First time painting printed minis - lots learnt!

Painted a Benchy in Trouble and a hero forge Adventurer sampler.

Not hugely happy with either, but learnt a lot about post processing and how paints work on the layered PLA surfaces.

Filing and more filing - having a different colour primer to the filament is really handy for identifying problem areas - but I need to pay attention, fix the problem areas and reprime before carrying on!

Support scarring - definitely going to do more work on this. Benchy was supportless but the Adventurer I supported with pretty much standard settings and… hoo… repurposed the worst of the scarring as magical fire though, so…

Paint - Good mini paints help a lot, even if they’re used super-thick on the first layer to help hide layer lines. I tried to paint Benchy with some brighter paints I had left over from a cheap painting kit, and they Did Not play nicely (hence the terrible finish on the Benchy itself!)

Overall verdict: getting a handle on supports (lots of help to be found on this wonderful sub) and printing more tomorrow!