of the brooch to be. Despite that I'm pretty proud of how this one turned out.
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